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Promoted Teams Analysis – Ipswich Town Welcome to Promoted Teams Analysis – Ipswich Town I am delighted to see Ipswich in the top-flight for the first time since 2002. It has been a long two decades for a team with a brilliant nickname, “The Tractor Boys”. My country boy heart is loving these farmers. However, does this now make the Premier League the Farmers’ League? It may only be classed as a town, but they hold a claim to being one of the oldest towns in England so that’s cool! Anyone know how many Towns have played in the Premier League and who they are? Hint… I’m writing about one of them and another played only last year! Ipswich were one of the founders of the Premier League, having been in the inaugural 1992/93 season, so it is really great to see them back. They have ...[Read More]

FPL Pre-season Hub and Early Chat – 2024/25 Welcome to FPL Pre-season Hub and Early Chat – 2024/25 Are we actually physically and mentally ready to go again? OF COURSE WE ARE! Most Premier League clubs are now up and running in their preparations for the 2024/25 Premier League season and – now that the game has launched – so are us FPL managers! Let’s see what all 20 teams have up their sleeves in terms of pre-season preparations for the forthcoming campaign. As the norm, we have listed below a run-down of the fixtures arranged for each club. As in previous seasons, each team will have a comment attached to this article where match information will be posted to act as a living record of how their pre-season is progressing. This will contain score, scoring, assist and team line-...[Read More]

Inside The Mind Of An FPL Player Double Gameweek 37 Welcome to Inside The Mind Of An FPL Player Double Gameweek 37. We are coming into the penultimate gameweek of the season and it is a big one. A massive double game week where some of the biggest teams play twice. Arsenal and City are still battling it out for the title but Arsenal have 2 games to City’s one. Liverpool are mathematically still in with a shout but there is more chance of hell freezing over than that happening. Many managers will be playing their Bench Boost this week so a full cohort of 15 players is needed. Lot of injuries to defenders in particular might mean lots of plans being thrown out even online betting platforms don’t know what to predict. Hits could fly this week… We have asked some of our write...[Read More]

Inside The Mind Of An FPL Player Double Gameweek 34 Welcome to Inside The Mind Of An FPL Player Double Gameweek 34. The first of two double game-weeks looms, and therefore so do numerous difficult decisions. Many will still have chips to burn, that they have sat on patiently for weeks such as these. Others will have nothing left, other than the odd free transfer to utilise. Either scenario creates its challenges, as we look at how best to balance our teams between the lure of a DGW and the sensibility of perhaps not chasing one. We have decided to turn to the team and ask them to tell us how they intend to attack this one, be it with chips or simply some sort of reckless abandon. Here is what they said… Swirly Inside my mind?! That is brave, there’s a lot going on in there R...[Read More]

We have another one for you! This time its my good friend Odddane who gives us the low-down on how his season and in particular his recent weeks have played out! Enjoy! Over to you OD! The mysteries of OddDane’s inner workings, to which no one has an explanation. This piece, I feel, should come with a disclaimer. Kids don’t try this at home or don’t drink and transfer, something to that effect… My season this year has been quite, let’s say subpar (Narrator; the word he is looking for is appalling), which is partly self-inflicted (we’ll get to that) but also… *breathe* counts to ten *exhale* let’s call it variance… Last season was a bit off, however, this season has seen me doing not a few, but at least a handful of weeks with a 6,000,000 game week rank -or worse- (a good chunk of GWRs at ~...[Read More]

Inside The Mind Of An FPL Player Gameweek 33 Part 1 With FPL managers seemingly split into two camps at present, we thought we’d take this opportunity to see how a couple of our contributors are fairing. First off, what are these camps I speak of? Well, this may not apply to everyone, but for the most part, there seems to be two popular approaches at present: 1. FH29 build for DGW34, WC35, BB DGW37 OR 2. Built for 29, WC30/31, FH34 BB DGW37 As I said, this won’t be every manager’s approach, and whilst there may be slight tweaks on the above (i.e. BB DGW34), the above two approaches seem the most popular. So first off we have Matt. Matt went with option 2. How is he doing? I’ll let him tell you all about it. Sit back, grab your hot or cold beverage of choice and read on! Matt’s GW32 r...[Read More]

To Free Hit, or not to Free Hit – BGW29 Welcome to To Free Hit, or not to Free Hit – BGW29 Carrying on with our recent theme of asking the writing team to simply stick their own teams up, and then talk us through their plans to negotiate things like DGW’s, here comes the real challenging one – a BGW, with… 4 fixtures! And not particularly great ones at that. We have all heard the threats of Free Hit teams, and others saying they will simply live with whatever they can get from it, so now is ‘put up or shut up’ time. Show us your all singing, all dancing free hit wonders, or indeed the distinct lack of them. Oh, and give a brief explanation. Very brief. To Free Hit… GEAR Brief you say? Reason I’m on a Free Hit: See Jamie’s team bel...[Read More]

Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 Welcome to Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 We last asked the team this sort of question ahead of DGW25 and BGW26. We felt it was pertinent to go to the well again with similar (ish) GW’s incoming – albeit with a much less enticing double and a much blanker blank. Let’s go see how they fared after the last debacle one and how they intend to tackle these upcoming ones. OddDane – £2.2m ITB – 1FT Alright, part two! The better, improved half of this segment. Or so you’d think. Usually, one saves the best for last, building suspense and showing the real gems in the end. Here you have my team instead – Ha! The story so far Since last time I’ve relied on the likes of KdBozo and Doku to save my week(s)… I even had a full starti...[Read More]

Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 Part 1 Welcome to Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 Part 1 We last asked the team this sort of question ahead of DGW25 and BGW26. We felt it was pertinent to go to the well again, with similar (ish) GW’s incoming – albeit with a much less enticing double and a much blanker blank. Let’s go see how they fared after the last debacle one and how they intend to tackle these upcoming ones. Rosco – £1.7m ITB – 1FT It’s fair to say things have not exactly gone to plan. That being said, anyone who has played this game long enough knows full well that planning often means very little. The ‘Man plans, god laughs’ quote comes to mind. My transfers in the last double-game week (selling Saka and Solanke for Darwin and Jota) blew up in my face. 2 we...[Read More]

Negotiating DGW25 and Blank GW26 Part 1 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. In fact, they were so keen to share the...[Read More]