Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 1
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Welcome to Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 1. And welcome back indeed, welcome to the start of yet another long season, welcome to another 38 weeks of joy, despair, trials, tribulations and challenges. We hope that you will once again enjoy joining us as we go through all the emotions together, share our thoughts and experiences, rejoice when our players score points, commiserate when they don’t, cry when they come off after 59 minutes and laugh when they concede in the last minute. Or something to that effect anyway.
GW1 sees us kick off with a Friday night game as the Champions of Europe host newly promoted Norwich at home. Doesn’t quite seem fair that does it, somehow? It’ll probably see plenty of Salah captainers get their first taste of the armband for the season anyway.
Champions Man City then get the first Saturday of the season going as they visit West Ham in the early kick off at 12.30pm.
In perhaps a sign of things to come our 3pm games are not only few but are also littered with the already seemingly cast aside ‘less interesting’ teams. Apologies to Bournemouth & Sheffield United, Burnley & Southampton, Palace & Everton and Watford & Brighton but that’s how it seems.
Champions League runners up Spurs host newly promoted Villa at home in the late KO at 5.30pm. Doesn’t quite seem fair that does it, somehow? It’ll probably see plenty of Kane captainers get their first taste of the armband for the season anyway….
Leicester and Wolves begin (share) our first Sunday with an intriguing encounter at 2pm, while Newcastle fans will be protesting against Arsenal at the same time. Well ok, not protesting Arsenal, protesting Ashley, but you know what we mean…
A clash of the old titans sees GW1 out as Chelsea visit Old Trafford at 4pm.
The games in full…
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I am late getting in on the chat. First match in the books so good luck to everyone over the next 2 days. 34 pts not too bad from 3 players. :good:
Mosc
Not too shabby that sir. Well played :worthy:
Not bad at all. I drew the short straw this week (Robbo) but am perfectly happy with the returns (and performance, from what I can gather) of TAA and Salah.
Going big on Liverpool and City is not a bad tactic. He says, having no idea if you have any City players.
Have Zinchenko & Sterling, tried for 2 D’s but couldn’t afford him.
Pretty nice team you have there Mosc. The Bournemouth double-up at the front will hopefully serve you well.
I think I don’t have to remind you folks that Pukki means GOAT in Finnish!!! Amazing to be a Finn right now, great to have such a Finnish player in the Prem, it’s been a while!! :drinks:
Well deserved goal zed. Norwich showed some threat tonight and didn’t give up
Yeah I do think Norwich will stay in the prem, they showed some good energy going forward, unlike some teams who have just tried to park the bus in order to stay alive…
And of course they’ve got the GOAT in their team! :yes:
Totally agree mate , nice to see a positive approach,, they could have had a few tonight
Norwich were ok with the ball and absolutely shite without it, didn’t have a Scooby Doo without possession.
i can imagine how proud you are as i’m hungarian and there’s nobody in the pl from my country since Gera..
on a side note, Pukki means fart in hungarian
And in Cantonese, Pukki is rather rude.. literally means “fall on street”, but culturally a very common swear word.
Really, that’s interesting, I prefer the Finnish (which obviously is the original) meaning, GOAT 😎
Well, they say Finnish and Hungarian languages are related 😆
Wont tell you what it means in Filipino – unless of course you like cats
I have a vague memory that it’s a slang word in Sinhala as well, meaning arse, though that may be pronounced ‘puka’.
Now that we’re on the subject, I remember when I was in Cambodia (they don’t speak English that well there) someone referred to the trunk by saying “arse car”…. Always thought that was a very creative way to speak English…
I never really minded the simplified way you have to communicate when, in the early days of being away, you don’t know enough of the host language (other than the obvious stuff) and the host doesn’t know enough of yours. It’s not unpleasant to communicate in that stripped down way.
At the endless sound of dogs barking in the night I just said ‘wanker dogs’ and that stuck, and I heard it a lot afterwards.
Isn’t Finnish a fairly new language, relatively speaking, or have I got that wrong? Maybe suppressed?
Depends on what you mean by “relatively speaking” but I think it evolved from a Proto-finnic language around 1000 BC, so 3 or so thousand years ago, now whether that is new or old is up to debate
I’m probably getting confused with it not being the official language (in the past) – I was listening to something about Sibelius and nationalism the other day – ignore my ramblings.
That’s brilliant Kralin. I’d like to think that ‘wanker dogs’ is still a part of that localities lingo today as a result, and that they don’t now remember how or why it is!
How about tosser cats? You could evolve a whole new dialect out of that!
I’m making emojis for wanker dogs and tosser cats 😎
Norwich were ok with the ball and absolutely shite without it, didn’t have a Scooby Doo without possession.
Speaking of ‘men of words’….. looks like our bouncer has arrived home :rofl:
Exactly, hence they won’t get relegated, let’s not give “the art of defending” too much credit here now! 😉
Anyone getting error screen when loading mini leagues?
Captain Impatient here ^
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Haha, ah the passion of fpl
Not sure if you’ll be able to see them until the scores are confirmed.
You can amuse yourself, however, by looking at the dream team. Very cheekily, there are 5 Norwich players. Splutters.
They’ve been having teething problems all day so it’s no surprise. I can see my participants but that’s all, no actual league as of yet.
How we all doing took VVD out for Robbo this morning but swings & roundabouts I’m in for the LG haul
Bit of a bugger the Pool lost the CS let’s see how the rest of the fixtures go
Yep, same! Luckily left VVD in my Fanteam squad
What is a Fanteam squad?
This mate – https://fantasyfootball247.co.uk/fanteam-offers-a-250000-fantasy-premier-league-season-tournament/
Very similar to FPL, but for cash!
Nice price money! :good: Who knows this time next year you might find yourself in Ibiza!
Good to see our ‘marketing’ is hitting home!
There’s two sides to that coin though; we have to take marketing to pay the bills but we also refuse to do stuff that is in peoples faces too much, the latter approach is obviously working!
Very sneaky indeed, dropping very innocent yet intentional little hints like “Luckily left VVD in my Fanteam squad” here and there, nice touch! 😆
We didn’t program AT to do that as part of the deal!
Haha – just seen this. I’m not part of the site ownership. I’m just paying Fanteam 😆
Just mildly irritating mainly because of his high ownership. VVD won’t score every week. Robbo has a couple of close shots though thought he could have got forward a bit more
and that ownership of VvD will increase for sure.. fortunately he scored ‘only’ 8pts
Yeah very annoying ownership! TAA looked much better from a fantasy perspective but sketchy defensively at times
He will score a fk soon, when that happens we’ll be in raptures, and he got an assist already as well, he’s looking very good at the minute!
Yes that free-kick forced a cracking save and Firmino’s earlier effort was similarly good which would have been a TAA assist.
The way Origi was giving up possession Smash, Robbo couldn’t get forward as much. Origi gave the ball away for the goal.
Yeah that’s a good point
no worries Silvers, Robbo will bounce back, maybe next week already
Gladly it’s a marathon, not a sprint!!! We might have lost the battle, but….
I had a feeling that (VVD scoring) would happen. But yes, one of those things. This time last year a lot of people were crying in their beer about not owning Shaw – not that I’d like to draw too many parallels between VVd and Shaw.
At least TAA got an assist – and nearly a goal, too.
And there’s a lot of the GW still to go.
He hit a good FK, think he will score one soon!
I did the same 15 mins before the deadline, sucks but they’ll even out over the season
If alison is going to be out for a few weeks dose the back 4 of liverpool lose some value?
Adrian is a good keeper but he is not Alisson and he is new to Liverpool, if not to the EPL. It will be interesting to see how quickly he adapts to the team and how it affects the confidence level of the defenders. VVD is such a strong leader that I hope they will perform just fine.
In any case much of the fantasy attraction is also their goals and assist numbers. Yesterday was a good case in point.
Bottom line, I don’t think you have to sell them anytime soon.
I’m not selling but it does make me a little uneasy that I have £14m used up on a now weakened defence!
Happy new season, everyone! (Yeah yeah yeah I know, I only post when I’m winning and all that – see y’all next season then
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I note there are already 5m+ players – mostly genuine ones at this stage I presume. Although I was one of the lucky people to pick VVD and to captain Salah, I still find I’m outside the top 250k. Oh well…