Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 8
Four straight green arrows, a spot inside the highly coveted 2 million (yes, at this stage a ranking inside 2 million is coveted) was finally on the cards for this underperforming side. Only problem was the game-week started and we started to capitulate faster than an EPL team in the Champions League. We dropped close to 200k spots and now sit a long, long way from respectability. 38 points is usually a score that one would hope are among the lowest of the season. However in our case that is not only our score for GW7 it is our average for the season so far. Let us give a quick, very quick recap of what our players did before we tell you our plans for GW8, so you know what not to do.
In goal we had our new transfer Boaz Myhill and boy did he not disappoint. Lad fit right in with the rest of the squad scoring 1 big point. By the way who suggested a Myhill transfer anyway? Zzzzzz
On defence we scored 101, sorry 1, 0 and 1. It was sad to see our premium defender Kolarov unable to match the exploits of the rest of the defence. As Naughty and Francis joined exciting new transfer Boaz Myhill with 1 point for the GW. So that was a grand total of 3 points from our 3 defenders and keeper. Good work there by the committee, I am sure they have a plan to fix it. 😉
Moving to our midfield, we see some definite hits and some unfortunate misses. Our two highest scorers of the game-week Sanchez (20 points) and KDB (7) resided in this area of the pitch. However we missed on Pedro and Mahrez as neither managed more than 2 points. Now here is the smart part. We had our captain and vice-captain in our midfield, go ahead and guess which pair we chose, the former or the latter? Yeah, that is the story of our season so far. Sanchez was floated as a captain choice by someone in the committee, but as all good ideas have been this season, it was ignored. We might be doing crap, but I least we are consistent. Speaking of bad ideas, let us look at our forwards.
What else did you expect? Of course we had the golden trifecta. Wilson, Aguero and Gomis. As we all know Wilson was badly injured, Gomis is crap and Aguero is pretending to be useless. Four points is all we garnered from our 3 strikers. Good thing we brought in the super fantastic Boaz Myhill when we had a chance to use a transfer. Can’t wait to see what exciting transfer we will make this week? Onto the transfers then to see who we are going to curse this week.
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Transfer(s) for GW7 – Sold Wilson & Pedro, Bought Vardy & Payet
Our hand was somewhat forced this week as we were forced to deal with the long-term injury sustained by Callum Wilson. One member of the management team strongly advocated that we just sell Wilson and bank our 2nd FT and this would then give us greater flexibility following the international break. However we had no further cash in the bank meaning we had just £5.7m to spend on Wilson’s replacement and we didn’t fancy anyone in that price bracket. Therefore the decision was made.
As soon as it was decided that we would use both FT’s the obvious fall guy was Pedro, there were no dissenting voices. Having brought the Spaniard in on our WC ahead of GW5 he has banked us the scintillating total of 6pts. It was clearly time for the waster to sling his hook. It was briefly suggested that we replace Pedro with Juan Mata but this would have left us with no cash in the bank, at least Payet gives us some flexibility and lord knows we’re likely to need that flexibility in the near future. Payet brings us more than flexibility, he faces the league’s worst team this weekend and has some decent fixtures in the weeks ahead….famous last words!
With five goals in his last five games Vardy is the league’s form striker and while there were one or two murmurs suggesting it was unwise to double up on the Leicester attack Vardy was voted in and he joins Aguero & Gomis in our attack. There’s a lot resting on his shoulders.
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Our team in full…
Team Selection
The team has essentially picked itself this week, whether that’s a good thing is open to debate. In goal we’ve gone with Myhill, although McCarthy is unlikely to start so we didn’t have much of a choice. West Brom are yet to concede away from home this season so we have high hopes for Myhill. In defence the decision to bench Morgan and Oxford was quite an easy one as Leicester are yet to keep a clean sheet while Oxford has lost his place. In midfield Westwood was bought to sit on the bench and he does his job better than most in our team
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Captain
Our captain this week is Sergio Aguero
To use an old cliche, insanity is often described as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Surely Aguero has to deliver this weekend? It’s Newcastle, he has to! We’re yet to pick a decent captain this season which is possibly one of the reasons for our lowly position. That’s all about to change this week, we believe in you Sergio.
Our vice-captain is Dimitri Payet
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myhill
kolarov nyom dier
hazard mane mata payet
kun vardy martial
bench: hennesey hutton fletcher smith
dembele masson bentaleb returning,do i need to trsfr dier out? dier>davies?
myhill>butland and dier>dawson?
To be honest, nauj, i’d be ditching quite a few of those mate. Dier, Hazard, Mane, one of Mata/Martial and the entire bench.
who do you thnk i can take in martial’s place?
i thnk i will trsfr dier out for dawson or davies. any other advices?
mane has deliver in the lasts gw and has pretty easy fixtures dats y i took him.
hazard,ahh my dear hazard, i stil keep faith that he will strt his wonderful season.. x)
I made my bench without cash, dats y i have this bench.. :/
On second thought, how about Hazard –> De Bruyne/Silva, Mane –> Mahrez (absolute must have, surely) ?? That should save more than enough to sort the bench whilst improving (in my opinion at least) your team. You may even have enough left over to get the defenders you want.
hazard>silva and dier> davies
hutton>>souaré?
wats wrong with dier? And I like Whams sakho over martial. Keep mata though
im not confortable having payet and sakho..:s
Dude, already replied on your previous comment.. reposting here..
i wud have CP cover in place of Hutton(souare may be).also, u’ve got to bring Gunners cover to your team. didnt to watch the last game against Leicester? and why get Myhill when u’re on WC?u’ll be fiddling with your team again, once foster is back.you have better option like Gomes for a cheaper price.for me Dier is not a very good option as he’s not going to score every week. He’s been stupendous though.. get someone like Williams or if you could fit darmian may be.thats my view point. cheers
and yes, as NIN has mentioned, one of MATA/MartIAL
foster hasnt any sign of retrning and wba coverage is a must have dats y i went for myhill.
i dnt have engh faith in arsenal, they are a bit on n off..
darmian isnt possible rght nw, but i will trsfr dier out..
who to take in martial’s place? with payet in my team, i dnt wnt to take sakho..:/
you can always take one of the brom defs. evans is an option.u wudnt want to waste your FTs on a keeper, would you?u dont have to have faith in teams like arsenal.they are going to make money for you every now and then. sanchez/ozil/walcott might be the attacking options here.you can get in ighalo for martial and upgrade fletcher to someone better.this way your rotations will pay u better as ighalo is nailed and brings you goals too.
myhill>butland
dier>davies hutton>evans
martial 3goal and 1assist in his last 3games in epl! y drop him? :s
Anyone heard anything on Shaqiri? Is he likely to play? My bench looks to be all non playing so I don’t know whether to take -4 to replace Shaqiri or leave it and risk playing with 10 men? Have already used my FT on Wilson to Vardy.
Surely Toure needs to go first if he’s red flagged? How much money do have for a replacement for him?
Thing is, I hope he will be back for the next game and is the cheapest way into the city midfield. Would quite like to keep him. Have 9.2 if I replace him. Might take a risk on Shaqiri unless he is out but I haven’t heard anything on him.
STOKE TEAM NEWS
Stoke boss Mark Hughes thinks Xherdan Shaqiri has just a 50-50 chance of being fit for the Premier League trip to Aston Villa.
The £12m club record signing suffered a thigh injury against Bournemouth and has yet to train this week. The midfielder must train on Friday if he is to be considered for selection at Villa Park.
Taken from Sky Sports News. Seems he’s likely to be out if he hasn’t trained all week.
if you were a player in the EPL, would you play fantasy? And would you captain yourself every week?
My team now looks so much like our community team since the last two weeks
i did Schmeichel to Bego and Yaya to KDB
team did Krul to Myhill and Someone to KDB. Guess it was Sterling
i did the same transfers this week on Sunday to avoid price rises
the only exceptions that we dont share are i have Bego Rudd Muniesa against Myhill Mc Carthy and Morgan
hope our teams rule this week
come on Payet, go nuts this week
My cappo
Don’t know what to do!
Did my transfers early on and now Toure’s out!
Play someone else or make a -4 point hit
Myhill – Butland
Kolarov – Reid – Dawson – Richards – Huth
Sanchez – Yaya – Pedro – Mahrez – Anya
Aguero – Sakho – Vardy
I would play 442, with Richards at home to Stoke.
Alternative would be Huth out for a CP defender…
mane or walcott??