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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Q8b
The striker handles the ball in the penalty area so the defending side are given a free kick. The defender passes the ball toward the goalkeeper who misreads the intention and the ball goes into his own net. Is it:
a) Goal
b) Retaken
c) Corner
d) Free kick to attackers
c) Corner Kick.
The wall is mentioned because the attacking player can’t stand next to the wall. Thats an infringement, i’ll go for retaken free-kick.
Oops, answer for last question.
Question 9
A defender wants to pass the ball back to his keeper to allow him to pick it up. So rather than kick it to him he flicks it up and heads it back. The keeper controls with his feet regardless. What action does the referee take?
Play on
Play on, but book the defender for unsporting behaviour when the ball is next out of play
An indirect free-kick and a yellow card to the defender
Play on.
I will say play on.
Answer is C.
“An indirect free kick is awarded if a player… uses a deliberate trick to pass the ball (including from a free kick) to the keeper with the head, chest, knee etc. to circumvent the Law, whether or not the goalkeeper’s hands touch the ball”
Hmmm, I knew a defender couldn’t do that, but I thought it mattered if the keeper picked it up or not.
I read this yesterday on bbc football so it is likely someone else did also.
Who is the only country to beat Germany / West Germany home and away in the same World Cup or European Championships qualifying campaign?
Jamie
Northern Ireland
Correct, I could believe my eyes when I read northern Ireland beat west Germany home and away in the 1976 euro qualifiers.
Jamie
Correction 1984 euro qualifiers.
Jamie
Question 10
An attacking team is awarded an indirect free kick. The free kick is crossed into the box, misses everyone, and ends up in the net. What is the outcome?
A drop ball where the free-kick was taken
The indirect free-kick is re-taken
An indirect free-kick to the opposition from where the free-kick was taken
A goal-kick
Indirect to the other team.
Same.
Answer
A goal kick.
If an indirect free kick is kicked directly into the opponents’ goal, a goal kick is awarded
Question 11
A defender near to the goalline quickly steps off the field of play with the intention to play an attacker offside. What should the referee do?
Play on, defender no longer considered part of play
Play on, defender considered to be on goalline
Play on, defender considered to be on goalline, yellow card to follow
Indirect free kick
Play on, defender considered to be on goalline, yellow card to follow
Correct answer Init :worthy: