Fantasy Football Captain Picks

FPL Captain Picks GW12 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW12 Is the robot broken? That seems to be the question on many a managers lips this international break, and over the last few weeks. He has really let the side down lately and has seen many people want to move not only the armband off him but move him out of their teams altogether! I know I have sold him this week on my Wildcard. That should really end the article and debate right there as we all know my luck will mean Haaland scores 5 this weekend against Spurs, but alas I live in eternal hope that my decisions are correct. Below we have 3 men who have written about 3 other men that we all will let dictate our moods over the weekend! I might just light a fire, pour a drink and sit in ignorance! Let’s see what has been said…...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW6 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW6. FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out!!! With his ten goals in the opening five game weeks of the season, I know that we will all be captaining the Norwegian Robot. With over 70% ownership if he hauls then we are all quids in, good moods all around and off to a nice start to the game week. If he blanks then we are mostly in with the masses, so no great damage done to our mini league / overall rankings. But for those managers who do not have him (I am looking at you Guy, Rich & Swirly) or those managers who hate their game week ruined by a Saturday lunchtime captain fail then who else should you consider captaining? Nicholas Jackson v Brighton (H) I present for your consideration Chelsea’s Nicholas Jackson (£7.7m). Jackson seems to have ceme...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW5 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW5 We don’t get many opportunities to go against Haaland, especially given the form he’s in this season. However, with Arsenal the visiting team to the Etihad, it could be the opportunity to look for your gains elsewhere this week. Our writers are on hand to offer up alternatives and of course, fear not, we’re not going to totally overlook the big man regardless of the opposition. Let’s see what they have to say! Rosco — Palmer v West Ham (A) Haaland and Salah have been the go-to captains this season and for good reason. With Haaland up against the best defence in the league, most managers will turn to the Egyptian king, because a home game for Liverpool is a sure thing, right? Well, we all know how that turned out last game week. In all ...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW4 Welcome to Fantasy Football FPL Captain Picks GW4 There once was a striker, Haaland by name, Whose goals brought him fortune and fame. With a powerful stride, And defenders denied, He’d score and just add to his claim. There you go, that’s as much about Erling Haaland as I’ll be mentioning in this article. And no, I didn’t even write that limerick either – it’s amazing what ChatGPT can do, isn’t it?! Rest assured, there’s no more AI to this article, and it will become abundantly clear that it’s a very bitter FPL manager who has written this on account of the fact that he… I… whoever, still doesn’t have Haaland in his team and has ridden the seven goals the Norwegian has so far scored this season like a ...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW3 And the winner last week was of course… anybody who chanced the Triple Captain chip on Erling. 51 points if you did so, and you can happily chalk that off as a successful use of that particular chip for the season. After all, enough of us remember such DGW disasters as Kane with an assist, etc. The (only) downside there was that nearly everyone else captained him too, so just a 17 point jump start there. Whilst GW2 looked fairly obvious in the armband respect, GW3 looks less so. As such we have wheeled our team out to purvey the options for you. Off we go… Loud Atlas — Bukayo Saka v Brighton & Hove Albion No spoilers or anything, and sorry to disappoint, but Saka is going to be my vice captain this week. Yes, I can’t even persuade myself to look ...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks Gameweek 1 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks Gameweek 1 After what seems like a blink and you’ll miss it summer, the Euros have ended, the Olypmics is finished and the new Premier League season is upon us! All your hard work, research, number crunching and hair pulling has come down to this moment. And while you can’t win the league during these initial rounds, you can make it a lot harder on yourself, which is why a positive start is what we all want. So, for the first time in 2024/25, here are your captaincy picks for the first gameweek… Rosco — Alexander Isak v Southampton (H) I feel like for as long as I can remember I’ve captained Salah in GW1, perhaps last year was the exception with Haaland taking the armband (if my terrible memory serves me). So this ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 38 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 38 Sort of… Under the guise of doing so, we bring you our now traditional GW38 article, which is essentially just a chance to invite the whole team to have a say on whatever they like. And then tell you they will be picking Haaland as captain. We make no excuses that this is not edited, redacted or indeed ran past the legal team. We have no idea what they will say So, like a curtain call at a cheap panto, here they all are, in all their glory…. Init — Haaland I’ll get this one rolling then, but only because I want to say a massive thank you to the team below. Be it writing, IT, designing, running leagues, making the tea, whatever, the website does not run or exist without them al...[Read More]

Fantasy Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 30 Welcome back! It’s been a while, but it’s probably also fair to say that, for once at least, we were probably all grateful for a prolonged international break, after the disaster that was BGW29. We shall not dwell on that one, and dig up further nightmares of Free Hit 18 point weeks, and the sort. The good news is that the big hitters are back this week (in theory…) and that by captaining one of them successfully, he could on his own outscore your entire team from last week! Wouldn’t be too difficult. To add to the lustre there are actually a good few options to consider this week, and for once one of them is not even called Haaland. Shock, horror. You could go there of course, but with a tight top of the table clas...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 27 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 27 Even Kai Havertz got 14 points… Poor Kai, a benchmark of failure for the rest. The answer to last week was of course Jarrod Bowen. What it most certainly wasn’t, was Haaland or De Bruyne. Those two are in the bad books. Especially after also flopping in DGW25. Erling is of course the main culprit here, especially as he wore so many people’s TC armband in that one, and even after that we trusted that he would surely rebound spectacularly against Bournemouth? Nope. Which probably left the field open for a few other choices to make their case this week. And then midweek happened… Init – Erling Haaland vs Man United (H) It’s fair to say that Tuesday evening proba...[Read More]

Negotiating DGW25 and Blank GW26 Part 2 A big(ish) DGW? All aboard! Choo, choo, etc… This one comes with a big caveat though; it is followed by BGW26. B being for Blank, not Bad, although either could be equally applied. Either way, it makes both very difficult to negotiate: Do you go all in on 25 and maximise its potential points? Do you do so knowing that you will simply leave a mess to contend with in 26? Do you find a fine balance instead? There is no right answer here (well, there will be, but we can’t reveal what that was until GW27!). All we can do is plan the best that we can, and of course then hope for the best. In the meantime we thought it may be helpful to ask a bunch of our team how exactly they are going to approach it all. If you missed Part 1 then please click ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 24 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 24 Ok, so the man who almost made this article redundant, both last season, and early this, is finally back. But he’s not hit the ground running. Yet. And for clarification we are on about Haaland here, not Matt, Init or Gear. The question then, is whether you simply ‘trust in the process’ and go straight back to perma-capo mode, or give him some more time to bed in and ‘re-prove’ his worth? Not only has he not scored though, you would be hard pushed to have even noticed that he was on the pitch on Monday, at times. But then how many times have we said that and he’s still been stood there holding the match ball at the end. If not him, then who? Well, it turns ou...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 22 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 22 Kop — Richarlison v Brentford (H) Where have all the quality capo options gone? – Salah? Headed off to the AFCON and is now injured. – Son? Helping South Korea qualify for the last 16 of the Asian Cup. – Haaland? Hasn’t featured since GW15 due to injury. Granted, he could feature against Burnley on Wednesday night, but are you brave enough to hand him the armband? – Saka? Just one goal in his last six games! – Watkins? Just a goal and two assists in his last seven games! In a world of such uncertainty and inconsistency, who would have thought that Richarlison would be someone you could rely on! He is however a picture of consistency at present with six goals in his...[Read More]