Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Game-week 18 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15
GW18 is live! We hope you were happy with your Christmas presents and that the turkey and trimmings went down well but that’s all over now and so back to the serious business of fantasy football! Hopefully your transfers, line-ups and your all important captain selection are all sorted and you didn’t over indulge in the festive period and do anything daft like take a huge hit or indeed just forget altogether! Live Match Chat is your chance to have your say on the line-ups as they are announced, the games as they happen and the fallout afterwards. Boxing Day is indeed a bumper day with all 20 teams playing so no sooner has it begun than it will end and is unique in the season in that respect. We think. Couldn’t be bothered to check! We begin with an early game as Chelsea welcome West Ham. There are then a hectic eight games at 3pm before Arsenal and QPR see us out in the early evening.
The Boxing Day bonanza in full…
Chelsea v West Ham 12.45pm
Burnley v Liverpool 3pm
Crystal Palace v Southampton 3pm
Everton v Stoke 3pm
Leicester v Spurs 3pm
Man Utd v Newcastle 3pm
Sunderland v Hull 3pm
Swansea v Aston Villa 3pm
West Brom v Man City 3pm
Arsenal v QPR 5.45pm
Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place.
Good luck to absolutely everyone for GW18 from all at FF247!
Get rid of Baines with his price dropping tonight (won’t lose money on him as I can still sell at 7,1m) or downgrade Chambers to the likes of Hutton?
Thoughts? No need to rush it but wanting opinions.
downgrade baines upgrade bony.
you really need to put some money in your front 3 or 2 in this case.
Hi Jasprit..really not worried about my front 3. They keep providing so I’m not complaining. not bringing in Costa; Rooney too deep etc.
Baines needs to go but given his fixture and the quality of my other defenders’ fixtures, don’t you think my transfer would be better used on a different defender?
costa and hutton will give you much better results than baines and bony at the same price.
if not costs, than falcao (will soon burst out with plenty of points)
but bony and baines need to go imo
you already have soggy and bony is truly overkill. he will soon leave for afcon too
the problem with baines is that Everton I’m general is playing crap.
he might have great potential and fixtures but his team mates will bring him down.
go for a team with form and quality ie Chelsea (costa) or united (falcao/rooney)
Not sure about that. You say the pair will produce much better results yet my pairing is outscoring the one you mentioned? Liverpool the QPR should see goals for Swansea and I need to bring in defenders who can see a clean sheet this week.
don’t get stuck on to getting cs this week.
think a little long term.
at the end it’s your choice though. I wouldn’t keep baines in my team for another second considering he hasn’t done shit ???? in over a month after using up so much of my budget.
Agreed Jas, I’m also thinking about Swansea being away for the next two. Good call and thanks for your insight
Baines should be priority no point having high price assets if they aren’t doing the business.
Hi burnsy, same as above…given his fixture don’t you think I should alter others first?
Well, no, Everton haven’t kept a clean sheet in 8 gameweeks and Baines hasn’t been creating anything offensively. Sure you can sit on him and hope it changes but I he hasn’t done it for weeks now. They lost at home to Stoke today which shows how Everton are doing at the moment. I’d personally get some money in areas where players are performing, your attacks a bit weak.
Good point Burnsy, will review this tomorrow. Thanks to both of you!
Best defender at 5.2 and under?
Already have chambers, naylor and Hutton
look into united. jones/evans
after a few weeks, you could go with alderweireld from southampton when their fixtures ease up.
Yeah thought of Evans. Jones a bit injury prone I think. Alderweireld will be good in a couple of weeks
Injury prone but definitely an attacking threat. Could be worth the risk..
Also a card magnet
Hadn’t thought of that..good point!
This is my current team. Main issues at the moment- baines, Clyne, no city or United coverage. Any ideas? Baines to Kompany and Bony to Rooney would leave me – .2, so I would have to downgrade Clyne aswell for a hit to make it possible. I also feel like silva is a must *sigh* . Any thoughts?
downgrade baines and get in Silva in place of chadli.
if you want to get in Rooney, you will need to get in a cheap defender in the likes of wisdom maybe.
or else stick with bony and get mangala
Cheers mates, need some help here.
GW19 seems very difficult to me. Trying to get rid of Davis and Jagielka for a City defender but don’t know who is a good option. Maybe Clichy (5.6) but not sure that he’s going to play against Burnley.
So maybe I can do
Jagielka out – Clichy in 1FT and play with:
Hart
Clichy – Wisdom – Mertesacker
Hazard – Sanchez – Yaya – Sigurdsson
Costa – Kane – Austin
Seems like a really tough week to me
clichy rotates way too much.
Expect kolarov to start next gw
get in mangala instead.
Maybe I can do
Jagielka out – Mangala in
Yaya out – Silva in (4 points hit)
What you think?
Thanks for the advice
I would wait to do yaya to Silva for a week
no point taking a hit as even if Silva scores a goal more than yaya does, you would just make up for the hit and gain no advantage.
just get in mangala for now
yaya to Silva next week might be the best option
Just got Benteke for Pelle, differential please.
Burnsy I’ll probably be doing the same. Not looked properly yet but had a quick scan earlier and out of the teams that actually have a forward to play and have decent fixtures they’re about the only ones and Benteke is the man.
Also he always does well after the new year so hopefully he can be a long term-ish addition.
Quick question: when do the African players leave? (in Fantasy Football terms)
I think it’s the 18th of Janurary
Article on it going up between GW19 and 20 but from memory they can actually start to be called up pretty much from GW20 onwards. There’s an FA Cup break between 20 and 21 and so I’d plan that any at risk may not be around for 21 to be safe.
Yaya is expected to leave after tha FA Cup match whenever that is
Between 20 and 21 😉
Ok cheers