FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW20
Welcome to the FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW20. The trouble with a wildcard team is often not who you bought; rather who you didn’t. There’s always those regrets, swept aside on to the floor of the ‘drawing-board’ room. Not so much the ones who catch your eye when you walk around afterwards wistfully kicking up the dust, seeing names like Wilson, Alli or Aubameyang peek through the remnants, more the ones like Felipe Anderson and Hazard, who still seem to sparkle through it, almost winking at you in mock disgust of what could have been that week. But alas, we couldn’t have everyone we wanted. If we did we’d have had a midfield of epic proportions… but the last time we checked 1-8-1 wasn’t a valid formation.
All this isn’t to say we had a bad WC week, on the contrary, we managed a very respectable 75 points, which could have easily been 84 or indeed 90, with either a bit more luck or better team / substitute selections! Our highlights; TAA got us 11 points via a clean sheet, an assist and 2 bonus points, Son got us 13 with 2 goals and a bonus point and Kane got us a goal. Our captain Salah got us a goal , an assist and a bonus point, which we were particularly happy with, especially having debated late on whether or not to listen to some twitter rumours that he may be benched, but suffice to say we decided against it. The rest simply graced us with appearance points, more or less, apart from Martial who went AWOL completely. That’s the one which probably p*ssed us off more than anything, as Felipe was in his spot originally…
Worry not though, that’s why we have a bench. Now then, usually the man rushing off said bench, like some superhero with a clean sheet on his back and a customary 2 bonus points under his arm, is Wan-B. And indeed he was, as if on cue. We normally rush to greet Wan-B like some long lost friend but this week we’d have happily elbowed him in the ribs and then stamped on him in order to welcome the little weakling bringing up the rear behind him; for that was Lucas Digne, weighed down with 17 points. No wonder he was flagging.
All in all our 75 points saw us 16 points above the average with a jump in rank of 5k to 79,735th overall.
Last weeks result in full…
This weeks transfer decision(s) – SAVE
We’ll admit that we may have laboured the intro a bit there, but that’s perhaps because there’s not a fat lot to tell you in the transfer section; as we aren’t making one. We can tell you that there was a huge debate over who starts up front for Man United this week. We can tell you that said debate spanned no less than 4 hours. We can tell you said debate involved 4 grown men who were supposed to be off work spending time with their families, and that 2 of them aren’t even Man United fans. And that by the end of it none of them were any the wiser!
Our Captain is Mo Salah
Perhaps somewhat more interestingly our captain vote was fairly unanimous. As was Son for our vice captaincy. Be it Salah’s return to form, or Arsenal’s return to defensive shakiness, we can but hope some combo of the two meet up this week for our captain.
Our team in full…
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Anyway press WC… get Deulofeu/Maddison for Torreira.
Dalot for Socratis may be – both are same anyway.
Doherty for Boly.
Can’t think of anyone else (may be Jan window can bring some more players) – why don’t you change the rule for a change and play the second half with that rule.
Yes, that is what I might do. Want to see first what the January transfer window looks like and if i’s poor as expected I will change the rule.
This is my current wildcard side- based around Salah, Hazard, Kane and Son. Would you say this is good enough? No city concerns me but due to relatively low team value, I can’t afford any.
It looks alright but no City is a worry
yeah i’m trying a few different alternatives, can’t have everyone sadly! If you had to pick between F Anderson or martial for the wildcard who would you take?
Anderson – better form, and still good fixtures.
Aim not to take so many hits from now on. You’re not doing badly, but if you’d used your WC earlier instead of taking so many hits you’d be well above 1100 pts
cheers GKW. The team linked isn’t actually my team (should probably change it) I’m currently on 1,162 points
Nice score! Yes, do link it – I’m sure you won’t be giving away too many secrets
I’m in a similar position with no City, I have the 4 you mentioned and i’m hoping that will be enough in the interim. If City do start firing it’s not too difficult to swap one of the big 4 out for a City player.
Morning/Afternoon everyone. I need one more in my starting lineup and then sort out my bench. What order would you put them?
1. Diop
2. Brooks
3. Success
4. Doherty
Also am I being too risky by giving Rashford the armband?
Not sure of you’re team but I’d give the armband to someone else, people seem to think Rashford will be benched/ subbed early.
Play Brooks. He’s at least likely to start, and may nick a goal or assist – bearing in mind that even when trying to park the bus Man U only managed 2 CSs.
Matt, I own Rash and haven’t given him any consideration fit the armband.
Cheers boys that’s kind of what I was thinking. I don’t have Kane so was looking at other options. The team looks like this right now expect Doherty is Diop.
Oops
I think I’d play Brooks
Yeah I’ve changed Dot to Brooks and given the armband to Salah. Might change it to Hazard though haha
Anyone think Alonso to Digne for -4 is worth it? 0.5ITB.
Otherwise good to go?
Thanks!
Not for a hit, no. Bear in mind Alonso’s still getting forward plenty – he’s hit the woodwork 5 times this season. Disclosure: I sold him yesterday, but that was to raise cash before his price fell.
+1
Thanks chaps.
Could also swap Doherty out for him? Doesn’t free up any cash though
No I wouldn’t bother mate
Cheers. Best of luck!
just brought salah now. is below team okay and ready to go guys? thanks
Looks good Eresh
Thanks Matt. Hope I go ahead of you in the league by end of tomorrow
WC team
Would have liked some United and City coverage but funds not allowing for it unless I downgrade one of Kane Hazard and Salah
Any advice
Stick with the big 4 of Kane, Salah, Haz, Son
AK would you reckon downgrading some of the defenders to upgrade Pereya to Martial is worth it