Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 2
Interesting start to say the least. The FF247 team did not fail our members…well maybe just a little, well one in particular. If you would have told us that we were going to score 27 points, we probably would have asked on which day. Apparently FPL still has a sense of humour though and that was our grand total for the GW. Those 27 gave us a ranking of 2,155,382 which is good news and bad news at the same time. As always the bad news first, we have a long way to climb to beat last season’s rank. The good news, we shouldn’t see a red arrow until the New Year. Without further ado, let’s give you a quick rundown on who helped put us in this predicament before we talk about our plans for the coming GW.
In goal we went with the ever trusty Thibaut Courtois. Right, that went a little different than what we had planned. We knew he would be a standout keeper when we selected him and he did not fail to do so. As he certainly stood out from the crowd with that negative score. Luckily though we have Hennessey to fill in for a week. 😉
5 points from our defence. In a performance to forget, our defenders received 8 goals and picked up a yellow to boot. Our only sort of bright spot was Cedric who managed an assist, but even that came with a grain of salt as he was subbed off at halftime with a yellow in his back pocket too.
In the midfield we displayed tremendous cohesion. Well except for that unhappy City lad, Sterling. Who went against the grain and scored 3 points instead of two like all of our other mids. Included in those two pointers was our captain Eden Hazard. Who looked less dangerous than Arsenal in a street fight.
Our forwards did their best to save the week. Scoring 5 and 6 points is not exactly something to get over excited about, but after seeing the rest of our scores, we shouldn’t be ungrateful. So thank you Wayne and Fossil, it is appreciated.
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Transfer(s) for GW2- We are going to save the transfer
What? Yeah, you read that right. We have decided to play with 10. It was always understood that a clean sheet was not super likely against City even with a CFC keeper. So we will take the 0 from Courtois instead of using a valuable transfer right before we bring in Aguero. You never know though, maybe Hennessey plays this week, stranger things have happened.
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Our team in full…
Team Selection
We decided to go with a 3-4-3 and in a shockingly close vote decided to bench Milner over…wait for it…wait for it…Hazard. That’s right, part of our illustrious panel were still steaming at Hazard for his performance vs the Swans. So when it came time to decide on who we should make ride the pine, some still had a bone to pick with the Belgian dynamo. We guess we could say playing City away was part of the reason there was opposition to Haz, but that would take away from the story. It was not an easy decision to sit Milner at home vs Bournemouth. In fact what are we thinking? Well for us it was just a matter of liking each player in our attacking half more than James. Luckily for us though, James understands the art of being good, but not good enough to crack the starting line-up. Sorry Mr. Boring.
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Captain
Our captain this week is Wayne Rooney
We have decided to go with the United striker. It was however not an easy decision as our votes were cast in several different ways. In the end it was a combination of fixture and a proven track record that won out. Hopefully this week Rooney can shoot before the paint dries as we can certainly use all the points we can get.
Our vice-captain is Sadio Mane
If Wayne can’t go for some reason we have decided to entrust our vice captaincy to Mane. Frankly if he has the chances he had last week, he is bound to score at least one if not more.
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Afternoon all…
What is this about Walcott? Is it true he is about to drop in price?
Also…
Benteke or Rooney captain? I really cannot decide.
Mark,
I’d say it will be touch and go with Theo if he drops or not!
I have the two of them and have gone for Tekkers, mainly due to it being the late kick off as opposed to the early one. (Not very scientific I know!)
He’s going down in value tonight, 100%.
Surely if Theo plays tomorrow and explodes the price drop will essentially right itself for next week… right?
Maybe. It depends how other players do as well. If he were to bag a brace + then most definitely. He’d probably max out if that was the case.
That’ll be the case Mark, score goals earn points = transfers in, get benched score 1 = transfers out, I fancy him to start but anything can happen with the Arsenal line up.
Afternoon gents, hoping this week proves to be a little better than last week!
Wondering who should I go for out of the following; Azpi, Anya, or Wilson?
Currently leaning towards Anya due mainly to fixtures. How did he play last week? And also, which do you think is more likely, a CS from Chelsea or a goal/assist from Anya?
Cheers in advance!
Meh, Wilson i suppose.
Sakho and Jenkinson in! Thoughts?
Who would you be replacing Aaron? Very early in the season to be taking hits!
I’ve taken out that Bournemouth CB Francis (God knows why I put him in) and I’m taking out Wilson (God knows why I put him in). Haha I’m willing to take the hit xD
AARRGGHH. Mane or Pelle captain doing my head in!!
Pelle out of those two.
Pelle is the safest bet but I feel mane will bag a goal
Neither IMO, but either is ok. Both at a push.
What would you do if this was your team?
Courtois out?
GK change, there’s plenty of £5m options on the go.
Thanks NIN, who’d you bring in?
Despite the dreadful start, i still fancy Pantilimon to do really well. Fabianski/Adrian may be up there too, although, i’m still far from convinced about WHU.
I created a fruit-vegetable hybrid the other day, but it kept eating it made me fee pangs of pensive sorrow.
It was a melon-cauliflower.
Forget I wrote that. I’ll post it again without typos tomorrow.
Ha!
Jenkinson or Joe Gomez?
Or Reece oxford?