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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Okay
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No Foden…
No Salah.
Oops
Why no Salah? Is not he going by private jet after Gw21 as rumoured earlier?
All the African players are flagged
Who got Lanzini?
i seriously considered a triple up with lanzini instead of coufal along with bowen C and Antonio.
But wasnt sure he ll start both matches
You’re in luck Reg, I just checked the rules and it states that if you ‘seriously considered’ someone you can retrospectively claim half their points back. You just need to email them with some proof.
I’m reliably informed that if you can supply a positive PCR test you get 75%.
And now coufal loses his clean sheet too.
@Kralin Something tells me Reg didn’t arrive fitted with a SOH
The rule does exist ✌
Not many players are aware of it, though
Evening everyone
Happy New Year !!
Hope you are all well
Bloody Nora, the ghosts of Christmas past. Hope you are well HL
Alive & kickin’ 😉
It’s been a while…I know…
However, it deffo feels good to be back
How do you expect WHU to keep a CS? I thought that he will get at least 2*2=4, but now looks like he will get 1*2=2. I have to sell him soon, but not sure whom to get (waiting for DGW 22 news).
I didn’t expect this game. But till 83 mins west ham had the clean sheet so thought they’ll make it. I do expect a cs against rock bottom norwich.
I think it’s one clean sheet in 11.Three clean sheets in 21 now. 3 of their 4 defenders are injured. Norwich are awful and struggle to score so it’s one game they could keep a clean sheet. However I would not want to be playing a West Ham defender generally. As for today they probably should have conceded three in the first half and always looked like conceding throughout.
So I got to thinking about the double Chelsea blank coming up and I was curious what you think. Would you be trying to get rid of Rudiger or Mount over the coming weeks? What do you plan to do with your Chelsea assets over the next few weeks?
They got liv, mci, tot, blank, blank. I sold mount and James for coufal and bowen before this gw…
The James injury this week was (from a fantasy perspective) a blessing in disguise for me as I’d wanted to move him on but had had a few other unfixable crises over the past few weeks.
The additional headache of lack of fixtures makes it a fairly easy decision to move them on I’d say.
I only had rudiger. Got rid of him this week for coufal who hopefully gets a cs vs norwich.
Not much point holding chelsea assets till gw26. Mount maybe ok
Team specific I think. Depends if you have a good squad. Next 4 are awful or non existent but after that they have a great run and you will want them back
I think I’ll ship them and hopefully carry to FTs to bring a couple back for the good run.
No international duty for Dennis?
Seemingly, according to the Beeb.
Watford have clearly forgotten that sides with AFCON players get a bonus 5 minutes where they’re allowed to play with eleven versus five.
Well, not only watford who forgot about that. I did too, and my cat…
My cat just stares at me with lazy contempt most of the time.
That’s when she’s awake. You’ve got to respect someone who spends two thirds of her life in the realm of the unconscious. Being awake is probably quite boring. Especially having to listen to me.
They always thinks that they are better than everyone else…
Eat, Sleep, Contempt, Eat, Sleep, Contempt, Eat, Sleep, Contempt,
DCL v Brighton
Seems more like it’s DCL vs EVE
Brentford v Villa
Watkins my boy, where you at..?
Very good Sir
Elementary. ‘Tis the season of covid (wink
Oh man. Had him too. Get Dias 2 pointer now.
No Watkins means Reguilon comes off the bench
It sure does
Less el diablo…
I wasn’t sure whether Watkins to DCL for a hit is worth it. Oh well, new year – same ol’ “great” decisions
So far it seems rather sensible…