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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TAA & salah to hazard and Luiz for a -4?
Now thats a ballsy move! Isn’t Kola out this week too?
They said he passed a late fitness test. Not sure if that means he starts though.
I personally don’t like Chelsea defense this year and am thinking of dropping Luiz so I wouldn’t want to say this is a good move tbh mate. I like the Haz part of it just not sure on the Luiz part.
Think I would just move TAA for now. Seems a bit difficult to start on a -4 after dropping Salah and bringing in a defender with the other move. Then again, Haz and Luiz four more points than Salah and Obi-wan seems very possible, so not the worst hit I have ever seen you take.
Or Robertson instead of Luiz?
Robertson by a mile mate!
I was just going to bring in Snoddy for Fraser but I have 2 FT’s so am thinking of TAA to Luiz and Fraser to Snodgrass?
Id just do TAA if funds allow it
Am 0.4 short for Luiz unfortunately. TAA has lost all his value. The other transfer was being used to free up those funds.
I like those moves SpecialK. If you still wanted Liverpool defensive cover then you could go for Lovren.
I just saw how cheap Lovren is! How did I not see him before… he won’t/can’t be rotated right?
That was my thinking when I transferred out TAA. Gomez & Matip out for a few weeks leaves only Lovren who plays well alongside VVD.
Thinking of dropping Kane and Richy for Rashford and Sterling. It would be for a -4.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Ballsy
I think I’d want Richarlison back after this GW with Everton’s fixtures. Can see the appeal though, just not sure it’s minus 4 job
But you know what happened last time you listened to me
Definitely
I see the appeal in having Richy come next GW, but Burnley and Brighton away are slightly complicated fixtures aren’t they. I am asking, not telling. Burnley have looked a bit better recently and Brighton are usually tough against the big teams, they don’t win but they don’t get hammered. Actually thought I could ditch him for December and possibly hook back up with him in early January.
Yep, perhaps you might be right. Brighton are good at home. Still not convinced on Burnley yet!
Yeah I’d keep Rich, Mito. Who are your other mids?
Sane, Haz, Fraser and Snoddy.
Hmm how much would you have for a striker if you did Kane and Fraser out to Sterling and ??
It would work with Fraser also. I like that better, but that would mean I couldn’t go Auba to Kane if I had to. It all seems very short sighted to sell Kane for a hit and think about bringing him back in quickly.
Yeah I’d probably just leave it mate and hope Sterling does SFA
I am thinking to captain Kane over Auba. He has scored a brace in each of the last three games against Everton 😉
I read that stat.
I’ll take that as a no from you.
I don’t usually go by the stats but he’s blanked in the last four games and is overdue for something.
The only bit of that move i like is Sterling in ! Spurs next 3 after Everton are too juicy to have no Spurs surely ?
You right, Auba to Kane next GW could be one way to fix that. Or could just drop Auba instead of Kane this GW.
Drop Auba this week then saves you a transfer ? Auba and Fraser out ?
Will have to make up my mind here in the next hour.
I might do that though.
Then watch Auba get a brace and Sterling get benched !
I’m capping Sterling so sure as hell hoping that hit would pay off!!! 😉
Although I have Kane and Richy as well… Hmmm…
Go for it !!
I’m suddenly tempted to hit the button maybe I’ve had too much time on my hands today. Manchester paper reckons Aguero starts
Aguero will be rotated with Jesus so dont see the attraction ?
Who is Lovren coming in for? Is this a WC??
I think I’d prefer Sterling to Aguero seeing as he has lot better points thus far, and is a lot less prone to injury! I think there’s a lot of bias towards Aguero because of his history and because he scores occasional hat tricks, but Sterling has outscored him by 30 points this season! So don’t know whether there are enough hatties with him
Thanks I’ll leave it. Alonso would be going for Lovren though I’m fairly sure I will get rid of Alonso on wildcard. Everyone is rotated at City not just Aguero though
Yeah hard to say which one is more nailed at City Aguero or Sterling, with Jesus there, Sane might be the most nailed until Mendy is back.
Yeah no idea. I would prefer Sterling to Aguero he does cost more. Think I’m going to have a big red arrow as no City cover. Just a lot of my cheaper players have a good fixture this week
Evening everyone!
Am I good to go? Not feeling great about my team but never mind!
Think its a great team Swirly, you are in better shape than most!
Ah, that’s very kind of you to say! Fingers crossed!
How could any team go wrong with the best defender in the world on it!
Nice team Swirly.Look at it this way,who ever gets rotated this gw should start boxing day !
Hiya all,
Torn between PEA & Sane for captain.
Perhaps someone sees a transfer that I should make as well?
Cheers
I think it looks fine. I probably wouldn’t use a transfer unless you had 2 freebies and were about to lose one.