FF247 Fantasy Football Team Gameweek 5
Welcome to FF247 Fantasy Football Team Gameweek 5. We compiled 60 points this week and that put us 16 points above the average. The GW rank was 500K, but it felt better than that as we jumped from 600k to 170k in the overall. With our captain Lukaku scoring, Kane grabbing a brace and Groß with a huge 18 point haul it was a good game-week for us all in all, well except for the Davies controversy. As some of you might know there was a late question posed to us from a member on the board asking why we were benching Davies instead of Ince. Some of us feeling that maybe that should be brought up again asked for a revote. It was an awkward affair as somehow Alonso was brought up again as the reason why we even had Ince and couldn’t afford a decent midfielder. Two voted yes, one no, the other seemed to be in favour of bringing in Davies, but didn’t seem firm and the fifth member disappeared as he always does when he is asked to cast an important vote.
Here was in part the convo that went on:
Anonymous 1 “Someone suggested we play Ben Davies instead of Ince – not a bad shout?”
Anonymous 2 “Hmmm”
Anonymous 3 “Spurs play Everton?”
Anonymous 2 “Yeah”
Anonymous 3 “Everton doesn’t seem to score much”
Anonymous 2 “Nope”
Anonymous 3 “Makes sense to me”
Anonymous 1 “Grumpy?”
Grumpy “What?”
Anonymous 1 “Ben Davies”
Grumpy “Sell him. Buy another Alonso.”
We skip around to where it resumes:
Grumpy “That should be a low scoring game”
Anonymous 1 “Is that a ‘yes’ to play Davies?”
Grumpy “No”
Anonymous 3 “Davies is no Alonso” (sarcastic)
Anonymous 2 “I vote for Davies”
A bit later:
Anonymous 2 “I say go Davies”
Anonymous 1 “Me too – but I’m interested in your reasons not to Grumpy, esp after calling Everton-Spurs a low scorer?”
Grumpy gives his reasoning and well we ended up on Ince. FFS!
Oh well, as we move onto game-week 5 we have 0.9 in the bank and 2 free transfers. So let’s move on and see what we decided to try and do to improve our team.
Here’s our team as it looked after last week…
Just the 24 on the bench then…
22 of which could have replaced 3 on the pitch for a 19 point improvement and a 79 point finish with some better choices.
C’est la vie.
Transfer(s) for GW5
We have sold Paul Pogba and Tom Ince and bought Dele Alli and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
We had 2fts and 0.9mln in the bank. Pogba’s midweek hamstring injury meant he had to go while Ince has done nothing to suggest we should keep faith in him. Ideally we would have bought Christian Eriksen but we were just shy of affording him so we plumped for Dele Alli instead – we’re not that sorry, after all Alli is getting plenty of rest as he is currently banned from the Champions League and about to be banned from playing for England soon also if FIFA get their way. And they generally do. Spurs fixtures are great and last weekend’s impressive win at Everton coupled with their midweek win over Dortmund suggests they are running into form just as their fixtures turn for the better. Choupo-Moting announced himself with a brace vs a United defence that had proved unpenetrable prior to last weekend. It may be a case of ‘chasing last week’s points’ but until we wildcard and release some cash elsewhere we are somewhat hamstrung with who we can afford. However, El Choupo costs just 5.5mln, is an OOP player playing up front and has impressed in a side that is crying out for a goal scorer. So we’re happy to give him a chance and let’s be honest, he can’t do worse than Ince!
Our Captain is Harry Kane
Bit route one but that’s what the captain is there for isn’t it, occasions like this when a striker is suddenly bang in form and facing a struggling side at home. We’ve all been here with Kane a few times last season though, with the exact same scenario and been trolled by him big time. We’ve also seen him produce accordingly in such games, big time.
The team in full
And so this is how we line up ahead of GW5…
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Evening, all, hard luck with the FF247 bench! At least Gross did wonders to make up for it. I also had a 20+ bench.
I’m trying to decide on a Mane replacement… Eriksen or KDB for the coming weeks?
Kane will also be coming in and so I feel KDB would be more sensible, but Eriksen’s in better form, which makes it harder!
Erik
+1
Cheers, lads, you’ve swayed me.
I think that’s triple Spurs for the first ever time in my FPL career!
Another vote for Eriksen here, James. He’s Mr. Consistent and cheaper than KDB.
well how did that happen I have been following the team from GW1 and today when I went to make the changes I was .1m short to buy Choupo so I have had to go for a cheaper option
You’re just copying the site team each week!?
Not any more
Ha ha
Girthmoon. That’s unnecessarily rude. I agree copying another team is an utterly pointless waste of time, but hardly cause for such vitriol.
Shut up you.
GP, how dare you ya tosser!
:kissheart:
Calthis. I feel your pain. I’ve been copying the site team also, yet find myself 20 points behind them.
Outstanding.
At the start of the season I needed a cheap midfielder, Dante done any research, saw you had Gross in your 247 team, thought to myself if he is good enough for you he’d be good enough for the Bunnies.
A week ago I was cursing the 247 team and was in need of a WC to get this guy out of my team………….. a week later, I Iove you guys.
To celebrate I traded in Davis
I didn’t WC and kept Gross btw
Taking out J-Rod this week as he’s done nothing. Got 6.4 itb and was looking at Vokes from Burnley. Any thoughts? I know Wood has been tipped, but who is gonna get the more game time over the next 2 weeks?
Or any other suggestions for the team below
Thanks guys
Sali
I would feel more comfortable bringing in Wood definitely.
Could take a punt on Bony after next week.
So it’s a toss up between getting Wood or getting a Bony? That’s hard either way. 😉
Nice!
Ba-doing!
OK. So that’s the mystery solved, but a new one arises. Davies remained on the bench, and second to Carroll no less. How did THAT happen?
Nice spot Nike. I guess if they were intent on sticking with only 3 at the back no matter what, they knew that Davies would autosub in if a defender didn’t play and Carroll would come in otherwise.
Yeah, but say a midfielder or striker didn’t play, then wouldn’t you want Davies to come instead of Carroll? I mean losing out to BOTH Ince and Carroll is difficult to digest.
Wc team, what about this?
Thinking of going 4-3-3
Very nice.
Why Cork and not Vokes?
Different positions sali.
Like it wafflez.
You can also go Maguire to Simpson and use the extra 0.6M to upgrade the 4th mid, 5th defender or goalie, Wafflez. Not a but difference in points return between the two I guess.
Wafflez this is almost my exact WC team hahah
I’m debating Maguire to Simpson and using the cash elsewhere. What are your thoughts on that for our teams? I see Xaoc already recommended it too.