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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Where’s everyone these days? Fewer posts and comments. Still celebrating?
Still hungover
I’m contemplating that maybe I’ve contributed as little as it is possible, whilst being very busy with other things, to not classify as being plainly evil.
That’s a surprisingly fresh and nice looking apple pie you’ve got going there Kralin. send me a slice when it’s done
I was munching a piece whilst watching a Danish film earlier, OddDane, Under sandet.
Both were jolly good, I must say. I’ll send you a piece later (of cake).
I haven’t gotten ’round to seeing that myself actually. Supposedly really good, despite the rather grim topic. Should maybe put it on the list for 2022, actually.
Ah Bees, I tried to reply last night, but my phone sometimes wipes messages when I get to the very last point of puntuation (Hmm, do I use an umpteenth exclamation mark??? Then boom! ) – It disappears – I then have to do it on a computer later!
But I have been rather inactive this year, except when I go on a ramble, then reply to myself to explain to an uninterested public that I’ve made a spelling or grammatical error! But seriously, I am internally really getting involved in GW 21, as I think it will signal the ‘renaissance of AJW’ (and DCL, but we’ll have to wait till next week to see if this is true – poor fellow, but the Everton blue and white outfit does look really good on him, so I’m sure success will come sooner or later!).
Cheerio and once again, Happy New Year! I’ve got the back to work jitters which can only be exorcised by a lengthy and disjointed ramble! Hope you are okay over there, far beyond our shores! Best of everything, AJW. 😉
HAppy NEw Year AJW. Hope you had a good one mate.
Looking forward to the day I get DCL back in the bunnies team, have jumped on the bandwagon until Sunderland can get back to the premier league.
Cheers
Thanks mate – hope all’s well on the southern beaches.
Looking forward to DCL scoring a few in upcoming GWs – Everton’s run looks too good to be true – even if they’re not good atm, he should get a few chances to boot one or 2 in (even in a 4-2 loss to Brentford or Norwich, you’d like to think!).
Cheers and happy NY to you too – you guys have the ‘male model’, Goldilocks Nicho Hynes, playing for the Sharkies this year – should be good to watch! We’ve still got the ‘Turbo Boys’ on the northern beaches! Bring it on – ah heaven, both PL and NRL on at the same time! 😉
Well, I miss you guys, so come back!
AJW…you are rambling but I don’t mind it in the least.
These past two weeks have been interesting. It’s like an obstacle course within an obstacle course.
Hahaha Bees, that’s really nice of you, but you shouldn’t go around encouraging me to ramble – I’m trying to be more succinct!
All the best to you and everyone here.
Cheerio, AJW
Is Sancho a decent differential to come in for Salah? Or too risky/stupid based on current utd performance
I don’t think he’s a good move
+1 I’ve seen nothing from him to suggest otherwise
Lol at pdc darts…. how the hell do you guys still have these events in England? Serious so many people, so close.
No more corona in England? Lol.
It’s a state of mind Raz. Omicron is only mild. Only bed-wetters and naysayers catch it.
Schools go back in a couple of days. Apparently there’s nothing in the data to suggest we need further restrictions.
Things are getting so seriously detached from reality it’s hard to believe that what is currently happening is happening.
We need to crack on Raz. We are now testing for what is essentially a common cold. Do that 3 years ago and the results would be similar, if not worse.
Granted, it can be more lethal for those who are unvaccinated, but that’s natural selection in all it’s glory.
+1 Init
And Scotland is worse than England!
I am so delighted that Chelsea kept pool at bay.
Things are getting interesting indeed. Definitely keep an close eye.
We conceded two and game could have had more goals for both sides so I’m not sure what you are talking about. Not the best result for both sides either. City have opened up a big gap at the top of the table now
Yep. This only helped Pep and his expensive boy band – I really don’t see them dropping points to both Chelsea and LFC which is now what it takes to bring back the top flight excitement.
Exactly what I meant. Some teams have game in hand, others 2 and even more. We just crossed the halfway mark and there is plenty of time things to change. Nothing has been decided yet and there is a lot to fight for.
Man city will win the premier league easily but chelsea and Liverpool can now focus on the champions league.
Man city keep getting out in cl losing against underdogs.
Pep always does this even with bayern. Keeps winning domestic title easily but keeps flopping in cl despite having a super squad always
Unsure how that makes the competition more interesting…the opposite is true…
Epl is played. F1 had fights for 2nd and 3 place before this season…however Lewis would always win long before the last race…only Reason why it was so interesting this season, is because it was a fight till the past lap.
The captivating championship City ever won was decided in the extra time by Kun….
Second part of epl will be a borefest. Only fantasy makes it more interesting.
United v Wolves
Phil jones!! Wow! Where was he last, what 4 years?
I so hopes he does well.
jones makes me lose 6 to 7 pts.. his blunder costs de gea cs and bonus pts
Hardly a blunder
I thought he played well considering he’s not played for about 6 years
Reg, Jones got his head to the ball and cleared it, yes it feel to Moutinho, He should then have been closed down quicker
Maybe they should get back Ole GS and see what happens…
Yes. The only teams Rangnick’s ManU can beat are Norwich & Burnley. Even Newcastle too difficult for them. Rangnick has made ManU much worse than OGS.
ManU an utterly boring team, in fact the most boring team in EPL.
They actually did better with Ole!
Man U has never been a good team for a while irrespective of whoever be the coach. Simple reason is that they do not have a good midfield/spine to carry the ball. The only player who has been carrying them is Bruno and you cannot expect him to keep on doing that. Pogba could have done that with Bruno, but guess he stopped playing for Utd long back.
McTom and Fred are useless.