Fantasy Football Team News

FF247 Site Team Gameweek 11 Welcome to FF247 Site Team Gameweek 11 As above, so below … (the average) This is not a lesson in Hermetecism but one of FPL life. Oh boy how we could use some magic, philosphical, religous – or all of the foregoing – intervention for our team this season. It’s been grey, purgatory even. In Gameweek 10 we were above the weekly average if you are of the optimistic persuasion, ‘just and no more’ if the cross falls on the pessimisitic side of the divine line. Forty two (42) points overall and just the THREE above the field. A green arrow to the dizzying heights of 2,898,342. Oh Lord take us now* * to the top million even? A captain fail in Haaland, Dominic Calvert-Lewin (we’ll see you after the lesson) with his usual hopele...[Read More]

FF247 Site Team News GW10 You’re getting sacked in the morning…. Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW10 Our Gameweek 9 Result Three red arrows in a row, after a 55-point finish. The average was 54, which says it all. 46 of those were from 4 players – Gvardiol (9), Mbuemo (15), Palmer (10) and Haaland (12). Even the latter was disappointing as Erling was our captain. The remaining 7 got 9 points between them. Slow hand clap. We have £0.1m in the bank and 2 free transfers to waste use ahead of GW10. Let’s go see what was decided…. Our GW10 Transfer(s) On the face of it, there wasn’t a lot wrong here. Unfortunately for us, but admittedly probably more so for Ange and Spurs, speedster and high line dependant Micky van de Ven pulled up with another suspected hammy in midweek. I...[Read More]

FF247 Site Team Gameweek 9 Now we saw him race ….. and we had Saliba, not a trace of luck on our side …. Welcome to FF247 Site Team Gameweek 9 As has seemed to be the way more often than we would like, Gameweek 8 was another below average showing for the Site Team. Posting a meak and measley 34 points and two below the going rate of 36, we reside at 2,764,797 overall. Sigh. Perhaps we have been spoiled in previous years and this is our regression to mean? (Bloody hope not – Ed.) A case of sugar and sh(ingle) in defence as we owned William Saliba (-3) on Saturday evening and then Josko Gvardiol (10) on Sunday afternoon. Net 7 – that any good?, laugh or cry etc etc…. The defence was rounded out with two other players falling either side of average – Micky ...[Read More]

FF247 Site Team News GW8 Spurred into action Welcome to FF247 Site Team News GW8 Going into any international break, it’s good to go out on a high, safe in the knowledge that you don’t need to worry about your squad for a while with various players then hopefully avoiding injury when playing for their country… Our Gameweek 7 Result Unfortunately, that wasn’t the site team. What actually happened was a 31-point collection that represented a gameweek rank of around 9.5m and 15 points below the average which, itself, was pretty low anyway. And what led us to this hugely disappointing scoreline? Well, poor Ezri Konsa hobbling off early on against Man United in what would have been a clean sheet didn’t exactly help. What else? Well, how about our captain joining the eigh...[Read More]

FF247 Site Team News GW7 Icy cold Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW7 In FPL a fixture swing can sometimes be an opportunity, more often than not though, it serves only to cloud our judgment. In my own team I diligently played my wildcard in GW6 because you know, fixtures and that. I looked at my side with its Arsenal Tripple up, Mbuemo and all the other likely lads and thought ‘yup, this is the week I turn things around. When we reviewed the site team I shuddered, we weren’t playing our wildcard and our 11 looked sub-optimal at best. Little did I know that the site team would end up beating my own by some 34pts, thanks in no small part to our patience with a certain Cole Palmer. If only we’d captained him. Dammit. But let’s not be greedy, whilst our captain (Haaland) did blank, elsewhere we ha...[Read More]

FF247 Site Team News GW6 Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW6 Our Gameweek 5 Result Okay so things aren’t exactly going great this season. We are doing the correct decisions with the benching as we aren’t leaving massive hauls on the bench but that is mainly because the bench isn’t scoring any points anyway! In fact, we didn’t have a single point on our bench this week with all four getting big fat ZEROS! Bergvall was on the bench but because of Diogo Jota’s no-show against Bournemouth, Bergvall came in with his 1 point. He joined the other 4 players in our squad who got 2 points or less, Eze just snuck ahead of that group with 3 points thanks to his clean sheet. 4 players returned with a goal a piece so that’s nice… I suppose! What is really killing us ...[Read More]