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 THINK it’s just these three to go now. :wacko:
2. Which is the oldest current professional football team in Italy?
10. At 377 in total, which club has lost the most Premier League matches in history?
11. What was unusual about Giuseppe Bergomi of Inter playing for Italy in the World Cups of 1982,1986,1990 & 1998?
2 Bari ?
10 try the ‘Ammers ?
Good call that!
11 GP, Has it got something to do with Italy winning in 82, so were defending champs in 86 and then hosted in 90 ?
10 Sunderland
Wouldn’t have thought Sunderland had been in the Prem long enough to lose so many games.
Running out of teams to guess Elle.
Still think Everton is the correct answer.
Jamie
Oh FFS! It’s West Ham.
:big-lol:
RE, reply 19.2.
Oops, thought west ham was a guess.
Sorry init.
Jamie
11 Never played in a world cup qualifier.
Jamie
Correct Jamie.
Well played mate.
11. He was the youngest and oldest ever to play for Italy?
You reminded me GP
I know I must be breaking some fifth-wall-fantasy-football-site-blog rule thingy revealing my origin country but in these times.. Fizzles a bit towards the end but some combinations are quite delicious and the delivery legendary, one had to be there I suppose.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CV2Z_y2mvcc
For some reason I find this absurdly funny (context of Llandudno goats, and the detail of it being on the correct side of the road).
I found the Tyrannosaurus Rex defying the curfew in Spain rather hilarious as well
Just had a look, yes not bad at all.
Sooooooo
To bring to a close the longest kwiz in history….
2. Which is the oldest current professional football team in Italy?
Parma
Juve
Milan. Either.
Genoa
Well played GM :wink2:
With an honorable mention to Init who apparently named every other Italian club except Genoa.
Hand on heart, and I remember exactly where I was when it happened, when I first read all 16 questions and had a quick mental stab at each, Genoa was my gut instinct answer at that point! But I then somehow convinced myself that they were a newer generation team. And to compound it I think somehow completely forgot about them in the process of naming all the others :dash: :rofl:
Lost some respect for Liverpool for putting non playing staff on Furloughed pay.
they can pay 70-80m on a goalie / def but can’t afford to pay their staff.
This furlough pay is coming out of tax payers pockets and should be for companies struggling financially.
Been a Liverpool fan all my life, this stinks and hope they change their minds otherwise the league can be written off as far as I’m concerned :rant:
I don’t know the ins and outs of it but on the face of it it’s piss poor PR if nothing else. Through Klopp and the team they’ve built up so much goodwill over the last few years and this flies in the face of all that and sours their reputation, almost irreparably. I’d like to hear them give a reasoning for this. I’d imagine there are some key people within the club who are furious about this, probably Klopp and Henderson for starters.
It’s a fcking disgrace.
Kop
How do you think the PL league tittle should be decided?
I never thought I’d say this Bigpopz, but I really don’t care.
That’s enough for me then Kop, I’ll go with that! Seemed so, but didn’t want to comment without knowing if there was a mitigating reason. I’ll assume not if you’re calling it.
I’m at a loss to see what the big deal is. It seems a pretty sensible move to me. Football sides – Liverpool included – are presumably losing absolutely tons of money at the moment. Seriously vast quantities. The sort of money we know exists but which doesn’t usually enter the conversation. Wasn’t there something yesterday – in the Guardian I think – saying that Burnley were going to be 50 million quid out of pocket? Something like that. If that’s not a company struggling financially, I don’t know what is.
Presumably the tax Liverpool have had to pay – not a small amount, I would wager – over the past few years should cover pretty comfortably whatever the furlough costs will be. Would cover, in fact, the furlough costs of every club in the land.
and should be for companies struggling financially. – but is that what has been stipulated? And how would you define that?
I’d understand the chagrin more if Liverpool were a tax-dodging behemoth, exploiting a loophole in legislation in order to pay their staff. But they’re not.
I’m not a huge fan of the current government but I completely support what they’re doing to help companies / businesses survive. Liverpool is a business as well as football club. They pay their taxes. What exactly is the problem with what they’re doing?
Maybe I’ve missed something.
One thing I don’t like at all though is low taxation on high wages. But the UK recently had a chance to elect a government that would have raised taxes for high earners. They emphatically rejected that and re-elected a party that will do everything in its power to keep taxes low (in a normal world). There’s a lot more to this.
There’s a lot more to this. haha indeed.
To be fair they are not the first club to do so, just following suit. Staff will get up to 80% and LFC are making salaries up to 100%. Still not right though.
I wonder what the right way is. The Tories won’t increase top rate tax then start getting hot under the collar about unwashed football oiks not doing the decent thing.
I found myself, weirdly, agreeing with a lot of what Wayne Rooney is saying about the utter crap being pedalled about football and the current crisis.
I’d check out the losses football clubs are set to make before criticising them for taking part in a perfectly legitimate (and fair) system to pay their staff. The world we left behind three weeks ago is not the world we are in now.
Well done GP, that was great fun, thank you!
When’s the next one?
I’ll get on it pal. Definitely.
Nice one GP
:good:
GP……………………………… we’re waiting! :blink:
At least he stayed at home…. :rofl:
https://www.espn.co.uk/football/manchester-city/story/4082614/manchester-city-conduct-investigation-over-kyle-walkers-party-with-sex-workers-during-coronavirus-lockdown?linkId=85869771
In all seriousness, sex workers’ lives, difficult enough, must be truly terrible at the moment.
I’m not saying Kyle has done his bit but yeah, at least it wasn’t in a plague-infested lock-up somewhere.
One gets a sense it’s open season, so to speak, on footballers at the moment.