FF247 Christmas Week Bundle – GW’s 20 & 21
ARTICLE LAST UPDATED – 31st DEC 8.45pm
In order to give our hard working team a bit of time off over the Christmas period, we have decided to wrap our whole festive week up in one article. Sort of. We shall still update our FF247 Site Team on the article each time, but perhaps without the usual amount of detail. The Predicted Line-Ups will still be live at all times.
LIVE MATCH CHAT DGW21
This will also effectively function as our Live Match Chat for the duration of the week.
DGW21
This one begins on Saturday 1st January, with an 11am deadline (maybe!), and now finishes about a week and a half later on Wednesday 12th.
We were down to 8 games, having lost Leicester vs Norwich and Saints vs Newcastle due to injuries Covid, although the deadline remains for now. That has now been bumped back up to 11 with the three additional games the week after.
DGW 21 in full… as we speak
FF247 SITE TEAM GW21
Sticking to the theme of being brief…
Summary of GW20
San Francisco FF247 69ers
There must be something about the number ‘69’ as it is our most scored points tally this season now. It’s only a treble, out of 20 weeks and almost 6 months, but hey if you keep asking…
It was a welcome tickle after a recent spate of red arrows and actually saw us post our 2nd best GW rank of the season; 74,929th. That’s still a lot of numbers though and probably doesn’t sound that impressive but these individual GW ranks are an oddity, as having looked at the rest they are predominantly in the millions. In fact it’s difficult to fathom how our overall rank is actually so high (relatively) when you look at them all individually, and indeed collectively.
Anyway, we digress. So how did we come upon this latest satisfying 69? According to some of our own committee it was ‘pure blind luck’. According to others it was simply because we played our WC so late that we were able to capitalise on a mixture of latest info, current form and fixtures. It was also down to us holding our nerve a bit over things like not owning Salah, sticking with Ronnie and not doing anything daft (like selling Bowen for a hit ahead of Watford, just as a random example).
Overall that left us at 139,312th, which means we effectively halved our rank.
Let’s go see what decided ahead of GW21 then with 2 FT’s in hand, a DGW looming and another 69er notched. But as we all know…
Transfer(s) for GW21
Given that it is NYE and most of our committee seem to be on the piss and unable to commit to any early morning involvement we have decided to make our moves now.
With a token gesture of a nod to the alleged upcoming DGW, combined with a guilt free 2 FT’s, we have decided to grab a couple of them and just crack on, come what may and all that.
Rudiger was on thin ice anyway and so he makes way for Diop. We would have preferred Coufal but we couldn’t afford both him plus any real decent replacement elsewhere so Diop gets the honour, with the bonus that he is pretty much nailed on, whereas their full-backs aren’t so much.
It is also all compromise up top as ideally we would have liked Antonio or even DCL but Toney fitted the budget and his fixtures are hardly the worst for someone also on pens.
It’s all a bit punty but let’s face it what is these days.
To confirm then we have SOLD Rudiger & Broja and BOUGHT Diop & Toney
GW20 Captain – Bowen
With a DGW in the offing we are playing the percentages here.
Team in full GW20
UPDATED AT 8:45pm on 31st DEC
Predicted Line-ups Gameweek 21
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Reece James off injured. What a pathetic GW this is turning in to
Good bye CHE defenders…….looks like James has twisted his knee……Alonso anyway is under rotation (might get more minutes). Chilwell is out for the season….and Lukaku took away the Sanchez CS.
Hammy apparently.
And this on top of that…
Yes, by GW26 probably all will be fit.
was feeling happy as a rudiger owner & no james. They end up on same pts.
Yes good by CHE defenders till GW 26 atleast
Is Bilva out my most pressing problem? 1ft 2.2 mib
Or something else? So many I would love to get rid of. Could do 4ph.
Thanks guys
How about an injured Reece James? Lol.
Yep…out for Dias.
How about a spurs defender? Probable incoming DGWs
How’s this for a wildcard team?
Salah will be back in once he’s back from Afcon
I like it for the most part, think I’d prefer Foden over Sterling but can understand why you gave him. I’d also prefer Son over Kane, but again can see why you have him for captaincy etc! Couldn’t pick holes in the rest, Cancelo would be better than Dias but if money is an issue then I get it, Laporte could be just as good a shout and could free up a few quid!
Money is an issue wouldn’t be able to afford Salah back in a few weeks if I were to get Cancelo, Foden don’t start enough I can easily go De Bruyne over sterling though?
I think this gw must be some sort of a record for me. Not quite the one I set out for, but still…
Happy New Year folks! See you for more rants next year
I’ve had a rough few weeks myself, people will scoff at that given my rank but a bad week (or two) is deflating no matter where you are. However, these types of weeks happen and we appreciate the good weeks more because of these rough ones!
Still amazing Rosco (your score, not you).
OK your are amazing also.
😉
Jamie
I personally really like that dog. What a cutie pie.
Oh I don’t know Rosco, that only cost you some 500ish ranks, still rooting for you to turn that ‘round
Have seen mine drop some 40k(ish) since the (re)start of the covid debacle, alas with 2xFH, BB, WC and a TC I might still make some sort of comeback – one can hope so anyway – happy new year
I got 20 points in gw7 when 10 of my 11 players got favorable home fixtures and all of them blanked. That remains my worst points ever.
The gw where salah hauled even against man city but i didn’t have him then but got him after that.
Yep. That stings, let’s hope there’s no more of those to come
Dane, it’s part of the game unpredictability. Who would have known that someone like Veltman (marked as doubtful) will do better than James? We just have to take it as it is
Oh indeed it’s all part of the fun – just goes to show how random it all is. Salah would’ve (should’ve?
) swung that around by some 20 points or so. It just wasn’t meant to be 
Though I do hope Klopp finds a bit of fresh legs in the January window, the EPL is starting to look very fleeting for LFC.
I’m hoping for a big swing tonight cos I sold Salah and have Ronnie as cappo.
Who should be sold this GW for Maddison, Bernardo or Mount? The other will be sold next GW for Bowen, as things stand at least
And yes I know he’s yellow flagged, I’ll key an eye on it but I think he’ll play as Rodgers said it’s nothing serious. If he’s ruled out I’ll just get Bowen first
Think Bernardo has to go. Too deep, back to his usual self. I sold him for a hit to jota this week. Didnt pay off now but i anyways wanted jota back atleast till salah comes back.
Raphinia is maybe an option or is he leaving?
Hi Veer,
I think under the current circumstances it is crucial to have as many non flagged players as possible.
So any transfer might not be who you want under normal circumstances but instead removing any flagged players in the first instance.
Jamie