FF247 FPL Team GW24
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A strategy?!
As some of you may recall this was the week we took the plunge on two Burnley players – Nick Pope and Matt Lowton – as they had a nice little run of games and started those at home to improving but hardly world-beating Brighton. And then 10 minutes from half time, Lewis Dunk happened. Four points from our duo of new signings was hardly a fantastic start to the week (more so when you take into account we had Jack Grealish with a 2 point apology in the lunchtime match).
Thankfully Saturday was rounded off with a Coufal clean sheet and then 26 points from Bruno © and DCL at Old Trafford in that brilliant 3-3 draw.
Sunday’s big match saw us owning Dias (1), Salah (7) and Gundogan (13) with Bamford grabbing a 6 pointer in the Monday Night Football.
The arrows are still green though! Well, the overall one is anyway as we move to 962,223 – about 5,700 places of a rise. Our overall total is now 1329 points thanks to our 67 this past week. We are getting there.
Our GW23 Result…
Now with the DGWs about to begin and with every second player seeming to be picking up an injury in the cup, we go to the judge’s scorecards to see what’s been decided.
Our GW24 Transfer(s)
How to summarise 72 hours worth of WhatsApp messages in a few short sentences? Well, we can knock about 70 of those off before someone (sane) actually pointed out that the previous 70 meant nothing without a DGW strategy!
That did at least seem to concentrate the wandering minds and it was crystalised down to this, in traditional RMT fashion:
- A. No idea
B. WC in 25, BB or TC in 26
C. Stumble on through until after 29 and then WC in 30 (we have no FH chip left)
The reality is that we don’t actually know what 26 looks like yet, or even what additions will arrive in 27 & 28. or even a complete 29 for that matter. But we have crumbs of clues and we expect 26 will look big, the next 2 may have some small additions and 29 will be as is but plus Villa v Spurs. Tha latter of all that is actually a big saving grace in terms of playing the WC next week as it means we can probably negotiate 29 with some degree of respectabilty without having a FH or ripping our team apart again with hits galore.
All of the above was discussed mainly beacause it impacts what we do this week. No WC in 25 would mean concentrating on what is beyond, a WC would give us freedom for a one week wonder.
Our team page on Thursday looked like the United Nations had invaded it, on Friday it looked like Boris had been in and cleaned it all up. Except for the DCL flag which he seemed to have left behind, torn in two, rather unhelpfully. And of course that became the main thread of the discussion. With Fulham out of the equation and Man City looking questionable, and that was regardless of his actual participation, we decided that he should probably leave us for now and so two options were presented: Ings or Cavani. Ings represented the convervative side of having a player who would then have a DGW in 25, Cavani was our one week punt and represented us throwing caution to the wind (and let’s face it, probably WC’ing in 25).
There was a feeling that once 26 was announced we would almost certainly want to WC and so Cavani was in favour, much favour in fact, full house favour.
To confirm then we have SOLD DCL and BOUGHT Cavani
Captain – Gundogan
Full agreement again here, in fact the whole committee voted: Gundogan (C), Bruno (V). Who’d have thought that back in GW1?!
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Right players on the pitch? Bench in correct order?
Feels strange with 5 at the back!
Coufal v Bamford is probably debatable. Could go either way.
I think I’d prefer Bammy over Adams, but lookin’ solid
Cheers both
Congratulations with the green streak for the site team and good luck with the week to come! :good:
You are becoming our cheerleader. Do you have a costume? I’m thinking a leotard in Danish colours with the FF247 logo on the back. If it works it could become next seasons H&L prize. You’d have to model it for the promo pics of course.
That might be fun :laugh2:
I take no responsibility for any eye damage (pupils, cornea, or otherwise) caused by such events – and there will be some, I dare say! :hippo:
Hadn’t planned on losing DCL and Wilson here, oh well… 2 FTs and 0.6 in the bank – thoughts?
I suspect it’s hits-ahoy..!
In theory that’s a great team, just without many doublers.
What is your chip strategy going forward?
Well, I have my TC, BB and WC left. Thinking was to build a decent DGW25/26 team and use the BB or TC over the coming weeks. The WC I’m thinking can be saved for later – could be 29/30.
…In other words, I probably don’t have a chip strategy – atleast not that I know of
It’s difficult to without knowing what’s ahead really.
“ Pretty sure we will end up WC’ing next week”
That’s what I said to the Site Team committee earlier, to be exact. And I think many will be the same once they see DGW26 in its entirety.
Hi guys
Team below.
Is it worth taking Son out for Foden
Or is it better to get Stones in.
Any help?
Stones is probably guaranteed more minutes, so I’d lean towards that. Foden is the higher risk/reward though.
Who to play in goal this week?
Fabianski or martinez.
Ideally its pope but need to take a -4 to get him so not worth it
The bookies reckon Fabianski has a better clean sheet chance. Could easily go either way though.
I’m gonna be WCing next week for BB 26, so I have 2 FT to burn purely on this week. Where do I spend them? I’m thinking DCL & Son out? Who would you replace them with? Hamez, Rashford, Richarlison, Barnes, Cavani?? I’m a sucker for DGWs, so I’m edging towards Hamez & Barnes at the moment.
Prob Cavani and Rashford. Though I don’t think bb looks that good in 26
Where’s your chip strategy at now then Smash? I really don’t have the time or energy to analyse all possibilities and come up with a better plan.
BB now, TC 26 and FH 29. Wildcard whenever could even be next week if it goes wrong or later
Interesting. I’m not sure my team would suit that plan – and I’m lazy, so I think I’ll stick with WC next week (and then almost certainly wish I’d taken heed of your advice).
@Banjo.
Are you about?
I have been invited to set up a team of Pompey fans for a competition against fans of other teams.
Are you interested?
Hey Horse. I’ve got a lot going on away from FPL at the moment, but if it’s zero effort I’m in :good:
@Banjo. Yes it’s zero effort. All you got to do is have a twitter account. If you send me your handle I can sort the rest out
I very rarely use Twitter, and I have no idea what a ‘handle’ is, but this is me and feel free to include me!
Great stuff Banjo.
Leave it with me
Your handle is @_banjomaker
First time in ages that I have explained anything about Twitter.
Pompey doing the two steps forward one step back thing again.
All done Banjo. I am following you on Twitter. You may wish to follow me @harryhorse2 so I can send you the cup draws and we can see who we have.
Done! I think 😉 thanks mate.
I think our first match is in GW25. I will let you know