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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So do you guys all feel Kun may not start?? I feel he might be a good differential in this GW given that my ML doesnt have him at all. He has returned points in all home games this season so far so if fit he shouldn’t be sitting this one out! Is he fit though?
Next question is, if I do get Kun in for Auba, I will have to take out one of Sane, Sterling or Ederson. Who do I take out?
I want to play all three attackers today then maybe slowly change Sane into Hazard. So Ederson out for Fabianski then?
Personally I think it might be a game week too early for Aguero
got it..then I will roll FT
Hey folks, is Salah, Alonso and Rich out for Hazard, Sane and Luiz worth it for a -4? Welcome any other suggestions you might have. Thanks.
Hmm, I’m not sure, – could have been tempting if someone else than Salah. Why not just choose 1 player out of Hazard and Sané?
In other news, you’re mobile device needs charging! But that’s what the festive season’s all about isn’t it? Recharging our batteries! Have a nice gameweek and end of year break in any case!
Dammed Gremlins again! Should read ‘Your mobile device ‘! I wouldn’t like to dissuade you from following your star, but Salah sacrifices can be dangerous! Speaking from experience! Whatever your decision, it will be the right one!
Agree with not losing Salah and youd have no pool cover.
If you really want haz you could do Salah to mane then rich to haz. Keeps a pool player and no hit
Hmm not sure that might good this week but not so good next week
Morning! I still have no idea what to do. One free transfer and 0.1 in the bank, which I could probably do with using but I’m not sure how. Would save but wildcard has to be used in next two weeks anyway. Also is bench right?
The bench bit is right, though I may agonise over Richarlison for Snodgrass.
Otherwise I’d roll the transfer. Or I suppose if planning to wildcard next week then Sterling in for Salah. But Salah’s fine.
Yeah it is pretty annoying. I prefer a fodder generally because of this and will go back to it on wildcard. Yeah if I did not lose value on Salah I think I’d do that. 0.2 and think I’d want him back
I reckon you also have too much value tied in Doherty, but in any way I’d try to sell one of Doherty, Peltier, Wan-B to a defender with a better fixture… The front 8 is fine! But I realize there’s not much to do with 0.1m in the bank, can you get a West Ham defender for Wan-B?
Yeah will lose money on both and I’ll want both going forward which is a bit annoying
Yeah will lose money on both and I’ll want both going forward which is a bit annoying though I think Watford score
Yeah I think Watford will score too… I have double West Ham defense… :p
@smash – how about Mitro->Ings for a xmas punt before WC?
On the bench situation, I wouldn’t bench Richarlison. He’s that kind of player that if you have him he needs to be on the pitch imo. No idea for whom, though, but that’s your problem!! :))
Think I prefer Mitro to Ings. I’m 0.1 short of Rashford think I would have done that. Yeah I know don’t really want to bench Rich but kind of got to play the rest I think.
Mitro –> Ings is a decent shout given he can then get rid on WC!
Good to go? Any recommendations?
0.3 itb. 1 FT.
Apart from Success it looks good
GTG. Guendouzi as first sub.
Lukaku 100% out for next match?
So I’ve read. Minimum one match, maybe a couple.
Hello guys ,,, a little help here first choice of captain ,second richarlison or fraser?
I’d be going captain Salah. Wouldn’t be surprised to see Auba rested.