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FF247 FPL Team GW14 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW14 Lattes all round Look up the word mediocre in a picture dictionary and you’ll find one of our team from GW13… at least there was none of the mayhem of recent game-weeks and we actually captained whom we said we would captain. You know things haven’t gone well when your defence is the star of the show! Up top, our forwards combined for a grand total of 9pts. Our midfield trio weighed in with a staggering 13pts, which included our captain KdB and new signing Jack Grealish. At the back, Coufal picked up a clean sheet and two baps, Targett a clean sheet, Chilwell an assist and a bap. Dann (who came off the bench for Mahrez) and McCarthy should just go play in midfield or up top. All this saw us score a whopping 46pts, four above the aver...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW13 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW13 You may remember the rather tempestuous committee meeting pre GW12 where several transfer ideas were put forward and rejected, some democratically and some Trump-like (cries of ‘STOP THE COUNT’ echoed around FF247 HQ). With the meeting in disarray the decision was made to hold the transfer. And as it turns out it was the correct move as we scored 62pts, above the average of 51 and a well needed green arrow. None of our transfer options would have seen us score any higher. Our score was indebted to our strikers and defence. Put simply our midfield of KdB, Mahres, JWP and Jota didn’t turn up, Jota literally, so Bissouma came in and fitted in nicely with a 2 pointer. Captain Kane delivered once again and DCL was unlucky to just produce the so...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW12 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team Gameweek 12 Gotta captain KDB, right? And I quote… “Captain – KdB Less confusion about this one, in fact none. We would imagine that most people who own him will come to the same conclusion” – FPL Site Team article GW11 We captained Vardy accidently – in fact, no one noticed until our h2h opponent let us know on site that our team captain was different from the published article. Initial bursts of laughter gave way to headshakes, a little aroused suspicion flitted through the offices that we may have a rogue member within and then finally the acceptance and a dawning that we may have accidently struck gold here if KdB blanks. Perhaps this is the accidental kick-start our limping season needs? Still, like a pack of ravenous wolves, w...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW11 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW11 Tea or Dinner? Clearing the weekly average by more than just a sliver of daylight was a refreshing change for us in GW10. We scored 57 points which was a full 13 above the average of 44. That’s more like it! We had three tens, a nine and an eight among our lot and shoutouts go to Kevin de Bruyne, Jack Grealish and Jamie Vardy (all 10) – although JV9 needed the armband to achieve his – then onto Diogo Jota (9) and Ben Chilwell (8). The rest, well the least said the better with no fewer than FIVE 2-pointers which at least was better than Scott Dann with his big fat zero. We now look towards next week and the obvious Aston Villa/Newcastle issue which of course affects us too! We have Grealish and Targett missing for this game-week so ho...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW10 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW10 Gameweek 9 was the first week of our wildcard. 56 points. ONE point above average. It’s not one point BELOW average. Every cloud and all that. . . . OK so we’ve always said that a Wildcard is for life not just for Christmas – i.e. you wildcard with a long term view. At least that’s the theory. We’re still happy with our lot or at least we haven’t discussed it much so there can’t be too many among us particularly worried. To mix it up, we’ll look at the bench first this week to see if there’s any immediate regrets. No there wasn’t. We had Forster (scrub), Bissouma (1), Dann (2) and Kilman (2) so at least we didn’t get any of the big calls wrong. The starting eleven’s star man was the heir to Duncan Ferguson’s throne, Dominic Calvert-Lewin w...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW9 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW9 Rite of passage Remember GW8? Barely? Well hear us now as we take you back and display our feathers proudly. 67 points – 12 above the average – whilst good, is not exactly earth- shattering, but taken in the context of our previous two weeks where we were below average and taking hits (well one), then we’re content and ready to grasp the nettle and tackle the week ahead vigorously… …and more on that later. What seems like TEN Fridays ago, Southampton beat Newcastle United 2-0 and Alex McCarthy made it four clean sheets in six for our team. We still have the two Newcastle boys who posted just two points each. Elsewhere on the Friday Charlie Taylor (8) was the toast of FF247 towers with his two bonus points supplementing his clean ...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW8 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW8. This is a democracy, goddamit! Anyone who has followed the FF247 Site Team article over the years will know that we’ve tried to do the right thing and follow a democratic voting process. Tried being the operative word, as you’ll probably also know that that’s difficult when you have one particular ‘leader’ who has a tendency to simply ignore said process if he doesn’t necessarily agree with it. At least in our case it definitely isn’t fraud, it’s balls out dictatorship! Let’s see how we got on last week… EIGHT POINTS BELOW THE AVERAGE! After being five behind the average in GW6, BEFORE you count the -4 we took back then, we have found ourselves yet again on the wrong side of the line in GW7, scoring a wholly uninspiring 45 points this...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW7 We go again… In what was undoubtedly a quiet week all round we scored 43 points in total, which was further damned by the -4 points hit we took to bring in Ezri Konsa (and Mohamed Salah). So in a week where the average score of 48 meant that anything like 60-70 points was somehow doubly good, we don’t have to concern ourselves with that. We just sit here and reflect that Salah had a goal ruled out for offside (correctly, we don’t pedal anti-VAR nonsense here) and had one off the post to grab us 4 points as Captain whilst Sadio Mane got 8 (which would have been 16!) We’ve said it from the start… MANE IS MORE EXPLOSIVE! (Slight in-joke, but see last weeks article for reference). The rest of the team then: the aforementioned Konsa conceded three and along with ‘...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW6 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW6 In our defence… It’s fair to say that when we decided to start the season with a double up of Liverpool at the back we were hoping for more than just the solitary clean sheet, and we certainly weren’t expecting that they would have conceded an average of nearly two per game (albeit it somewhat skewed by that Villa thrashing). The hapless duo got us two points this week, between them. We can then only assume that a certain Mr Pickford had seen our team and decided that enough was enough… They weren’t alone though as Ryan and Mitchell served only to double the entire total of our back-line to four points. Taylor sat laughing at us from the bench with five. Things got a bit better up top with goals galore as Havertz, Jimenez and DCL...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW5 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW5 I’m Spider-Man In this the almightiest of WTF seasons, how’s this for an encapsulation of it in all its weird and wonderful glory? Last week’s team scored 59 points. Eleven points above the average. If we took away the scores of Alain Saint-Maximin (12) & Callum Wilson (16) – and let’s be honest who would take them out ahead of a game against toiling Burnley, who I ask you … who? – and replaced them with two jobber 2-pointers, we would have scored 35 points and been THIRTEEN points behind the average. Ha’way the lads! If the two of our Geordie-doubting Site Team who shall remain nameless haven’t already tossed their phone or laptop out of the nearest window and are still reading this sentence then well done you! For the polar opposite o...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW4 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW4. Glass half full…. As the UK government has shown consistently this year, there is always more than one way to perceive data. As I (Cookie) write this I look upon the site team with pride after GW3. We scored 48pts beating the average by a full 5pts and recorded our first green arrow of the season, jumping almost 500k places, no mean feat I’m sure you would agree. In a week where scores were low and in some cases quite unpredictable we have come through unscathed and in decent shape. Some others on the committee may point fingers at our transfer policy which saw us sell hat-trick hero Vardy for that clown Jiménez who did at least score, just in the wrong net. Unfortunate I’d say. Oh cr@p, here comes Init, he doesn’t look too happ...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Team GW3 Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW3 ¡Arriba, Arriba! Thank the good lord for Mitrović, for our cheap and nasty striker was our highest scorer this week with his brace at Leeds leading to a dozen very gratefully received points. Aside from him it was our men at the back who kept us afloat with clean sheets from Ryan, TAA and VVD while Taylor chipped in with an assist. Captain Aubameyang contributed a mere assist at home to the Hammers and will be lucky to survive the chop. Midfield maestros Havertz and Saint-Maximin hardly troubled the scorers while Vardy and Wilson weren’t much better. In fact, when Leicester score four and Vardy isn’t involved in one bit of it then you probably know the writing is on the wall for your GW. Our score of 53 was below par and has brought us...[Read More]