FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GWX
Oh b*llocks, is it?!
Welcome to FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GWX. No, this isn’t an April Fools Day joke, we are actually publishing a Site Team article! Why? Well, because we meant to do one two weeks ago, and then again last week also, but we didn’t, for reasons which we shall expand on later. Perhaps also it is because we are a bit bored, and simply not used to having a break. But also it is to remind you of a few key FPL related things, which may have slipped your mind, understandably.
We shall however begin with an update of our GW29 performance, at least for some semblence of normality, if nothing else. Looking back at it, into what seems like a lifetime ago now, we evidently got a bit shafted with the DGW postponment having brought in Saka and Aubameyang (as captain) specifically for it, and having held onto KDB too. We’ll spare you the horror story of the rest but other than Salah getting a goal we didn’t have a single other player score above 3 points. And we had some good players, with decent fixtures. When your luck is out and all that… It looks like it meant quite a fall in the rankings too, in fact we managed to double our rank from about 82k to 164,492nd.
Onto the two article titles then..
GWX
No, this wasn’t a typo. It’s more because we have no idea when the season will restart, of course, but also less of an idea how. The fact that FPL Towers decided that we could keep making transfers throughout this ‘hiatus’ seemed to be because they presumed it would restart at a later GW. Which now looks less than likely. What is perhaps now more probable is that (if anything) there will be some sort of crammed in mini-tournament style period of about 6 weeks where they will attempt to finish the season. Re-starting at the GW30 cut-off seems the most likely scenario. How FPL deals with that is another matter, given their above stance. Will they simply reset us and ask us to forget all the interim transfers? Anything is possible. But for now we have been asked to crack on regardless, and so we have…
‘Oh, bollocks’, etc
This is a reference to our lack of a recent article. The reality is that we did intend to do one prior to GW31 and we did indeed have a meeting to discuss our phantomtransfers. Only for someone to point out in the midst of said meeting that the deadline had already passed as it was a Friday night one, and not as we all assumed a normal Saturday one! So that was one transfer down the drain. Not that we feel this will matter particularly, as it looks like we will have more than we can possibly use before proceedings get back under way.
And so we sat down in the middle of last week for another meeting… only to discover half way through that one that it was indeed an International Break, as such, and that there was no planned deadline for another week! Pay more attention, we must. Reinstante the Countdown Timer, we have…
Our GW32 Transfer(s)
Crack on regardles, we do. And we have formulated something of a mini-plan. So we thought we would share this with you, for a lack of anything else to actually say at this moment in time!
Bruno Fernandes seems to be our main missing jigsaw piece right now and so we have decided to prioritise him, along with a whole other raft of minor surgeries which we hope shall put our squad in better shape, should this be required as and when To accommodate Bruno this week we have decided to do away with our double Liverpool defence, an idea that was beginning to be in vogue around about GW29…
Beyond this we are looking at something like Saka to Mount and possibly Ings to DCL, but we shall see.
To confirm then we have SOLD Andy Robertson & James Maddison and BOUGHT Aaron Wan-Bissaka & Bruno Fernandes
Captain – Boris Johnson
Our GWX team in full…
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We’ve decided to remove AUBA and have bought VARDY. For reasons of financial flexibility.
We were contemplating an article but in all honesty what’s the point, we’ve told you all we can above!
Makes sense, I think. As much as anything makes sense right now!!
I would hope so because you bloody well agreed to it and there were only 2 votes :rofl:
TAA (c). This could be my chance.
I applaud your dedication :bravo:
…done on a Thursday as well. Dedication’s what you need.
Ah, Fernandes. I was going to buy him, once, after the BGW.
I read something somewhere that they may try to finish the season by playing fewer games than those scheduled. But we’ll see. I also read that German teams are now practising so we may enter a further weird zone of some leagues restarting, others not, depending on how effectively their respective countries dealt with the plague, or rather its first wave.
Is there anything in the league rules on number of games played when abandoned. For example if XX% of games have been played then
the result/standings are final if not it’s expunged?
No idea, Stone Frog. I suspect if something like that were in the rules then we’d have heard about it. But I may be and probably am wrong.
If we do get going again then I’m thinking wildcard, though maybe by some miracle all will carry on as things left off.
Any upcoming plans regardings Ings?
*regarding
Likely to leave with DCL the current favourite to replace, but that’s not set in stone.
Question 12
After winning a penalty a team’s designated kicker picks up the ball and places it on the spot and lines up to take it. But on the whistle, a team mate lurking on the edge of the box runs forward and scores. What happens?
Goal given
Retake
Retake, kicker is booked
Indirect free kick, kicker is booked
Is the expected taker still in the box and encroaching or did they walk out of the box for an extra long run up?
Retake I assume.
Definitely a YC. And I think a free kick, but not sure if that it went in the goal is important
Spot on Otieno, well done. Whether it was a goal or not is irrelevant.
Answer: Indirect free kick with kicker booked. If the penalty was missed, the same punishment would follow.
Which combo? (already have Salah & Fernandes)
1) Mane and Jota (already have DCL)
2) Son and Rashford
3) Martial and Vardy
Question 13
Which of these four scenarios, in each of which the ball hits the player’s arm, should normally be given as a handball?
When the player puts their hands in front of their face to protect themselves
When the ball bounces off a player’s head straight onto their hands
When the player falls over, sticks out a hand to break their fall, and touches the ball
When a nearby opponent kicks the ball straight onto their hand
When the player puts their hands in front of their face to protect themselves
Although when you say normally… VAR rules were seemingly changing football rules weekly!
Correct again Init. 😉
RIP Norman Hunter
PL committed to finishing the season;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52326617