FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW18
Welcome to the FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW18. There’ll be no fancy poems here. Or 12 days of nonsense, no lovey dovey Christmas puns and no general glad handing. Why? Well firstly because it’s bidness time. It’s time to get your heads out of Christmas and get back to the things that matter most – FPL.
Secondly, because your Site Team panel here aren’t all young, foot loose and fancy free like your previous writers this week. Au contraire, they’re a bunch of long in the tooth, hard bitten grumps who’ve probably stood in one more long Christmas queue than is healthy for any man, especially knowing that they are about to lavish a month’s wages on gifts that will be discarded by New Year. And all in exchange for tantrums. And 8 pairs of socks. Get within 6 feet of one of them with a sodding cracker and they’ll probably rip your arm off. It doesn’t help that we know for a fact that two members of the panel would actually sell their 90 year old Grandmother on Christmas Day in exchange for a Boxing Day hat-trick from their captain.
Right then, after that cheery start, let’s go see who else we can inadvertently upset this week!
Before we begin explaining this week’s decisions we should point out that nobody is obliged to follow our lead and our advice is only that in so much as we have to take decisions as we see them, as does everybody else. Some we get right, some we get wrong. Some spectacularly wrong (see Salah, etc!). If you agree with them then great, if you don’t then that’s absolutely fine too. Just don’t take it to heart either way…
And so we fast forward to Saturday morning and find that one particular site member (who shall remain nameless), who had clearly taken our decision last week (to sell Lacazette) very badly, was so disturbed by it they were still up at 1am threatening to Triple Captain Lacazette, just to spite the Site Team’s decision to immediately jettison him (in light of him starting Arsenal’s Europa League dead rubber against Carrrier Bag). Chill your beans Frenchie! Oops.
Last week’s result…
This past week we got a fairly healthy 60 points, 17 above the overall average and 8 above the top 10k, a green arrow and a jump of 20k in the rankings to leave us at 59,519th. Patricio and Doherty held our defence together with 13 between them putting the more premium end of Robertson and Alonso to shame who managed just 3 combined. Wan-B looked on wistfully from the bench with his clean sheet under his arm. Our ‘double City mid’ plan finally started to bear fruit as Sane and Sterling brought in 16 but Fraser and Richarlison let us down with 2 apiece. Wan-B looked on wistfully from the bench with his clean sheet under his arm… Our forward line actually brought us the biggest slice for once with Jimenez grabbing 9, Kane 10 (as captain) and Chica with 5, which was one more than Lacazette.
We go in to GW18 with one free transfer and £3.5m in the bank and all of our chips intact, including this periods Wildcard, surely the time is nigh for that bad boy….?!
This weeks transfer decision(s)
The elephant in the room was indeed mentioned, but mainly just because we are fast approaching the deadline for actually ‘using or losing’ it (2pm 29th Dec – before GW20 begins). So basically we have to use it in one of the next two GW’s. Which bearing in mind what they both cover in terms of ‘festive days’ may be a challenge in itself!
The trouble we seem to have every week is that we are always reasonably happy with our lot, and again this week we couldn’t really see a whole to get excited about changing. As such we have gone from the possible extreme of a WC to the ridiculous, and actually used a transfer on a goalkeeper of all players. Let us explain though, before you get either angry or confused (looking at you Frenchie! 😉 )…
As we stood we were facing the prospect of playing double Wolves at the back against the league leaders. And we didn’t much fancy that, funnily enough. And West Ham have a very favourable run of fixtures over the Christmas (*spit) period. Sometimes it just doesn’t have to get more complicated than the obvious.
To confirm then – we have SOLD Patricio and BOUGHT Fabianski.
Our Captain is Raheem Sterling
Fairly black and white this one. The question was posed and the answers came back – thud, thud, thud, thud and thud; all within about 20 seconds –
Sterling (C), Kane(V)
And so young Raheem carries our armband, perhaps for the first time ever. It’s got 4-0 written all over it this game and had Kun been fit and starting regularly in the run up he’d have been carrying approximately 100% of his owners armbands this week. Given that he hasn’t been then Raheem seems the obvious go to replacement in anticipation of a thoroughly typical City rout. Although he probably won’t be on any pens anytime soon judging by midweek!
Should Pep suddenly go full Pep and actually rotate him (is it still rotation if somebody hasn’t started 2 in a row?!) then ‘Arry gets it.
Our team in full…
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Bah Humbug!
How dare you sell Patricio! I’ll TC him now!
Nice move and totally get it with the WC thing. Actualy, looking at your XI I can see you using it just for the fringe players. Unless you want to bring Kun or Salah in, as that would require a reshuffle.
Anyway, good luck for this week and for the weekend queues!
I fully approve of this article’s intro.
Tempted to C sane myself…. due to hardly of my Ml rivals having him…. dare I go against site team tho…. hmmmm
Go on….
I’m too much of a coward haha
No reason why not. Both were on the pitch in that recent CL game when Sane ripped it up.
WC activated, any advices plz ?
Any money available?
Hey lads. Got two free transfers but don’t know what to do! Any word on Kolasinac?
Fab (/Steklenberg)
Laporte / Kolasinac / Obi-Wan B / Kongo / Connolly
Sterling / Sane / Felipe A / Richarlison / Frasier
Kane / Auba / Jimenez
What to do? 0itb.
Cheers!
Looks like Kola might make it back. Maybe take a one-week punt: Jimenez –> Ings (Hud-A) or Rondon (Ful-H)? Can always bring Jimenez back as not losing money.
The way I see it Sanchez you’ve bought yourself a headache everyweek with that front 8. I would be looking at downgrade one of them to a cheap enabler and beef up your defense with the resulting money. Either that or just downgrade one of your City mids to say Son/Alli and get Robbo in there. Or Auba to Firmino. I dunno it seems fine for this week but with 2FT I’d prepare my way to such kind of move. You don’t have Liverpool coverage of any sort and while fixtures aren’t great they will produce valuable points in some if not all sectors.
True, DMC. Do want Robbo back sooner rather than later! And perhaps Hazard as well (got rid of him right before he started scoring after holding on for him for weeks).The thinking w/ the front 8 was to cover for rotation over the busy Xmas period, but I get yr pt. What’s your transfer(s) this week?
Well, if that’s the case (strong bench for xmas) than I’m fine with it and that proposed move seems fine for the next two, depending whether or not you have money involved in Jimenez and whether you want him going forward.
I’m saving it mate, I think, but I’ve just wildcarded last week and while it didn’t excell it surely went accordingly-ish to plan. What do you think, any recommended moves for this week or going forward to make this a better XV? 1.5 itb
A nicely balanced team, DMC (way more than mine!). I think you are good to go this GW. What’s your thinking on Hazard? (And speaking of Chelski, was thinking of possibly bringing in a chelski defender w/ their fixtures…).
Thx mate.
We can’t obviously have them all. There are several promising mids out there atm (City, Pool, Spurs) and while Hazard is surely high on the list truth is he most likely will be taking your Salah/Sterling/Kane (Kun) spot and in all honesty I can see all of them outscoring him, so, for now, I can’t find a spot for him. Chelsea as a whole seem solid enough and people like him or Alonso are still great value. I had RAM and will get them back when the time comes but Alonso had to go on my WC. It just wouldn’t work and Robbo seems more steady for double digit hauls (despite Alonso having 4 vs Robbos’ 3 atm) but yeah coss a toin there really. Luiz/Rudiger are good too and capable of attacking returns but you will want Alonso at some point and buying those chaps may hamper such move so perhaps keep the slot available or reachable for him when the time comes. Otherwise, avoid Chelsea.
Good thinking. I got rid of Alonso as well as didn’t see him getting forward in recent GWs as w/ earlier games in the season and hence his value. Robbo defo over him in terms of attacking and defensive returns. In terms of premium mids (Haz/Sane/Sterling/Salah/etc) vs fwds (Kane/Auba/Aguero/etc), you’re right, can’t have em all and tough to get the right combo w/o getting burned once in a while, eh!? And gotta have a balanced team thats for sure. Anyway, great chatting w/ you as always and good luck this busy period mate!
You too Sanchez!
Evening all! I’ve got 1FT and 0.1 itb, do I need to do anything here?
You don’t need to do a thing. Roll the transfer.
+1 and that’s seems valid for several weeks. Unless Auba blanks again in which case you may want Kun. Otherwise looks very solid for the foreseeable.
I’d roll the transfer. Nice team.
Hi good folks,
I have 2FT and 1.2 ITB.
I am at a loss of what to do this week?
Any ideas on what i can do?
Cheers!
Maybe Son to Sane?
You could think about Ings, perhaps, for Jiminez, but that’s arguably just shuffling things around. And Jiminez is not a bad asset.
You have a nice dilemma – no real need for a transfer. But if Success isn’t playing (no idea if he is) then maybe get Kamara in for him and leave it there. 2FT next GW is always handy.
Thanks Kralin!
Yeah it is a nice dilemma. On a whim – i did TAA to VDV. Hoping that Pool will at least keep a clean sheet.