Fantasy Football Live Match Chat and FF247 Site Team Gameweek 35+
Welcome to Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 35+.
GW35+ Deadline; Saturday 11th July 11:30am GMT
Timing is everything…
For those of you struggling to keep up with the rapid deadlines; tough sh*t & :punish: :mosking: It’s posted on site in at least three different locations, including a very handy countdown timer. But if you are one of those, not to name names, (Raz, Ivan & AJW) you may want to pay attention to the following as the next few weeks may prove particularly challenging for you;
GW35+ ends abruptly on Monday night, GW36+ then begins the following day. Which is called Tuesday, just in case you are already struggling to keep up. That one then goes all the way through until Friday night. And then GW37+ begins on Saturday. Which is the day that follows Friday.
As for 35+ itself we have the (now) usual divorce lawyers dream of five games on Saturday from about midday to 10pm, four on Sunday but ending at 8 and then another on Monday. But that’s where you need to start paying attention as 36+ creeps up quickly.
As always we shall endeavour to post the line-ups prior to each phase of the relevant GW and our usual aforementioned FPL Countdown Timer (to be found above the latest comments section) will once again be active.
Tips will be dispensed in the chat below but feel free to get involved in said chat, whether that’s asking for advice or answering others.
The games in full…
FF247 SITE TEAM GW35+
Our GW34+ Result…
Talking of timing our Bench Boost week began well on Tuesday with Pulisic smashing one in which also saw him grab a couple of bonus points. Foster let us down somewhat though as we had that one down as a nailed on clean sheet. Sort of.
In the more reliable corner Pope and Taylor duly delivered on Wednesday against the #bendoverBrady bunch. Taylor even obliged with an assist and the full three bonus.
Seemingly we picked the wrong Man City assets for their routing of Newcastle, but we suspect we weren’t alone in that. Captain KDB did still bring in a semi-respectable 14.
Our decision to keep Salah, or rather dither and not actually make a decision at all, inadvertently keeping him in the process, paid off big time. 18 points big time. TAA did diddly-squat though.
Jimenez doing likewise may have sealed his fate but we shall come onto that later. As for Doherty we just had to laugh, how could you not with a CS and bonus points in the bag after 90 minutes. And then that…
Heading into Thursday with 71 points and 5 players left its fair to say we were eyeing the hollowed ton. Things got off well with both Ings and Aurier doing their jobs. One with a goal, the other with a clean sheet and bagging 5 bonus points between them.
We just needed Man United to hammer Villa, or at least tap them out a bit. It ended up somewhere in-between the two stools but fortunately we seem to be better at picking players from the other side of Manchester (aka Salford) as our trio got 26 between them to take us to a final tally of 114.
This meant another green arrow and a healthy rise of over 50k places up to 33,422nd. Let’s go see what we did with our 2 free transfers.
GW35+ TRANSFER
We have SOLD Jiménez and Doherty and BOUGHT Vardy and errrrr someone we never thought we would buy.
Unfortunately our stooge who lazily couldn’t be arsed to sell Salah last week was given this week off from transfer decision duty. Hence it fell to the other maverick to orchestrate proceedings. And this one never does nothing. Ever.
Jiménez to Vardy was the obvious shout but we couldn’t afford that alone, in fact we were just 1.8mln short. Not an easy amount to find. We could sell Salah but our sensible ones wouldn’t allow that. We could sell TAA, but that was thrown out too. Despite both being likely to be benched this week. Allegedly. The sale of Doherty was mooted and then gained traction. But who would we buy for 4.6mln? It was then suggested we buy Iheanacho and save all the hassle. That idea wasn’t even commented on. Bastards. Just watch him outscore Vardy. So we had 4.6mln to spend on a defender. Not much there. And no suggestions from the Brains Trust so nothing was done and just like that Vardy’s price rose overnight and now we only had 4.5mln to spend.
To cut a long story short (errrrrm bit late for that pal), we had a choice of Jack Stephens of Southampton and Aaron Cresswell of West Ham. Lol. All this to get Vardy. FML. Both have decent looking fixtures. Even Cresswell and his bunch of useless no-hopers, but at least he can cross the ball even if defending is a slight issue.
Amazingly, Cresswell was voted in basically so we can play him vs Norwich this week rather than Stephens vs United. It’s a genius move that we recommend you all make immediately.
GW35+ CAPTAIN
Our Captain for GW35+ will be Bruno
Our Vice-Captain will be Vardy
Bruno won the vote 3-2 with a late surge in the voting. Difficult to argue with as he is the form player of the league and has the added bonus of playing in the final fixture of the game-week on Monday evening.
Our GW35+ team in full…
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TAA stick or twist? Arsenal & Chelsea next, risk of rotation, lack of motivation but I have him in my team since GW1 and it feels weird thinking about selling him
I imagine he will be straight back in the team after his little rest. I’d stick. I sold him this week and even that 20 min cameo was a fraught affair as every time he got the ball I was thinking potential assist.
It depends who you are bringing in and what you are doing with the money ? I think he’s dispensable.
Sticking (even if I FH this week I’ll probably keep him in) – running out of transfers now and I have bigger fish to fry to try to get things back on track.
I’d fancy Liverpool’s chances versus both Arsenal and Chelsea. Whether or not the chances will be converted is another thing.
Cheers lads
I have a 5 man midfield now: KDB, Sterling, Foden, Antonio & Bruno.
Is the sensible guesstimate that Sterling sits out Bournemouth given he played 90 yesterday? And Foden starts? If so thinking maybe Sterling to D Silva for a week. Happy hit, of course!
I tempted to swap Salah to a City mid, given City have both Bou and Nor at home to come. But which one? Like everyone else I already have KDB. It’s probably Sterling or Foden?
David Silva surely plays both….Norwich is his last home game and he was rested yesterday…..
True that could be a good catch. In your case not sure I would transfer Sterling out though. Although I wish I could field 10 midfielders at the moment there are so many options, so there is a squeeze on places!
Cookie, I’ve been contemplating whether to TC Willian this GW and Free Hit GW 38 or Free Hit this GW and TC a City player GW 38. You just gave me the brilliant idea to TC David Silva in 38! Triple captaining him in his last league match for the club… even if he blanks I couldn’t be unhappy. Cheers mate! :big_boss:
Tekno, you’re a City fan, what do you think their line-up will be midweek?
No pressure….
I expect a weakened line-up, absolutely. A bit difficult to predict with KDB, the only thing I’m sure of is that he will not play 90 min. So either 60 min again or a cameo off the bench. The entire backline should be switched out. One of Sterling and Mahrez to start alongside Jesus and Foden, probably Sterling as he scored a hattrick. And then sub Jesus and Sterling early. Fernandinho and Gundogan can both come in so that KDB and Bernardo can be rested, or maybe only one of them and one of KDB and Bernardo starts. Predicted a starting eleven:
Ederson
Cancelo – Stones – Otamendi – Zinchenko
David Silva – Fernandinho (Rodri) – Gundogan (KDB)
Foden – Jesus – Sterling
I’m expecting a solid victory rather than a trashing, maybe they’ll just score 2 or 3 goals rather than 5…
You tell us. You’re the one with the Midas touch 😉
He’s certainly touched, not sure it was by Midas though
One hit wonder mate 😉
Pep has said he’ll make at least 5/6 changes for midweek.
I’m pretty certain that Sterling is at best benched after playing 90. I think probably Zinchenko comes in for Mendy so Mendy is ok for the semi-final. David Silva will play, Gundogan will likely start as will Foden.
The kid Doyle will also see game time and could possibly start.
I also fancy Otamendi and Stones to start, Laporte rested for the semi.
Jesus probably starts and plays 60 to keep his confidence up.
Really not sure on KdB, maybe he comes off the bench and plays 25/30mins after playing 60 yesterday.
Conclusion: mids – get Foden & D Silva, possibly its ok to leave Sterling and KdB this week although they could hurt off the bench.
Mahrez and Bernado dunno!
This is my guess so think one of Sterling or KDB gets a start
Ederson
Cancelo, Otamendi, Stones, Zinchenko
DSilva, Gundogan, KDB/BSilva
Sterling/BSilva , Jesus, Foden
Mahrez also played 90 minutes…
Interesting discussion, so who would you captain? D Silva, Foden, Pulisic?
SIlva or Pulisic from those two.
Tremendous scoring this week Cookie….touch of genius on your selection…hope it translates into a big overall score
Wolfs
Everton
Cheers Gavy.
Does this look ok for a free hit team? Foden for KDB? And who on earth do I bench? Salah desperate for his goals, aaarrrrgghh!!
I”d lose Dcl he’s been pretty useless of late and have Jesus in there as i’m pretty sure he will start.Kdb D.Silva and Foden probs most likely to start of the mids this gw but who knows with Pep.Will Tammy start ? I be more tempted to go both Willian and Pulisic in midfield.
Thank you x
Hmm. A lot of people doing the free hit thing this gameweek? Not gw37?
I’m not looking at 37. It’s either this week or GW38 I think
Think i’m just going to take a hit instead and save it for gw38.
Yeah I’m tempted by that. Might depend how bad Villa look later as I’d have double Everton defence on a free hit. I can just about cover City I think but kind of need Pulisic in this week but no real idea who to drop for him
I’ve been thinking about the TC. If I defer the FH this week I’m compelled to play TC this week or 37. And I think having TC in 38 is quite handy.
So have drifted back to FH this week. Have even been thinking of Giroud.
Yeah he should start I expect. Palace and Everton being so bad is putting me off the free hit. I must admit I’m considering Giroud if we get early team news
David Silva and Ederson I’m also thinking about. Maybe a Chelsea defender but I quite fancy Willian/Pulisic/ Giroud as a desperate points’ chasing throw of the dice.
Problem is of course Bruno and most likely KdB have to stay.
Digne booking, brilliant.