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Fantasy Football 247 Site Team – Gameweek 8

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Fantasy Football 247 Site Team – Gameweek 8

Fantasy Football 247 Site Team – Gameweek 8

We all dream of a team of Ollie Watkins’, a team of Ollie Watkins’, a team of Ollie Watkins’ …..

Welcome to FF247 Site Team – Gameweek 8

Guess who our star man was this week! Not that useless Norwegian lump, nor yesterday’s man Mbeumo, James Maddison or anything dressed in a Manchester United clown suit.

Sir Oliver of Watkinsbrough. We love you. X

63 points overall with 23 (TWENTY THREE) from Aston Villa striker Watkins, including his second hat trick of the season, as he carried our attacking department. His nearest ‘challenger’ – Jarrod Bowen – was way back on 9 thanks to his goal against Sheffield United.

For Watkins in attack, read Trippier in defence i.e. doing ALL the heavy lifting on his own. 12 points in his performace against Burnley was supplemented by threes from Turner and Bell (not a solicitors or estate agents company) and 1 from Destiny Udogie.

It matters not we suppose, where the points come from, only that they come and our 63 was 14 points above the weekly average of 49 and lifts us to 27,566 overall – and the lofty position of SECOND IN THE WORLD (amongst Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba residents).

Our Gameweek 7 Result

We have £1.6mln in the bank and 2 free transfers to use ahead of Gameweek 8. Let’s go see what was decided.

Our Gameweek 8 Transfer(s)

With a couple of nasty flags and a general malaise on Marcus Rashford, we looked to use our two moves this week for a little refresh. With the match being away to Luton on Saturday, we wanted to supplement our already-owned James Maddison with some additional Spurs. We bring in Heung-min Son for the aforementioned Rashford and to make it work, we double-up on Newcastle who are on top of the world just now and bring in Fabian Schar – fresh from his goal against PSG in midweek*

* This was a split vote with Dan Burn and the author carries the sole responsibility for the final choice – prepare for fireworks!

To confirm then we have SOLD SVEN BOTMAN & MARCUS RASHFORD and BOUGHT FABIAN SCHAR & HEUNG-MIN SON

Captain – HEUNG-MIN SON

Early kick-off? Pah! We reckon Spurs at Luton is just too good on paper.

Erling Haaland is only vice captain (*shock emoji*)

Our Gameweek 8 team in full

You can follow the progress of the FF247 Site Team here

Thanks for reading Fantasy Football 247 Site Team – Gameweek 8. This article was written by Fantasy Football 247

PREDICTED LINE-UPS

Back by popular demand! Well, sort of… Drafthound have changed their line-up approach this season and what it means for us is that we are no longer able to display a live feed of it on here due to some technical difficulties. That said, what they have done looks great and is still only a click away so if you want to access those they are HERE

VOTE ON THIS WEEK’S CAPTAIN POLL GAMEWEEK 8

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  1. FTx1
    ITB:0.5m
    My thinking this week:
    Estupinan->Romero and Bell->Burn for a 4ph and hope Diaby plays
    will leave only Mubama on bench though.
    Going to punt on Son as captain this week.
    Thoughts please.

    • Probably going to have to if you want an 11.

      Hit is essentially a -2 as it’s replacing a zero otherwise. Assuming the replacement plays 60 as a bare minimum and doesn’t do anything daft!

      • Agreed Init.
        Are the 2 I have picked more likely to play 60 mins each?
        Romero is the only worry – either him or Udogie, as dont have enough for Del Porro

    • Yup, I’d be doing that hammer

  2. Evening all,

    Who is everyone going with as there capo?

  3. I think the red wine is starting to take over… I’m currently favouring Hojlund over Alvarez in a differential bid to recover a terrible start diablo

    • He looked great the other night. Could kickstart him that. Early on a bandwagon if he follows it up tomorrow.

      • That is all the encouragement I needed

        • If United’s defence wasn’t so shite, Hojlund would have had all the headlines, he looked strong and fast, our only hope

  4. Pickford or Turner in goal is my final dilemma

  5. Am I set for this week? Any further transfers will be for a hit but I do have 1.1 in the bank! Anything need changing?

    • I’d probably switch subs 1 & 2 around, personally.

      Nice Capo differential.

  6. On a wildcard.

    No Haaland, yes I know the risks and will most likely backfire.

    Captain and Vice Captain will be changed.

    Bench in correct?

    Thanks

    Jamie

    • Jamie, somehow Forest have got at least a goal in every game, apart vs City. Trippier has better chance for some return, I would even consider Cash in play.

    • If u don’t have haaland atleast get someone better than archer.
      Maybe isak or darwin. Don’t see much appeal in van dijk. May get the odd set piece goal but Liv don’t keep much cs.

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