FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW3
The ‘W’ word…
Welcombe to FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW3. After a rather impressive 95pts in GW1 we were brought back down to earth in GW2 with a somewhat mediocre 52pts. We won’t complain though as it was 11pts above the average and resulted in a green arrow, lifting us to circa 83k.
Two of our defenders accounted for close to 50% of our points. Lucas Digne returned an assist, a clean sheet and two bonus points. Digne’s points were of no surprise to us. However, John Lundstram picking up a goal, a clean sheet and three bonus points led to one of the management committee hollering for doughnuts! Aside from a goal from Raheem Sterling the rest of our team did SFA.
We move onto GW3 with 2FT’s burning a hole in our pocket. Obviously we’re happy with the start we have made but we do have a number of concerns. With Liverpool yet to pick up a clean sheet do we need to double up on their defence? The form of Ayoze Perez is also a concern. While the form a certain ginger midfielder has caught our eye.
Our GW3 Result…
Let’s go see what was decided…
Our GW3 Transfer(s)
Wildcard. Must resisit the urge to Wildcard…. But everybody else is Wildcarding, KDB looks nice and shiny, Pukki is made of goals, Salah is dead, long live the Mane. Etc, etc…
To be fair we did resist, but it was hard and it was a fight. Especially given that at least half of the committee are on a Wildcard of their own. Why didn’t we? Well, we just couldn’t actually come up with that many (worthy) changes which would justify it. KDB seemed to be the main lure but ripping up a decent squad just to accommodate a player who will probably get injured again in the next few weeks just wasn’t cutting it.
Beyond that though we were a bit stumped, truth be told. We had 2 FT’s and £0.0m ITB, a few players we were unhappy with (looking at you Perez) and a few we coveted (KDB of course) but no real way of getting there without losing some other big hitters. So instead we lowered our expectations (and budget) and turned to the other apple in our eye; Martial. Priced at £7.7m and playing OOP (up top) for a Manchester United team who look like they may actually want to attack for the first time since Fergie left seems pretty alluring.
But we still needed to raise some dough to get him and as a result we turned our attentions to the other end of Old Trafford and new recruit Obi Wan Bissaka. Since him and Maguire have come in they do look a whole lot more solid and dependable and it took a wonder strike from wolves to breach them on Monday. But who to lose to accommodate them? Well, Perez, obviously. As for the defender involved we didn’t, ideally, want to lose Robertson but sitting with double Liverpool coverage at the back with them looking less than assured and with him being the premium priced one we had to wave goodbye to Robbo for a bit. We are sure we shall meet again one day…
To confirm then we have SOLD Robertson & Perez and BOUGHT Wan-Bissaka & Martial
Captain – Raheem Sterling. Vice Captain – Harry Kane
Oooof, this was a close call. Raheem edged Harry out by three votes to two. This may actually go against the grain when the final captain stats emerge on Friday night but we do feel that Sterling is almost approaching ‘perma capo’ status, such is his form. And we all know what ‘Arry did last season in some of these so-called ‘easier’ fixtures, Cardiff comes to mind. As does a phrase used earlier: SFA.
Our GW3 team in full…
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Pope or Heaton! Who should I play this week?
Pope.
Heaton
Casting vote for me then? :scratch_one-s_head:
Heaton.
Heaton at home
Heaton
Pope anyday!!!
Burnley is a defensively structured team.
Thanks to all, it is Heaton than.
Put the Heat on.
How does this sound: Wilson + Hayden to Chicharito + Trossard?
I don’t like it
Trossard looks good but still seems a punt.
Chicharito could be back on the bench, albeit usually always coming on as a sub most weeks, so I wouldn’t buy.
it’s a sideways move.
Good+bad to bad+good.
You’ve not made any improvement IMO
Any thoughts on Ndombele?
I was eyeing him off myself, but there seems to be some pessimism about his scoring abilities. Apparently he’s been doing good things at Spurs. One of my possible replacements for Barkley if he doesn’t get into gear in the next few weeks.
Not good enough for my team
swapped him in for barkley, seems to be the driving force in midfield for spurs and can see more assists on the cards for him
There are better attacking options at that price range
Could be a fantastic player for Spurs and looks good so far, just don’t expect too many goals unless he’s suddenly turned a corner.
Morning all couple of ? Ceballos or McGinn Zinch or Wan B ???????
Ceballos and I think Zinchenko is ok for now
Ceballos and Wan Bissaka.
Ceballos and WB (it’s 50/50 right now but in long run WB is 100% nailed whereas Zinch is not)
cheers guys was thinking Ceb & Zinch but you might have changed my mind to Ceb & WB
Good morning! I have a ‘B’ team and decided to pull the WC. Gone quite weak at the back, but I think I’m ok with that. Front 8 pretty strong! Thoughts?
Too top heavy for me, definitely prefer Sterling over Aguero this season (two years ago it was a different story but times they are a changin’… I still also prefer a heavier defense, TAA for instance, and so on, in the long run, I would not sell them on a WC! I also still prefer Salah to Mane as I feel Mane over Salah is very knee jerky at this stage, it’s only been 2 GWs and only 1(!) game for Mane, and historically we know Salah has always been better than Mane in FPL, and now Mane is only 1m cheaper, Salah for me all the way! I also prefer Martial to Rashford
Drop Kun to a cheaper forward and improve defense.
Cheers for the insights Zed. I do agree that Sterling is better value than Agüero these days. Agüero never seems to finish a match anymore. Salah is more consistent than Mane, but Mane is more explosive. Rashford has been challenged by Ole to score 20+ goals this season. He’s (kinda) on penalties too! We’ll see. This is more of an experimental team. My other ‘A’ team is the one I focus more on. Let’s see if top heavy works!
Yeah I get that, good luck and it’s a nice experimentation! Will be interesting to see how it goes, hope you keep on posting about this team regularly here so we can all keep up with it!
Will do. Once I’ve got the team together I’ll post it again. It’s difficult to get more than 5 ‘big hitters’ in…