FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team Gameweek 7
Welcome to the FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team Gameweek 7.
I’ve got another confession to make, I’m your fool…
Hi. My name is Adam (init). And I seem to be addicted to screwing up the Site Team!
I seem to have a monumental issue with pressing CONFIRM when it comes to the site team!
“Oooops” was how I introduced this weeks thorny issue…
Fortunately the guys know by now what that may mean. And yes they are all guys, not folk…
*Sighs
It happened again.
It happens a lot.
I have no idea why.
I seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the site team and I know not why.
To quote Kop – “You’re so meticulous with everything else”
To quote Cookie – “We’re like a Carry On film”, and who could argue!
I have no idea how this happens.
I’ve managed my own team fairly successfully for 10 seasons now and in all that time I can honestly say that I have never once not saved a transfer or captain change. That’s 386 weeks worth of saving correctly. And yet I have probably not saved the Site one at least 3 times now, maybe more. And hence me being rolled out here like some hostage with a confession. Yet this one is genuine. No offence to any hostage being rolled out right now with a false one. Not that FF247 may be their immediate concern!
Just realised that I haven’t actually stated exactly what I am confessing to!
In short then, we captained Kane this week, rather than the intended target of Aguero.
Bingo!
As such.
It gained us 4 points.
Not quite the point though, is it.
Sorry. Our intentions are always good. If not our execution. Or at least mine.
Regardless of intentions we finished on 66 points which saw our rank go from 463,597 to 428.688.
Here’s our team as it looked after last week…
Transfer for GW7 – we have sold Sergio Aguero and bought Romelu Lukaku. This was pretty much always our intention having done the reverse last week. With no immediately obvious way to own the pair just yet, aside from some big hits, we decided to chase Crystal Palace around with our Captain for a few weeks. Part 1 worked out just fine, it’s all down to Lukaku to see out the mission now.
Oh dear. Not really sure to begin with this one……..
Danny Baker once referred to Chelsea as the exploding clown’s car of football, way back when. It’s a phrase oft repeated with glee by the lads on The Tuesday Club podcast but also one they applied to their own team (Arsenal) as recently as the last episode. It’s a very apt metaphor for us this week!
After all of the above shenanigans you’d think that we’d have been super careful in everything else we did this week. Like really careful. Nope! We came to make the intended transfer only to realise that Kun’s selling price was at 11.6 and Lukaku’s price was at 11.7 – with obviously nothing in the bank. D’oh! So yes, we are indeed fast becoming the exploding clown’s car of fantasy football.
Feel free to mock, ridicule and chastise us. We deserve the stocks this week.
Sooooooooo……
Transfer for GW7 – we have held our transfer
‘What a bunch of wallies we are!’ was one reply when someone tentatively broke the news. Which turned to ‘could be accidental genius’ as we tried to make ourselves feel better. Yeah, whatever! A quick assessment of the state of play suggested that we would now be better off holding our ground, hoping Lukaku does what he sometimes does and coming back next time with 2 FT’s and a renewed concentration level!
The team in full
And so this is how we line up ahead of GW7…
Our captain is Harry Kane
With no Lukaku, Kane is the natural choice, pretty much the default option. And after all, he ain’t in bad form is he?!
If you wish to follow the teams progress more closely you can do so by clicking here.
SITE TEAM UPDATE!!!
(Posted at 11pm Friday night)
And on and on and on it goes…. Cookie sent a message this morning after the Kun news broke saying “this is like a full time job (picking this team)”. Little did he know that literally 15 hours later it would still be being discussed!
Anyway, we’ve FINALLY decided…
Lacazette is coming in for Aguero
Morata and Jesus were the other two main candidates and had they not been playing each other in such a ‘close to call’ game this week then one of those may have made the cut. Morata would have actually as he narrowly lost out to Lacazette in the end. All three have fairly equal fixtures up until the next international break after GW11. This week does count too though and he shaded it on the basis of that.
It was a bit of a circus of a day, but only fitting of the circus that preceded it!
Here’s our final team. We hope…
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Gameweek Tracker GW7-11
Clearly a common theme but with aguero probably out….
Aguero to Morata
Or
Lukaku and Aguero to Morata and Kane -4
I only have 0.5m ITB
Thanks
First option, by a country mile!!! Don’t ditch Lukaku ahead of Palace at home!
Is it my turn to post my Kun dilemma? Which is these options is best? I have 1FT and 0.0 ITB. My sale value for Kun is 11.5.
1) Kun to Jesus
2) Kun to Lacazette (then probably Laca to Jesus the following week)
3) Kun & Mkhi to Lukaku & Sterling (for -4)
4) Something I’ve not spotted?
I’m not too fussed about Jones. Happy for him to keep the bench warm for a week.
Thanks.
Banjo – on the same dilemma mate.
Was contemplating Vardy in – but not sure – The Lacazette option is what I’m leaning towards for this week.
i also thought about shaving a million off Cedric to Rosenior and then using that to Kane – but would leave me with Naughton, Otamendi, Mbemba this week at the back as my playing back 3.
Cheers Neilos. I think it’s either option 2 or 3… Anyone else??
Would you risk swapping salah to Coutinho to give the extra for lukaku?
I have the same dilemma. Im going for 1 or 2
I think for this week Lacazette is more likely to score.
More likely than Lukaku?! 😉
I got Lukaku already lol – Just got the Kun issue
What you leaning towards Banjo?
I’m really torn between option 2 and option 3. Lukaku could very quickly pay back the hit, although I’d have a tough cappo decision then, between him and Kane! Lacazette is probably the more sensible decision.
I’m thinking Laca this week and then to Jesus next game week
Hy guys …decided to swap out MIkhi after this gw for Hazard ,and to do so i need to get rid of Redmond. I will replace him with ChoupoM ….My question is should i make that transfer now or next gw? Because Stoke plays vs Saints at home this gw,i can’t decided who is more likely to produce in that game….Redmond or Choupo
With regards to the site team, is there any particular reason that Gros was chosen over Carrol? I think Carrol vs Hammers is a better fixture that Gros vs Arsenal
I would guess that’s because Gross is playing as a number 10, maybe even a number 9 now Hemed is out. Isn’t Carroll playing like a number 4 this season?! He’s certainly playing much further back. See what you mean on the fixture front, but I’d assume it’s down to the players position.
Ryan – Carrol has done bugger all except turn up and Gross has got many more FF points would seem the reason
Ryan,
Carroll has offered nothing going forward this season, whereas Gros has scored 2, assisted twice and plays further forward. I’d agree with you on fixture difficulty on paper, but then again West Brom had plenty of excellent chances against Arsenal.
Thanks for the feedback all. I read that Swans have a bad record against Hammers so will just stick with Gros for now
Ryan, you must play your own game mate, considering reading the circus that the site team has been for a couple of weeks
Guys what would u do here? I’m thinking kun to Jesus. Or kun to Jesus and obiang to gross.any other ideas? Cheers.
man u man,
Kun to Kane or Jesus I would think. Depends on budget and if you want immediate City cover.
Hey Cookie, I’m thinking kun to Kane and Alonso to otamendi/kolasinac now or some 6m defender now. What do u think?
PS for a hit.
man u man, Kun to Kane makes sense, but I’m not sure losing Alonso for a hit does. Do you need to raise the cash to get Kane?
Yeah, I need to raise the cash bud.
That’s tricky man u man because I would strongly recommend Kane but hate the hit especially for a defender and even more especially when it’s Alonso you are losing. Have you seen their fixtures?
So I had a plan for this week and thats gone out the window, really glad I held my FT until today. Hope the boy Kun is okay, speedy recovery and all of that. I was going to bring in Morata for Jesus so thats not viable now.
Kun to Kane?
If you were going to bring in Morata for Jesus, why not get Morata for Kun?
I was actually going to bring in Morata for Jesus and hold Kun. Was sort of considering Kane but I was going to wait out this week until Morata/Kun cancelled each other out as it were.
Its amazing how something in real life happens that turns FPL on its head so much, can’t remember the last time something so seismic happened.
But like Cookie said, surely now all you need to do is bring Morata in for Kun instead of Jesus.
I guess you’ll have to get rid of Aguero now. How about bringing in Morata to replace him?