Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 5
Well that was a fun opening 4 weeks. We will now share our ranking if you promise not to laugh. Our current ranking is 2… cough, cough, sorry about that, we also have our MLS hats on. Our FPL ranking is a fair way off that – 2,677,857. Awful! Anyway, after that revealing moment, we have at least a small victory to report. Shockingly we do have 2 of something at least – straight green arrows. We know, it was almost impossible to get a red after our start. However we almost defied the odds as we came bloody close in both GW3’s and 4! The bleeding must end now, so we did what any depressed panicked manager would do, we played the wildcard after actually deleting the team and just walking away ‘NIN style’ was voted down.
Showing that we have learned our lesson from the cruel punishment that was the first 4 GWs, we have turned to the same FPL “gurus” who got us in this hole. Wait…what? Oh well, at least there is no relegation in FPL. Any more like this though and there could be a cull…
So now onto our transfer plans and team selection for the upcoming GW5.
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Transfer(s) for GW5 – We wildcarded
As we say we’d basically had enough of our nonsense of a squad and so decided the time was right to correct our original wrongs. The International break combined with the transfer window closing felt like a good opportunity to refresh. It also promised a chance to cash in on some price rises but in all honesty that didn’t really materialise. Anyway we bit the bullet and here’s what we came up with…
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Our team in full…
Team Selection
Goalkeepers and Defenders.
This was probably where we ended up spending the most time and effort and probably where we yielded the least results! Once the front 8 had been picked and Kolarov took his place the rest were severely restricted in terms of budget. The fact is that so many other budget spots in these positions are up in the air at the moment given both new signings and also a number of key players imminently returning from injury. Trying to settle on and also second guess actual starters proved very difficult. So difficult in fact that we probably got to the stage where we wished we had waited on playing the WC itself and maybe sat back and let these issues settle down a little.
We didn’t. So we had to push on with what we had started and ended up with the above mess! Well ok, it’s not a mess as such but if say McCarthy loses his place to the soon returning Speroni then we could be left with just 1 keeper. Krul himself was a tough one but we put faith in the Toon given their kind fixture run from GW9 onwards. Oxford joins the not yet mentioned Surman in being cheap bench fodder that we are happy to never really have to call into service. Let’s call them ‘enablers’.
Probably all best summed up with the last comment by a committee member who shall remain nameless – ‘That defence is sh*te but without funds there isn’t much out there. Throwing darts at this stage’.
Midfielders and Forwards.
This was clearly where we spent the money. Whether we did it well only time will tell but we are happy with our front 7 that will hopefully start most weeks and see us to some more green arrows. Fat ones. It needs little explanation. Pedro vs Hazard and Silva vs Sterling were the main debates. It came down to price and a little bit of preference but we are happy with what we have.
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Captain
Our captain this week is Alexis Sanchez
Possibly the main advantage of actually wildcarding this week was our ability to bring in Sanchez who proved to be a unanimous captain pick. Now we just need Arsenal themselves to remember that the season has begun and start playing like it!
Our vice-captain is Sergio Aguero
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***TEAM UPDATE!!!****
Having been blindsided by an unexpected Silva absence we called an emergency committee meeting and swiftly decided to switch him out for City new boy Kevin De Bruyne. Unproven and all that, as such (will he even start?!). Either way we decided to jump on a potential early bandwagon given his blistering Bundesliga form from last season.
At the behest of our friend Horse in the comments we also reviewed our choice of Surman and have subsequently switched him for Westwood of Villa. In theory this is a minor one as we don’t intend for that 5th mid to ever really feature other than as an emergency substitute.
Updated team –
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Morning all – the FF247 site team has been selected, argued upon, wildcard played…….HERE IT IS!
Morning Cookie and Team,
I like it. I have 10 of them
Morning all.
Great team. Like GP, I have 10 of them in my WC team!
And hijacked and altered since the actual voting :hippo:
Morning all,
It looks like the template team of the moment, who would’ve thought at the start of the season that Kun, Gomis and Wilson would be the front 3 of choice.
God help us all if Costa, Rooney and Kane start firing, at lets not forget Sturridge who can’t be too far away from regular games now
*and lets not forget
Any new on Courtois injury ????
Hearing 2 months out Silvers, Jose presser in just over an hour.
Cheers Cookie I will keep an eye out he has caused me no end of pain.
Gotta feel bad for the 4000+ that have brought Courtois in this week
Nice team guys. Very similar to what I’m thinking with the WC but the defense as you say is anyone’s guess. Here’s my effort (apologies for repost from previous thread!)
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Morning gents. That’s some news about Courtois being out for a few months- makes Begovic a highly interesting option if so. I think he’s a great keeper. Have made some modifications to my potential WC plans. Remaining issues I see are as follows:
1) Defense appears weak at first glance but Francis, Naughton, Muniesa all have solid fixtures over next ~7 GWs. Oxford is my enabler.
2) Sanchez is a lot of money. I could pick Ramsey instead and have 2.6m to spend in defence, to upgrade Sterling to Silva/KDB, or to replace…
3) Defoe. Odd to see him in a WC team but every goal Sunderland score (haha) is likely to involve him in some way. The fixtures are decent and in any case he is generally going to lose out to Wilson in my first XI over coming weeks.
Morning peeps! Nice team guys. You may well wish to tweak Krul and Naughton if a certain Thibaut really is out for 2-4 months though…
Naughton (wells, Swans) have decent fixtures I think. Not sold on Krul, but there are few stand out options at the back so far.
Naughton is a good pick in my eyes too, but I don’t particularly rate their fixtures, what I meant was that I think they’d rather pay 5.0m for Begovic than Kyle… although it’s all good if you can get both like you’ve managed to!
Will Jonas Olsson play for West Brom with Jonny Evans coming in?
Difficult to say for now since both Olsson and Evans will fight for the CB place to pair up with Dawson. But I think Evans will replace Olsson, Pulis has shown excessive love for him after signing him.
The B, do you think Dawson will be deployed as CB ? I was of the thinking that he was playing RB, leaving McCauley and Evans to pair up as the CB’s like they play for Northern Ireland. Infact if you throw Brunt in at LB that will be 3 of the current Northern Ireland back four and how I would imagine the Baggie’s 1st choice back line will look.
Hey guys, I have 2FT and 0mil itb. I am a bit stuck with what transfer/s to make, could I please have some help? Thanks.
I cant see where you can best use your FT. You need to monitor the Myhill and Lindegaard situation, and make plans to get Pedro in. If you want Pedro in for the home game against Arsenal, then it would be best to downgrade one of Payet or Chadli. But honestly, the team is solid for this GW. Not sure who you will bench though.
nosaj
You don’t have many problems to deal with which is a very good sign.
I would use one transfer to lessen the Villa exposure. Play the percentages and get in some Leicester coverage instead of having Guzan and Richards.