Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 34
Welcome to Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 34. Another week, another small green arrow, but at least it’s better than a red one and we’re back in the top 50k. Woohoo!! Our score of 57 was 11 better than the average of 46, so we have to be fairly happy with that. Our new recruits had mixed weeks – Kane kicked us off with a 12 point haul and how close we were to captaining him – while Zaha did nowt despite Palace scoring two at home to Leicester. Never mind, the Zaha purchase was with this week’s double game-week in mind so he best be saving his points for this week. Elsewhere, Valencia contributed a surprise clean vs Chelsea, Walker made a guest appearance for Spurs for another clean sheet, Eriksen made an assist, Lukaku does what Lukaku does, jeez even Andy Carroll gave us 5pts! So, all things considered, it was ok and we now sit in 49,057th place.
This weeks transfer/s: Andy Carroll to Alvaro Negredo
With big Andy ruled out early this one felt like it was going to be an easy decision – a quick Negredo or Benteke debate and out. Oh how little did we know… One simple question “Ok then, so who do we bench?”, and 24 hours later the debate made the American election process seem both short and logical. Our midfield, to recap, is Erik, Siggy, King, Zaha and Hazard. So you can probably appreciate the issue we had! Benching Carroll was of course debated also but there seemed to be a strong pull towards getting a DGW forward so suggestions such as PVA in were quickly dismissed. Negredo himself won a close and controversial vote by 3-2 over Benteke.
And then we got on to who to bench…! There were votes, there were re-votes, there was election rigging, there was bribery, there was question loading, there were lies, there were more re-votes… The main debate centred around whether to bench either Siggy or Erik. Siggy has a home game and everything to play for, as well as basically doing everything for his team. Erik is away from home and is more just a cog in a well oiled machine that just happens to be the best team in the league right now and is scoring for fun. So yeah, it was always going to be a close call. We think that Erik won. That’s what we are going with anyway. For the record, Mito voted to bench……. Negredo!!!
The Team in full this week…
Our captain is: Alvaro Negredo
Never in the history of the site team has one player caused so much division! He caused arguments entering the team, never mind captaining the damn thing. He’s the teflon kid this week though as not only did he somehow kick Siggy to the bench he made it all the way to the main stage. It was close though, as Kane got 2 votes to his 3. Let’s hope his luck rides on through the DGW. We know that playing for a team who has scored the least goals out of all 92 league clubs may not be the best recommendation for a captain choice! But he has showed flickers of life recently, has the best set of DGW fixtures and has a lot to play for. So yeah, we are laying out the FPL prayer mats as we speak.
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In Negredo we trust !!
Siggy.
How are y’all captaining this week?
It’s a real head scratcher isnt it?
I got Benteke Lukaku and Kane up top.
So don’t want to sell any of them to get Negredo
so am thinking of… Heaton ->DDG (c) !!!
Keeping him for the SWA game and Wildcarding in GW36
Here’s my declaration for DGW34!
Landed on Tekkers (c). It was him or Negredo but despite the much better fixtures for the latter, captaining a player from the lowest scoring team in the country didn’t quite inspire me! Palace have scored 20 odd more than ‘Boro who have 23 in 32 games, which is pathetic, quite frankly! I’ve brought Negredo in but that’s more of a ML cover thing than anything positive.
Nice side Init.
I can follow your logic. Boro vs Sunderland could easily be 0-0 or a high scoring derby.
I suspect (hope) it will be the former
They both seem so disinterested that I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them forgot to turn up
Negredo will destroy SUN…
Hope you have a big sofa to hide behind :hippo:
‘Boro couldn’t destroy Kim Kardash if she was legs akimbo saying ‘come on ‘Boro destroy me’. Negredo probably could, I think the other 10 would simply forget to tell him she was waiting
I need a defender mate…
!!
Help
I need someone who will stay till GW38 !
My team (on the left) vs opponents team (on the right) :
Currently deciding between Bellerin/Stones/Alonso/Luiz…
No love for ManU Init?
Starting XI?
Really tough defensive decision there, but I think I’d play Pieters and Holebas over Mee & Naughton. Again, toss of a coin though.
I’d leave as is since your guys are at home
Night gents. Shout out to all writers this week. Article and comments writers’ that is. I have read all of them. Short on time to participate more than I did which is unfortunate given all the talking points this week. Anyway just did the standard and somewhat boring Fuchs->Gibson and trusted Tekkers with the armband. Tough call on Siggy here but can’t bring myself to bench any of my other front 8. Init, if you’re about, I’ve read your comments on benching Erik for him but would you do it if that was Alli? Or would you also play him ahead of Sterling? ML rival has Sterling and none of the other two in case you want to factor that. I’m Leading by 20.
Cheers. Any other thoughts are very welcome!
Siggy or Sterling is a really tough call. I think I’d lean towards playing Siggy, but it’s a toss of the coin. Actually, just read that you ML rival has Sterling and he’s chasing you. I retract the above statement 😉
Eheh thx banjo. Funnily enough I have Sterlo on the bench right now. His last 5 are too inconsistent for my liking in terms of starts/minutes played and he has the cup game too which I only realized little after posting this. Thx mate
DMC, I much prefer Siggy. Mainly because Swansea are really entering do or die territory, and he’ll need to step up to the plate. (Warning: Mixing metaphors can be bad for your health)
Cheers Bry Siggy Stardust it is!
Good evening night owls (and Americans). I’m offline tomorrow so need to make these moves now, and I’ve no idea what to do!
I’ve got 2 FT and 0.9 ITB. I’m WC’ing in GW36, so any moves are purely with the next two weeks in mind. I’ve got a small lead in my ML.
Perhaps some simple quick fire answers to my thoughts will help me:
1) Bring in Rashford, Negredo or Tekkers?
2) Drop Kun or Vardy?
3) Drop both Kun & Vardy for 2 of the above?
4) Bring in one striker and also do Fletcher to Herrera and play AOA?
5) Bring in one striker and either a United defender or Valdez?
HELP!
Thanks.
I’ve gone with Negredo after thinking I would go with Rashford for most of the day.
Cheers Smash. Would Kun & Vardy to Negredo & Rashford be too aggressive? Or would you be focusing on improving elsewhere?
I’d ditch Vardy. Aguero seems to be scoring every week. Can’t really drop a midfielder so only really a defender
Okey dokey, Vardy to Negredo it is then.
For the second move, do you prefer Fletcher to Mkhi/Herrera and AOA? Or Huth/Holgate to Valencia/Bailly?
Do you still have wildcard as well? I prefer the Miki move
Yep. Plan is to wildcard GW36. Any move I make tonight is purely with the next two weeks in mind. Vardy & Fletcher to Negredo & Miki + AOA sounds quite nice. I don’t know when else I’d use AOA, apart from maybe GW38.
Yeah go for the all out attack
Thanks very much Smash. All done.
Good to go? Not totally sure on Pieters or Holgate.
Good luck banjo mam.