Fantasy Football Team News

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 27 No no no no no no no no BOTMAN! Welcome to FF247 Site Team Gameweek 27 Not much went wrong (or has gone wrong lately) this past week but Sven of the Toon didn’t half let the side down with his MINUS 2 in the Geordies defeat at Arsenal this past week. In fact that score completely cancelled out the hard-earned 1 points each from Pervis Estupinan and Julian Alvarez – tongue firmly in cheek of course! Botman in fact cancelled out Saliba next to him …. Enough of what went wrong, let’s have a look at what went right. Haaland (C) with 10 points and Ollie Watkins with 9 certainly played their part but tis in the midfield where we came alive. Bukayo Saka (10) and Phil Foden (11) were awesome enough but we arrived at the Monday Nigh...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 26 Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW26 Last week we decided to roll one transfer but use the other. That move was one Liverpool player for another. We said goodbye to Trent and brought in VVD and the big Dutchman gave a real captain’s performance getting two 90 minute appearances and a bullet headed goal for a solid return of 10 points!. We, like everyone else in the game, tripled captained the big blonde Norwegian and while it wasn’t an absolute monster score Haaland did get a goal and 2 bonus points for a TC total of 30 points. We got some good returns from Saka (15 pts for the second week in a row), Saliba (6 pts), Alvarez (7 pts) and Darwin and Foden (both 5pts). This gave us a final score of 88 pts, 15pts above the 73pt average. You...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Double Gameweek 25 Welcome to FF247 Site Team DGW25 Our Solanke to Darwin move paid off to the tune of 2pts (Darwin’s 6pts vs Solanke’s 4pts) and whilst Jota (C) looks decent with 14pts, it was the wrong choice as the robot returned with a brace and 26pts for the majority who wisely handed him the armband. Ouch. However, the halftime substitution of Alexander-Arnold was more painful. 4pts was a glimpse of what could have been, and now sadly, he’s out of the double gameweek. We can’t complain too much though, because whilst we had 4 players returning 3 or fewer points, we also had Saka (15pts), Saliba (12pts) and Palmer (10pts). We finished the Game week with 85pts, 23pts over the 62pt average. Our rollercoaster journey of recent w...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 24 We’re the wallies who sold Ollie Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW24 Could have been better could have been worse. That’s probably the best thing we can say about GW23, and that’s being kind! We went into Monday’s game on 24pts and things were looking grim. It’s good to be somewhat introspective mid-game week but the advice I need to follow myself is to not get too hung up on something that is not yet over. That was the case for us with the 32pts we picked up from our Man City assets (thanks Phil!) making what was still a bad game week (in terms of overall points and a dreaded arrow), that little less painful. We only have ourselves to blame. I say that, but 3/6 members of the site team did vote against selling Watkins, however, it’s a demo...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 22 A whole Jota fun Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW22. Sometimes FPL can be a simple game. Sell a Liverpool attacker, buy a Liverpool attacker, sit back and wait for the points to roll in. As mentioned in our last site team article, the vote to buy Jota was far from unanimous. We have GP, Swirly and Matt to thank for his inclusion. I did however vote to hand him the armband once he’d signed on the dotted line, nobody listened, but hey, I bought and captained Saka in my own team so who can blame them? Our backline came up trumps with clean sheets across the board, in stark contrast to our forward line who collectively managed a grim 5pts. A mixed bag in the middle with captain Palmer’s 20pts and new boy Diogo’s whopping 19pts making up for 5p...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 21 DON’T MENTION THE WAR BENCH Welcome to FF247 Site Team Gameweek 21 Regular readers will know that we played our Wildcard last week and those fat cats at FPL towers and their rules – just let us ‘double-chip’ and bench boost in the same week! Purlease? We’re having a good season no doubt – even our bench is hoiking up the points (THIRTY FREAKING TWO!) – but we’re too good, for our own good, clearly. CURSE THESE METAL HANDS. On to the team itself and pleasingly, scored 82 points and a week which shows us being 23 points above the average of 59, also saw us take a red arrow and drop 1708 places to 6,797 overall. Despite Mo Salah missing the penalty and GP smugly smiling (he wanted to sell him), he event...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 20 Winging it… Our Gameweek 19 Result We suppose that our triple Newcastle contingent notching a whopping 2 points between them was a strong portent of what was to come. They can all bugger off on the incoming Wildcard. Things did ‘pick up’ briefly when our new signing Trent got a cleanie and all 3 bonus points. Sadly, that was to prove to be the highlight of our week! Solanke and Foden scoring did cheer us up a touch, but the rest did naff all, to put it politely. They can all bugger off too. All in all we matched the average of 38 which saw our rank fall a bit to 5,089th. We have 2.9m in the bank and 1 free transfer to use ahead of GW20. And, evidently, a Wildcard that must be burned. And a promise of selling most of our squad, if you believe ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 19 UPDATED 21:30pm Christmas Day Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW19. We have finally got a red arrow unfortunately. For what is a rarity this season but our 42 points, while above the average of 36 points was not enough to get us a green arrow. We have dropped from 1,992 to 3,456 (we love order). This is still an amazing rank and we will keep pushing for that number 1 spot! Our Gameweek 18 Result We have £7.1 in the bank and 1 free transfer to use ahead of GW19. Let’s go see what was decided… nothing. We decided to do nothing and just roll. Or did we… Our GW19 Transfer(s) Our initial thinking here was to simply do a Fonzie and walk away with the 2 FT’s. That was until the sharper ones amongst us (essentially just the sober ones on Christmas Day!) r...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 18 Solankied Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW18 With FPL finally deciding to call an end to GW17 last night our hopes of keeping Solanke’s 6pts and having them upgraded to 9pts (with bonus) were dashed. Instead we have to make do with Mubama’s 1-pointer off the bench. So now we have 63pts (-4pts) which has turned a small green arrow into a small red one, leaving us ranked 1,992nd. All in all, it was a fairly decent week despite the red arrow. Our move for Solanke may not have turned out as planned but there are more important things in life. Our hit for a keeper paid off (we wouldn’t have had one otherwise) and whilst our captain blanked, there was very little competition to punish us. Star man this week was Palmer with a 14-point...[Read More]

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 17 We have good autosubs but not necessarily in the correct order Welcome to FF247 Site Team Gameweek 17 Two autosubs were used this week and we still had a 9-pointer sitting there amongst the injured and forgotten. Destiny Udogie (9) – we hardly knew ye! We had Jarrad Branthwaite (5), good sub/shame he’s suspended and Sam Johnstone (2) for the short-lived Caoimhin Kelleher. Damn. The remainder of the team, like many, benefitted from a very well chosen (but obvious) vice captain. Mo Salah (26) was our star man. Well – save for the aforementioned Branthwaite five, he was ONLY man. What a sorry show. Still we’re not too hard on them as they have served us well recently. Despite the 43 in total – 3 above the average –...[Read More]