FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW9
Welcome to FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW9. It was a bitter sweet sort of week last time out. The big ‘bring Kane in vs Cardiff at home’ plan went a bit awry, but many of you won’t particularly want reminding of that having done the exact same thing and spending the best part of a week trying to forget that you did. That was the bitter part anyway, oh and we captained him too… sorry, you Kaners did too didn’t you (we’ll stop reminding you, promise). The sweeter part was that we brought in Hazard for Salah and he duly redeemed the situation a bit with a goal, an assist and the now (almost) customary 3 bonus points. The rest of the team tried their best to pull their ‘Kane weight’ to be fair to them. Patricio excelled at the back with points all over the shop and whilst Alonso and Robertson did nothing in the attacking sense they did at least bring home the bare minimum in clean sheets. Further forward Fraser got us an assist and Richarlison a goal. Our perennially ‘on the block’ striker Josh King continued to defy our knife wielding with two goals of his own and 3 bonus points, which all felt simply like a very welcome ‘V’ sign in our direction! In fact, other than Kane (sorry), only Vardy and Obi-Wan Benobi delivered the dreaded 2 pointer (technically less in Kane’s case, sorry).
We ended up on 70 points which was a healthy 20 above the overall average and 8 above the top 10k average. Despite the seemingly good margins it still only meant a relatively modest green arrow which saw us jump up 25k from 145k to 120k. As opposed to going the wrong way though we shall gladly take it.
Last Week’s Result
We go in into GW9 with 1FT and £1.5m in the bank to play with, let’s go see what shenanigans this weeks committee meeting brought us…
This week’s transfer:
Given that the plan was always a quick ‘in and out’ with Kane, and then back to Aguero again, this week’s vote felt like it should be a formality. That was until the votes came in anyway… We somehow managed to get four completely different ones, only one of which conformed with said plan. As well as one person suggesting almost four moves on their own, none of which were Kane to Kun! For the record the suggestions were:
- Kane to Kun
- Hold the transfer and do nothing
- Lucas Moura to David Silva
- Vardy to Lacazette or Vardy to Firmino or King to Mitrovic or Stephens to Lerma
And there was still one more vote to come in, seemingly now the deciding one. Fortunately the one left is a bit of a fiend for forward planning and so went away and did some analysis and came back with his conclusion complete with pages of nearly indecipherable scribbling with the ‘probably all too familiar to most FPL’ers’ set of ticks, crosses and arrows –
“Basically, we are in a bit of a striker conundrum as we probably need to recycle the whole lot of them at some point soon! Lacazette possibly needs to come in at some point but can perhaps wait until GW12, King needs to exit by GW11 ideally and Vardy’s fixtures are actually ok (despite what Matt tells us on Fixtures this week!) but he probably needs to go to fund Lacazette. Mitro is ideal for the next few but I also fancy Arnie for points and maybe over a more sustained period, but probably only after this week. Kane could stay but basically we need that small price difference to allow the rest of the moves to happen in the next few weeks plus Kun will be widely captained this week and is massively owned and so from a self preservation point of view that’s the best move for us this week, I feel. Oh, and Moura needs dealing with at some point too.”
And breathe….
Whether any of the panel actually read any of that, or indeed followed it, is open to debate but it was at least enough for one of the others to change their vote. And so Kun for Kane was the final verdict. And seemingly a plan (of sorts) for future transfers had been formulated, so not all was lost in the hours of planning and debating that lead full circle to the original suggestion / plan from last week! Who said FPL was supposed to be fun again…?!
As so to confirm we have: SOLD KANE & BOUGHT AGUERO
The Team In Full…
CAPTAIN – AGUERO, VICE CAPTAIN – HAZARD
“The vice-captain should ideally be someone who we actually own…..”
As if to prove the point that we speculated on above one of the panel managed to vote for Lacazette as this weeks vice-captain! We can but despair and perhaps feel equally sorry for those who actually rely on this piece for some sort of FPL guidance!
Those who did manage to stay awake / pay attention voted (marginally) in favour of Hazard to back up our inevitable choice of Aguero as captain.
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Afternoon everyone! How are we all? This masters is taking up so much of my time I only seem to be getting on here Friday afternoons! I actually miss you sorry sons of bitches 😉
Need some thoughts on this. Should I just leave the team as is or use my 1 ft and 1 mil itb on something?
Kane to Kun for me Matt.
I was thinking of doing that but with KDB coming back I was thinking should I look at bringing him in somehow but Kun is probably the smarter option.
+1 bro!
Don’t underestimate the damage his 50% ownership will do if he goes off on one this weekend!
Sorted so! Easy decision then haha
Matt.. Why are you not playing Maddison? I’d benc Duffy/ Doherty
Fixtures really Constant. I’m torn between playing Maddison or Doherty. Have a feeling the Brighton and Newcastle game will be a 0-0 or 1-0
Mane trained today.
I’d have expected him to train to be fair. It’s only his thumb
What does that mean? I know that is impossible to say that he will start. But does that mean he CAN play so soon after the operation?
Not sure. Light training with it is no issue but it depends what the docs have said about any potential impact on it and whether they can put durable enough protection on it.
Thanks
Should i Bring Salah for Lucas moura??
I have 5.8m in the bank.
Suggestions?
I’d hold off for another week and maybe bring in KDB for Moura.
Alrighty y’all, I’ve been pretty much checked out for the past few weeks… well, it’s been most of the season to be fair. Anyway, 2 fts. How does this look?
Bennet/Patricio/Hazard(or Sterling) in for Pickford/Alonso/Pogba
I have to say I like it with Hazard! He’s nailed whereas Sterling isn’t under Pep!
+1
Thanks Zed and Matt.
My only fear is that I lose .3 on Alonso and I don’t know if I can get him back. Also, I feel like United will park the bus against Chelsea and Hazard isn’t as likely to score this week. Actually thinking Alonso could outscore him with a CS…
I think you gotta think of it as a long-term move! Short-term anything can happen but I feel Haz will be the highest scoring mid this season under Sarri!
But can’t you also get Haz in for Mane? Mane/Pogba —> Haz and ? How much you’d have for the second midfielder in that case? That way you’d keep Alonso!
Zed, I could do that. I just think that if Mane plays he could do some real damage…
That’s true! Well, if you want Haz you need to sacrifice someone!
Hi all,
Got 1FT and £1.8m itb
The pressers didn’t shed much light on Fraser or Mane.
With Lucas, Fraser and Mane, I feel like I’m a little bit too thread-bare with just one sub.
Any suggestions? I could grab hazard or Sterling for Mane but not sure I’m too keen on that.
I think Fraser might be the way to go, but then he did get 18 points last time he was ‘injured’. Stanislas now being available is a worry though.
To bin Fraser I’d have £7.6m. So really it’s Ramsey, Maddison etc. Ramsey concerns me with his contract though. Maybe I could go super risky and get Stanislas in, but then that sort of defeats the point of why I’m making a transfer in the first place
Thanks in advance
I’d go with Maddison tbh mate. Maybe even Knockaert!
Cheers Matt! Annoying as Fraser has a decent set of fixtures, but with my bench it might not be worth the risk. Other option is to grab a defender for Peltier!
Actually you could grab a Leicester or Brighton defender who have brilliant fixtures coming up and that will save you losing Fraser.
Yeah, its definitely an option!
What’s your thinking on not bringing in Hazard? Seems a no brainer to do Mane to Hazard?
If Mane plays, I don’t think it’s a no brainer! Hazard against United doesn’t scream points to me tbh. Think I’d rather risk Mane playing..
I’m thinking more long term + Hazard seems inform so I don’t think I’d be put off by this weeks opposition
If King and Fraser are confirmed out will the site team be moving either of them?
That’s the trouble now, neither will probably be confirmed either way. Could move King to Mitro for a hit but he feels like the more likely to play. We’ll probably just leave it be and Wan-B can come in if one of them doesn’t make it.
I agree. Doubt both will miss out.
I thought I was the only one allowed to ask about the site team