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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2FT and 1.7 ITB. I’m thinking of using the one FT and transferring Chilwell out for Stones or Cancelo.
Pros – Gets me to 8 players for BGW 18. City fixtures look better. Might get to keep FH chip.
Cons – Still no clear news if Cancelo has COVID or if Stones is unlucky and is rotated. Or if City matches are postponed again. Unsure how Ederson’s absence will impact City defence.
I don’t know about taking Chilwell out.
But I don’t see what you could do to be honest.
Maybe Riedewald to a more reliable bench option? Someone who plays in GW18?
Thanks for the suggestion Gallant.
I could do Riedewald to El Ghazi or, Kilman to Lowton. Both options will play in GW18.
Please rate my team below
I have 2 FT and 0.2 in bank
Also whom to captain
Now that’s a bench! Looks great!
Any of Kane/Mo/Bruno could haul. Go with your instinct. Are you sure Taylor will play?
I would play Grealish you can’t leave that value on the bench surely?
Happy new year all.
Pressers to decide last minute transfers…have a Matip/Taylor problem.
Has the additional games added to gw 18 and 19 changed your plans much?
It certainly has made me think and now more than ever you can’t plan too far ahead :blink:
Morning,
I am still going with FH in GW18 but I won’t be using my BB chip in GW19, I might go with my TC though.
I’m even considering wildcard in 19 now as city have good double and villa double with another to come
In which order would you be playing these defenders this week?
Cancelo
Stones
Zouma
Holding
Mitchell
CHZSM
Funnily enough, that’s how it’s currently setup. I was questioning whether to start Mitchell on the off chance he plays again. And then even to start Stones ahead of Zouma and go all out on City clean sheet.
I’m going to go with Mitchell – he did get man of the match from the palace fans so you there’s a could chance of him starting – if not I will have Dallas coming in
So you reckon bench Zouma & Stones?
I don’t think there will b any clean sheets in Chelsea v city so went for the attacking players
I can’t see Chelsea getting a clean sheet but zouma is a threat with 4 goals so far this season.