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FF247 Site Team News GW12 Envy is the thief of joy Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW12 Like a kid with a shiny new toy, we strolled into GW11 with Gabriel finally in place. But, as the saying goes, “man plans, God laughs.” And the FPL gods? They are laughing. A majestic one-pointer and now he’s injured (probably). Our -4 is looking something of an error to say the least. Aside from that small emotional trauma, it actually wasn’t a terrible week. For the brigade who tripled up on Arsenal’s defence, it was a gameweek to forget. For those of us who sensibly (accidentally) backed Saka instead, it was our one moment of triumph. Saka’s 12-pointer generously papered over the cracks of what was otherwise a damp squib of a week. We scraped a pair of clean sheets at the back, captain Haaland decided to ...[Read More]
FF247 Site Team News GW11 Baby Steps Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW11. We had a small success this week with a tiny green arrow that sees us now sitting at 5,571,344. Our score of 68 points was just above the 65 weekly average. The best performer was once again Haaland with a 26 point captain return. Munoz and Cucurella got 6 and 7 points respectively. Ndiaye scored a brilliant goal to get 9 points before hoing off injured. Hopeuflly he will be fine for this weekend. Our Gameweek 10 Result We have 0.0 in the bank and 1 free transfer to use ahead of GW11. Let’s go see what was decided…. Our GW11 Transfer(s) We have really been punished week in and week out due to not having any Arsenal cover, particularly no defensive cover. Our priority this week was to fix that and a hit was necessary for ...[Read More]
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FF247 Site Team News Gameweek 9 Midfield Misery Welcome to FF247 Site Team News Gameweek 9. We had an okay week last week. A green arrow is always positive and we got a nice 600k rise thanks to our 66 points in GW8. We now sit at 4.7 mil, our highest rank of the season so far… We only had 4 players that actually did anything for us this week so I’ll name them all. Dubravka with 9 points, Cucurella with 8, Munoz with 10 and captain Haaland with 26 points. It is great to have some solid scores on the board but the rest of the team returned 1’s and 2’s which is not ideal. Hopefully we can turn it all around and keep rising up the ranks! Our Gameweek 8 Result We have 0.2 in the bank and 3 free transfers to use ahead of GW9. Let’s go see what was decided…. Our GW9 Transf...[Read More]
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