Daniel and John officially kick off the new podcast season, by looking at the latest FIFA23 content: It's PRE-SEASON. They discuss the things they are looking forward to most in the new game, talk FOMO and Daniel does a dance??!?
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Dan Wimbush:
2, 1... Right, let's rock and roll. Hello, FUTTIES. Welcome along to FUT in Review. We are your number one independent EAFC podcast, bringing you two shows a week, available on all podcast platforms around the world, including now on Amazon Music. So you can use that handy little AI assistant whose name we won't say to avoid setting your devices haywire. You can use that to listen to us now as well. And don't forget as well, if you want to see our faces, as well as hear our voices, you can check out a fully edited version of this show on YouTube and Spotify. Plus, if you do have a few bucks to help support the show, you can join our loyalty programs, which will also get you some free merchandise. Head to patreon.com forward slash foots in review or footsinreview.com. And that helps you join our super close community and you'll get an invite to our Discord as well, along with your membership. On that note as well, we've got to shout out the people who really go that extra mile, our Patreon skybox holders. So big thank you to Paul, Emma. Artyom, Mario and Peter. Hello, Footees. Welcome along. It is here. September is here. We are here. Your number one independent EAFC podcast has launched. You may know us as Foote in review. If you are new, if you are old, welcome along to a brand new season. My name is Dan Wimbush, otherwise known as Wimby. Welcome along to the 542nd episode of this fine show. It is Friday, the 1st of September. 2023. And who better to join us on this Odyssey than the founder, the big boss man himself, the head of FootCoaching.com. It is John. John, welcome to the world of tomorrow.
John:
Thank you very much also thank you very much for the intro. Who better? I can name a few but I nevertheless very much appreciate that one and I'm glad to be here on Friday night. Thank you my friend.
Dan Wimbush:
Now, it's absolutely great to have you here. Of course, this show very much powered by Footcoaching.com, your one stop shop for getting better at this game in which we all love. And hopefully going to love going forward, because as mentioned, EAFC right around the corner, September is here. The game launches in just a few short weeks time. John, where are you on the height meter, my friend? Are you a 10 out of 10? You're going to be queuing up outside the store, you know, if, yeah, games are still sold in stores. or you're a one, you're chilling and you know, I'll pick it up at some point.
John:
Well, I'm actually very excited for the game, honestly. My hype meter has been going down, but that's more of the age factor, I'm afraid. But now what I've seen from the game, what I've played from the game, what I've experienced is what I really... I'm very much looking forward to getting started. But I'm very much also being chilled right now, just doing other stuff, preparing for the new season. Of course there's a lot of behind the scenes work we need to get going to be ready for the new season. So I'm trying not to play too much FIFA before it actually hits.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, it is very much the calm before the storm. And of course, FIFA 23 still very much going on. We're going to get into the preseason campaign, which just launched this evening. And we're also going to be given our sort of initial thoughts on all of the news we've had so far from EA Sports in relation to EAFC 24. So picking out some of the key things that we think will be important for you going forward, if you are brand new to the show and you've not heard us before. As mentioned, we go through all of the latest content. We give news, views and opinions. Plus we take your questions as well, particularly for those of you who are in our Discord, which you get access to via our Patreon at patreon.com forward slash foot in review. So we will have a mail back a little bit later on as well. But John, before we do delve into the world of tomorrow, the EAFC, we've still got to talk about this. You know, FIFA 23, it's on its very last legs, but it's still going. And they have given people a reason to play for these final few weeks. with this preseason campaign. Again, for those of you who might not have been through this cycle before, the preseason campaign basically helps get you rewards for the next game. So you do objectives and SPCs and challenges, and it will give you certain packs and perks for the new game. However, John, when I put this to you, there is one very important caveat with all of this content that EA had given us the chance to earn.
John:
Yeah, you'll get it in a couple of weeks after launch. I think three weeks after the game officially launched.
Dan Wimbush:
from October, it says October the 12th.
John:
Yeah, so it releases officially I think October 29th, but, September 29th, but you can get it pre-access 22nd. So for me, it would be like a full three weeks. of grinding the game before you get these rewards, right?
Dan Wimbush:
Yes, that is the that is the slight downside. However, the good thing about this time, because I remember when this promo launched a couple of years ago, it was things like you get an anchor chemistry style and things like that. And it was just like, really? But they've kind of opt the ante a bit this year. So with the first set of objects we've had released tonight, you've got the join the club objective, and that gives you a chance to earn a three rare gold player pack from the EFIGS on the men's side. the top five league, so you get three rare gold Syria players pack, Bundesliga, Liga and Premier League and La Liga. So 15 players not to be sniffed at, especially early in the game when every player can make a real difference. And you've also got the new era, which is based around completing SPC challenges. The first one tonight was just submit a bronze squad. So hopefully they'll walk to this be as easy as that. And the rewards for that are a two rare gold players pack base hero loan pack, which will get you five game loan and a coin boost five game 1000 coin. coin boost. Other awards going forward, they've already said the week to join the club objective will be an 82 by 10, which is pretty good actually, even for October standards. The new era two challenge will be to rare gold player pack, the base hero loan and another coin boost. And the week three join the club objective will be an 83 by five and an 84 plus by three. So you're right, John, it is going to take a couple of weeks to get these wars. But you know, they're actually pretty decent even for two, three weeks into that game cycle.
John:
I can't see anything wrong with this. I'm usually the one being most critical on this I don't care usually because it's I'm not going to start this game again just to get some packs in after three weeks four weeks after we played two wicked leagues I mean grinding our ways up halfway through the season already for someone that does spend FIFA points at the start of the season like usually two three packs well these three weeks of calmness and rest it's probably pretty on par, especially if you look at the effort you have to do. It's decent, we'll talk about that in a minute I guess, but the effort isn't that big. Yeah, fine, I think if you're playing this game, just keep playing, doing it, definitely could be worth it. Personally, although it's very good, I'm not coming back, but I think that's something I've been meaning to talk about, I think, a couple, and I will be talking about this more in the coming months of playing FIFA. I'm trying to stay out of the FOMO trap myself and I think I'm one of those players that's very good at not coming back for rewards. And if you ask me now, I'm not playing because I am someone who needs to spend a lot of time unlearning things but can easily learn new things. So if I stop playing the game, I have usually a very much easier time adapting to the new game. And if I stop playing in the last day and then start adjusting to the new one. That benefit does not wait the benefit of the specs for me. So it's not going to bring me back to playing. But if they do this promo, I think this time they done it right.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, this is certainly the best that we've seen from the preseason campaign. It's worth saying as well, we're talking about the kind of the efforts to go through to get these packs, while the SBC at the moment one seems fairly good. So I would say that even if you have no intention of picking up the game, if you've still got a handful of players in your club, you know, for 10 minutes, you know, playing around on the on the companion app on your phone to get basically something for nothing. I think it's worth it. Now, the actual. Join the club objectives which are based around gameplay. They are slightly harder. They're talking about scoring in four separate games with seven players from each of these leagues. So it's going to take you 20 games. Whether you do that casually through just playing rivals or you, you know, you want to just put your controller down, score a goal and just, you know, in your spare time, if you work from home or something on squad battles at semi-professional level, you can do so, but there is a cost, John. And I think, you know, One of the big things we like to get into on this show, again, if you're new, is the whole kind of mentality of, as you say, talking about things like FOMO and trying to help people navigate these choppy waters. We'll obviously give practical advice as to how to get the best players and how to improve your game style, but we also are really keen to help people protect their mental health and all the benefits that comes along with that. So we're doing our best to very much put everything into perspective. as much as we can. And again, I think this is a classic example. I think you're right, John, if you have stopped playing and you've got other things and you're enjoying other things, none of these rewards are going to set you so far behind everybody else. It's not the please don't feel FOMO of this. This is just a little perk, a little bonus. If you're still enjoying FIFA 23, just, you know, maybe just change your team up a little to get some of these done.
John:
I think that's a perfect description for this, right? doesn't bring players back, but if you're still playing, it doesn't hurt them either. And it's a reward for them that are still playing. I think it's a perfect way of doing it, honestly.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah.
John:
I'm a fan.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, exactly. I think the big thing that I always appreciate from EA and again, I've been very critical of EA at times and will be, I am sure, throughout the EAFC journey or the EFA, as I'm going to now start calling it Journey. But I like the choice. And I don't think that this is such a FOMO factor. As you mentioned, I think the big thing for everyone to bear in mind is that date. This isn't like you're going to log in on day one and everyone else is going to have an 82 by 10 pack to open. you know, this is going to be two, three weeks into the game. And I very much encourage one of the things I like to do is I like to save screenshots of my team, John. And it's amazing how the team will change. But even in that first three or four weeks.
John:
Oh.
Dan Wimbush:
So, yeah, it is.
John:
It's my favorite time of the year when the new game starts for the first at least season, probably even two seasons, where every SPC can mean a big leap up for your team. Every pack opened can have that one player which might actually make a difference. So I've got to rebuild my team for this player. Now after two months that's sort of gone. That's also why I don't like the current period of FIFA but I do also get the appeal of it. But once you start throwing 99s around I'm like It's good for me.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, you can't wait to get your hand on that 81 rated gold rare center
John:
Oh,
Dan Wimbush:
back.
John:
I mean 83 Manny left back 78 Sanchez did well. Well, 85 Popa enjoyed them for six weeks. 82, 83
Dan Wimbush:
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John:
you know, 80 son. These are the players which sort of have the best memories in the team. I was, we were doing summer series, right? Where Chris does a wonderful job of doing 11 picture on only special shows. where we talk about the best players or the players you've used the most. And there's two more to be recorded. Chris's and mine. Mine's going to be 10, Chris's number 11, right? Well, what we're doing is I was making my team for that. And I was thinking, ah, which special cards, which special cards, but I couldn't even think about special cards over the year, but the cards I kept remembering was like, Hey, I started that game using DUDEC last year. I started using the 83 Mendy. That was actually pretty cool. Remember the old Sandro card? I used them for like, I came for like 10 weeks or something like that. Uh, and of course, the year on all came somewhere in the team, but most players
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no,
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exactly.
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John:
It has, he had to be in the team, right? Um, also probably lost. I forget to get one of those cards, but hey, um, the, there's gold cards. Those were the cards that you, that I at least had the warbors feelings with. I was like, Oh, Moonye, I remember that 84 Moonye card. That was cool. I don't have that with many special cars. So that's why this stage of the game was my, well, probably time to take some holiday. And the start of the game was like, oh, okay, I can't wait to get in here. And the moment I start taking them up, my hype meter goes up already.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, I think this is like you say, it's the best time. If you're someone that really likes building things and seeing that team progress, it is the period of the game where, as you say, every pack can make a big difference. Whereas the deeper we go into cycles, it's there's an established group of players. A lot of gold cards that people have had access to for a long time, a lot of promo cards, so and a lot of them, which you can't obtain anyway. So lots to look forward to when EAFC comes out. I think, John, we talk about FOMO as well. I think there will probably be, still be a lot of people out there who are debating, we have seen these price increases this year between the ultimate edition and the standard edition, both have gone up. What would you be saying to someone who is on the fence about whether to get that standard edition or the ultimate edition? Where kind of, which person would you say will get the most out of spending that extra money?
John:
So let me first say I can't advise someone on spending extra money or not, right? I mean, that's very much different. I spent $30 or euros to play Starfield early today. Well,
Dan Wimbush:
Haha
John:
you're like, hey, I'm good for being next week. And I totally get both views. So I think that's that. For us, it's a no brainer. It's our work. It's what brings us our money in. So we need to play it as soon as we can. So sure. The things you can do in one week, this is a full week of early access, not three days like we have before, but the things you can do in a week of full early access. getting a head start over everyone else. I think that's a really huge gap. So if you're the player that plays and listening to the show in August, in July, then I think the ultimate edition getting it seven days early is the game for you. And if you're the player that just likes playing football games and listen to a show occasionally, or not at all, and then, well, you're not listening to this advice either. then I think the standard edition is good. Okay, and I know the price difference is huge, but the seven day distance is the biggest difference there's ever been. And you know how it goes with trading or how we used to use the app access and how we can maybe spend the time to get a little like 10,000 coins and maybe use those 10,000 coins to grind up. I think that's pretty much gone now. Now we just start playing early on to go grinding. We can spend points if we want to. If you pack players, you can get cheap players already. you know if you get a cheap player or a good player on week one it will like sometimes quite dribble in price over the next two weeks right um yeah so
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Dan Wimbush:
not the other one's fault. For me, I think the litmus test to me comes down to, if you're someone that at any point next year is going to be comfortable spending FIFA points or EA-EFA points, whatever they want to call them next year, this is the best time to invest extra money in the game because as we've been saying, it does make the biggest difference. So If you're someone that's like, Oh, I'll, I'll drop 30, 40 pounds, you know, when the first big promo comes out, I would just say, maybe save that money instead and get the ultimate edition. Cause you get some FIFA points with it. And as John said, you get that early access, the chance to try the game and get familiar. So maybe you're someone that's very much like, I don't like spending extra money on the game. I'm quite, as John said, I'm casual. It's also important to stress. You won't be permanently left behind. It's not like you'll never catch up. It will take you longer. And you, if you do log in after that first week, by the time we get to say the first weekend league and things like that, yeah, your team might be a little step behind, but it will catch up. You just won't, you'll just have a bit of a harder time getting through those very top leagues perhaps. But ultimately, if you're a good player, you can circumnavigate that and pack luck is absolutely totally random at the best of times. So there's nothing to say. You won't pull them back by anyway. Um, with the first. gold pack you open. So that remains to be seen. But John, we're now a few weeks. We've had a series of pitch notes. We've discussed little bits and things here on Foot in Review over the past few weeks. But again, a lot of people might have drifted away and are only just coming back for the new season. Out of all of the things we've heard about this new game, is there one thing in particular that you're particularly excited about?
John:
There's several, but if I have to choose, I think playing co-op between consoles, different consoles might be my biggest high factor this year, if I'm honest.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, I'm doing my happy dance over here for those of you who are watching us on YouTube or Spotify will see that. But it was a you're just listening on audio only. Trust me, it was the best dance you've ever seen. 100 percent with you, my friend. I've been banging the co-op drum for years. We need more interactivity and more camaraderie and more sharing of experiences on this game. I've been into the reasons and I'm sure you have. I know you have as well, John. We know why EA shy away from. making communities experience particularly in foot. So to do with how many packs they can sell or the mentality they wanna put us through. But look, the fact that I can now play with you on a PlayStation, if you're playing on PlayStation or Nate or grandpapa Mac or any of those guys and just hop on, just makes it for such a better experience. So.
John:
It was my first 100 bucks saved already. Normally I have to buy two copies of the game.
Dan Wimbush:
It's an absolute victory, absolute victory. What else, what other features or news we've said in pitch notes or other things that you're particularly excited about?
John:
I'm very excited about the... Let's not start with food just yet, but with the new pro clubs. being crossplay as well and the way that looked from what I've seen so far. We are, I don't know, I don't think we have actually mentioned it on the podcast before talking about pro clubs though. If you are a patreon subscriber and I'll leave up all the housekeeping to you beside today but if you're a patreon fan and you support us we are going to start a dedicated food in review their professional pro clubs team, Premier League team, but we're taking those experiences with us into guiding players and every single player that wants to can write in and we'll get play time in our new pro clubs team in the footer review, because now we can play cross play, so now we can actually get everyone in, which wasn't the thing in the past either, so I think that's this perfect community driven factor. Gameplay wise though. It has to be placed else.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, I was just rewatching the pitch note video in anticipation of recording tonight's episode. And they fill me with equal amounts of excitement.
John:
You as well.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, equal amounts of excitement and dread. Because I think one of the examples that they showed was, so there's gonna be play styles, which are pretty much the same as traits that we've had going forward. So people with things like finesse shot trait and stuff like that, those are kind of play styles. And then there's this play styles plus. which is like ramps it up another level. So those players, we've seen it a little bit with some players, you know, there's some people that like the great finesse shot, like a Mo Salah, for example. With his play style plus the whip and the finesse they'll get on those shots are even more. The power shot will be even quicker and more deadly. And John, I'm, you know, I can't help but be pessimistic about this. I'm just fearing now seeing people line up with these. players, these men and women with these super traits, these plus traits, and just being powerless to stop the ball flying into the back of the net.
John:
Well yes, I can be very frank about that from what I've seen played. Yes, I think they need some tuning and they will get some tuning and there will be, oh if you use your right winger or your wingers and you put the crossing one on them and you'll start crossing and your striker has the heading one that's actually really strong. Yes, that will happen, right? But on the other side, if you ever want to have a midfielder play like Iniesta, then this is the way you are able to do that. So I think it also gives you more opportunities, which we'll see throughout the year to make your own play style sort of built into your team. So not necessarily, oh I need a striker that scores a lot, but hey I need a striker that's strong on the ball, or a striker that can dribble, or I need two wingers which can cross, whatever. You can now make that more your own, you can customize it more by playing it. So that's why I'm a really big fan of it. Could it be too strong? Well we all know that if EA introduces something in FIFA or in this size EA FC it usually is too strong, the Power Shield was too strong when we started, it was tuned down and now it's okay. So I am very optimistic about it. I like the defending as well. There's a lot of gameplay things which I really like, but the play styles plus next to the other one, which maybe we have time to talk about, but the evolution. And the play styles is something that really stands out to me and I'm eager to get my hands on it and see how that evolves. But evolutions could be very cool as well or could be something I'm never gonna look at. Well, I'm not sure yet.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, evolutions again, for those of you who haven't been keeping up with it's basically you'll now have the chance to select certain players. There are going to be restrictions. It doesn't sound like you're going to have to pick any player for any evolution, but long story short, you'll be able to take certain players, put them in this evolution slot and you'll be able to do objectives towards upgrading them. So, you know, for me as a reading fan, Charlie Savage, I might be able to turn in from a 69 rated silver player, do some objectives and then He'll then be a 75. Then maybe a month later, I'll have the chance to upgrade him again to being an 80 and other things throughout the season as well. So I might have the chance to make him a five-star weak foot player. So suddenly by the end of the game, I've actually got say a couple of, as a Reading fan, I've got a couple of Reading players in my team who are hopefully in line with the power curve that I've been going through and you won't just be limited to one player as well. They've said you can swap players in and out. So theoretically I could do it with an entire squad of Reading players. Might take me a long time to do it, but I could suddenly have a competitive Reading side. And John, we see this, it's already available in E football has a kind of similar system that you can do. And that's one of the big things I liked about E football was actually taking players from my club and players that I loved. And it was the same in the master league days back in an old pro Evo, suddenly developing the players yourself. So you're not just forced to use Say Renato Sanchez because he's the most metamidfielder. You can turn somebody else into your own metamidfielder.
John:
Yeah, and the only thing why I'm not, why I'm cautiously optimistic about this is I will know that for example if they say evolve a silver player this season, I'm not going to start the year playing with a silver player. So am I trying to invest that extra time to get that silver player an evolution which might be a player I'll be using in a couple of weeks from now? Or am I going to be like the current silver things and stuff? Like, you know what? It's not for me. It's probably too much time. FOMO. Eh, I don't have FOMO. You know what? I'll just grind my way into rivals with my normal team and I'll probably be all right. I don't know where that will land. Honestly.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, it goes back. It does go back, though, to what we said at the start of the show in terms of the preseason promo. It's good to have the choice. It's good to have the options. And I think the more options are good as long as it doesn't, as you say, nag on that FOMO factor. I hope it's not a case where people are feeling they have to do these things. And let's boil it down to the basics here, John. EA either want our cash or our time. They are a business.
John:
Yes.
Dan Wimbush:
And those are the two goals. They either want us to be spending time on the game. So they can point out to their sponsors and things like that. Look how many hours people are spending on our game, or they want us to feel like we need to have certain items. And if there is a way to spend money to get those items, they will do it. I mean, we've, we've seen it at the back end of FIFA 23 with things like, Oh, buy this kit and you can do certain objectives. You know, they're always looking at ways to make money, but they're a business. And for anybody who I can absolutely understand and I get as angry as anybody, a company that is trying to force us to spend longer to get things that we want or spend more money, but that is what a business does. So, um, it's, you know, I don't want to say you have to like it or lump it, but ultimately, while this is the only major mainstream football game we have, that is not going to change when competition arrives, maybe that changes, but that
John:
That choice isn't bad either, right? I think
Dan Wimbush:
No,
John:
it's actually a good thing.
Dan Wimbush:
exactly. And this is what I'm saying. Having the choice to evolve these players, I think is going to be great going forward. And that sort of segues us nicely into the fact that, of course, the most fundamental change we've ever seen to a FIFA title, a FIFA Ultimate team mode is coming with the addition of women's teams, five leagues plus select other clubs from around the world being involved as well. These will all be in packs. You can play with them all. They'll be there are female heroes. icons, a massive new pool of players coming in. John, again, for those of you who like choice, you're going to have a try. You know, your ultimate team can be more varied than ever before.
John:
Yeah, I'm all for it, but I've been in front of that for the whole year. So whenever it got announced, I was like, yeah, I'm fine with that. The only issue is the amount of filler impacts, in my opinion.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah.
John:
We currently have a lot of filler already. I'm not saying these females are filler, don't get me wrong,
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John:
there will be a lot more low rated players in packs. Which makes the upper pools. even harder to get, right? We'll say that our FIFA points went up as well. We don't know how the current pack system will work and how many they will cost. Last year they got rid of a 5K packs, got only 7.5K packs. That's a little bit of a risk, if I'm quite honest. For me, like I feel the chance of you actually getting something out of a pack you like, pure statistically saying. 84 players is going to be harder to pack than before because there are more players below that. Simple as that. I think that's my only risk, my only thing I don't like. But honestly, I've been playing with a few more players in the teams and stuff like that now. I'm quite alright with it. They're a little bit, I feel maybe a little bit too fast even. But it can also be because everyone else is still very slow. So I'm keeping my judgment for that. I have no issue having them in my team, and I quite enjoy having some different names in it as well.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, I'm looking forward to using, I mean, we've seen from an England fan point of view, the way the lionesses have played over the last couple of years. I'm excited to get my hands on, on using some of these items. I said the likes of Frank Kirby, who's a local girl group just down the road for I bought and having players like that available, I think will be fun and good and new, but I do share that same concern that you do of look, if they're adding another 200 players that are 82 plus, you know, we talk about
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right?
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, we talk about that 82 times 10 player pack. You know, we know how many men's players and this isn't a, you know, 82 rated Williams players will be terrible. It's not, it's if you look at the men's game, how many 82 and 83 rated cards do we get, how many, how many of the hoibergs do we end up packing also patterns or people like that, that we're just straight away even from day one are just fodder. Um, and yeah, I think you're right. It's especially if you were someone. you know, that is going to put FIFA points on in the hope. And this is the other thing, you know, we talk about the, you know, the, the tendency to chase the big pulls. That's, you know, the same kind of response that you get for gambling. And the fact that the if you save your desperate for Mbappe, you know, and there is a 0.1% chance. That's going to be cut in half or
John:
Exactly.
Dan Wimbush:
perhaps even more. So yeah, a bit tricky, but look, hopefully with things like play styles, with evolutions and things like that, again, you'll have more and more players will be meta and I think John, if we can get to a point where it's not the be all and end all getting them back. Hey, I think that's the thing. I think in previous years, hasn't there, there's been this small pool of meta players, you know, it's like. Everybody had to work their way to getting Varane and Mendy in their defense, or everybody had to try and get a version of Renato Sanchez, or everybody had to get a version of Mbappe and their team. And we've seen in certain titles in the past where every team had, what, between 30 and 40 players and you saw the same players every single week.
John:
Yeah, but I also still think that makes sense. Because if you look at real life football, anyone would die to get an Mbappe or Haaland in their team, right? And I think that goes for everyone in FIFA as well. Get Haaland or Mbappe and then you're pretty much set for a long while. I went from this year from using Haaland until I could afford Mbappe. And I think that stays the same. I'm the only thing I'm afraid of if the drop rates goes down, these players will be even more expensive.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah,
John:
So...
Dan Wimbush:
but what I would say is that what I'm saying is I'm hoping with these things like evolutions and play styles that, yeah, everybody's always wanted an Mbappe and Harland, but nobody in FIFA in the past few years has wanted Harry Kane, because Harry Kane has been largely not meta and
John:
No,
Dan Wimbush:
not,
John:
and
Dan Wimbush:
or
John:
that's why play styles definitely
Dan Wimbush:
Robert Lewandowski,
John:
can make a difference.
Dan Wimbush:
for example.
John:
I think diverse for play styles definitely can make a difference. So for someone that's been using Benzema all year, I think some of these players are also very much underrated to actually use. Um, I like, have a little bit faith in yourself. Not only you don't need perfect cards to be able to play this game, right? And that's not going to change. No, I was like, I'm all for it. I just hope the Dutch doesn't get under. presented because we've got some pretty good players but it looks like the US has better cards in its game than the Dutch have.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, I'm quite looking forward to, you know, keeping, cause you know, the growth of the women's game has been fantastic to see, and it'll be nice sort of tracking like informs and things like that and promo cards and getting to learn about new players, but it's like when I used to play, um, championship manager and football manager back in the day and learning about new players, um, through that. So it's, it's nice. It's nice to have that kind of ability to expand your footballing horizons as well. So that is coming. That is part of the new game as well. Um, any other features that we haven't kind of touched on? for the new game that have been talked about so far.
John:
Maybe you want to talk about the pro scene for a sec, but I think something I needed to get out of my heart, there's a whole discussion about getting certain ratings on players, right?
Dan Wimbush:
Yes.
John:
I don't even know, but I think Kair was 92. I don't even, somewhere, yeah. Like, yeah, but you can't be higher than Haaland. Like, I just want to put out that ratings don't mean much, the main stat rating. These are only ratings to decide how big the chance is to pack these cards. That's it, right? So Ronaldo being 86 and looking at the statistics, like actually that's not gonna be a bad card, it's just gonna be easier to pack that card. So don't, I would say, please don't emphasize those main card ratings too much. only to decide or mainly to decide how often you can pack these cards. I think they don't want to care to get in there every single thing right from the start, but that also means it's probably a very good card to use. So just
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah.
John:
wanted to get that out there first.
Dan Wimbush:
As you mentioned, things like 80 rated Renato Sanchez, 83 red Ferland Mendy can still some of the best cards or have been in previous versions of Star Teams. So lots to look forward to. I think with EAFC it's going to be fun. I'm very much enjoying the big feature that I need to mention is that claim all button for objectives. So we won't have to individually claim 18 different stadium upgrades. at the start of the game. So very much looking.
John:
That's the only point where in the game I actually noticed that.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, exactly.
John:
After that I'm like... care too much about objectives. So everyone was like, you see this, they're going to be high. I got so many messages that were not going to announce. You've seen it, you can claim it all. You can claim it all. Look at my game, two objectives to reclaim. I'm very happy for you guys, but this isn't going to make a difference for
Dan Wimbush:
Look,
John:
me.
Dan Wimbush:
we take any quality of life improvements we can get here, John, we take it.
John:
Definitely.
Dan Wimbush:
Other little bits and pieces that we've seen, of course, things like chemistry is changing very slightly. Icon's going to give an extra point for all leagues they're in. So Icon's going to be better. Also, it's a big change to icons when we say goodbye to baby mid and prime versions of icons. You're just going to have one version of an icon throughout the year. And then they'll watch like we've seen in FIFA 23. There'll be special versions. release, whether it's a foot birthday icon or a cover
John:
World
Dan Wimbush:
star
John:
Cup
Dan Wimbush:
icon.
John:
icon, football, whatever, but that's
Dan Wimbush:
Exactly.
John:
fine. It's not big of a difference,
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah.
John:
right?
Dan Wimbush:
And also say goodbye to position changes. They are gone as well. So a player can now just slot into any position they want. It's bad for me because I enjoy making easy coins from people that are lazy. But never mind. Never mind. We will
John:
That's
Dan Wimbush:
find.
John:
me.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure we will find a look again. If you're new here, we will be offering things like trading advice. There will be a return of the trading show to our Patreon. At some point this year, myself and Shack Attack are busy beavering away, trying to formulate a plan. It will be at least once a month at the start of the last game. It ended up being weekly. I can't promise that, but we will be doing at least one a week starting probably around the week before release. When we get a little bit more information, it might be the week of release. But look. The other good thing is of course, if you are in our Patreon, and you're part of that discord, people like myself, Shack Attack, and there are lots of others with great trading knowledge and menu grinding knowledge and just game knowledge, you can always hit us up at any point. You don't have to just wait for the latest podcast. Our DMS, you people please slide into our DMS. We love it. Um, so that we will do our very best to guide you through and you can't do better than having the head of foot coaching as well here to give you practical game, but I mean, I can't tell people that much on how to. Do well on the pitch on this game, John. My domain is very much on the menus. I leave the coaching and the practical tips to people like yourself, Nathan, Artyom, or the real V.O.Ps.
John:
I just want to mention the whole thing because I think the team does more work than either these days. So just check out the team at Footcoaching. They're all there though. So you can always, if you're on Discord, just tag at coach and any one of the coaches will get a notification.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, exactly. And, you know, we talk about things like buying the best players and finding the best thing I could say hand on heart and I've been paid to say this at all. I got so much more of going through coaching sessions with the team at foot coaching than I did from any player that I've used because it just telling me, you know, drilling home things like stop bringing my full backs out on marauding runs and I still have that voice in my head now and the amount of times where The satisfaction of now not dragging my fullback out and seeing that fullback cut out the attacking run. Um, it brings me much more joy than, uh, than anything else. So look foot coaching.com for all of your coaching needs for that. And John, just talk us through as well, because, you know, we've talked about. The patron and some of the benefits of that. I don't want the, you know, this isn't just one long advert of a show, but look, there's some really cool things as well happening for those people who have joined the patron this year.
John:
Yeah, and I'm very happy to be able to offer that as a team, right? I think one of the biggest things people notice is that their show will be released probably much, much earlier than everyone else can see. So the moment we're done with recording, we always start the first edit and that first edit will go live on the Patreon feed right away. That can be like within two hours of the actual recording. But the normal shows will be published every Tuesday at 6pm UK and every Saturday at 6pm UK. So if we record in front of that, before those days, you might get this. Let's say we record this on Saturday evening. That means you get the show on Saturday evening as a Patreon while Ress gets it on Tuesday evening. So I think that's one of the biggest changes we've made. Another difference is of course our loyalty program. We wanted to give back to the community that supported us to make us to make 540 plus episodes so far. And what we've done is every single tier from the five year old to the skybox owner. And for every three months you've subbed in a tier, you get something nice. A physical merchandise piece sent to your home address. We don't see your home address. We're gonna middle party that takes care of that all. So whenever you sub, they ask you for an address, you put in the address. And if you don't put in the address after three months, you get an email saying, Hey, we want to send you something. Please fill in your address. Also can't send it. And we have to send it to Chris. So make sure Chris doesn't get everything and get together. We talk about custom design t-shirts, which you helped develop as well. Right. Um, we have, um, who these stickers, we got, we got so many fun gear coming on. And of course we are hosting another event. all the way in Crete where we take care of your hotel room, where we take care of your breakfast. And we're going to do some, well, not
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only live
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to get
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everyone
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there.
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we
John:
You'll
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can.
John:
be there, Daniel, I
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah,
John:
think.
Dan Wimbush:
I haven't told my wife yet, but
John:
No, she knows now, though.
Dan Wimbush:
yeah.
John:
I'll be there, no, but
Dan Wimbush:
I'll just say
John:
thanks.
Dan Wimbush:
I'm going out for a pint of milk and then I'll just turn up five days later, it'll be fine.
John:
Exactly. But that's in May, so that's a long time in front of us. But if you are a Patreon member, you are eligible to come. We don't pay for your flights, but we basically take care of a lot of other things over there. Thanks to the Avon Mar Hotel in Crete, of course. So merchandise. We get you the Patreon fee with the food coaching pro tactics we give you early. Something I haven't told everyone is yet that Archon One of the study coaches at Foot Coaching is going to do a weekly or bi-weekly. We're looking into what the time will be, but a dedicated private stream to all Patreon supporters talking about tactics, mindsets, analysis, ask me anythings about all things which we support at Foot Coaching. So it can be anything. And at least every two weeks, probably every week, we're looking into that and making it possible. That's a Patreon only exclusive stream as well. And there's going to be something else, but I can't talk about that just yet.
Dan Wimbush:
Your teeth, your teeth good sir, but we like it. Look, so loads of reasons to get involved. And of course, for any more information, hit us up on our socials at foot coaching, or drop us an email as well. And we'll be more than happy to answer any questions you have. Before you sign up, there's nothing hidden any questions we're more than happy to answer.
John:
Definitely.
Dan Wimbush:
Speaking of questions, john, before we head off, mailbag time. Again, thank you to everyone in the discord who has submitted a question for this week's show. We're going to start with one that I wish I could have this situation in my head. Question for the pod. If you expect to have 120,000 FIFA points on day one, how would you utilize the points?
John:
I would give it away on the community.
Dan Wimbush:
aww
John:
Normally, I'd say spend half on buying packs. See what you get. Stock your club, make sure you get contracts and stuff going. Build a starter team. Just keep the cards in your team, in your club until like two, three weeks in, people get money and those cards will rise in value and you'll probably be able to set. And it's the best value for points. The other half I usually spend on drafts because, well, this sounds arrogant. I might know, but I can probably win a couple of drafts as well. which gives even more rewards than the 300 points we would spend on packs. Um, big disadvantage there is, with the first weekend here have players doing exactly the same, so I would
Dan Wimbush:
Hahaha
John:
start spending those draft points in the second week, whenever one gets in. Um, but usually that sets me up for a long time in the season, but I've never done this with 12, with 120,000 points, honestly. Um, and I know you're lucky, you get an Mbappe and... Your team is so far out of the rest. Makes life so much easier as well. But I'd never, I'm like, I'm never going to advise people to spend points if I'm quite honest. So maybe do it a little bit less.
Dan Wimbush:
Yes. Again, we're not, we can't sugarcoat this. If you put in FIFA points, it's going to give you an advantage in terms of building up coins and building up your club. Now, whether your own ability in the game helps make that worthwhile or not, is going to be the X factor. You know, if you're a really good player, then yeah, having it, having a BAPA's and stuff is going to make it even easier. But if you're a really bad player, is
John:
It won't change much, no.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, exactly. So again, think, think. And obviously, of course, we very much encourage anybody who is going to invest to do so responsibly. Please don't go chasing big players. Please don't put in lots of money expecting because, you know, you could get really lucky, but you can get really unlucky. And if at the end of it, you've not got the players you want and that's going to make you feel worse, you know, just.
John:
You ruined your whole year. You're feeling that start to gain.
Dan Wimbush:
Exactly. But as John said, if you are going to spend points, And we will say this on the trading show, but we'll give this away for free. This is, as John said, the best time to put points on because so many players are worth so much. So it does help give you that head start. So again, if you've got the money and you've got the disposable income and you're happy, again, it's exactly what I'd say to a friend that was going to the casino right off the money and don't, you know, just accept that you might get nothing. And if you can go with that mentality. and you're happy to do it, then go for it. Boston, Boston toffee. I said Boston coffee there. Boston toffee.
John:
Now
Dan Wimbush:
As we
John:
I want
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only have
John:
Goff.
Dan Wimbush:
four weeks going to the new game comes out. Can you recommend any good quality resources to research trading strategies? Again, stay tuned. You are part of the discord. You will get access to that trading show. And again, stay tuned to foot in review because we will do so. And, you know, we go through all the trading show things, you know, certain players to pick up fodder strategies, things like bronze pack method. other methods and other little hidden gems as well. So we'll do our very best. Um, I think the feedback we got from last year's first, first year we did the training show was, was very good.
John:
Even
Dan Wimbush:
Um,
John:
I could trade.
Dan Wimbush:
yeah, exactly. Um, you know, one of the tips we gave everybody, and we said all throughout the year was get informed, get informed, get informed, just stock them, club stock them, sure enough, what happened around the world cup, boom, what happened around the end of team this season, boom. And we made some FIFA millionaires. So. We'll be aiming to do the same again.
John:
The other tip you gave was by the way to do the exact opposite as I was saying. So if I say get this menu card just hold on for a couple of weeks, don't do that.
Dan Wimbush:
Munier was just a bad was bad luck. I tipped Munier and that was just bad luck. And again,
John:
Yeah,
Dan Wimbush:
this
John:
that's
Dan Wimbush:
is the thing with
John:
the
Dan Wimbush:
trading.
John:
only one I was told, you know.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, what I will say with trading is again, a, there are various degrees of risk you can take with trading. There are things that will guarantee very slow steady profits that might take more time. There are high risk things that could be brilliant. It's just like the stock market in real life. Yeah, it's boom and bust and there are different degrees and we cater for that. You know, we produce a cheat sheet that's got low risk. medium risk and high risk things. And we sort of talk through the risks and why they're different risks as well. So stay
John:
You can
Dan Wimbush:
tuned.
John:
download that on the Patreon page. Just saying it. Don't forget to download that when the show goes
Dan Wimbush:
Exactly.
John:
out.
Dan Wimbush:
And it also gets delivered to your inbox as well, I found. If you've got email alerts turned on, there's a little attachment. From the next question, I was looking into the pro side of FC24 via fifa.gg, for example, the eMLS, etc. If you guys find the time, you do a small segment or have someone on who can explain
John:
Definitely.
Dan Wimbush:
the journey or steps to get yourself into the environment. John, I think we'll save this one for when we know a little bit more. but you're bursting to talk about it, I know.
John:
I have reached out to some contracts, I have been reaching out for some contracts as well, but that's a different story. In the ProScene they want to talk to us about this. In the Basic they tuned down the complexity of the ProScene, which is a good thing. The very negative part of it, and we'll go into that in the next couple of shows, is that if you are not signed to a club... Even if you're signed to an organization like, I don't know, Team Gullit or whatever, if you're not signed to a club, chances of you showing up on a big tournament this year are slim to none. There's four people that if they're not signed up to a club worldwide can get into the World Championship in the end. While this year, if you were on the radar of a previous year as well of an organization, you could get in, you could show yourself and there were multiple chances of showing yourself. This year, EA gave the power to the clubs. The clubs don't have much e-sport knowledge, generally speaking, that knowledge and expertise is with the organizations. And basically, they put the organizations off site. Do you wanna know why we stopped pro clubs? That's one of the reasons. The other reason is we're definitely not gonna support many organizations anymore because they can't place their pros anywhere. Generally speaking, I like the tune. downed complexity, I very much hate the direction they were going in and I think this is going to be a very, well how do you say, dark era in FIFA esports currently. But we'll talk about that more when we get to the other ones on that I'm looking at getting someone on that has actually had players in their organizations with contracts with salaries and stuff as well and to show what the impact is for these organizations. But I don't think we can underestimate the effect this has. has for organizations that make their living and players that make their living with FIFA Esports.
Dan Wimbush:
for organizations to make their living in place. Yeah, one more certainly to deep dive on throughout the season. Again, this is going to be a biweekly. This is a biweekly show, two episodes a week. So we've got plenty of time to get into the complexities of issues. And again, we're kind of in a whistle stop tour through a lot of these features. We're going to go much more in detail again, especially once the game is out. We've actually had a chance to practically try out a lot of these things. I know. People have had beta access and things like that, but the game is changing so much with every build at the moment. So stay tuned for more on that. Some guy called Nathan Downs never heard of him. Says, what do you think of EHS use of premium links, especially as the game's gone on, is it a good thing you have more chance to use these mega players or does it make the game more samey? So yeah, John, I mean, look, we're going to be, we're going to be coming into a period now, as we've mentioned, there's a whole other pool of players. And again, that means more leagues, possibly more chemistry headaches and things like that. Whereas these premium players, these premium footies and hero items we've seen throughout the year have made squad building easier. Do you? I'm wary of setting you off here on a chemistry rant because I think we could add another hour onto the show. But just in general, are you a fan of more of certain cards being more overpowered than others in a chemistry site?
John:
I don't want to talk about this for too long of a period, right? But when premium links got introduced, most of the chemistry style, of chemistry boosts actually didn't matter much. You saw now the 99 cars playing out and I still see people trying to get them on three chems. It doesn't matter, right? And I've been saying this for a long year, after team of the season, or team of the year, especially after team of the season, chemistry doesn't matter at all anymore. especially when he found the game out, these cards are already good enough. Premium links didn't change that for me. And I think the addition of something like that is cool. I doubt we'll be seeing that for a whole long time in the AFC because that will get those players into the teams and those players will stay in the team for a long, long time again. So if they want diversity in the teams, they'll not introduce it for a long while. I'm not against the chemistry system at all. I just think... It's a little bit overrated at the time.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, I'm a big fan of it for especially for. I do think there needs to be a way to get players from lesser and I don't mean lesser in terms of quality or anything like that, but for more unusual, either nations or leagues into your team, because it is frustrating when you got, for example, like Gareth Bale, that end of an era card that came out, Wales and MLS. especially at the time of year that card came out, which is what December, January.
John:
This year you can link them up with Messi.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, but at the time it wasn't easy to link an L.A.F.C. Welsh player.
John:
But I use that same card as a left back on zero chemistry
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah,
John:
and
Dan Wimbush:
but
John:
it's totally fine.
Dan Wimbush:
yeah, but I'm talking for those of us who do want every little boost we can get. We are not talking about people, you know, at the very top end that can
John:
No, I'm not top end, but I was like that card on left back was still much better left back than anyone else you can get on Max chemistry. So that
Dan Wimbush:
behave,
John:
was my point
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you
John:
of
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know
John:
it.
Dan Wimbush:
what I'm trying to say, you know what I'm trying to say that because a lot of people, whether they prescribe, you know, it's not prescribed to a theory, it's a fact. But there are people out there that want to get higher chemistry and they, they don't like the fact that if they use a player from a less common league or nation, that they'll take that hit. So it is nice that things like icons, for example, are going to help you build to like the same way they used to do before where you used to icon blocking. You know, now, now they give an extra league point for every icon, if you had two icons in and you had Gareth Bale, you would immediately get Gareth Bale on one chem at a Welsh manager. Suddenly you would have Gareth Bale on to chem if you had two icons in your team, regardless.
John:
The problem is, I totally agree with you there, the problem is you bring out an SPC, you give them premium leaks, everyone will be using that card. And that's what we're actually trying to avoid, I think everyone wants to avoid, is that everyone uses that same bill card. in their team because they doesn't have a benefit that doesn't have a disadvantage using that card. And now you were like, hey, you can use them. It's going to be off cam, but it's pretty cool card. I'm going to swap them in these on zero cam. It's still pretty cool card. I'd rather have that than put them in, see them in every single team on max capacity anyways.
Dan Wimbush:
Fair enough. Fair enough. And the
John:
So
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final
John:
I don't
Dan Wimbush:
question.
John:
think we'll see premium links for a long, long time.
Dan Wimbush:
I know I don't think so. I don't think so. I think that's it. I think they've given us a little bit of a boost with way icons have been redesigned. And I think that's the kind of boost we needed to be honest. And Chris grandpa Max says, what features from other computer games would you like EA to adopt? The co-op aspect of Diablo makes a great game even better. And I think we touched on that. We both like to see more co-op introduced in the game. as well. I said I've long advocated for things like, like a guild system or a community club where
John:
Next thing I knew they drop it off the pro scene though. So I mean, that's
Dan Wimbush:
Yep.
John:
coming slowly one versus one this year. So. Yeah, I think what Chris says about the Ablo system works great, right? It pops online, I see messages, Chris is online, hey, invite him to a party, hey, we're now doing this. Same thing, we want to do anyways together, which is fun. Put on a Discord call or put in a chat and we just grind away the same amount of time, but it goes twice as fast for my feeling because you do it with someone else. Don't want to see Wicked League playing with Koopa, I think that's a little bit too much. Rivals, for example, if it now cross-play, cool. It sort of, it works. Yeah, it's fine. I wanted to see sharing of themes, but
Dan Wimbush:
Yes,
John:
I know
Dan Wimbush:
same.
John:
why they're not doing that.
Dan Wimbush:
That's what I mean. If you could all be working towards building up one super club, I've got no problem with a, with a co-op weekend league either. Just make it a separate mode. Just make it a co-op weekend league.
John:
With less rewards, please.
Dan Wimbush:
Exactly. And that no problem. It just gives people, people the option. Um, so yeah, I think, do you know what? That's almost a question that I think almost deserves a longer discussion. I'm saying, and maybe I'll get into it with Chris and one of the episodes in the next, next few weeks. I'm sure there are lots of different features from other games. I would very much like to, uh, to put in, you know, the thing that most games have that EA doesn't, that FIFA doesn't, somebody quits, give the other person the win. Just do it.
John:
Yeah, although
Dan Wimbush:
Just
John:
I've
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do it EA.
John:
been playing a lot of Formula 1 over
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah.
John:
the summer break. If you play Formula 1, it's also a cross-play, it's also an EA game and someone like drives you apart, like crashes into you. We both just are out of the race and that's it. Can't report him, still comes back. Nonsense, like doesn't hurt him. They're just ruining the game for someone else. If you want to see toxic behavior online, that game is the... cramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramdelecramde
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Wow.
John:
So it gave me a little bit of perspective on FIFA.
Dan Wimbush:
Two wrongs do not make a right, John. Two wrongs,
John:
No,
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just
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but
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John:
have won.
Dan Wimbush:
We shouldn't be lowering the bar. It's already low
John:
Oh,
Dan Wimbush:
enough.
John:
I definitely, I still definitely agree with you, right?
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, but you're right. Things could always be worse.
John:
But this is like, Hey, I do a qualification, I do a practice session, do a qualification session. Now we start to race. We're in 15 minutes and now someone just thinks, I'm not going to win this. Let's take number one out. They just can't relock again and just start a new race Well, I'm like I just worked an hour for this and I have nothing to show for it I think that's a worse feeling at quitting at 1.0
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, and you've got a simulator as well now. So, you know, instead of just throwing a controller at the wall, it would be
John:
I can't
Dan Wimbush:
like
John:
throw
Dan Wimbush:
an entire.
John:
this, it can't move so that's a good thing but...
Dan Wimbush:
Steering wheel embedded in your wall in your office.
John:
So try that.
Dan Wimbush:
But look, I think that just about wraps up the show. We've got so much to look forward to in this season. It is great to be back on a personal level. If you heard the last show I did, I was very much talking about burnout and things like that. And I did, I took it. I stepped away from this game and as John talks about earlier, stepping away for a few weeks, did me an absolute world of good. That is nothing against anyone that has been able to play the game the whole year through. I did it last year. The year before I didn't take a real break and loved it and it didn't affect me. But at this point, I just decided I had other things I needed to focus on. I'm just going to drop FIFA for a bit. And it was great. I've come back and my love of the game is returned. And I mean, certain things are still hate, certain things I don't like. But overall, it's been great to be back. I'm really excited to be on with you, John. We usually host one show or the other, so we don't actually get to do too many shows together. So it's just been really nice to be on with you.
John:
Yeah, same man. It's also nice to sit back a little bit, just answering questions and unaware of what's coming. It's a pretty relaxed style of podcasting as well for me. Thank you for that.
Dan Wimbush:
I know you are more than welcome. So, you know, I'll have to ask you, where can people follow you on social media these days?
John:
I just go ahead with coaching, you'll probably find me somewhere. I think that's the best There's not much to see there anyways, unless you want to see photos from my holidays or meals that I cook. That's probably it.
Dan Wimbush:
Hey, you're a good chef. This
John:
But
Dan Wimbush:
is
John:
I want
Dan Wimbush:
good
John:
to text
Dan Wimbush:
content.
John:
someone. I want to plug something though, if that's okay.
Dan Wimbush:
Duh.
John:
At F1InFocusPort on Twitter, got a new podcast going. It's called F1InFocus. We are doing with my dear friend James, also the photographer of the CREED event, of course. It's out every single Wednesday 6pm UK. Go check it out. Also a video available. F1 in focus. If you have anything to do with Formula 1, go check it out. This is the last time I'll promote that show here.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, if you are into your F1 or even just into two good friends talking and enjoying themselves very much, I'll recommend. You can find me on social media at Wimby for mostly general football rantings and ramblings usually about running football club. And at Wimby 86 is where I'll be putting most of my FIFA content going forward. I do have a Twitch channel, twitch.tv four slash Wimby 86. I want a bit of a hiatus at the moment. I'm slowly working my way back into it. I can't promise how often. I will be streaming, but if you want to drop me a follow anyway, to know when I do pop back on, I'm sure I will be doing some streams at some point over the coming year. That is the place to do so. And thank you very much to all the support I've had on that streaming journey so far does mean a lot. John, the other key question before we go is when will the show be back next?
John:
The show will be back next week, so this one will be released Saturday evening 6pm UK and the next one will be back on Tuesday evening 6pm UK to return on Saturday 6pm UK schedule from now. So 6pm on a Tuesday and on a Saturday, you can find us there again, we'll be back twice a week, we don't know what to talk about yet until the game releases but we'll definitely be back on the old schedule.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah, we will figure out who is hosting and what in the coming days, but it will be well, it might not even be one of us. We've got a whole group here on Foot in Review, the likes of Chris, Nathan, lots of other people that are able to host shows, Carl as well. So look, we'll be getting lots of different voices, faces on this show over the coming year. And if you want to get involved yourself again, get involved in the discord. Let us know. You know, if you've held that burning ambition to be part of the team here. new people as well. I wandered in pretty much off the street and now I seem to be posting a lot. So look, anything can happen.
John:
You were the most chased by podcast talent in the UK and somehow this Dutchie got all of you.
Dan Wimbush:
Yeah Yeah, yeah, I think chase is going a little bit too far but look I'm I love doing this and Yeah, I'm excited about the year to come, but I'm very for now I'm excited about going to get some dinner John. So it's time for us to do one more thing before we go
John:
it's time for us to drop it
Dan Wimbush:
Drop it.