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 for the update
2fts and 0itb. Was going to change Taylor but nobody inspires me at 4.5?? Any suggestions?
Also will I lose the ft if I’m Fh next gw? If so who to swap ?
I would say Alioski for Taylor bot you have three Leeds players already, as you have said not much at that price.
What about holding?
Or Lawton
Lowton or Targett also come to mind
+1
Gone with lowton so question now is do I play him or bench?
And anything else I could use for other ft?
Going to wait until tomorrow to pull the trigger, but trying to work out a plan while I have some time now.
2FT, £2.7m in the bank.
Currently have 7 BGW18 players (8 with Taylor), and 12 DGW19 players (13 with Taylor), so hoping to hold FH now and play BB in GW19, though not averse to FH18.
For DGW19, Miazek, Brewster (and possibly Taylor) need replacing. However, Brewster is one of my GW18 players.
Don’t actually have any good ideas, as I cant upgrade Miazek or Taylor otherwise I can’t replace Brewster.
Thoughts?
What about Mahrez > Son and see what you have left, I would start there myself.
Mahrez to Son doesn’t appeal on a few counts:
a) Removing a player who plays in the blank doesn’t help in keeping the option open to not FH in 18
b) No DGW in GW19, so I see no reason why I wouldn’t choose Rashford over Son as an upgrade, or El Ghazi to free up funds
c) Leaves me with just £1.2m in the bank to upgrade Taylor, Miazek and Brewster for the DGW (in order to BB), which I can’t find a good way of doing
I agree with Arnie and would look at moving Mahrez on. He just ain’t getting the minutes and is wasting space in your team. I’d be tempted to replace him with a playing cheapie like Soucek and to upgrade Adams.
Going to go with this, 0ITB and 1FT.
What player do you want this GW but can’t get?
Kane
Michu 2013/14
Good times they were, Kralin.
Brings tears to my eyes.
Happy New Year y’all!