FIR SHORTS: Best TOTW & 100 Card SBC

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[00:01:53] Talking about content, it is content o'clock on this Wednesday evening. It is content o'clock.

[00:02:01] I came back into a very negative scene, unfortunately, where the content was, well, really, really meh.

[00:02:09] And I did mention that I've seen it before Black Friday last year. And I do expect or shall I say hope a whole lot from next week's promotion.

[00:02:22] But what is going on until then? We had an awesome show. We should check it out if you haven't already.

[00:02:29] We had an awesome show. We had an awesome show. We had a cool video on Tuesday episode 638 with Daniel, Shaq and Nathan, where they take a deep dive into the current state of the game and the content site.

[00:02:39] And well, let's find out today if content is on its way back looking at team of the week number nine, a 100 player SPC and a Kelly O'Hara SPC.

[00:02:56] And I think it's time that I want to start with probably the Kelly O'Hara SPC since she came out yesterday after the rest of the crew recorded that show.

[00:03:08] And remember, if you are, of course, on YouTube watching this or on Spotify, you can check out the video version.

[00:03:16] Now that means you now have the SPC on your screen as well.

[00:03:22] So Kelly O'Hara, a left back or I should say a right back that can also play left back.

[00:03:28] She is coming in up around 127,000 coins currently.

[00:03:37] It is an attacking wingback.

[00:03:40] I should say, let's start with this.

[00:03:42] Three star skill move.

[00:03:43] Three star weak foot.

[00:03:46] 165 centimeters versus five foot five.

[00:03:50] She is short in lane.

[00:03:53] Important.

[00:03:54] If she's a right back, she can play attacking wingback plus and a wingback plus plus.

[00:03:59] And if she's a left back, she can play wingback plus or attacking a wingback plus.

[00:04:04] So she loses the attacking wing, the wingback plus plus if she's on the left side with a three star weak foot though.

[00:04:12] I am unsure.

[00:04:13] She's also right footed if you want her to actually play left back.

[00:04:18] But on the other hand, you could definitely have at least have the option to do so.

[00:04:22] I would play a right back if I'm quite honest.

[00:04:25] On her play style, she has the rapid plus and the pink pass with the jockey, the quick step and the long throw.

[00:04:32] So the rapid plus is of course, definitely something to keep in mind there.

[00:04:37] Pretty fast.

[00:04:38] 90 pace, generally speaking.

[00:04:40] So 89 acceleration and a 90 sprint speed.

[00:04:44] Pretty decent dribbling with 80, 80 composure, 86 ball control and 85 agility.

[00:04:50] Most important.

[00:04:50] She's a defender skill.

[00:04:52] Can she defend?

[00:04:53] Well, she has 86 defensive awareness, 82 interception, 86 standing tackle and 87 slide tackle, which for a fullback.

[00:05:02] Actually, pretty good.

[00:05:05] Her passing stands out a little bit as well.

[00:05:07] 85 crossing with the pink pass plus or regular pink pass, I should say.

[00:05:12] Pretty nice with 89 jumping, but only an 84 stamina, which means this fullback, if you put her on her preferred wingback plus plus,

[00:05:22] I think she might run out of stamina throughout the game, but it's not that bad.

[00:05:28] But I do see that that will happen.

[00:05:30] But if I'm quite honest, I think 130,000 coins for a right back of this caliber is pretty darn decent.

[00:05:42] Maybe a little bit on the expensive side, but then again, this is not the first thing.

[00:05:47] Morgan is actually now I'm thinking about.

[00:05:49] Morgan might still be able to do so.

[00:05:52] Let's check that quickly out for you guys.

[00:05:54] Because of course, that is a nice link.

[00:05:57] She expired unfortunately on the 11th of 11th this Monday.

[00:06:01] She can't do Morgan anymore.

[00:06:02] But the team of the week brings a new colleague, which you can partner her up with.

[00:06:06] And if you've done Morgan, I think Ohara is actually a pretty cool addition to your team.

[00:06:12] The design, of course, once again, is something they do know what EA is here.

[00:06:18] So in my opinion, Ohara, pretty cool SBC.

[00:06:22] Not a must do, but definitely a could do.

[00:06:26] Talking about could do.

[00:06:28] This is the most controversial SBC we've got in a while.

[00:06:31] It is the Centurion's 100 upgrade.

[00:06:35] And the Centurion's 100 upgrade, the username says it all.

[00:06:39] It means you can earn a pack that contains 100 player items.

[00:06:47] Well, which if they were gold, could be pretty cool, wouldn't it?

[00:06:52] Unfortunately, there is, there are, I should say 25 bronze players in this.

[00:06:57] There are 30 silver players in this.

[00:06:59] There are 25 common golds in this.

[00:07:03] And there are 20 rare golds in this as well, with one guarantee to be 84 rated or higher.

[00:07:13] The SBC comes in around 65,000 or 63,000 currently to do.

[00:07:20] And here it comes.

[00:07:22] 100 players is pretty cool.

[00:07:23] Last year we had the same SBC, but it was quite a lot cheaper and we got more rare golds.

[00:07:30] It's pretty hard to get like a decent amount of fodder.

[00:07:33] The guy spoke about it yesterday.

[00:07:34] I think it's hard to grind your way up there.

[00:07:37] Getting 100 player items when there are no like big ways of grinding your way up there.

[00:07:45] I don't think the silver and bronze play too much.

[00:07:50] Common golds where we got so many of those 75 times 35 player specs in the last couple of weeks from rewards, for example.

[00:07:57] And I don't never get anything in those.

[00:08:01] And basically how I see the spec and I might be a little bit too strict here.

[00:08:04] I am pretty aware of it.

[00:08:06] And I don't want to crash the party because the party is already on its way down lately.

[00:08:11] But I see this as you spend 60 K, you spend three squats.

[00:08:16] And in those squats are two team of the week.

[00:08:17] I forget it correctly.

[00:08:19] So I think that's pretty steep.

[00:08:21] You spend three squats, including two team of the week to get 20 rare players, which you know at least one will be 84 rated.

[00:08:29] But be honest, it's probably 84 rated and most of the gold cards aren't that special either currently.

[00:08:36] Of course, you can get one of the special cards from it, but chances are slim already.

[00:08:41] I think this Centurion's 100th grade is EA's equivalent of a Wednesday evening IQ test.

[00:08:51] And I am not going to fail for this IQ test and I would fail.

[00:08:56] I would just skip it if I'm honest.

[00:08:57] I think it doesn't make any sense.

[00:09:02] And the reason why I get people are negative or people are a little bit down on the game is this.

[00:09:09] You give 100 players out of this.

[00:09:12] What's the harm in making a 100 player pack, even if it's 60, 70 K?

[00:09:17] Why not make it?

[00:09:19] You know what?

[00:09:19] 30 rares and 70 common players.

[00:09:21] There's enough gold in the game anyways, and it's really hard to get common golds.

[00:09:26] I do it.

[00:09:27] I could use an SPC.

[00:09:28] I could use like folder to grind up later on.

[00:09:30] I have a problem getting regular gold cards.

[00:09:34] What's the harm of it?

[00:09:36] Why wouldn't you be getting people into this, into getting this?

[00:09:39] Why would you bring the general feeling on the game even down even more than it was before it?

[00:09:49] Getting a 100 player pack should be something special.

[00:09:53] It shouldn't be all calculated to do this.

[00:09:55] So I am really, really disappointed by the package you might know.

[00:10:02] Honestly, for 63,000 if you would have to spend money on to do it, I would honestly just use that money to buy a cinema ticket for another Citroen Gladiator 2 and just spend my evening there instead of doing this SPC.

[00:10:18] Of course, people will get lucky here.

[00:10:20] I know.

[00:10:21] I, I, it's a hard skip for me.

[00:10:24] Um, and that's the issue, which the guys discussed yesterday as well.

[00:10:28] If I look at my own club situation.

[00:10:31] There's been a while since I've done an SPC.

[00:10:34] Uh, I would sometimes do the camera SPCs, but I stopped with in this week.

[00:10:38] We had the 88 max icon SPC.

[00:10:41] I think that was borderline value.

[00:10:44] You could maybe get away with it, but the previous were actually a lot better.

[00:10:49] We're at a stage where if you're critical at doing SPCs and not doing SPCs because they are there.

[00:10:56] Like I, for example, do I try to be very critical at it.

[00:11:00] There's actually not much further needed because you're not doing much SPCs and my club is stacked.

[00:11:07] Like I've got a 100 on my transfer list, 100 on my dupe list, and it's all gold or rare rated golds usually.

[00:11:14] Um, but I have no way of actually spending them.

[00:11:17] And if there's an SPC come in, we have to spend three teams with two team of the weeks to get another 20 rare gold plays back.

[00:11:24] It sounds a bit too much for me, honestly.

[00:11:29] On to some good news though, because I was checking out the team of the week in number nine.

[00:11:34] I think it's number nine at least.

[00:11:36] Um, yeah, I'm pretty sure it's number nine.

[00:11:38] So team of the week, number nine.

[00:11:40] And I kept saying we had two really bad team of the week so far.

[00:11:45] And every, every other team of the week included one big card and the rest was sort of mad.

[00:11:52] That's been the general trend so far.

[00:11:56] So here's the kicker.

[00:11:57] This week, when I look at team of the week number nine, I think this is the best team of the week we've had so far.

[00:12:06] Period.

[00:12:07] The best team of the week we've had so far.

[00:12:09] Counter argument.

[00:12:11] There's just two players that award more than let's say 100,000.

[00:12:15] Those are of course, no, maybe even 60,000.

[00:12:19] I think every single player is under 60,000.

[00:12:23] Um, yes.

[00:12:25] Uh, Saint Maximum comes in 55,000.

[00:12:27] The player, uh, we've got Cotato 89 striker.

[00:12:31] Pretty cool card actually comes in at 51,000.

[00:12:34] We've got to, uh, Pedro at 35.

[00:12:38] Lavel, the partner of course for O'Hara at 30,000 and hemp coming in at 23,000 already.

[00:12:46] The big guns here though are of course, Sala coming in at 970,000 once we're getting in.

[00:12:54] We have Bellingham, which got a special card.

[00:12:57] I expected Vinicius, but we got Bellingham, but he did score of course.

[00:13:01] So that's fine as well.

[00:13:02] Um, getting a card worth 700,000, a 91 rated Cam plus plus really cool card, but everyone else is pretty cheap.

[00:13:12] But cheap isn't bad.

[00:13:15] And that's why I am also still convinced not only value wise, this is the best team of the week, but generally player wise.

[00:13:21] Cotato, let's zoom in on Cotato for a sec, is a four star, four star 89 rated striker.

[00:13:29] Uh, she has the false nine plus plus, and she has the power player, power header plus press proven, the regular Trevella and the aerial and the stats in all the right places.

[00:13:40] And she's already dropping her price.

[00:13:41] I think that's a pretty cool card.

[00:13:44] Hemp, we all know could be a really cool card.

[00:13:47] Awesome cross, three star weak foot, which is all right, but she's left winger.

[00:13:51] And she is of course, left footed.

[00:13:54] She's got the 94 crossing with 88 curve, 89 stamina for left winger, which really cool.

[00:14:02] 91 agility, 92 balance, really cool stats, very fast 92 acceleration with 91 sprint speed.

[00:14:09] And she has the whip pass, the regular finesse shot, the rapid and the first touch Trevella and quick step.

[00:14:15] I think an 87, uh, regular card.

[00:14:19] Like hemp, even though the boosts above the regular card aren't that much, some really good value.

[00:14:26] Really cool card.

[00:14:27] Same goes of course.

[00:14:28] I mean, Salah, terrific card.

[00:14:30] Can't really argue there either.

[00:14:31] But I think the LaVelle card still as well.

[00:14:35] Pretty cool card.

[00:14:36] I don't think there's much wrong with Freigang.

[00:14:39] Um, four star, three star, but she's comes currently in at 17,000 for a pretty cool cabinet can also play striker.

[00:14:49] Like nothing wrong there either.

[00:14:52] Um, and if I look at the bench, I think Moise Keen at 91 pace comes in at 13,000.

[00:15:00] There are pretty cool cards in this.

[00:15:02] Of course you want to go for Bellingham.

[00:15:05] You want to go for Salah.

[00:15:06] I know these are like the high hitters of this team of the week, but there are plenty of cards in there which aren't actually that bad.

[00:15:13] And I can only applaud that.

[00:15:15] So generally speaking, my, I think this is the best.

[00:15:20] Uh, I didn't even mention the Maria, which is of course a fan favorite and has actually a pretty good season at Perfica.

[00:15:27] But I think this generally speaking is a really good team of the week.

[00:15:32] Um, but yeah, I hope you pack one of the big guys, but even if you don't plenty of options still in the team, which could be worth it.

[00:15:42] This Friday, we have a new promo and I wanted to check out what the promo was, but we got already some perks in the game because when we saw the promo, sorry, when we saw the promo this weekend or this, this evening, we already saw it's called Trek stars.

[00:15:58] So I'm looking forward to see what that was, but, uh, they used some images that they actually can't really use, unfortunately.

[00:16:07] So there was a little bit of a mistake there.

[00:16:09] They used the old logos for the series, uh, and the league, uh, McDonald's, uh, instead of the current one.

[00:16:16] So that's a little bit of a shame.

[00:16:17] And I think I also saw it with club logo.

[00:16:21] That mistake out of the way though, on a new promo is called Trek stars.

[00:16:25] And I think it's going to be a big buildup for, well, black Friday, or at least I definitely hope so.

[00:16:33] So we'll be back this Friday.

[00:16:35] We will not make a shorts on this Thursday because I will be focusing on making some content for our patrons.

[00:16:41] And usually the Thursday before one of these promos is basically just a marquee matchup.

[00:16:46] If something big does hit, I might jump on for a great recording, but don't expect it this Thursday.

[00:16:52] I will be back Friday with full team on episode 639.

[00:16:58] Uh, time flies when you're having fun again.

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[00:17:55] That leaves me.

[00:17:56] Let's see if I can still do this with one thing left to do.

[00:17:59] And that is to drop it.

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