Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and as always, for anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. Today, we're going to continue on with our X9 draft league content. We are going into week eight and we are facing Bryce and his brave bird buccaneers. Now, Bryce is one of the players and the only player in the X9 draft league that is undefeated so far, seven zero so far in the league, which is phenomenal. Bryce is doing an amazing job. He's actually crushing the competition. So this week is going to be really tough and we'll cover his team right now. I'll throw it up on the screen for you. Obviously, as always, before we get into anything, make sure you do check out Bryce's side of the battle, his analysis, everything like that. All his socials will be linked down in the description below at the very top. So you'll be able to jump over, check out his YouTube video and his analysis and team and things like that, because it's always good to see the other side of things. But as we get into his team, he has running. He had a great draft, to be honest. His first pick was Dragapult, then he had Primarina, two great picks. Then he's got Arcanine, Alolan, Ninetales, Mandibus, Orangaroo, Boltund, which is a little bit of an odd pick, but a really good one for tier four. And then his three picks were Taraki and Steelix, Serena and Mianchao. So there's some kind of resemblance, semblance, familiarity with series 10 with the Serena and Mianchao. We're kind of seeing how good those Pokemon are now in series 10 as it's kind of forming the meta game there. But he's been using them to a lot of success and it gives you a lot of headaches when you're trying to build your team around this sort of Pokemon. He's got a lot of threats. He's got Trick Room Pokemon that can work really well and do a devastating work like the Steelix there. You can't underestimate that in a Trick Room environment. He's got Tailwind on the Mandibus. He's got Speed Control with the Dragapult Max Airstream there. He's got Icy Wind on the Alolan, Ninetales got Intimidate on the Arcanine. So he's got everything. He's got Trick Room on the Orangaroo as well. So he's got a lot of utility throughout his team. He's got also a lot of beatup Pokemon that can benefit from that justified ability. Obviously, the Arcanine and the Tracker and the main kind of contenders here. One change we did make this week on into this match was I was really worried about the beatup combination and I traded out Torakat, one Pokemon we've never really used and I don't feel like we're going to utilize it in the next couple of weeks anyway. So I thought it'd be better. Fungus was available. It's obviously not a Fungus, but it can act just as good as a Fungus. And Fungus was a Pokemon that was available. So I traded Torakat and we've got Fungus and we are going to feature it this week. So we'll get into our team and I've got to give a big shout out to my good friend, Bebham, as well, for providing us with the team this week. As always, he's been very helpful in helping us get the teams and helping us kind of get the Pokemon and so on. So we've got the Venus Soul. We've got Leafstorm Weatherball because one of the things that we'll be doing this week is utilizing ice cube. So Weatherball will play off the sunny day. Also the Liquidation Max move, which potentially will be going for. So the Watertype Weatherball and an Ice Type Weatherball, which will help against Dragapult as well. So I felt it was a bit more beneficial than the sludge bomb in this respect. We've got the Okkaberry to help us against Arcanine, in particular, because with the Sunup, we can take a flablet in the Sun with the Okkaberry from a Jolly Max attack, Arcanine, which is pretty important, I think. Obviously, the other two moves, Earth Power to hit Arcanine pretty hard and some other things on the team like Steelix and then Leafstorm, just for the coverage. We've got Scrafty with the Assault Vest makes a lot of sense this week. Not a bunch of special attackers on Bryce's team. More physical. We went for a more defensive build with an impish nature and a kind of standard move set, really. Just Fakeout, Rain Punch, Crunch and Snarl. The Crunch and the Attack Investment allow us to to hit Kale 252 HP or Angaroo and Fakeout is going to be really important for us. And the Defense Investment allows us to take a close combat from a Mianchiao. So the big part of the team is going to be the Ice Cue because I feel like it's the one thing like if you look at Bryce's team on the surface, it's very physical. And Ice Cue's got the Graded Ability Ice Face, which gives it immunity to its first physical attack that it takes. So it gives us the room to potentially get the belly drum up and then we can Max and go from there. We've got the Citrus Berry on it just to give us a little bit of health back and then we can kind of hopefully utilize Ice Cue to take down the majority of his team and even Primerina. If it doesn't Max and it hasn't got any kind of we haven't had Intimidate on us, even like Isaac or Crash Max after a belly drum will be enough in most cases to take down even Primerina. So it wasn't much option really aside from going outside of these two two move options, which I feel kind of cover most things on his team. But Ice Cue, the big player on the team this week, I think it's a bit of a sleeper pick. So hopefully it works out. Then we've got Mimikiu. I think we need Trick Room even though he's got the Orangaroo, which could set up Trick Room for the Steelix. I feel like late game Mimikiu Trick Room could really help us out, especially with the Torcall. We went with a Swordstand set just to give us a little bit of pressure, especially I think it works well with the Fungus that can redirect as well. And then we've got Torcall, went for a bit of an odd set here because obviously we've got no fire type move, but I don't feel like we need it because I think again, something like Steelix, we just iron defense in front of it and then we can body press it and against the other threats on the team. We've got a Muneusia as well with Leftovers as the item help us recover. Torcall, if the Trick Room goes up, going to be amazing, going to be an amazing spot. And the thing is with opponents, when a Trick Room goes up in front of Torcall, they're likely to protect a lot of the time, which gives us room to kind of set up those either the Muneusias or the iron defenses, which, you know, our opponent might find difficult to take down after that, especially with the Leftovers recovery. And then we'll end up with the Fungus, our newest addition to the team, a pretty standard move set. I went with no protect here. I think Synthesis with the Sun from the Torcall really helps out a lot. We've got the EVO Light on the Fungus. We can take a Max Airstream from a Life or Max Dragapult with the EVO Light and the investment. Oh my God, what am I doing? There we go, okay. Yeah, and then Polymperf helps restore health on something like a Mungus because we are slower than it by two points in Trick Room. So if the Trick Room does go up, we really want to try and get Fungus and Torcall out on the field next to each other. So that is the team in a nutshell. Hopefully it makes some sort of sense. We're going to be two seconds away and then we'll jump into the match with Bryce. So we'll be right back, friends. I don't know if the ice cube is going to work tonight. I really hope it does. I really hope it does. But we'll soon find out, won't we? Here is the team and we'll get in. As I say, I think Bryce is 7-0 at the minute, so it's always going to be tough, always going to be tough to go into this. But we'll see, we'll see. I'm kind of quietly confident that we can get a win, but also at the same time, I'm not like, I'm not going to be super sad if we lose because Bryce has been doing all the good things. So let's have a look. What has he brought? He's got the Dragapult, the Turracan, Orangaroo, Serena, Steelix and Alolan Ninetales. So kind of not too far off what we kind of expected him to bring. I'm pleased there's no arc and I'm there. It makes life a bit easier for the Venusaur in particular. And also the ice cube as well because there's a lot of physical threats on Bryce's team. Like really the only special attack is he's got is the Ninetales and the Orangaroo. So that's like a huge bonus for us. So I think we can leave the ice cube. Fungus, I think we got Scrafty because I think Scrafty is going to be super important for us in this match. And no Primarina as well makes things like really, really good for us. Just what do we bring as our last one? Do we want to bring like Venusaur, which could do some work, although we're not going to have the sun, which makes it a little bit tricky. It's just kind of identifying what the last Pokemon could be. I think, you know, like on face value of it, like he's got the Alolan Ninetales, he's got the Steelix, the Serena, the Turracan if we can remove early on and the Dragapult early on, then Tocall has a really good, a really good end game in this match. So I think we go Tocall. We'll see how we get on. Like I say with all these, it is a best of three. So it's three sets if we win two in a row, we win obviously, but like the first game, we don't need to worry about too much. You kind of just fish for a little bit of information and we'll see how we get on. We'll see if it works out all right. See tonight, I've got my Pepsi Max for maximum, maximum effect and we've also got a headband. And this is the reason why I brought the Fungus. We see the Dragapult and the Tracan. Now, although they could just rock slide here, I've got the rage powder to prevent the beat up and we can also just go belly drum. Belly drum and we can go rage powder. Or we could go protect on ice cube. We could go protect on ice cube and spawn into Tracan, but no, we'll go rage powder. We'll pull away the beat up, potential beat up them. We'll go belly drum. The Tracan I think is gonna be the Pokemon that Max is here, which is good for us because I think Fungus will be able to take. Ooh, it's a Dragapult. Well, we know we're gonna be able to take an attack from the Dragapult. We'll take a Max Airstream, even if they go life orb and they're gonna go rock slide. They're gonna go rock slide, 100%. But the ice cube gets the belly drum off of right here. So that's fine. So there's a rage powder. So Fungus will go down, but it does then allow Scrafty to kinda come onto the field, which is fine. Scarf Tracan, which is fine. Fungus takes an attack. We get the Ice Face, Broken, which is fine, but that puts a speed to 130. And there's the Airstream, which will take Fungus down. They do get the, ooh, he actually survives, so they're not a life orb. Fungus doing its job. Can the effect spell kick in? I don't know if it will against Airstream, will it? Probably not. Belly drum, here we go. Okay, well, we get that off. That's amazing. So what we wanna do, we get the Citrus Berry activated here, which is perfect. Um, we don't wanna max just yet, I don't think. Oh, we could max. And probably Scraft Tracan, though, that's the issue. I think I might wanna max God. I mean, we could actually just go max Hailstorm into the Dragapult and just switch into Scrafty. Just get the Intimidate onto the Tracan, and then we keep Fungus for later on in this match. Get rid of the Dragapult and won't hit. Cause there's no way, there's no way the Dragapult, there's no way anything survives, a max attack from the Icecube now. No way, no way. No way! So we'll get Fungus out. We'll get good old Scrafty and get that Intimidate. Obviously not gonna affect the Dragapult because of that clear body, but we affect the Tracan, which is the main thing. And then we're gonna see. Big old bad Icecube come to the park and see what it can do. Like I do worry about, like obviously Rock Slide and then Max Airstream from the Dragapult. Gonna be a little bit frustrating to deal with, but I mean, if we can remove the Dragapult here from the field, I mean, we're in such a great position. Like honestly, like such a good position. We know it's not life up Dragapult, so there's a Rock Slide. I just wanna not really do too much. And there's Max Woman trying to lower our attack, which is fair enough, fair enough. Not enough to take us down, which is fine. And we've got the fake out onto the Tracan next turn. So it does lower our attack by one stage, but we're like plus five. So I mean, really, it's not really that big a deal. Get rid of the Dragapult nice and easy. And obviously you can't see it because I've got this weird camera on tonight. Four reasons, unbeknown. But yeah, hopefully it's all right. So we get our Iceface back, which is not ideal. But it means we do avoid any Rock Slide damage just next turn. So it's kind of fine at the same time, you know? We get rid of the Dragapult. And it all comes down to like, if they've got a special attacker, because they need a special attacker, the big problem here would be if we see Serena, because then it stops our fair count, which isn't ideal. But at the same time, I think IceQ will be able to outspeed Serena anyway. So we should be able to take the Rock Slide and then attack into the Serena and kind of clear the field of that. So, see. So get rid of the big Dragapult, Serena it is. Okay, that's all right. I think we adjust our board position. I think we switch out Scrafty. It's Serena. Serena's going crazy again. Do we max guard here? Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. Or do we outspeed Serena? I just don't wanna leave ourselves kind of short where we don't outspeed Serena. I think, no, I think we go for the Max Hail Storm into Serena again. And we switch into Fungus and then we keep Torkall for the late game, because then we can put Tarakian down to minus two, which against like Scrafty, Torkall, it's gonna be doing nothing. We don't need to worry about the Primarina in that situation, so that's fine. So there is the Rock Slide. Takes down the Fungus, but it gets rid of our Ice Face, so we should get that speed boost. And with the dynamic speed changes here, it should mean that we outspeed the Serena and get the Max Hail Storm into that Serena now. Yeah, and we can take it down at plus five. And then we get Scrafty back onto the field again, get rid of the Serena. We can fake out the Tarakian, take down whatever's next to the Tarakian, and then we deal with the Tarakian with just Scrafty. So we should be able to wrap this one up pretty quickly. Nice of you doing a really good job here. So Scrafty back in, because we get that fake out. And obviously the Serena's a really nice call. Yeah, this is it. So the Ninetales, but we don't worry about the Ninetales. We don't worry about it a little bit, because it's not scuffed. It might be sashed, it might have a thousand gleam, but it's not gonna be enough to take down the Scrafty. I think we double into the Tarakian here, because I think we got Max Geyser and we got fake out. We'll outspeed the Ninetales. We know the Tarakian scoffed, and then we got Tocall in the back, which closes the game, locks the game up for us 100%. Yeah, there's a Max Geyser. Yeah. And then let's see what the Ninetales does. Maybe Dazzling Gleam here, which will take Ice Cue down eventually. But I mean, we've got the maximum like result from Ice Cue here. Moon Blast, okay. It's into Ice Cue, which is fine, because we've got Tocall to come in now, get rid of the rain, put the sun up, and then it's not plain sailing, because we haven't got a fire-type move, but I mean, it's still gonna be all right for Tocall to beat the Ninetales. I don't think they're gonna have a super effective attack against us. We can just Iron Defense once, and then Body Press, and a couple of Body Presses should be enough to take it down. And it's part Ice as well, so our fighting type attacks are kind of neutral against it. So that should be all right. Let's see, can we do this? I mean, we could snarl as well, just to be, just to be, yeah, we could snarl. Let's snarl, just a lot of that special attack, because that's all it's got, but the battles canceled. So here we go, right. And the thing is there that Bryce hasn't actually found out any information about Tocall. So that's really good for us, but we do take that first game, which is amazing news for us. We'll take his League card, and we'll jump straight into game two. But like I keep saying, you know, we can't take that win is good news. Like we're going to take this set. Bryce is going to adjust. He's a great player. He's going to adjust going into this game. So we need to try and figure out how he's going to adjust to deal with the ice cube. It's such a problem for him to deal with. And I think the way that he deals with it is probably Steelix or Angaru, I would imagine, or probably the Pokemon that he kind of goes with in this situation. But I really don't feel like I want to change things up like that much, because it was so effective how we got going in that match, you know? The only thing we could potentially do is maybe lead ice cube scrafty, potentially, and then have Fungus Tocall in the back rather than leading with ice cube and Fungus. But it kind of stops us getting around the beat up. But has he got beat up? I don't know, maybe. I think he probably has, because he hasn't got Life Orb on Dragapult. So it would make sense that you've got that. I think we just got the exact same again, you know? I think there's no point of changing things up. I don't really think he's got the answers to it. And if we need to adjust, then we adjust on the fly. Then we'll see. We'll just ask the question. Have you got an answer for the ice cube? You've got a better way to deal with it. And if he hasn't, you know? Then we can kind of just do what we did game one. Let's see. Dragapult Orangaroo. One of Bryce's signature leads, a very good lead as well. You've got the instruct there. And obviously the psychic typing coming out from Orangaroo going to be very good. Has it got the safety goggles? Because that would mean that you're able to potentially get around the rage powder, which wouldn't be ideal because if you do have that, then you could potentially go for a foul play after we belly drum. But, so it is a little bit risky from our end. We could protect and just go for a spoil into Dragapult. Or we could pull into Scrafty here. It's just the thing is if we don't get ice cube set up, it's not the best situation. I think he's gonna have foul play on the Orangaroo. I think we'll pull into Scrafty and we'll go for a spoil into Dragapult here. Because I think we play it safe. I think he's definitely gonna go for the foul play. And I think he's definitely 100% got safety goggles. That would be my best guess. Like, what other reason would it be for bringing the Orangaroo? You don't wanna set the trick room up in front of Fungus. You've got inner focus, we know that, so we can't fake it out. You can't instruct a Maxmon either, so unless you wanna get rid of the the Fungus in one shot and get rid of our redirection, which could make sense, you know? Definitely could. But we don't necessarily need to go for the belly drum with ice cube. It's gonna be powerful enough without the belly drum. Max Mindstorm, ooh, is that enough? Now we're near enough. That's for the psychic terrain now. Are you doubling in? Are you doubling in? The other option is we've always got as a fallback. I didn't mention this in the team analysis. Ooh, expanding force, that is a nice little tech there. Huh, okay. Get rid of the Fungus. The other option is we can Max Scrafty. Scrafty was always an option that I had as like in the bag where we could Max Scrafty because I thought, yeah, Scrafty with the Assault Vest can do so much work against his team. And I think it makes more sense without the Primerina. There's always the nine tails to have to worry about, but when we're Max with the Assault Vest, we can do so much work, you know? The thing is we could also Max Icecube here. Because he's gonna go Max Wormwind. He's gonna 100% go Max Wormwind here. Did we just go Crunch? I think we had, well, we definitely had Speed Orangaroo. We could just go double into the Orangaroo and worry about the belly drum after. Because that double up will get the Orangaroo and stops it from going for the expanding force. Yeah, I think we go for the double up. Because Icecube in this situation is immune to anything Dragopol throws out at us. It is a physical attacker. So Icecube got like a free turn here. In essence, I wonder what's in the back. I wonder if he's bought the track in. But if we can remove the Orangaroo now, that's pretty big for us, I think. Max Wormwind, yeah, we kind of expected that. Scrafting, yeah. But I still believe a Crunch and a Max and an Ice move will be enough to get the Dragopol, to get the Orangaroo, Max Hailstone. Hopefully it is, because I think with a life will be a way more offensive Orangaroo. You haven't got the defense investment. Ooh, it might be able to take the Crunch, you know? It may be able to. Let's see, let's see. There's a Crunch. Is it enough? It's not enough. It does take it. Max Wormwind doing its job, expanding force coming out. Not affecting Scrafty, but the Icecube will take a big chunk of damage from that, but it's still not too bad. It's not too bad. Now we can get the Orangaroo the next turn. It's just whether or not, we should take another Max Wormwind. We should do. We could double up into Dragopol here, because I think if we get the Dragopol, they're gonna go Max Wormwind again. They're gonna 100% go Max Wormwind. And they're gonna get an expanded force off and they still got two Pokemon in the back. So we kind of want to be a little bit careful here. We probably want to go Crunch. I worry about weakness policy on the Dragopol now. Now we'll go Crunch into Dragopol and we'll go for the Hailstorm into Orangaroo, because we don't want the Orangaroo getting another expanding force off for kind of free. So Max Airstream coming out, Scrafty will be gone. So it's a good job that we went after the Orangaroo here, to be honest. Yeah, we'll fall in a little bit behind in this match so far, but that's the last turn of the Dragopol Max turns. That speeds us after the Max Airstream, which is not good, but it does knock itself out. So this does mean that we're gonna redirect into the Dragopol and get that citrus berry boost. So that's helpful. And we still got Tocco in the back. Tocco could be as severe here, maybe. Maybe if we can create room for it. I wish my camera wasn't right there, because we can't see exactly how much Dragopol's got left. I'm gonna move my camera in a minute. I'm just gonna move my camera right now. Let's see. We need to move the border. Where is my cam border? There we go, okay, and my camera. No, not that one, this one. Okay, Dragopol takes no damage from that. So Dragopol in a good spot. Okay, well we get Tocco in, in Serena. Okay, this isn't actually too bad because if we can make the room to get an iron defense off now, that's quite good for us. That's actually really good for us because we need to get rid of the Dragopol, but it's probably gonna phantom force. So it's not a great idea to attack into it this turn, I don't think. I think we iron defense while we got the opportunity to and we go for the max hail storm into the Serena. Yeah, there's a phantom force. That makes a lot of sense. They're gonna go after the ice cube, probably, because they're gonna attack into it here with the Serena, I think, to break our ice face. Okay, but it does depend what they got left. You know, if they've got, well, what have they got in the back? If they've got Terakian and we get like one more iron defense up, there's no way they can break us.  So we should be able to kind of close this one out. Yeah, the max whirlwinds are really, really powerful in this match against the ice cube. And the fact that he's done well to kind of stop us getting the belly drum off is very difficult. But Tocco, I kind of save it here. See if we can kind of close this one out. It's gonna be very difficult against the Dragapult, which we've got no way to beat other than the hail damage with Tocco. So it might go to time, may do, may do. We'll go for a body press into Serena and we can't really protect here. I mean, we've got the icicle crash, but there's no chance we're gonna take a phantom force from the Dragapult unless, unless they attack into the Tocco for some reason, but no, they're not gonna do that. No, so they take down the ice cube. And what's this Serena gonna do? Endeavor. Okay, well, that's quite a nice option.  And then we'll be able to see what this last Pokemon is from my opponent's side of the field. But we do have leftovers, which makes it a little bit easier to contend with. We can see that the Dragapult's got the safety goggles there, so it literally is gonna come down to time, I think, if we can get another Iron Defense off. It depends what the last Pokemon is, of course, from Bryce's side of the field. So it may go to game three, it is Steelix. Okay, hmm, can we get another Iron Defense off? If we can, we're in business. I think what we'll do here is just protect, unless they got Iron Defense, and that makes things very difficult for us, where we should have probably Iron Defense right here in front of them, because if they got Iron Defense, I think we just have to forfeit this game, because there's no way we can beat the Dragapult. And I think that's the big thing going into game three for us, like we need to make sure that we get the Dragapult before it comes down to like a talk all end game, in all honesty. But the Steelix might, yeah, the Steelix is just attacking here, which is fine. Steelix buffeted by there. Okay, and we'll just recover that chip off, which is good, the High Horse Power. Did we just body press here? I think we just body press the Steelix rather than go after anything else, and then we can protect on the Dragapult. So the Dragon Dot shouldn't really do very much. No, it does very little. And the High Horse Power, it's gonna do a good chunk of damage, but we know the life hope's not there, but. Oh my God, oh my God. Yeah, even if we get this, the hail takes us down. So Bryce gonna be able to take this game. So we get the Steelix, but the Dragapult gonna be able to win out unless the hail stops here, and then we got a chance. Does the hail stop here, maybe? Nah, nah, we got one more turn of it. So Bryce takes that one, it's one-one.  I think we probably could have went for the belly drum early on. I think we maybe should have just went ice cube mode straight away. No one that there's no foul play from the Orangaroo and just the expanding force, you know? The other thing what we could potentially do is go Mimikyu. We could go Mimikyu, but I think knowing the expanding force damage on the ice cube, I think we just go for it. I honestly think we just go Fungus, ice cube. We need to prioritize the Dragapult over everything else. I think we go Scrafty, and as our last Pokemon, I think we have to go Tocall. I think it's worked out. I think we've got the same four again. Yeah, and I think we try and get the belly drum off, turn one, and then go after the Dragapult, because we know the damage. Like, I think that second game, we were scared of the foul play and the safety goggles, but we know the safety goggles is on the Dragapult now, right? So it could go after the ice cube, turn one, but I don't think you can afford to. I think he needs to go after. Then you need to go after the ice cube, the Fungus, because you need to get rid of that redirection. Dragapult's racking. Well, you know, we like to see that because I think it gets around the beat up, but at the same time, we can just go rage part of belly drum. Yeah, because, yeah, let's just do that.  No, I think we do it. I think we just go for it. I don't think we play around. Like, we could just protect, try and get the belly drum up, but we're no gonna see the rock slide here. I think what they're gonna do is double into ice cube though. I think that's the big play for them. I think they're gonna rock slide, break our ice face, and then go after the ice cube hard. But if they do that, then we get the Fungus, and then we can, hmm, we can't rage part of the Dragapult though, that's the problem. Unless you go after the Fungus because you want rid of it, I don't know, but we know that the safety goggles are there. Fungus avoids the rock slide. It's a pity that ice cube didn't get the ice face broken. Max phantasm. It's into the ice cube, gonna double in there. Yeah, and we're not gonna be able to get a belly drum off now because we get, we do get a citrus berry, but the minus defense is not helping us. Like one little bit fails. Yeah, okay. I think we have to pull a double switch in all honesty. I think we need to go talk hall. Nah, I think we go the other way around. Okay, Bryce has got us on the ropes here. We should have really, really seen this. I think what we do is we go scrafty in for, no, no, no, no, no. I think you go after Fungus here. I think we go talk hall in for Fungus, and I think we go scrafty in for ice cube because you're not worried about the ice cube anymore. I think it's all gonna be down to scrafty here. We need to get around this Dragapult Max turns. That's the big thing. And it might not be a bad thing because we're kind of keeping Fungus for later in this game which might be a little bit better. Let's see where the Dragapult goes. Does it go after the talk hall here? I think you go after the Fungus just to get rid of it because it's such a threat with like Spore or something like that. Rock slide, avoiding the talk hall. Can't hit that slot for some reason which is a little bit of a shame for Bryce. Are we gonna see the airstream? Yeah, into the talk hall. So that's perfect for us, that's ideal because now we can fake out an eye and a fence. Or what we could do is, yeah, I think what we'll do is max scrafty. I think we go for the max on the scrafty. Let's do it, let's do it. Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it. Let's go eye and a fence on talk hall and let's go max. I've always wanted to max scrafty, always. I'm gonna have to take the calm off so we can see the damage done. I'm gonna get ready with the calm border and I'm gonna take the logitech off because I'm using my little webcam here today. So around the road coming out, are we gonna see Max Mindstorm? Let's see, he's not expecting max scrafty though. And with Fungus in the back, we don't worry too much about the Terraccan because they can close combat all they want, close combat into Fungus. If we've got the rage part, that's fine. And especially if we can get an eye and a fence up here, we're in a good spot. So I'm gonna take the calm off for a minute so we can see these attacks and see what we do. Okay, max wormwind, that's fine. We still got the mic on by the way. Talk hall taking that pretty like, not great, but at least the psychic train's not up so we don't need to worry about the expanded force. The minus attack's not ideal, but at the same time, it's not the worst thing in the world and we're gonna get some mediocre damage, mediocre damage onto the Dragapult. So, it's not too bad, but we get the eye and a fence up, which is good, which is good for us. And that's the end of the Dragapult max turns, I think. I think I've got one more turn. We've got one more turn? I don't know. If we can get an amnesia up as well, we don't even worry yet, some end. So the Dragapult in a bit of an awkward spot now. Now we go after the Orangaroo, I think. Because the Dragapult, did we go after the Orangaroo? It's risky going for max darkness here. That's the problem. But the Orangaroo not gonna be able to. I think we just protect Hawcall. Did we protect Hawcall? I think we could body press. Max darkness. Orangaroo. I don't think it's gonna have enough to take down Hawcall. We're pretty big, special defensively. And I think the Dragapult switches out to Teraki in here, to be honest. Ooh, Orangaroo switching out. But we did body press just to kind of cover that slot. So that's all right. So we'll boost that justified ability. We'll probably see a phantom. Ooh, dragon darts. Okay, that's fine. That's super fine.  That's fine. We get the max darkness from the Scrafty into the Tracking.  So you would worry in normal situations, but the double up in that slot is fine. The big thing that we need to worry about is the Dragapult. So we get rid of the Tracking, which is good. And we're gonna get a little bit more health back with that Hawcall. So we're still sitting in a really good spot. Obviously the big thing to worry about is the Dragapult, because we don't want ourselves in that end game situation where we can't take down the Dragapult, because a Hawcall can't actually hit it for good damage. You know, now Serena coming in. I mean, I don't know what Serena does, really. I mean, what can Serena do to Hawcall? I mean, you've got a Wrangler in the back, I guess. We could just protect Hawcall. Or do we just double up? Cause I feel like Phantom Force could come out again. But I just don't feel like you're able to take down the Hawcall. So I think we just double up. We could go for Max Knuckle as well, get our attack boost into Serena. Yeah, let's do that, let's do that, let's do that. Let's Max Knuckle. Dragapult flying, which is fine. We totally, like I kind of expected that, to be honest. We can protect on that in the next turn. We'll switch Scrafty out if we want to. Cause like keeping Scrafty for an end game against the Dragapult is probably not too bad an idea. I'm interested to see what this Serena does though. So we get the Max Knuckle, get our attack boost. We kind of reset. Okay, play rough. There's a good chunk of damage to be honest, like being fair about it. And the body press is going to be enough to get that Serena, not quite enough. But I think the next turn, probably what we want to do is go for an Amnesia, because I think the Amnesia kind of locks us against that Arangaroo. Like we then don't worry about the Expand Force when it comes in, like one little bit. Or we could get rid of the Serena. I think we've got to switch Scrafty out. We've got to switch it out. How do we just go after this? I think we just body press and then switch into... Can we just switch into Ice Cue? Or Fungus. I think we switch into Fungus because we've got the effect spell there and we'll take a fly 100%. And if we can get like maybe sleep or poison onto the Dragapult, that's huge for us, right? Yep, effect spell kicking. No, effect spell triple axel. Okay, well that's fine. Do they hit all three times? Are they gonna hit all three times? And no effect spell? How dare they? Okay, well, that's something. Get rid of Fungus, but that's all right. We'll get rid of the Serena. We've got Scrafty to come in. The Dragapult's gonna struggle to hit. And like a body press and a crunch will get the Arangaroo, like 100%. So we've got the recovery through the leftovers there. Do we want the Ice Cue to come in? Probably not. I think we keep Ice Cue for the late game because I think it'll survive a dragon darts. I don't think we can get an Ice Claw Crash into the Dragapult if it's the last thing standing. I don't think the Arangaroo's got protect. I'm gonna have to bank on it, not having protect, to be honest. Scrafty, the only way you can hit it is with fly. And I think you can only expand in force into the Torco. Yeah, I think we just crunch and body press the Arangaroo. Let's see, let's see, let's see. Hopefully we can take down this Dragapult because the Dragapult's the biggest thorn in our sides. But once we've got rid of everything else and we can concentrate down on the Dragapult, it gets a little, maybe a little bit easier, but I don't know. Dragapult's always a very solid Pokemon. Let's see what this Arangaroo can do. Dragon darts, yep. See, expand in force is gonna be enough. I don't think it is, you know. No, I just don't, I think we're too, here we get the crunch. It's a nice chunk of damage. Energy ball, wow. Now expand in force, getting rid of the Scrafty, trying to get rid of the Scrafty. Yeah, okay, well we get that. Okay, wow. Yeah, now Tocco can't really hit the Dragapult and they're gonna have to Dragon darts this next turn. So we can, I guess it's a waiting game now. An ice cube can come in. I don't think we switch here. I think we just try for the crunch. Dragon darts will take down Scrafty for sure. It's gonna be like a store, a PP store wall and on time with Tocco, but we've got leftovers. So I think we're kind of gonna be all right, maybe. Just who can stall this out? I didn't really expect this game to go like this, but hopefully ice cube can come in and kind of finish this off for us with an icicle crash. That's what I'm hoping for. Ice cube's quite bulky, so I'm hoping that we'll be able to take at least one attack from the Dragapult. It's a shame that we haven't got the hail up, but it's just how it is. We've got for another iron defense. We don't wanna go anything other than icicle crash here. And we'll see, we'll see. I'll see if I can take this calm border off. And I'll see if I can, yeah, there's that. I'm gonna move this down so we can see the health here when it comes back in. And that should be, we'll just take the calm border off completely. We get the iron defense, the icicle crash gonna miss. The most unprofessional calm moving round in one game. I do apologize, my friends, but that's just how it is. So let's just take a recess. Let's see, we have plus six with Toko. We can waste some time and go for some amnesias. He's not gonna attack into us there. We can't protect here, so we've just gotta hope. If ice cube can survive, if ice cube takes this, then we won the match. But no, we can't. So we're gonna go, we're gonna go at a time. We're gonna go at a time, 100%. So, you know, the leftovers is gonna be, you know, what wins us a game, I think. We'll be able to see what the Dragapult's health is in a minute. Let's just move this camera. Let's move this over here so we can see all the health gauges, it'd probably be better over there in the end. I mean, yeah, we just amnesia again. Not the way we wanna end the draft league today, but I think needs must, we need the win. We need the win, so we're gonna have to try and win it in any way we can. Obviously critical hits and things like that can change things, but we've gotta just hope that we don't get any drag and dots coming out. Gonna hit double. Taking no damage. And I mean, we are probably gonna be able to restore a little bit more from that. This is where we want the heat wave. If we just had heat wave of amnesia, I was just worried about something like primarina coming onto the field. I think that would have been a little bit more problematic for us. We'll just protect now. But we just need to get, like, as close to max HP as possible and have as much of our time left as possible. So, let's see, oh, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, even if this will do the job, we'll see, we'll just have to play it out and see, because we can't afford to lose this game. Like, that's the thing, we don't wanna go 5-3, we wanna go 6-2. So, I wonder how much, like, the thing is with the Dragapult, it's been on the field the entire match, right? He hasn't switched out once. So, it has used a lot of attacks throughout this game. So, we're well into, like, it's used a lot of its PP already. We can go for another amnesia here. It's the thing if he starts going for these phantom forces, he kind of dodges a turn, so it's kind of wasting our PP. But the thing is with amnesia and iron defense, we get a lot of PP with those moves. So, maybe a little bit more than what he's got. But, we just gotta be quick with selecting our moves, I think. We just gotta be very quick with selecting our moves. And then, hopefully, like, our time kind of clinches it for us. Dragon darts. There's a crit. That's not what we wanna see. That is not, and there's a double crit. Are you actually kidding? Are you actually kidding? Oh my God! Come on. Come on. What are the chances of that? Chat, let me know. Let me know. What are the odds of a double crit happening with dragon darts? I can't actually believe that, that is ridiculous. So, we've gotta protect this next turn. Maybe we can still do it. We've got three minutes of our time. I think we can still do this. Hey friends, so I'm just jumping in here while editing, because I don't think anyone really wants to see this kind of play out. We didn't really want the game to go to time anyway, so I'm just speeding this up. I'm still disappointed about the double crit, but it happens, you know? I can't be too sad about it. Unfortunately, it is part of the game. I got myself into a position with talk all where we identified earlier on that we didn't wanna get ourselves into that situation. And, you know, all credit to Bryce going for the win con there. A crit would have guaranteed him the win. And even if we hadn't got that, we just still needed to play it carefully enough where we'd got enough health back through the protects with the leftovers to get that HP number back. Anyway, I just thought I'd speed this up, because like I say, this would have dragged on for another good five to 10 minutes of just kind of kind of stalling down the timer. And like I said, no one really wants to see that. I hope we've enjoyed today's match, though. If you have, please leave a comment down below. Bryce has been a phenomenal opponent, really well played to him, and we'll jump back in as we end the video in just a couple of seconds. But Bryce played it super well, so we're not taking any credit away from him, but he's just gonna let the timer run down now, and that's gonna be it. And I think that is gonna be game, because I don't think we've got enough health to take this game. And double credit has just killed us.  Okay, well, good game to Bryce. And you played it super well. He came back great in that second game. Make sure you do check out his side of the battle. Obviously all these socials are linked down below. I'm a little bit sad about how that ended, and how it goes to time as well. That's not really how we want to end the draft league. Tocall, I think a bad decision on my end with not running heatwave. We didn't need amnesia when I thought it might be useful, but then I expected primary now, and that's the things you make those decisions. But I will end in saying thank you so much for tuning in. Hope you enjoyed today's episode. Have a great rest of your day, whatever you're up to. Leave a comment down below. Let me know your thoughts, and very good game to Bryce. And we'll see you next week for another episode of the X9 League. Until then, friends, take care, and bye-bye.


Okay, so I see a lot of dudes that have decent fits, but it's just so boring All right back to the pho. I see a lot of people eat pho as soon as it gets to the table like bro There's sriracha, hoisin sauce to give you veggies, bean sprouts and basil and all that and yet They don't use any of it.  It's like whenever you're with your girl Actually, y'all are just trying to upgrade your fit so you can get some girls. Never mind Hey guys, whenever you're bored with something do something different try something new back during my cringy days I'd wear nothing but all fitted clothes and it was cool Especially when you lift things fit better and shape your body better But do I really got to be looking like mr. Trojan ecstasy man all the time So that moves us to the second point on how to upgrade your fits change the fitment of your clothing pieces Now this goes both ways if you're used to wearing boxy oversized shirts Maybe slim it down a little slimmer jackets hoodies and t-shirts But in my case it was definitely adding oversized clothes to my looks the main reason why I really enjoy this aesthetic Even though I was uncomfortable at first was because I can contrast sizing Contrasting an oversized shirt with skinny pants really changes your overall aesthetic versus fitted on fitted clothing We get it man There's so much more that you can do when sizing doesn't matter third tip get a haircut man Most who's actually look really good with shorter size and a longer top personally I know a lot of people ask me this I like to go from a skin fade from a zero to a two And then I like to grow out the top and go into point number one.   See what I did there next up learn how to layer and I know it's getting warmer out But hey sharp and go layer. Nah, I'm just playing man This is for the future fall and winter people I get to see my video So layering allows you to test patterns textures colors and eventually you're gonna learn how to color block And I'm gonna make this video soon man. What patterns go with what what should go under what me personally I love tank tops under jackets and flannels along with the colder months hoodies under a jacket is always a clean Super versatile look yeah fellas once you get this down You're pretty much set to have unlimited amount of outfit combinations now Last but not least is to have a plethora of styles. Do not limit yourself to one style, bro You don't want to be that guy that only plays discount Samus on smash You want to be able to play the heavy people your Gannons your Bowser's and you also want to play the sword people Just so you know how they work and how to play against them And eventually you're going to build an appreciation for all aesthetics and styles and that alone is cool because it's easy to Strike up a conversation when you see someone wear something nice and you might see homegirl over there rocking Jordans Actually You can't trust a girl wearing Jordans But you guys get what I mean follow me on Instagram It is fly with Johnny time and help your boy get to tank it because I'm tired of not being able to swipe up and until then stay Fly upgrade your fits bra, and I'm out man. Peace


Ieithradd, gallwn ni yn unig am yr urchwyl. Mae'r amser wedi wedi eu swyddiadau clig. Ond mae'n wych yn bach i'r Lead Tfynwyd, a mae'n hirio ar gael i'ch gwahaniaeth o'r leidio. Mae dullwch chi'n ei wneud yn ein mynd yn ddigonol ar y ceisio. Mae'n ffordd mae'n cael eu cymdifoli a'r sorgrach. Mae'n cymryd iawn i chi'n ceisio ar fy modd a ydych chi fod yn yr roi. Am gofyn, hefyd yn gyflym'n gwneud. Ond fan hyn dyfoddau sy'n meddwl. Be raddwch efallai gallwch gwaith yn y dyn nhoc. Rydyn nhw'n hoffi ymhwyl yma yn yr hynny gynghwil yn dod yn ffalu… … yma yw ychydig yn yma yng nghymru. Lywoddodd yn ymhwytof chi yn gwneud gydag drafod am y dyma… … a gwerthu'n dyluniau i'r newid. Rydyn nhw'n meddwl am y mewn meddwl. Rockwpethau yma ar y dyma, yn cael ei cynnig. A gŵr y mynd i'n cael ei dynnu. I've been really pleased with the work that we've been able to put into the guys. I think most people can see that it's evident in our play now that we're playing in a different way, a way that I think once we get it really strong in terms of being able to do the things we talk about and work on in training once we're able to integrate that and we do most of the things automatically, ond weithio'r mheithio. Rwy'n dweud o'n mynd i'r ffordd y byddwch, ond ym mhobb o'r gwerth gynnwysau, rwy'n dechrau'n gwneud yn y gweithio. Rwy'n dweud, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. One of the things that you wanted to improve is that, obviously, there is more retention and having that possession more so. I think you spoke about it being like second-aged amybrydyn when they have the ball. How have the squad developed in that area do you feel, do you feel, don't know? Yn gallu dechrau, mae'n ddechrau'n gweld ymlaen nhw. Mae'n bwysig o'r gwaith iddyn nhw. Dweudon nhw yma yn y rechydigol chipau. Diolch yn yu'r gwaith sydd yma. Dydyn ni wedi tynnu gweld. Rwy'n ei wneud. Mae'n ei wneud yn ei ddim yn yapplause. Mae'n roi ddiogel eich bodai hefyd yn y gardens. Mae'n ddod i'w dda'i ei bodai'n ddahb. Ond hynny'n dweud o'ch gweithio ar y cyffredin ac yn ystafell. Ond y gallwn i fynd yn cael fflaen nhw, fel ydych chi'n gweithio a'ch gweithio. Wel ymwneud hynny'n gweithio ar gyfer y rhan o'r gweithio, a wedi'n gweithio arall yn y pethau. Rwy'n gweithio ar y maen nhw'n gweithio ar y maen nhw. Nid yw'r fferwyr i'r 1st oedd mae'n gwneud. Mae'r gweithio ar gyfer y maen nhw, a'r gweithio ar gyfer y maen nhw'n gweithio. How close was that to where you want this spread for city side to be? Yeah, I think it was close. It's obviously not where the final outcome will be, because we want to be able to sustain it for 90 minutes, and we weren't able to do that against Gunthorpe, for whatever reason. But I think the opening period, as you said, was really strong for us. It was close to the type of football I want us to be able to produce on a regular basis, and for 90, as I've already mentioned, I think if we're able to do that, then the reaction from our fans will be huge, and I think they really enjoyed clearly scoring after the 18 seconds, it always helps that in that regard, but I just think they really enjoyed their opening period, and if we can repeat that, which there's no reason why we can't, then we'll have a good season, we'll enjoy playing at Valley Parade, it's been difficult for whatever reason, and I found it. I think maybe we had a little bit of scar tissue to a certain extent, where we certainly, maybe against Gunthorpe, we went a little bit safe, because we weren't under any great pressure, but at 2-1 you always think you only need one moment from the opposition to get lucky on the back-on level terms, so that was probably in the back of the minds of the players. But we need to share that and get rid of that thinking for next year, and make sure that we've got a real body of work at home, and good results behind us, and that will really help us over the length of the season, because a home form is always crucial, everybody knows that. If we can improve our home form markedly, which is our intention, then we'll have a good season. How do you go about shaking off that scar tissue as you put it in respect to playing at Valley Parade, and does that factor in to how you recruit players this summer? I think this is an acknowledgement, but you've got to have a little bit about you to play at Valley Parade. It's the biggest stage in League 2 in terms of crowd and the stadium itself, so you've got to be able to deal with expectation as well. So, in terms of recruitment, there'll be a freshness to the squad anyway, so maybe that scarring that I've said and talked about will be diluted to a certain extent, because we'll have fresh bodies in the building, and guys that will be desperate to play in front of big crowds, because those are the type of players that hopefully we'll be able to bring to the club next year. It's a repetitive question, I know, but as time ticks on, recruitment grows larger in terms of how close it comes to the window, how are things progressing in that area? We're doing very well. We're very close to publicising the head of recruitment appointments, so I think that'll probably happen at some point next week, and then we can really start in earnest, but we've been working, myself, Glyn and Ryan, previous to what we hope will be the appointments we hope to make. So, yeah, we're nearly there. It's exciting time here. It'll be a lot of hard work for a lot of people, but the key is being able to get the right people through the door and make sure we're in good shape once the kick-off comes around. How does it compare with the recruitment drive of a Premier League side, and dealing with different markets? I think there's a lot more cherd in terms of players going out and players coming in. I think at the higher level it's more about retaining the players to retain the value for the club at times, so that's why more often they've got longer contracts and contracts aren't allowed to come to a conclusion because then you lose the value in the player, whereas at a league two level, and probably league one as well, it seems that there's very few three-four-year contracts on the table for players. It's very much 12-month and 24-month deals, so that cherd of players happens every year, and you've got to be in the mix and make sure you get the cream of that if you can. On that trend, then how are prospective conversations progressing with players that you would like to keep that are out of the deal? Yeah, we've progressed a number of conversations around started, other conversations only because there's a lot of planning that needs to go in. There's only so much in the budget for player acquisition, so we've got to be mindful of that. Sometimes you've got to cut your cloth accordingly, sometimes you have to wait for players if you sense that they might be coming available at a later point. Obviously you can't wait too long because you've got to make sure you're covered and not weak in positions, but yeah, it's quite exciting in terms of I've not gone through it in these terms, really, or worked within these barriers, so quite excited about it. It does give you an opportunity to refresh the squad and get some good energy into the team and the club, and I think that's a good thing. There's always a turnover of players at every club on every level, and you always feel that change in the atmosphere when all the players come back in the summer and they're ready to go again for the first time at the club, so that enthusiasm and energy that you play as bringers is always welcome. I wanted to ask you about two players individually. Both played a part in the goal after 18 seconds on Saturday. First of all, Charles Vernon, who of course got the second as well. Just how important has he been since you've arrived at the club and what he's been able to show and what potential does he have as a player moving forward? Well, I've been very impressed by Charles. He's played that initially, we had to manage it because he had an issue with injuries, and we were able to introduce him slowly and at the correct pace, and I think that's helped him, it's given him encouragement and trust in maybe myself because in terms of that, I won't just throw players back in and maybe put them at risk, it's always about making sure they're ready and capable to take on the workload of not only training but clearly the 90 minutes in a match, so he's been able to get through that period, and without fail, when he's started games or when he's come on in games, he's always made an impact, so he's being one of the players, stand-up players for me, ring. And with Jamie Walker, the other player that I wanted to ask you about, obviously his contractual situation, I believe, is up with hearts, this summer, his parent club currently, is there an appetite to maybe explore the opportunity of keeping him a private city? Yeah, Jamie's one of those players that we would have liked to progress if we can, but he's just coming off a contract that's maybe beyond what we can match, but it's not, I don't think it's always about finance, it shouldn't be because at times it's about making the right career decisions for yourself and your family, and sometimes being able to see the opportunity to play maybe regularly or rather than maybe earning more money to go in somewhere else, but not guaranteed that you won't get too much game time, so all these things have to come into the mix, Jamie's got a lot to consider, but he's made a real impression upon everybody, not only on the pitch or off it, but off it as well, so we'll see what happens, but yeah, Jamie's come here and had an impact on us, what you want from players to come to you from. Would it be fair to say that Charles falls under that category as well as a player that you'd like to see? Charles is one that I obviously, as I've already mentioned, it's one of those situations, the reality is is when you could play as a making impact for you, they become coveted by all the clubs as well, so we're about that to contend with, but yeah, we want, I'll bet a place obviously to stay at the club, the ones that are contracted at the moment. The more immediate future, team News 1's head of staff today, how are you sharing it now? Pretty much the same availability as last week, and there's no fallers from last week. I think we talked after the game earlier what, I had a banger and Jamie himself had a banger on his back, all landed on his back, but they were trained all week, so they're available. Probably the only one missing is Oscar, I think he's doing one. We spoke with Ficra earlier, and I know you were impressed with him in the short stint that you had down at Golds yesterday, and you, I suppose, somewhat backed that up against School of Four on Saturday. A player that's had to be patient, really, not only under your tenure, but the whole season as well, shows great temperament and yet calmness whenever you speak with him. Is that something that you've seen yourself? Yeah, I mean, as a personality, Ficra's great. I mean, for the first couple of weeks, I was happy that I was able to call him Charles, because his Christian here was a little bit difficult for everybody, but we finally got over that. So, yeah, he's a great personality around the place. Everybody enjoys this company, and he's a good professional as well. Even though he's had to be patient and bided his time, it didn't affect the way he came in to work every single day, and the way he performed in training sessions, he was always ready. I always knew that when and if I needed to call on him, there wouldn't be a problem because he trains correctly and he prepares, as you would expect, a professional to prepare. And so he hasn't disappointed me in any way in that regard, because he's been excellent. So I was pleased that I was able to give him the opportunity to play. So he's in point for him and point for me just to get that opportunity to see him in game time. And I think he's done really well. He's with us next year anyway. So he's got time to really stay to claim. But, yeah, I think he's been encouraged by what he's been able to produce towards the end of the year. Is he giving himself every opportunity of continuing that opportunity that he's got right now to carry on? I would like to think he will think that, but he knows that there will be competition for places where we're trying to make ourselves better than we are at the moment. That will mean obviously going into the market and we'll see what's out there. But the key is obviously having good characters and good professionals within the group. And with Kells, clearly that's what we've got. It was finally from me a word on Sutton, your opponents this Saturday. I believe they've got the best home record currently in English football. Yeah, none of it. They're a good sight. Get a lot of balls into the box. We're going to have to defend well. And on occasions we've just got to be mindful. We've just got to clear our lines at times because they won't put us under pressure. They couldn't set players as well. So a lot of their goals come from that. So if we do that bats, defend crosses in the box, defend our set players, then I would like to think at some point we'll certainly get it forward in the game and be able to play the type of football that we want to play. And best form of defending is being in possession of the ball. So they can't score if you've got the ball. So that's our intention. We'll respect what they can do to us. But as I said, if we get it forward in the game, I think we'll cause some problems. Thanks, Mark. OK. Sutton, as you say, I'd get the ball in the box. They've still got plenty to play for. Is that beneficial to Brad, for him that they are going to have to come at you? Yeah, I think so. And we've also been very fresh in our mind is the culture of the game and what we produced in terms of performance, which was poor. I think we're all honest in that regard and accepted that. So we'll endeavour to make sure that we don't perform anywhere near that level again, because if we do it then clearly we'll get beaten again. So because it's fresh in our mind, I don't anticipate that there will be a repeat of that, because clearly I was unhappy with the level that we produced last time out away from home. The players themselves were as well, because they know they were better than they were able to show on the day. So I think we'll all see a vast improvement in our way of performance against Sutton. Just touching on the group again. Do you have in your mind a number of players you wanted in the squad for the next season or, I think, for you? Yeah, I think that's important. Sometimes when the group is too big, it gets unmanagable in terms of numbers and what you're trying to do in training sessions. Sometimes you have to double up and it's not ideal. Sometimes the numbers don't work because they get at the moment. Thankfully we've got everybody fit and well, but on occasions you've got 24 outfield players and that doesn't lend itself to Lenvy 11s or whatever. Some guys are standing around the table. So sometimes you have to compromise in training sessions to include everybody. So we've got to in mind what we think we need, but we're mindful of the fact that League 2 is a long season, a hard season, and we've got to make sure the numbers are right and have the right quality because, clearly, hopefully we don't lose too many and we'll manage injuries well, but it's a long, hard season. So you know on occasion you'll lose people, so you're going to have to make sure the numbers are right. OK, thanks very much. We signed on to you about the contracts at this level on the 12, or 24 months. I mean, is that something you'll be looking at when you bring players in that sort of length while they're going, perhaps looking a bit longer? Possibly, I think it's... We can have conversations about that, I think, and see where we're comfortable with in terms of the team itself and the club as well. Because we're mindful that we have to manage the resources we've got, but I just think it's... The key is getting the guys over the threshold of the ones that we want, if it's 12 months or if it's 24 months, or even longer, possibly, then so be it, but the key is to get the right players at the right level of finance that we can comfortably cope with and get more of the threshold in the club ready to go if it's for 12 months or if it's for longer, great. You're saying that you're going to be quite strong to play at Barley Parade. You enjoy that pressure, obviously, some players find it more difficult. How easy is it when you're sitting down with a prospective signing to almost look into their eyes and think you've got the character on it and how can you judge that character? I think you do get a good sense of it. Obviously, playing career prior to coming to the club is taking into consideration what level they've played at, who they've played at, what impact they've had out of the clubs, maybe, and the longevity of their contract of their career at certain levels. I think you can claim that some players will enjoy playing for us, but others will come with not having that level of exposure to a big crowd, a big stadium, and expectations as well, which there'll be a lot of next year, which we need to deal with. But I would like to think I'd get a really good idea. Even before we got to discuss coming to the club or terms or prior to them actually signing, I think we will have done our due diligence and get a real understanding of their ability to deal with what we have here. And there's plenty of players that I'm sure would really relish the opportunity to play in front of big crowds in this big stadium, and that's what we can offer to players. So it should never be anything that you're frightened of. That's the example of playing for Bradford, just being able to walk out on big crowds. And I've experienced it already. When we do get it right, then the crowd's right behind us. And why wouldn't you enjoy that? I think some of your creative senses have often taken players out and stood in the centre circles, I just look round and sort of... Yeah, you can do that. And I think it's basically something that... Yeah, you can glean something from it. Yeah, I think if you're trying to think of what Jamie Walker said when he was showed round and he was actually... He wasn't starry-eyed and looking round the stadium, he was just quite a matter of fact when he said what you think. And I think that probably illustrates that it doesn't faze him. Yeah, it doesn't faze him. So I think he's showing that that he's quite comfortable in this round is that he finds himself. So that's probably the reaction you're looking for when you talk about looking in their eyes and seeing if they've got the metal for the jump. And yourself, obviously, now you've been in the job for a couple of months. I mean, how much do you feel you've learned in terms of coaching at this level now and just in terms of being back in football? Well, I've really enjoyed it, first and foremost. I think people from the outside view it as maybe a different step than the anticipated myself doing. But I just saw it as a real opportunity to get back and start working again. With a club of potential, I wanted to come back and maybe have a different challenge in terms of the clubs and situations I found myself at previous clubs. So this is a different type of challenge. It's about building a team and getting a team out of this league that we found ourselves in. And that's a great challenge for me and something probably I haven't been through. It's been different types of challenges, albeit it's still difficult. No, I'm working up yet, so I don't know what I'm doing. No, no, I'm still writing breezy six o'clock o'r mornig. It's great fun at that time. But no, I think I said to myself I'd know very, very quickly. Because obviously I was up for my own three years and I was conscious of the fact that I might get back in into a role and find that I haven't got the enthusiasm or the energy to do it anymore. But that's not the case, thankfully. So I'm pleased with that, so I'm sticking around. And the Saturday morning buzz, when you get up on a match day? Yeah, that's the key for me. That's the thing that I really missed. It's all well and good and watching games and not being in the mix, so to speak. Saturday mornings, a game of golf doesn't really have kick. We'd be used to preparing for an important game, a game of significance. That's the key on Saturday. Saturday three o'clock is when it happens.


Today, I have the privilege of speaking with Don from Avalon Advanced Materials. How are you today, Don? Great. Thanks. Don, you introduced me in 2008 to Rare Earths, and today I'm going to ask you the critical question here. Are Rare Earths back? It sure looks like it, Tracy. We're seeing lots of renewed interest in the Rare Earth space, and we knew it was just a matter of time. These things go through cycles, and we had that big burst of interest with the Rare Earth bubble back in 2008, 2012. But you knew at the time that it was going to have another day because there was so much new technology being created with these Rare Earth elements. And the main application at the time that we talked about was Rare Earth magnets. They're just getting bigger and bigger and more important in so many applications, and that's creating pressure on the supply chain once again to meet the demands of new technology needing these Rare Earth magnets. So Don, let's start by talking about the Nettrolacho Rare Earths deposit. You just recently put out a news release update. Can you tell us more about this? Yeah, so we decided earlier this year when it started to become apparent that Rare Earths were coming back into focus again that we should probably look at trying to reactivate the project. And one thing we've kept in mind all along is while we looked at one specific zone on that property called the Basel Zone because of its enrichment in the heavy Rare Earths that everyone was interested in at the time, it's not the only resource on the property. There are multiple zones there. And what we're realizing now is that we have a real opportunity to serve the specific needs of this emerging market for Rare Earth magnets that need specifically neodymium-praziodymium. Other zones we have on this property are enriched in the Rare Earth mineral basna site right at surface, easy to access, and have exceptionally high content of those two critical Rare Earth elements now. So we're looking at the opportunity to focus on developing some of these zones in the short term at a modest scale to start serving that market by taking advantage of new process technology using oresorting. We have over the years, Dawn, discussed how Rare Earths can also be referred to as technology metals or critical materials. And with everything that is in the news right now with regards to sustainability, do you see this being a variable in driving prices up with Rare Earths presently? I think it's all about technology creating more and more demand going forward and that's what's happening with Rare Earths. It's happening with a lot of critical materials that we're involved in. And I think increasingly it's about getting involved in the downstream and understanding these downstream applications and starting to work with the developers of the technology and partnering with them on finding solutions that create the supply and help them in finding ultimately the best markets and properties for the materials that they're creating using these Rare Earth elements. So Dawn, where are you going next with this project? Well, since we put that news release out, we've actually had quite a few expressions of interest from different groups asking us if they can help us move it along, recognizing that there is a potential supply chain issue here, shortage of supply of these critical magnet Rare Earths. And so we're now looking at possibilities on how we can work with partners on this to get it going on the model where we've created around small scale development. Keep it small and simple. Followers of Avalon remember that everybody in those days was looking at scale where you're looking at a billion dollar capex or more and that was one of the challenges at the time and getting into the Rare Earth business was the huge capital expenditure required to get started because of the multiple process steps. But we think we can keep it really small and simple by taking advantage of or sorting technology that allows you to make a concentrate of a rare earth mineral called bassinocyte, for which there's a market. And all it is is crush, grind, or sort, product, ship. And we think we can potentially get in a production of small scale, start making money for a ten million dollar capital investment as opposed to a billion dollar capital investment. And these days you want to start at a modest scale and provide for opportunities to grow your production over time as you introduce your product to the market and see more opportunities to serve other markets. Don, as always, thank you for joining us today. My pleasure.


What's up, everybody? Jay Z here for jayspeakscasebreak.com. 20-22 Panini Prison Football, six box hobby, half case break. Pikachu number 10 just sold out. This is the second half of the case. Of course, all parts ship. Let's rock and roll. Rex, you don't understand, bro. There's food trucks, taco stands here in L.A. All over the place like 3-4 a.m., bro. If I was going to the same Hibachi truck that's in the downtown location, it would be till 3 a.m. But in Long Beach, they close at 12. When you live in a big city like L.A., the nightlife is wild. Especially on a Friday, Saturday. I mean, food trucks is the best way to showcase your business without having to spend all the upfront money on renting out a place.  So, yeah, food trucks is definitely the best thing. So good, Rex. If you would have been living out here, you would have had a long time ago. I'm going to rip a couple boxes at a time. I just started the break, Charles, so you're never behind. You can always fast forward this stream, you rewind it. You're behind. And we record it too, so that's the good thing about it. You can watch this later whenever you have time. It's probably hard to actually want to open up a shop, or not a shop. Open up a restaurant in your area, even though it might be big in the community. I mean, everybody's taste buds is different all around the United States. And, you know, I don't know if it's a bad idea, maybe. I don't know. But that is a little shocking if you do live in a community that's Hispanic. And there's not that many. It's great, Rex, who doesn't. I've never actually met one single person saying that Mexican food is nasty. I mean, is Mexican food the most healthy stream? Probably not. What other larbs do they cook it with? But it's so good. But you know how it is. It's just different everywhere.  You didn't draw anybody in this break. You actually bought the Falcon straight up and the Titan. So those are the two teams you purchased. So any of those cards that pop out of these six boxes will all be yours. Now, the other breaks, I can't tell you because they haven't happened yet and they have not sold out yet. So those are all randoms. This is not a random. You actually paid for the exact team. So you bought the Titans and you bought the Falcons. Those are the two teams you have in this break. And Cuombole. We have a Jalen Wilder of 49. Vegetables. Like, you don't like any vegetables. You don't like corn, at least, not carrots, broccoli. What's wrong with you? Are you against it or what? What's wrong with you, Rex? Good question, Dilar. I don't think so. But I think you could be in the conversation. And why are we pulling so many more gases? Jets with that one. Twain. Drake London, Rookie. Dante Hall to 175. Pacheco Silver, that's like 75 bucks right there. Christopher, there you go, man. And then Quinn Williams to 249. And Rex, I need to take you out to eat over here and show you how to eat the vegetables in a much better way. They're missing out, man. I'm not saying I love vegetables that I eat them every day, but I do love them, though, but I'm not, like, eating them all the time.  Just got to add the spices, the flavors. I personally, like, when I go to Hibachi, like, the one vegetable I love a lot when I go to Hibachi and stuff like that is the zucchini and mushrooms. I've never grew up liking mushrooms, but, you know, when they cook it with garlic butter, the soy sauce, the sesame seeds, all this stuff that they mix in with the vegetables, the mushrooms just, like, soak in all the juice. So good. But you won't ever see me eating mushrooms anywhere else, just only, like, Hibachi, though. Cherry Wandics, it's just the way they prepare it. Kind of $1.99. Oh, we got a manga! Wow, what a case! Color Blast and a manga? Joe Borough, small one on the Joe Borough. There you go. Nice. There you go, bangles. What a case. And I've noticed, guys, with this prism, I had some very, very rough cases on Instagram where I had no super short prints, anything like that. I'll tell you what, when I finally hit that Justin Herbert Color Blast, I noticed that the cases with the super short prints have been so much better. You got Antonio Gates, to 125, Pacheco. And Chris Olave, got an RP in the first half. How about more Chris Olave here in the second half? Saints, going to Ryan. And we have a gold? Good Lord. And it's Quidipay Gold. This has been a killer box. It's a Quam brisker. Vivandre Campbell, as they are likely in Little Barry Sanders. And James Cook. Kenneth Walker. And a warrior. Ritter, and then Josh Allen, to 125. Marcus Coulson, Adam Thielen. We have a Kyle Hamilton, number to 60. Baltimore, Ravens, Rick Thomas.  Jameson Williams, nice green scope auto. Lyons, Russell, with that one. Kevin Byrd. Wow, we have another gold. Telling you guys, man, when we get a case hit in the first half, the second half is usually just as low as Nico Collins. And Brian Robinson, Junior Gold. Many, many. Where's that the bone me? Joshua Santos, there you go. Two out of ten. Solid, buddy. And Talon, you guys. Prism cases are loaded when you get case hits, or super short prints, I should say, not just case hits. We should be seeing a snakeskin, too. I don't think we've seen a snakeskin in the first six boxes. Juante Williams. Another Pacheco. Eddie George, sensational signatures. We have a March on a lot of more. Barry Sanders, hyper. And a hype, Mac Jones. Blue, 299. With a Kyler Gordon. To 249. Alright guys, so we have half a box left here. And then we'll be halfway through the case. We got Austin Eckler. To 199. And at a 75, Jake Ferguson. Yeah, that was a numbered hype. Mac Jones. 299. Derek Carr. Jaylen Tolbert to 125. We got Khalil Mack. Richie Grant. No autographs on that side, sweet. Alright, so so far this is what we got, guys. Got a couple of golds. A manga. Still plenty more to go, guys. Third gold already, guys. And look how jumbo this one is. Oh my God. This one just has a lot of cards. I thought it was an RPA or something. It has way too many cards. And that's why. This pack doesn't have much. And the autograph's right there, too, I think. The last three boxes. Kaleas Campbell. And Jelani Woods to 49. Purple Power. That's for the colds. Greg. Well, like Willis Rookie. With a Joe Namath. And Michael Vick to 75. Flashback autographs for the Falcons. It's going last but not most of the Charles. We have a Juju Smith Schuster. We got Devin Singletary. Try on Davis Price. Breeze Hall. Javonte Williams to 75. Trayvon Walker to 199 for the Jaguars. Gregory with that one. Spongiel Mordek for the colds. We have a Silver. Jehan Dotson. Flashback. And Trey McBride for the Cardinals. Going to Raven. Jerome Ford. Tyler Boyd. And Lamar Jackson for the Ravens. Number to 99. We have a Crystal Lave. And a Dewspin Callister. Fadarian Mattis to 25. Camel. That's a nice one. That's a Commander's Joshua. Logan Thomas. And John Randall to 125. With the Tarris Marshall Jr. to 199. A couple more colors in this box. To start this box. And then we still got the second half too. Two to go by Loa. Travis Kelsey Brilliance for the Chiefs. Gold. That is Christopher. 10 out of 10. That's our third gold in his six boxes here. This case has been pretty hot. Falcons. Aiden Hutchinson. Actually, I'll have to go get some sleeves. I only have one left. One second guys. Travis Kelsey is the Chief. Shaquille Leonard. We have Kyle Hamilton. Thea Marshall Lattermore. And Trey McBride. A couple more colors here. Rookie K-Dotten. Stefan Gilmore. And Chase Young. To 125. Alright, last box here guys. Haven't seen a lot for a lot of teams. But we have one more box. Two more autos, a ton of color. What about Oliver? Rashad Bateman. Evan McPherson. Come on baby. Another Fadarian Mathis. George Piggins Hyper. It's for the Steelers and Jerry. 43 out of 175. Drake Loner for the Falcons. Joe Burrow. Mack Jones. Second half right here, good luck. Should have one more auto. And some colors. Alliance. It's Malcolm Rodriguez. AKA Rodriguez. That's for the Detroit Lions and Russell. He's a popular player on Hard Knocks. DJ Chark. George Piggins, a little flashback. Rookie. As well as Rashad Bateman of 249. Checo. Rich Ganon. Alright guys, last stack right here. Maybe two more colors. Phyllis Jones Jr. Purple Ice. Desmond Ritter. And ended up here with a Donovan McMahon. To 199. Alright, well unfortunately not much Steelers. Not much Titans. In this case. But we did get some big hits though. It's just, obviously for other teams. So, do a quick little recap here. Stuff I have top. Little Rodrigo. Little George Piggins for Daryl Mathis. Gold Brilliance. Daryl Mathis Camo is nice. Wish that was a quarterback though, right? Jelani Woods, we got a Michael Vick for the Falcons. We got Eddie George. Jake Ferguson, we got a Gold. Brian Robinson Jr. Jameson Williams, Green Scope. Marcus Colston, Quitty Paygold. Crystal Lava, we did get that Manga Joe Burrow. Pacheco Silver. Gaston Green Scopes. And a ton of cards of course. That are colored. Rookie's, Silver's, etc. So, appreciate it guys. That was number 10. Jasby'scasebricks.com.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com, coming at you with another Donnerous Optic Super Value Rack Pack, Random Team Break number 19, with a chance to get the final three spots in that number block right there, which is actually coming up in a separate video if you're looking for that. First off, we're going to do the break itself first and then re-randomize everyone's names and then top three will be in the number block. Big thanks to all of these folks right here for getting into it, appreciate it. There's all the teams right here. So break first, different dice roll for the giveaway, three for names and teams. Easy, one and two three times, three times right there, Li Ziao Chen all the way down to a handful of Louis. Alright, thanks everyone for getting in, one and two three times for the teams, one, two and three. After three times we got the Hawks down to the Kings, no trade window in this. Here's the first half of the list right here, right Chen with my Lakers, we got Adam with the Grizzlies, Louis with the Pelicans and the Heat. No check that, this is 1718, so Louis with the Celtics, there you go, still a 1920 draft class. So this is 1718. Let's print, let's rip, I guess Miami Heat is still good in this class, I think Bam Adebayo in this class, then Kings maybe, Deer and Fox in this class. Alright, let's see what we got, alright here's the final print out, thanks everyone for getting in, appreciate it, and then good luck in the re-random at the end, the exclusive to this pack right here, let's see what we got, Kyle Lowry for Kings Isaiah Thomas, you know Rated Rookie Josh Jackson, so much potential for that Josh Jackson, didn't quite work out, alright let's see what we got here, we got Mike Connolly, Grizzlies edition, Derek Rose, and Rated Rookie Devin Reed, right there that's for the Phoenix Suns, nothing too exciting there, but the whole exciting part about this break is to see who's going to be in the number block, alright so we got Chen down to Louis, New Dice Roll, Snake Eyes, two times, so it's top three after two, good luck, one and two, now from three down to, or from four down to 30, we appreciate you giving this a shot, thanks for getting in, I'm sure there'll be some other opportunities to try again if you'd like, and congrats to Louis, Thomas, and on hell, in on the action in the number block, thanks for playing, thanks for watching, thanks for breaking, we'll see you next time for the next one, bye bye.


I wanna hear your thoughts on DJ and Rory here. Yeah, DJ, I was worried about initially before the Saudi international because of the knee injury, but he's very much alleviated concerns of that. And the 32nd at Pebble Beach, like that was mostly just because he was terrible on Sunday. He was awesome, the first three rounds there. So I view him better than 32nd there. The problem is I would rank Rory higher because Rory, like he hasn't finished outside the top five since September. And I think that with Rory, I just wanna keep on using him until it doesn't work. And when it doesn't work, I'll go back to him for a bounce back. So basically I'm just gonna keep on using Rory McElroy indefinitely. His stats are superb. He has plus history here. As mentioned, he was second behind DJ last year. He was seventh in 2017. So I like both of these guys and I'm gonna be okay having both in the same lineup even though it is very costly. But I think if I had to pick one, I'd rank Rory over DJ. What about you? Yeah, I'd put Rory over him, which is scary just because we know that Dustin Johnson can dominate. We saw it last year. Really wasn't even close. Rory was the only one who kept it close. But Rory's just been so good for so long that I don't know how you don't frankly rank him higher. And it's not like Rory has no like a vent form here. He's second last year, seventh in 2017. So yeah, DJ got the wins, but Rory can definitely figure this course out. I prefer his current form. I prefer the stats profile. It's really, I mean, you can't go wrong really with either one, but I would put Rory a bit higher.


Welcome to the exciting world of computers and to the equally exciting world of writing computer programs. I am Deepak Phatak, a teacher at IIT Bombay. My colleague, Professor Supratik Chakravarti and I, along with our team at IIT Bombay will be working with you over the next 8 weeks, we hope to provide you with an exciting experience, which is both enriching and empowering. In this short preamble, we will look at machines in general and indicate the peculiar nature of a computer. Making a machine to behave as we directed is a natural human desire. We should remember a few things about using machines or gadgets. In order to make a machine do our bidding, it is not essential to know how the machine was designed or how it was manufactured. What we need to know is what are the basic functions of that gadget and how exactly to make that gadget do what we wish it to do. Indeed, this is the approach we take whenever we learn to use any gadget such as a washing machine or television or even a simple transistor radio. Look at this radio. It is an old radio. I have taken this image from the Wikimedia Commons inserted by Lukas Perney. Now, whenever I wish to use the radio, what exactly do I need to know? Do I need to know how the radio catches electromagnetic waves? Do I need to know how the electronic circuits work? Not at all. What I need to know is what button to push so that power is switched on? How to set the medium wave or short wave selection? How to adjust the frequency now till we get the desired radio station? And finally, how to adjust the audio volume at the desired level? These steps are clearly written in a manual which usually comes along with the radio. Same is true for most machines we use. When we press different buttons or adjust other settings, we are essentially instructing the gadget to do something useful in a manner that we desire. Computers are also machines. Like other gadgets, we need to instruct these machines to perform desired tasks. The tasks which a computer performs are typically of computing nature. Indeed, that is the reason why it is called a computer. In case of a computer, the instructions are not given as we give the instructions to a gadget by pressing buttons and setting up knobs. Instead, instructions to a modern computer are given much like we issue detailed instructions or a written procedure to people. A computer requires a set of such instructions, all of which when executed in the specified order accomplish the desired computation. In case of complex tasks to be performed by people, we have similar instruction sets. These sets are often called procedures and are often written. A person will first read the entire procedure, understand it properly and then carry out the individual steps of the procedure in the specified order. In case of computers, such procedures are called programs. A computer is designed to handle programs in very much the same way that a person carries out steps of a written procedure. Computer first reads the entire program, understands it and then executes instructions of the program. In the week that follows, which is the first week of the course, we will begin by constructing a conceptual model of a computer. To accomplish this, we will introduce you to a caricature whom we have named as Mr. Buddhuram Dhamma O. We will look at the basic architecture of a computer. We will see how the data is stored in bits and bytes and exactly how the primitive data types are handled. We will conclude this week by looking at a simple but complete program in C plus plus. At the end, you will be introduced to the code blocks environment. Code blocks is an open source software tool for writing and running C plus plus program. So, this shall be your tool that you will be using in the course to write and run your own C plus plus programs. You will later download and install this open source software on your own computers and use it for practicing program. So, welcome again to the exciting world of computers. Let us together spend the next 8 weeks and empower each other, empower ourselves to become masters of computer programming.


There's something in the water here though in terms of the work that we do it be able to have an impact that we have i think people maybe hadn't thought about being in health care previously. They come in and they do great work and they realize hey it's really challenging work that we do that has the ability to impact literally billions or at least tens of millions of people. Around the globe there are too many jobs fill us that give you that opportunity and so i think it's making sure people see others who made that transition and having fulfilling careers and then ultimately making sure we continue to bring it back to the people we serve and the purpose and the work that we do here at avid that ultimately is what helps with retaining key talent that we're recruiting from the outside.