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
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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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Hi all
Is it worth taking an 8 point hit to get Son in and sort out Ramsadale and ESR? Any other ideas or suggestions?
Not for a -8.
Just dont have enough money in the bank to get him in for ESR. If the Arsenal game was going ahead, I wouldn’t be taking an hits. The original plans was either Foden or Silva to Son. Any other ideas?
Go with Initt’s advice.
Just ESR to one of Maddison, Bowen or Gallagher? I’d rather like the idea of having a fair amount of spare cash to play with next week when we know which teams will have a DGW.
Cheers Innit? Would you change up Ramsdale as well for a full 11?
Yes, I think you may as well. It’s effectively a -2 and should pay for itself with a CS.
-8 might be a bit much, how much itb?
I assume your reply was meant for my team above? 1FT and 3.6 ITB.
Hello everyone!
1FT. 4.8ITB
Carson/Ramsdale -> DDG or Lloris?
Lloris for me, I’m beginning to trust Conte with this Spurs team. Man U still seem to have their inconsistencies.
Cheers
Lloris I think.
The devils avg 1.5 goals conceded per hame and have just 5 CS.
Or keep Aaron and just do Carson to Bachmann?
Also, on another note, have you considered Ederson?
(Pickford and Fabianski have good fixtures too)
Thanks Dane.
Not considered the rest. Confusing…
Ederson is tricky for you as you already have Carson and you don’t want to have both Ramsdale and him. Appreciate it’s not ideal. Comparing Lloris(5.4) with Ederson(6.0) I would go with the latter is just my point
Hey ho everybody! Fresh off a nice little 28 pts (that’s my total score for GW19, not an accumulative points hit!!!), I’m ready to bounce back, with a song in my heart and Mohamed S still in my squads, as something had to go in my favour – like having to keep that nice bottle of 12 year old port in your cupboard because your guests are demanding cans of the old ‘El cheapo’ 8° lager instead! (There has to be an FPL parable in there somewhere, or else I’m just classic rambling!).
Just wondering (not for a friend, but myself in fact!) if that nice young Dominic Calvert-L is likely to front up for Everton on Thursday? Wouldn’t mind a little punt on him, as I have just scanned their upcoming fixtures – it’s a sea of green!!! Also, if he’s obliged to dig in for the Newcastle game, then I’m in – I’d like to think that the Geordies will be a bit knackered after that monumental effort against Ronaldo United! Anyway, just a thought.
In the near future:
– I was thinking of blowing my 2fts on Watkins>DCL & Ramsdale>Pickford; AND trading out Coady for Lowton (I’ve just seen Burnley have 4 fixtures to recuperate – the most of any club)
– Then getting in Maddison for GW21 (and setting Bernardo free perhaps)
– Then taking it easy and FH in GW22!
Any advice, or just ‘shut the firetruck up AJW!’????
Cheerio one and all! 😉
I get that the Everton fixtures look good, but there form has been very poor of late. I’d wait and see with Everton and look elsewhere, Spurs have a decent run of fixtures and better form.
Thanks Mr Go – something to think about! 😉
Good folks of FF247 – do you have any fresh ideas for this sorry lot?
2 FTs and 0.5 in the bank (Yes. Site chrashed when doing Salah to Son… Ah well
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Dane, just get Antonio for Laca and roll the other.
Cheers Ivan. Was top o’ my list too
Morning all,
Thoughts on this WC?
I really do not rate Man Utd. Least of all their defense, having two there really hurts my eyes Kop
Then again I’m maybe a bit biased, as I hate to watch Ronnie and am not a fan of ManU in general
Also, I see you have Kane with Salah and already three Spurs. What are your Mo plans after New Years and where will the extra funds go?
I’m not sold on United either and while they were rubbish last night they’ve only conceded 1 in 3 games since Ralf took charge. Dalot will sit on the bench most week.
Mo will probably come KdB
Against Norwich, Newcastle and Palace. I’m not convinced yet
Might be tempted with Maddison instead of Moura but like the plan overall (apart from ManU of course :-D)
Kop, love the triple Spurs, wish I could do the same.
Shame you can’t squeeze Son instead of Lukas. Him and Harry have such an excellent record vs Soton.
Cheers Ivan. I’d love to get Son, but I’d need to remortgage the house!