FF247 FPL Team GW17
Don’t mention the ‘C’ word
We may have finally have caught a break. We may well have caught more than that, but more on that later!
We have had some horrible luck this season. But we won’t bemoan that as many have had horrible luck this year in general. Both inside, and more pertinently outside, of FPL. Your author himself managed to buy both Siggy and Son this week, and you can’t get much worse luck than that! In FPL that is. One of our own committee tested positive for the ‘C’ word this week and so we wish him and his family well. Puts things into perspective. He seems well though and he has been warned that if he intends to die then we require 30 days notice in writing.
Everything that could have gone against us this season pretty much has so far. But for once our transfers from last week look inspired. Our new guy Dallas got us 12 points (replacing a Dann zero) and Bruno finally came in for us, albeit with just an assist, but he replaced a Covid ‘victim’ (he didn’t die either) in KdB. We’d say ‘happy days’, but they really aren’t.
Elsewhere McCarthy got us 9, Bamford 8, Chilwell 5 and it was diminishing returns after that.
We ended up on 57 points which meant a green arrow and a rank rise of over 400k back up to 1.7m. We never thought we would take that sort of rank as a positive. But we’ll take any positive we can right now. Oh, hang on… not any….
Our GW16 Result…
We have one free transfer and 0.5 in the bank so let’s go see what was decided…
Our GW17 Transfer(s)
Debating a chip strategy wasn’t quite how I envisaged spending New Years Eve, but that I did, and let me tell you it’s 5 hours I’ll never get back. And to make matters worse it was 5 hours spent going around in one massive circle.
Without boring the pants off you all too, we basically began with holding the transfer, debated using it for our BGW18/DGW19 strategy, had new 18 & 19 fixtures announced about half way through the debate, went full circle twice and ended up back where we began.
The new fixtures which have been added to both GW’s (Burnley vs Man Utd in 18 & Man City v Aston Villa in 19) were definitely worth the pause for thought but ultimately they alone were not enough to deter us from our strategy. For now, anyway. The addition of the 18 one means that we could in theory not play the FH in that one and just go in with about 9 players. The addition of the 19 one saved Grealish’s bacon. And possibly presented us with a Man City issue, as in a lack of one.
All in all we felt it was best to simply sit tight and see what happens from here on in.
To confirm then we have HELD OUR TRANSFER
Captain – Kane
Despite a couple of votes for Bruno, Kane came out on top, with the quote ‘Kane feels like fun vs Leeds’ probably summing up our decision.
Our GW17 team in full…
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Thanks to Init for writing it up and no thanks to the rest of the committee for wasting my time on New Year’s eve.
And for those on the site that don’t know, it is GP’s birthday.
Happy Birthday GP! Our very own FF247 Covid infected furniture.
What else would you be doing on NYE?!
Is Taylor to holding the sensible move here?
2ft 0.1 itb
Possibly, depends on your 18/19 strategy. Options aren’t great besides.
Was going to free hit 18
Bb 19 initt unsure tho
I might do that
Happy birthday GP – hope you have a spiffing day mate.
Anyway, back to business.
The updated fixtures have made me doubt what to do now. I was originally going to FH in GW18, and BB in GW19. I currently have 3 players for GW18, so not sure if I should still go down that route or not and bring in Man City players to compensate for both those weeks.
I currently have FTx1 and 0m ITB. (Annoyingly this is my wildcard team from the backend of last year that I had done for the dgw!!!)
Thoughts please.
I think you answered your own question with ‘I currently have 3 players for GW18’?!
So thats – FH for GW18 then….lol
The max I can get in really is another 4 without going overboard, and losing 8 points, but its a case of destroying the GW19 team. Plus i still want to get in a City player or 2 if i was able to.
Who would you get on Fh and what is your gut feel they will get you in extra points?
TheDreamers – well, with the extra games it makes it difficult with a FH as there are more teams to choose from. Only having 3 players means I have no choice.
Probably concentrate on Man Utd, Man City, Spurs, Everton
Should I make any changes this week?
Happy Birthday GP!!!
Make sure all your drinks are double tonight for both occasions :drinks:
Hey all,
Who do you think is the best choice for the doubles
Stones, pieters or Aloiski
Thanks
Alioski. Can’t trust Pep and Pieters has Liverpool.
Yeah indeed it is I who is isolating and celebrating simultaneously.
Chinese has just been ordered and I’ve opened a bottle of wine. I may not see midnight!
Doing the same gp lol
Happy birthday GP.
I don’t have Covid and I can guarantee you that I won’t see midnight!
Indian here.
Milf here.
Kwak beer here – and a film noir just finished.