Fantasy World Cup Live Match Chat Day 7
And on the seventh day He rested. Well the Lord may have done, but we still have work to do and the World Cup waits for no-one. So we bat on and what a day it could be – for Spain, the reigning World Champions, will likely see their Brazilian adventure cut short today if they lose to Chile at the Maracana – how likely in all reality is that I wonder? Well, we shall see tonight at 8pm UK time. Of course, they will likely just do enough, sneak through the group and progress in the tournament, but they will have to improve on their inept display last week vs the Dutch.
Talking of the Dutchies, they kick off our day when they take on the Aussies at 5pm. They’ll be sighs, shrugs and cries of “ZOMG” if they fail to win this one and with RvP & Robben looking in such scintillating form on Friday, there won’t be many bar the odd convict betting against them.
Our day is completed at my bed time as Cameroon and Croatia meet in Manaus – you know the place, it’s where England lost to Italy and is described as being in the jungle – jeez, I’ve seen bigger looking jungles in Basic Instinct. You know the scene…. STOP THIS. NOW. (editors cut).
Well good luck, hope your players perform, careful on those formations now.
Morning all,
Well done to all those still in Pottys comp, and to all that have survived gwk 1!!!!
Thought it might be interesting to have a quick update from everyone re how its gone so far with the ZX Spectrum powered MaccyD’s site….
I’ll kick us off:
Points after gwk 1: 103
Squad selection strategy (‘All about the first XI’ or ‘Good squad depth’): Good squad depth
My teams best performer: Cuadrado 14 pts
Captains armband finished on: Cuadrado
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: Di Maria
Best performance from a cheapie / player i’d never heard of: Daley Blind
Feel free to reply with your responses in the categories listed above.
Cheers all. Good luck for gwk 2!
Morning Chins, though I guess you’re snoring your little cowboy head off by now. A very disappointing first week for me, not a great surprise, I always start these things badly….and sadly it normally just goes downhill from there. Oh well, it’s only a game:
Points after gwk 1: 93
Squad selection strategy (‘All about the first XI’ or ‘Good squad depth’): Good squad depth (allegedly)
My teams best performer: J Rodriguez (Rodders)
Captains armband finished on: Kombarov (8 previous recipients)
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: me
Best performance from a cheapie / player i’d never heard of: Sadeghi (Iran)
Hey chins, about to go to bed myself. This game isn’t too bad once they got going. Although they don’t seem to be subtracting points from defenders for more than 2 goals scored. Anyway…
Points after gwk 1: 102
Squad selection strategy (‘All about the first XI’ or ‘Good squad depth’): Good squad depth
My teams best performer: Rodriguez/Neymar, 14 points
Captains armband finished on: Rodriguez
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: in the 11 that finished, then Di Maria. Overall, probably Dzeko. Measly 3 points from him.
Best performance from a cheapie / player i’d never heard of: Blind, but Bentaleb didn’t do too badly for only costing 1 or 1.5m.
Points for Round 1: 112
Squad Selection Strategy: All players should be starters, although i ended up with two non starters, Dauda, the Ghana GK and Durm, the German defender.
Best performer: Neymar
Captain arm band started and finished on: Blind
Biggest disappointment: Pogba
Best cheapie: Bentaleb, obviously.
The B, nice score mate. Looks like i’ve got my work cut out to win our group.
Who’s the 3rd player now Elle has binned it?
No idea mate. But we both should finish that Group comfortably and move out of group stages to conquer the rest of the groups. :hippo:
I wish i had your confidence B! I need to know who the third player is and what score they’ve got. #PleasebeoneofthePottydropouts
Points for Round 1: 91
Squad Selection Strategy: All players should be starters
Best performer: Cuadrado& benzema -14pts
Captain arm band started and finished on: Started on Gustavo, finished on cuadrado
Biggest disappointment: Sterling (1pt)
Best cheapie: Bentaleb but stupidly left him on my bench and pogba in my squad ….. Ahhhhh
Just to make Cookie feel better..
Points for Round 1: 69
Squad Selection Strategy: As many starters as possible.
Best Performer: Blind
Captain Armband started and finished on: Fred :/ finished on Vertonghen (yeh my week was s**t)
Biggest disappointment: Fred, Aguero, Di Maria, Vertonghen, I could go on..
Best Cheapie: Montazeri
Love you Shadow, we should go into partnership :hippo:
Points after gwk 1: 102
Squad selection strategy (‘All about the first XI’ or ‘Good squad depth’): Decent 11 with a few decent subs
My teams best performer: Neymar14 pts
Captains armband finished on: Alexis Sanchez (26)
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: Lukaku (2)
Best performance from a cheapie / player i’d never heard of: Yepes
Not sure how cheap Yepes was but I’d certainly never heard of him!
Never heard of him?! Why, why, why he is only the captain of the Colombian team. I oughta slap a first name right off of you. 😉
Who does he play for? I was impressed with his performance though!
Centre-back for Colombia. He is also the oldest starting player in the world cup.
Technically, Lukaku isnt a disappointment.
He is already a famous troll on FPL, and i think he was a popular “Red Risky” choice on here.
Points for Round 1: 122
Squad Selection Strategy: (‘All about the first XI’ or ‘Good squad depth’): Good squad depth
My teams best performers: Neymar, Cuadrado, R Rodriguez, Aurier. All got 14 points
Captain arm band finished on: Neymar
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: Dirty boy Kokorin (6 fouls so ended up on 1 point)
Best performance from a cheapie / player i’d never heard of: Montazeri, 9 points
Thats a huge score mate.
Please tell me you’re not in Potty G ! Great score!
Points after gwk 1: 91
Squad selection strategy (‘All about the first XI’ or ‘Good squad depth’): Big 11
My teams best performer: Neymar
Captains armband finished on: Messi
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: Yaya Toure
Best performance from a cheapie / player i’d never heard of: Montazeri (bench)
Points after gwk 1: 93
Squad selection strategy (‘All about the first XI’ or ‘Good squad depth’): a mixture of both
My teams best performer: Neymar
Captains armband finished on: Neymar
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: Iniesta / Giroud / Luka
Best performance from a cheapie / player i’d never heard of: Blind
Morning all.
Points after gwk 1: 113
Squad selection strategy: Good squad depth
My team’s best performer: Neymar & Benzema (14 pts each)
Captain’s armband started and stayed on: Neymar
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: Lukaku (lucky I didn’t play him!)
Best performance from a cheapie / player I’d never heard of: same as for most: Montazeri
Good shout on leaving out Lukaku. Wish i’d done the same!
He was completely anonnomous in that game. Reckon he’ll even start next match given how the subs changed the game?
Points after gwk 1: 119
Squad selection strategy (‘All about the first XI’ or ‘Good squad depth’): Strong X1 with the depth to rotate
My teams best performer: Benzema/Neymar 14 pts
Captains armband finished on: Neymar
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: Paulinho
Best performance from a cheapie / player i’d never heard of: Montazeri
What about the Mirror one?
Is everyone playing that one? If so how you getting on?
I’m doing slightly better in that one, I think!
Morning Shadow I’m playing the Mirror and I’m on 64 in that one.
I think i wont play Mirror. Seems boring compared to McD, and also McD takes up a lot of time.
Anyway, got 93 points in first round in Mirror.
Decent scores, I got 70 odd.
Time to get rid of my Brazil two.
What is the transfer policy there mate? I have benched the brazilians and went for 4-4-2 in Mirror for second round.
No idea actually, just assumed i’d be getting rid. I suppose benching them might be a decent shout since they’ll most likely get through to the next round,
The B it’s 3 subs before their second round starts which is the first game today. I’ve ditched my 3 Brazil nuts and bought Muller, Benzema and someone else who I forget…
I brought in Robben, which was silly, because Mirror does not give points like McD. DAMN IT!
A German DEF too. Dont know who else to bring.
B, Robben is a great shout mate if the first game was anything to go by! And they play Aus next. :hippo:
Shadow….
My doubles Darling
Do you wish me to do the Doubles team boss?
Potty
Yes, go ahead.
A solid if not spectacular start, your time to shine.
Shadow
Are bits are shiny
Shadow n Potty Fc sorted
Potty
76 in that one.
Hi Shadow. 82 for me. Solid start i think. Transfers made. Excited for round 2. My team looks a bit lovely now. :hippo:
Morning all – Premier League fixtures are out:
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/9352774/
Hazard (C) in GW1 please?
Them opening fixtures must have been the ones Moyes was expecting!
Diego Costa!!
Cookie
Last season just finished, World Cup ongoing (2 fantasy comps) and now to study a fixture list for the new season.
When do we sleep?
sleep? SLEEEEEP? you’re not allowed to sleep mate, you should know the form by now GP!
Cookie
‘We go again’?
😉
The shock for me there was that Alan Irvine is now West Brom manager, I must have blinked and missed that one!
a few days ago Init, bit of a surprise appointment eh?
Cookie, Init
To an outsider, it looked like Sherwood didn’t bend to the demands of fair pay to his coaches. Fair play to him. Irvine was never first choice lets just say. Fear for WBA now.
Nice set of fixtures for Arsenal. No death runs. No back to back big games. Hard to spot where our inevitable collapse will come this year!
Wow, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea in the first 5, then Spurs and United shortly afterwards. Not a nice opening for City – all of them besides one is at home though. Liverpool and Arsenal have it quite tough as well.
Zabaleta after GW5 then.
B, you still going straight onto Zab next year mate? I can see him being in the same boat as Clichy/Kolarov now Sagna has arrived. ie. Big game time risk.
Hi guys quick question, can I change my captain to anyone that hasnt played as many times as I want? Thought being its always better to captain someone playing early, then keep changing him until someone performs or you run out of players. That make sense? Or can you just change once?
As far as i understand, it’s as many times as you like.
As many times as you like. Start with a Brazilian and end up with Lukaku at your leisure! 😉
I like this mini game of stick or twist on the captaincy. Brings out the gambler in me. :turtle:
Has anyones ML’s updated yet on the McDs game?
I looked this morning and they still hadn’t updated.
Photek, See Pottys thread mate. No update until end of the group phase so we’re all posting our name, group and first round score.
Cheers Chins.
Im not in any of ML’s on here, it was more of a general query as i’m in a ML with mates and it hasn’t been updated nor can i see my rivals teams, which i always like a nose
Photek,
If you’d like to be in one of Potty’s comps whack him an email at prctrdvd@gmail.com
Cheers Cookie i’ve just dropped him a line.
Hi everybody, just joined POTSTAR D as a last minute sub
Points after gwk 1: 97 (but Sergio Ramos still has no minus points)
Squad selection strategy: Concentrate on decent teams in easier groups (3 France, 3 Argy, 3 Belgium) then fill with cheapies (3 Iran, 3 Algeria, 3 Honduras), 1 each Germany, Spain, Brazil, Russia, Ivory Coast
My team’s best performer: Neymar & Aurier (14 pts each)
Captain’s armband started and stayed on: Neymar
Biggest disappointment in squad so far: All the Argies (Aguero, Di Maria & Maxi), Vermaelen, Kokorin
Best performance from a cheapie / player I’d never heard of: Aurier
Substitution cock ups & should haves :
), dropped 4
swapped Haliche for Vermaelen once teams were announced (was at work
swapped out Di Maria for Bentaleb, dropped 2
left Aguero in, as his 3 was better than Kokorin’s 1, dropped 2
Welcome aboard Alec K
My money is on you winning The Dodgy 32
Go Alec go
Potty