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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I’ll find some for tomorrow.
Thanks :good:
I was a Roy of the Rovers reader as a boy so:-
Who did roy race play for?
What were roy race’s childrens names?
Who shot roy race?
What was roy race best friend called?
What other team did roy race play for?
What was Johnny Dexter’s nickname?
Who was the safest hands in soccer?
Who did mighty mouse team up with in the comic strip?
Jamie
Haha! i used to get Roy of the Rovers, so i’ll start with the easy one, Melchester Rovers was his main team, Then there is Johnny Dexter who was “The Hard Man” Simple times..
Correct two answers Padster.
Simpler times indeed.
Jamie
Which player won the Premier league golden boot in 2008/9 with just 19 goals? (This is the lowest total for a single winner).
I want to say Anelka
:good:
:rofl:
Torres?
Anelka is the correct answer.
van Nistelrooy?
Apologies for the poor humour, but Anelka is actually correct.
Andy Cole?
:rofl:
Evening all, sorry i’m late to the party. Heres some questions for you.
Which is the only side to have twice been relegated in their only seasons in the Premier league ?
Which side was the first to have a keeper score a Premier league goal?
Which side appointed the youngest permanent Premier league manager ?
Who was the first team to record no away wins in a Premier league season ?
Who was the first scorer of a Premier league hat-trick for Leicester ?
Who was the last player to play for QPR and win the Premier league in the same season ?
b) Paul Robinson
Side not player.
Tottenham v Watford
Nope. Its just the team the keeper played for.
Going well… :popcorn:
Loic Remy went from QPR to Chelsea, but not sure if it all ties up or even if he played enough games to get a medal :laugh2:
Correct Paddy.
A few guesses:
A) Hull or Reading?
B) Schmeichel, so Man Utd?
C) Chelsea?
D) Swindon?
E) Stan Collymore?
Stone, right player wrong team.
Villa
Yip Cooks.
a) Cardiff?
b) Coventry for the keeper goal?
Cottee for the Leicester hatty? Or Heskey. Or Ian Marshall?
Cardiff + Marshall are correct Cooks.
C) Fulham?
I’ll go Bournemouth (Eddie Howe).
I was thinking Coleman?
Went with Chelsea for Vialli/Gullit, but that wasn’t right.
Yeah either of those could be right.
I’m pretty sure C is Crystal Palace.
Yip,Fulham.
Elle, is C not Atillio Lombardo at Palace?
What’s left unanswered Elle?
Who was the first team to record no away wins in a Premier league season ?
Derby
Derby
Nope Cooks.
Was mine correct?
:big-lol:
Ipswich?
Hull?
No to Ipswich/Hull.
Huddersfield?
Norwich?
Leeds?
Leeds
or Burnley
Leeds
What about Burnley?
Or maybe Leeds.
Well in Init/Otieno, Leeds it is.
Leeds?
Been watching the price of Egan as a possible switch from Stephens. On FPL statistics something strange happens. Now he has 724 purchases for the price to rise. Tomorrow morning he will be 12000 odd and on page 2.. That has happened over the last week orso and so it goes on. Maybe I should just buy him and be done with it.
Bored, much? :rofl:
You could say that.
Just a bit.
Just read this, could be devastating for football as a whole.
While clubs discuss proposals to complete this season behind closed doors at neutral venues, they have also started considering the impact of playing the 2020-21 season without fans as well.
Clubs are expecting football to get back to normal only when there is a coronavirus vaccine. Most experts believe a vaccine will not become available until the middle of next year.
In the meantime, many clubs believe one of the first things they can do is budget for spending little or no money on transfers when the next window opens.
The Premier League have said failing to finish this season would cost its 20 clubs more than £1billion, but playing next season behind closed doors is likely to have an even more dramatic impact on club finances.
Premier League clubs make the majority of their money from broadcasting income and, apart from that, their revenues stem mainly from matchday income and commercial deals.
Both those revenue streams would be significantly reduced if games were played behind closed doors for a whole season.
Premier League clubs remain committed to finishing the current season, but it emerged this will only be possible if 8-10 neutral venues are used to play the remaining fixtures.The ‘Project Restart’ document was top of the agenda in the latest conference call on Friday, which all 20 clubs attended, while the next meeting is set to take place after the UK government’s next review of lockdown measures on May 7.
June 12 was discussed as a potential return date but any final decision will rest with the government and will depend on the next steps in the lockdown.
St George’s. June 8th. :declare: #done 😉
Now then…. you’ve got quiz questions to adjudicate on!
I know, its more about next season. Possibility of no football to go to.
Tough shit.
Until we have a vaccine we’re stuffed*, basically. Football clubs and all. I’ve been puzzling over how 20/21 will start on time, let-alone 19/20 finish.
Clubs will have to borrow epic amounts of money to survive. Unless they try to have a laff and furlough their players. If they don’t borrow** they will go bust and we’ll be able to buy a seat from our favourite stand to put in our gardens. We can then sit and weepily sing ‘You’ll never walk alone’ to the sound of Spitfires and blackbirds and the sight of dandelions.
* I appreciate not every country has handled the pestilence as expertly as the UK
** this is one highly non-expert point of view
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