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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Morning all,
Not a bad week but absolutely gutted with the amount of points sitting on my bench LOL.
I want to ship out Laporte for a cheap Dec and bring in Hazard. Sterling will have to be the fall guy.
Should I do one of those moves now or roll FT … or something else? I’m not very good at advanced planning…
0.2 ITB and 1FT.
Hope everyone had a good week and great Christmas.
CC
Having a bench like that shows what a good manager you are. It’s not your fault the main XI didn’t quite reach those heights.
If I were you I’d get Hazard in at the expense of Sterling.
Maybe leave it there for now.
With advanced planning, which I see as critical, I just tend to look at any new signings (players in good form) in terms of the games they have in the immediate future – the next 6 – 8 weeks.
Cheers Kralin!
I think that’s sound advice. I’m going to that move now.
CC
CC
If you go the Sterling to Hazard route how much would you have to replace Laporte?
Hiya,
I’d have 6.6
CC
I’ve just worked out that you can do Sterling to Hazard on its own. I would do that.
+1
Sterling to Hazard
Morning all.
Am I good to go?
No transfers
Only a hit if anything worth it.
No hit needed. Set up nicely.
Yes looks ok. I suppose you’ll be hoping / praying Liverpool keep a clean sheet and Salah doesn’t score too many. I can see the logic of doubling on Liverpool’s defence but you may need to plan for getting in one of their mids fairly soon. With a fair wind though you have the firepower to hopefully get away with not owning Salah.
Cheers guys
Fraser MUN a
Doherty TOT a
Jimenez TOT a
Wan Bisaka CHE h
I have to play one out of these this weekend? Who would you play? And what order on the bench for the others?
Play Jiminez, as Spurs are always likely to concede. Then Wan-B (Chelsea don’t score very many), Doherty (could nick a goal or assist), Fraser (Bournemouth aren’t clicking)
Was thinking fraser but what you say makes sense…
I’d go with Jimenez – has been known to score against the bigger teams
Doherty/Fraser – coin toss, both do do something or nothing
Wan B – can’t see them keeping a clean sheet
Latest version of the WC team – no City coverage is the obvious call out but I dont fancy downgrading salah hazard or kane
Would appreciate people’s thoughts
Decent team
:thumbup:
It’s good struggler. Very good.
I fancy Felipe over Richarlison currently but not sure how drastic that would change you elsewhere.
GP – unfortunately I only have 0.1m ITB with the above team so would need to make two changes to get felipe in
Good team. Rich/Anderson could do as well as each other.
If you wanted Anderson you could downgrade Guaita. Hennessey is due back soon.
Merry Christmas, how’s everyone doing?
Any advice what should I do with my team. At an all time low for OR, 1.65m at the moment. I took a 8ph midweek, kola to digne, alli to lingard, rondon to kamara.
It seems Sterling to Hazard is the flavour of the week.
Merry Christmas Surf.
Did you do a -8 already this week or was that before last round of games? I.e. do you have one free transfer right now?
Hey Gallant, I have 1FT now, 3.5 itb
In your shoes I would go Sane to Salah.
Here’s me! One free transfer. Thinking of saving. 0.1 short of TAA in for Doherty.
How much in the bank Smash?
I think I would save the transfer here.
Will you play Wan-B rather than Doherty? I’m pondering that myself.
Nothing in the bank.
I would save that Smasher.
That’s a save for me…
The only thing I’m itching to do is a hit Sane and TAA in for Doherty and KDB which I could not afford on wildcard