Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 34
CHIPS?! BLOODY CHIPS! Listen Mr FPL, we’re not liking your soddin’ CHIPS right now, we’ll tell you that much… Rant over. Maybe. In case you missed it we played a STUPID CHIP, sorry – *calms down*, last week. We decided to play, as many did, the WC CHIP ahead of GW33 with the intention of playing our Bench Boost CHIP this week. As you may have guessed already it didn’t go swimmingly! We ripped up our nicely performing and well crafted squad to replace it with one full of high hope for GW34 with that other CHIP, the BB, in mind. Had we not played it then we’d have scored… aww, you know what, never even mind, STUPID CHIPS!!!!
Our DGW wildcard totalled 61pts, only slightly above the average of 56pts and ended our nice little run of green arrows as we dropped 30k places to our new rank of 323,660. But of course our wildcard was played with this week’s big DGW in mind so we hope for bigger and better things in DGW34. Our doublers in GW33, Ward and Lukaku, suffered contrasting fortunes, just not the way we imagined. Lukaku was cack, crap, a waste of time, dress it up as you will, but he was a major disappointment especially in the respect that we captained him. Ward on the other hand was a superstar – one assist, two clean sheets, three bonus points, four points for just turning up = a five star performance. The single game players were mixed – de Gea and Monreal both conceded three goals but Simpson again kept a clean sheet and gained two bonus points. In midfield, Mahrez and Lanzini did nothing and KdB played just 31 minutes as a sub – at least Alexis maintained his form with a goal at West Ham. And up front, Aguero did what Aguero does – a goal and three bonus points, why didn’t we captain him?! Rashford was hauled off at half-time and then of course there was Lukaku…..
Transfer / CHIP! decision for GW34
This one was debated long and hard! Playing a WC one week, with the expectation that the majority of those players would still be fit / healthy / selected / mentally unimpaired / uninjured / unjailed / unsuspended / not deported / able to speak English, really shouldn’t be that much of a stretch. Should it?! Well, it would appear that sometimes it is. Ok, so granted, none actually got deported or jailed, but hey, given the luck of the rest, there’s still time yet.
The main decision then was whether to proceed with the planned Bench Boost or indeed change tact completely and opt for a Triple Captain and risk having a squad worthy of a BB in DGW37. In doing so we did the simplest thing possible and laid out our team as if we were going to pick it for a normal week and then asked the question whether the remaining bench merited the BB over a possible TC on say Sanchez. And boy was it close! The debate got heated in the kitchen to such an extent that one person actually put his pinny on and flounced off in a huff.. to the kitchen. To cook. We kid you not. The YMCA has nothing on this committee in full flow!
It turned out that Gabriel was the crux of this gamble – if he was to play then he could significantly boost that bench with two great home games and two chances of a clean sheet. Without him we may be snookered but we decided ultimately that we had played the WC last week with the intention of a BB and so we would go through with that.
And so, looking at the squad we asked if there were other small holes? Well, it would seem that there may have been a massive post-GW33 grudge against one certain individual and we won’t give you two guesses as to who that may have been! Now, ordinarily, to sell a player who is about to have a DGW would be idiocy, we agree. But hear us out. HE’S AN IDIOT, AND WE HATE HIM! *sorry, calms down again*. In seriousness we feel his time will be limited due to Everton’s impending, and let’s face it, more important FA Cup Semi-Final date. We are of course talking about Lukaku…
And so what to do with him?! This is where all logic flew out of the window and Andy Carroll flew in! Neither plays in GW35 so that kind of negated itself but we just fancied the punt on him, especially as he will be more likely to play both games now that West Ham are out of the FA Cup. That’s if he doesn’t injure himself in the warm up for the Leicester game… Which, let’s face it, is very likely.
The team in full
Captain – Alexis Sanchez
Two strong home games and a player looking like he’s finally coming back into form. In GW34… Nice one Alexis! Maybe take a break sometime, eh. Anyway we fancy he will at least play both games and probably in full as they have nothing else to play for now as opposed to Aguero and City who have the small matter of a Champions League Semi-Final coming up and so may be giving limited minutes to their stars ahead of that.
Our Vice-captain is Sergio Aguero
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Morning all. Any suggestions on where to play my 1FT this week? I’m contemplating Gabby to Fosu or Vardy to Martial. Or I could leave as is. What do we all think? 0.1ITB.
Niknak, can you not do Taylor to Fosu?
Bench Boost active
1 FT, £0.0 in bank.
GW34: Lukaku + Delaney/Sakho/Fuchs -> Sturridge/Origi + FosuMesah…?
GW35: Cresswell ->
GW36: Aguero/De Bruyne -> Ighalo/Carroll…..
Hi wazzalam
I’m thinking of bringing in Fosu but for Gabrial as he is the most at risk of not playing. And I think Fosu has the greater chance of starting from what people are saying.
Lukaku to Sturridge is sensible.
Wazza – not seeing massive reason to get rid of Delaney for a hit. Lukaku to one of Mitrovic, Carroll or Martial and be done?
To all of you who like me have taken a hit the week following playing your wildcard, if only we’d heeded his advice we wouldn’t be in this mess, so remember:
“Cookie was right, Everton are site.”
And good luck with your teams this week whether they be bechipped or chipless.
If only I had heeded my own advice!
activated my bench boost this week so is this team looking good for it
DDG robles
bellerin fosu-mensah sakho moreno delaney
sanchez(c) KDB coutinio iwobi payet
aguero rashford kane
Good luck canufeelit
Morning all!
This is my team for GW34 – good to go or should I do Mahrez to firmino for a -8?
Mitro – do it mate, you know you want to.
To be fair, it has a good chance of payback. You will prob want to get rid of some Liverpool coverage though then soon as rotation will kick in
Ha ha!! I really want to do it! Just Mahrez could go out and get 15 points tomorrow
Hope he does!
I think you have the cover in your team to leave it but Pool do have nice fixtures..
I think I’m going to do it!!
Hi mitro what other transfers did you do?
Jumpers – did Gabriel and lukaku to koscienly and rashford
Sorry if I’m annoying people as have posted already about this. I just can’t decide mitro on my hits. Because I’m trailing my ml by 50 points in shtting it. Problem I’ve got if I take out lukaku and Lennon-4 prob get origi who to replace Lennon with? My suggestion would be iwobi for his price but already have 3 Arsenal. So then I’d say because gabs a maybe could go -8 swap him out. But then for a real gamble with the funds available I could do -12 and swap Mahrez to kdb.
Jumpers, go for gold, go hard, go aggressive. This gameweek is for attacking.
Cant you just see Gabriel playing both games now that we all have sold him
I’m so close to moving him out for Fosu-Mensah on my 1 FT!!