FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW29
No Kun do…
When the week begins with the ever consistent Jimenez blanking against bottom club Huddersfield and then Doherty conceding a clean sheet in the dying minutes you could be forgiven for thinking it would be another one of those weeks. The truth is, it very nearly was. It took another attacking full back to pull us back from the brink really, as TAA weighed in with an unusual hat-trick of assists, a clean sheet and full bonus points for an unexpected haul of 18. Just as well really as the rest of them were a bit lacklustre. Digne got us a clean sheet, spoiled by an inevitable yellow, idiot that he is. Shaw and Pogba both chipped in with assists and Aubameyang got us a goal but it wasn’t quite the haul we were hoping for, especially when Liverpool score five at home and your captain is Salah…
All in all it netted us a reasonably respectable 55. Albeit just 2 pints above the average. It did however mean a small drop in overall rank of just over 1k places and we now sit at 36,274th.
Last week’s result…
Before we get going on this weeks decision we should remind you that;
THIS WEEKS DEADLINE IS; SATURDAY @ 11:30
This week’s transfer decision…
This week we had 1 FT and £3.4m in the bank, aka the Kun fund…
We’ve had a chequered history with Kun this season, most of it being black. With Pep usually only talking on a Friday and with us usually having to make a transfer decision on a Thursday we are often left scratching around in the dark in regards to whether to sell him, buy him or indeed captain him. The truth is that had we done this article on Thursday we may well have been edging very closely to buying him again. The fact that fate pushed us back a day meant that we had full sight of the pressers and in particular Pep’s revelation that Jesus has risen again. Coupled with Pep’s midweek comments about Kun being exhausted we have decided to swerve our original plan. Onto plan B. Or C…
Plan B was always to simply hold the transfer, and an eminently sensible one it would have been too. Until someone popped up with a whole more exciting and aggressive Plan C. Which was to chase the Fulham spiral, namely with Hazard. The fact that he also adds an extra body to our BGW31 team, along with a potential (very favourably fixtured) one for DGW32 helped pushed this over the line. The big downside was that we were £0.2m short of Anderson being the fall guy, and unfortunately Son has had to leave instead. We are sure we shall meet again though, some sonny day….
To confirm then; we have BOUGHT HAZARD & SOLD SON
Our Captain is Hazard, our Vice is Pogba
Hazard went full circle from not only not being in our team, or indeed not even being a faint consideration to be, to getting a full house of captaincy votes, all within about 30 minutes. Don’t ever say we don’t do things by halves!
Our team in full…
Planning Ahead…
We feel compelled to keep touching on this given the questions on the site about it. The truth though is that we still don’t have a definitive plan, and we may not do so until the remaining DGW32 fixtures are announced, which won’t be until after GW31, which is a bit of a Catch 22 situation in itself. We did ask for some serious planning suggestions from the committee though and we got 3 different plans back;
1. WC30, FH31, TC32, GW33 (use to 2fts to field 6/7), GW34 (save ft or switch to double players), BB35 (4/5 won’t have a double but 3 of those will be Liverpool).
2. Build for 31, FH32, WC34, BB35, TC ON A SINGLE.
3. Build for 31, WC32, FH33, BB35, TC ON A SINGLE.
All of which have their own positives and negatives, all of which probably leave us looking short for either BGW31 or BGW33. The fact that there were three laid out on the table as preferences probably tells you all you need to know in terms of there not being a correct answer at this stage.
Out of interest this is how our team looks in relation to the (admittedly finger in the air) Fixture Tracker;
All we can do really is keep an eye on it
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Sounds quite a strange post – am sorry but I really am all at sea Fpl-wise!
So am I. Actually I’ve had one of those handy things happen – have been forced into a transfer as I own Patricio and no back up. So back to good old Fab for me.
Still dithering over Auba. Feels like a week too early for Vardy for me, but he (V) is tempting me. Beckoning me with a crooked forefinger.
“Look, I just put Vardy in me team”……..
I honestly can’t see much between Vardy and Auba this week, so will postpone the move until next. Will give me a chance to get a sense of the new era Leicester as well.
You dirty old man, I told you to buy my namesake! ‘Harold!’ ‘Exactly!’
Who to captain this week. My best choices are Salah Sterling or Pogba?
I have the same trio and have gone for Sterling as captain, with Pogba as vice. All three are god captain choices this week. Good captain choices, even.
I’ve had a bad two weeks with the captaincy choice – Auba, then Salah – so may have picked up a curse I could do with casting aside.
Good luck.
With man city looking a bit lacklustre last match and no fernandinho who they missed over Christmas however Bournemouth have conceded a good few goals recently and have injury troubles of their own. Everton hardly have a solid home defence record and Liverpool seem to have found their mojo again but it’s the Merseyside derby and can go either way. Pogba home to Southampton on paper looks a plum captaincy fixture. Hmmm. I’ll. Decide tomorrow
Looking ahead past this week and I am not in good shape for GW31. I was going to FH but feel like it might be a waste? I have 1 FT this week and have 2.7 ITB.
I think one of the arguments against FH in 31 – which is as valid a strategy as any other – is that the selection of games, plus the almost certainty that the majority will captain Salah, means that the points’ yield may not be that great. Compare that to GW32, which is likely to be rich in double games. So for me it makes more sense to cobble together a side for 31 knowing that in 32 I can move into the fast lane.
Ah, wise words indeed Senor Kralin! Wanted to eke out some advantage in 31, but if there is relatively little to gain, then perhaps is best to hold off the FH. It’s like having a pound to spend on sweets and being told that it is more prudent to wait till the week after to get them! Ah, we are all just grown up kids!
Just look at it as delayed gratification. The release of tension will be joyous.
Any ideas what to do with this lot ? 2 Ft’s 0.4m itb.Doing the fh32 wc34 strategy.Had about 10 different ideas go through my head today.Anderson to Brooks Son to Hazard ?
Not bad moves. Personally think it’s a week early for Bournemouth, though they’re such a Jekyll and Hyde side that they may give City a fright. I did have a mad impulse to bring King in for Auba earlier, but took a cold shower instead then thrashed myself with twigs.
Ha ha cheers Kralin,i’d start Snoddy and hope he starts after getting a full rest the other night.Got to use a transfer somewhere !!
You could always – and I’m being serious – swap goalie 2 for a 3.9 keeper, just to raise a bit of dosh. Or improve the subs’ bench with 31 in mind.
Start kolasinac or Bennett?
kola for me manu
Cheers Eresh
Hello mates. Got some crazy thoughts I’d like either confirmed or squashed. I have a bit of a wild idea to take a hit and do three transfers this week (2FT, 0.4m ITB). Let me know what you think. Any other suggestions would be great. Cheers!
Don’t take Rashford out, Ole said he’d start.
Cheers mate