Back down to earth

Joe's finally managed to have a (sometimes maybe) good game week, while Josh has had a stinker and is back to rock bottom. Jake's sitting pretty with a 60+ point lead, with the race to Sunderland looking like a two horse affair.However, with another international break just around the corner, Jake's intent on going out with a bang this week. The question is... can Joe goad him into taking an 8-point hit to do it?

It's a pint of the usual for Jake and Joe as Jake stretches his lead a the top, while Joe endures another miserable weekend at the hands of his Fulham punts.Josh was nothing if not predictable as big Dom came into his team and served up an assist. Will he do as the boys think and ditch MGW for Madders this week? Or will he completely miss the Friday deadline?Joe's knee is looking pretty jerky, while Jake is going all-in with a bench boost to try and extend his lead even further.

After a ludicrously long international break, the boys are easing themselves back into FPL with some distinctly mediocre results. Jake and Joe both wildcarded and would have had similar gameweeks... if Joe hadn't left 26 points on his bench.Josh no longer trusts his brothers with his transfer business and rightly so, after Harvey Barnes brought nothing to the table.And Jake goes from saying he won't be making any transfers, to rage transferring out Hall live on the podcast. Welcome back to our lives FPL, we've missed you?!

After being properly shafted, Josh has stepped away from FPL and the podcast for 6 months and taken the brave step to leave Joe and Jake in charge of his team.Surely there's no coming back for him from here? Or is there?!

After the highs of a massive Bruno haul last week, Joe crashes back down to earth with another disappointing game week.Jake makes an inspired transfer to propel himself back to the top of the league, while Josh is burning through his chips in a desperate attempt to avoid the long bus trip down to Coventry.It's just another week in the battle to avoid the bottom of the pile at FPL Ruined My Weekend.

Joe captained Bruno Fernandes as a differential, banked 111, and has been insufferable ever since. Josh finally got his bench boost to work and still lost the weekend to a single game. Jake scored 78, three below average, and somehow feels worse than both.You've got to love FPL.

One week in and Josh has already missed a deadline and failed to pull the trigger on his bench boost, so just the small matter of Rogers and 18 points down the pan.There was so much pre-season optimism, but Josh and Joe already sound about ready to quit. Jake is sitting pretty at the top of the league but even he's ruing those Kayode points sitting on his bench.It can't go on like this can it...?

Last episode we said none of these teams would survive the week. They didn't. We set a rule that whoever changed the fewest players wins. The lowest score was ten.Teams locked, deadline Friday, and everything we said in episode two now worthless.One rule: fewest changes from your original squad wins. Nobody came close. One of us rebuilt his entire squad four hours before recording and finalised it thirty minutes before we hit record. One of us looks like he picked his team based on things his brothers said on this podcast. And only one of us has gone for Bruno...Then we call our shots before a ball is kicked: what's going to ruin this weekend, who'll be first to send the premature celebration text, and which one of us is quietly pricing up the bus to Hull.

How do you build a squad that's well set to frustrate? Three brothers, three different approaches but one overriding conclusion: none of these squads will be in place come the deadline. And casual Jake is being anything but casual about pre-season... could this be the year he breaks into the top 500k?

Three brothers, one mini-league, and a season's worth of bragging rights on the line. Before a ball is kicked, we introduce ourselves properly: our FPL histories, our best and worst ever finishes, and the forfeit waiting for whoever finishes bottom.