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FF247 FPL Team GW19

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FF247 FPL Team GW19

FF247 FPL Team GW19

Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW19

A word to the wise

KdB was duty bound to haul in a City descrution of Brighton. Kane and Son likewise against an unprepared Fulham. A clean-sheet for the former’s team was also a given. A Newcastle cleanie plus some Wilson goals against a hapless Sheffield United was a forgone conclusion. Bruno and United would make light of Burnley and it was only a matter of time until we saw his weekly penalty shuffle.

And then we all skip happily along to DGW19 with a raft of teams to choose from, we’re all in fine fettle though because we’ve been planning ahead for it for weeks now, safe in the knowledge that even tertiary teams such as Southampton, Leeds and Villa have a double game-week. Villa is a case in point as they did, then they didn’t and now they (may) have again, but with different opposition. Maybe.

Errrrmmmm… Huh… Possibly the season so far in a nutshell.

To plan for performances and be failed is one thing, we are all well used to that. To plan for fixtures and be failed is another thing altogether. It does bring into focus whether we all bother to plan at all though, right now. Or do we all just live for the next GW and come what may after that, as it seems certain that the recent examples will only be the tip of the iceberg in terms of games cancelled / re-arranged / brought back to life at the last minute? Even waiting until the deadline seems moot at the moment as we have seen games cancelled hours before their scheduled kick-off time. We don’t know the answer to any of that, we just thought we would throw it all out there as everyone is thinking it!

As for this past week we played our Free Hit and so of course we were caught out / disappointed with some of the above as hardly any of the obvious candidates delivered what was expected, or at least not to any great extent anyway.

That said, we did ok out of it. We ended up with 60 points, a season high GW rank of about 100k and an overall rank rise of just over half a million spots up to 1.2m. Still p*ss poor we know but that’s now three greenies in a row so let’s hope we can build on that momentum.

Our GW18 Result…

Let’s go see what was decided with one free transfer, 0.5m in the bank and a previously well planned team tearing its hair out, or at least what is left of it…

Our GW19 Transfer(s)

To put some perspective on the above our (originally) planned team would have had 8 DGWers and DCL (plus Kane and Bamford). Our new one has 6 minus DCL. Not a massive difference but definitely a difference.

Your writer here was predisposed with work so I let them loose on the team for once, and here’s the result…

To view the minutes of the meeting you would think we had lost half of our squad to Covid and the rest had been indicted as we had Wildcards flying about, people suggesting we play the Free Hit chip (again!) and Bench Boosts being suggested without a bench to play it with! I really do despair at times!

To cut a long story short some sense prevailed and the middle ground reached was that a hit or two for a few extra double GW players probably wouldn’t hurt this week as many will be compelled to do the same as a result of the carnage. A good day to bury bad news, as Jo Moore would have it.

The result was that Kilman, JWP and DCL faced the chop. Dias, Soucek and Antonio were ushered in.

We may have overcooked the turkey on this one as we have essentially ended up with a half-way house in terms of playing a Bench Boost or not. But that’s what happens when you leave the idiots alone to run the asylum for a few days! If nothing else we have a strong bench and there’s probably a lot to be said for one of those these days.

Captain – Salah

It was only really when it came to voting for the Captain that the elephant in the room was revealed. As we started to get votes for… KdB.

(Oh dear. News to break, etc.)

Transfer plans were almost revisited, as going into a DGW sans ‘he who shall no longer be mentioned’ was surely FPL suicide? In truth, we had a quick look and without losing someone like Kane, Bruno or Salah we probably couldn’t get him.

Anyway, back to the players who we do actually own… Salah was awarded a landslide victory. Bruno did likewise in the VC vote.

Our GW19 team in full…

Should you wish to follow the FF247 Site Team’s progress you can do so here.

Bonus FPL Captain Picks Gameweek 19… aka The confessional

With no real time to write up an actual Capo article we simply asked our usual ‘Confessional’ victims for their DGW19 Capo pick, and here is what they came back with;

DMC — Salah

Jamesimmo — KdB

Swirly — Salah

Guy — Salah

Horse — Salah

Matt — KdB

Loud Atlas — Salah

Smash — Salah, but maybe KdB!

Kop — Salah

Cookie – Cresswell

The Gallant Pioneer — KdB

Rosco — KdB (if I buy him), Salah if not!

Ellefcee — KdB
Pre lockdown 2 goals, 3 assists.

Floydeth — Salah

AT — KdB

Init — Bruno (TC)

Mito — Salah

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  1. * * * NEW ARTICLE – FF247 TEAM GAMEWEEK 19 * * *

    And he who shall not be named, isn’t named! 😯 …. more than one way to skin a cat etc.

    Also, keep your eyes peeled right to the end of the article and you’ll find the Confessional Captain Picks stuck onto there!

    Enjoy!

    • Wonder if you can help. I wanted to use my wildcard this week but when I made transfers I forgot to hit the play wildcard button before confirming. If I make more transfers and use wildcard will this stop me losing points?

      • If you hit the WC button before tomorrow’s deadline (at 11am!) all of the transfers you have made since the last gameweek will be free yes.

      • Yes, make another transfer and hit wildcard and you’ll be ok. You can then reverse the ‘false’ transfer if you want without any penalty.

  2. Posted without prejudice.

    One free transfer and 0.2mln so what do I do here then huh?

  3. About to pull the trigger on a -8. Antonio/KDB/Cancelo in for Kane/Son/Lowton

    Scary playing without son and kane but trying to play fearless and push on from my 12k rank. Am I going to regret it? Ignore son captain will be on kdb

  4. GTG?? ….god I hope so after all the hits …gotta BB right??

    • For sure

    • Yep I’d BB that!

    • I’d keep your powder dry; the XI you have should take you past the average. In addition, if you BB you will have no chips left and it may be prudent to have one up your sleeve.

      The fish may be happy now in the UK but they need a few chips for company.

      • Cheers all!
        I’ll still have my WC, TC & FH so I’m pretty covered with chips for future GWs and I’ve really got some catching up to do to pay for the hits I’ve taken. If the players I’ve brought in to bb just cover my hits I’ll be happy as those players should set me up nicely till gw25

    • Change Captain to KdB or Bruno.

      Jamie

      • Feel like a KDB rest or Bruno yellow is almost written in the stars for this gw!
        Cresswell has averaged roughly an assist and CS every 3 games ….nothing to shout about but he’s got plum fixtures and I’d say pretty guaranteed to play both.
        It’s between him and KDB but in all fairness and honesty I need a real big punt to make up lost ground :laugh2:

        • If I was going for a defender, I’d go Cancelo

    • We can get too focused on having DGW players whereas four bench players with a decent single fixture may be better than anything which is likely to come later. So, yes, that’s a BB for me. Myself, I’ve lost 4xDGW (it was 5!) due to the SOT LEE cancellation but I’m still going to BB also.

  5. This is me. Not sure I see anything worth a hit. Could do Antonio in for DCL but not sure he outscores Raphinia by 4. Still not sure on captain

    • Hey smash commented on your previous post but if you’re not gonna BB I’d still say DCL to Antonio would be worth a -4. Dunno when DCL back, he’ll just lose you money and think Antonio will score more than raphinha….his fixtures after gotta be worth some decent points too hopefully

    • I think I like Antonio getting two bites of the cherry – especially if worst happens, Leeds have a poor result and you have two of theirs.

    • Antonio > DCL should be a good move unless you tie up values in dcl, but points over values

    • I was resisting the Antonio move myself but I looked forward a bit as well and felt comfortable bringing him in. It’s more the WBA game I fancy him in than the Burnley game. I guess the best thing is to compare WHU and Leeds’ fixtures moving forward and gauging the -4 on that rather than GW19.

      Very close between KdB and Salah for me. The latter, very narrowly, has it at the moment for me.

  6. wants vardy. but how? want to bench boost as well worth it? 2.0 itb, 0 transfer

    • Don’t see Vardy being easy to get without ripping everything up.

      I would ignore him – he may not be fit enough for both games anyway. I would maybe do Johnson to Cresswell and play Bench Boost.

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