FF247 FPL Team GW26
Welcome to FF247 FPL Team GW26
A Wildcard Waltz and a Bench Boost Beckoning
Anyway, part one of the plan worked! We wildcarded last week and scored 82 points – a very respectable 32 points above the weekly average and a climb to 616,720 overall.
The reason we wildcarded was so that we were in a position to absolutely hammer the upcoming DGW26 with as many players with two games as possible. We go with 14 of the 15 which we’re delighted with but more on that later.
The Premier League confirmed the DGW26 fixtures ONE MINUTE PAST THE GW25 deadline (yeah great, thanks etc / insert own expletive) – effectively meaning that you couldn’t technically guarantee a Wildcard/Bench Boost combo across these two weeks would work.
Yeah we took a bit of a risk but ‘fortune favours’ and all that!
The past week was a poor one from McCarthy in goal, and Ilkay Gundogan in midfield – only one of those was a real surprise, and you don’t need to be a mastermind to establish which. The wet blanket that is Tottenham Hotspur contrived again to fluff it at West Ham and the usually lethal duo of Harry Kane and Heung-min Son returned just four points between them, as yet more mis-stepping by Spurs has them tumbling towards the bottom half of the table.
On to the more positive and everyone else was awesome really. Double digits from Barnes, Bruno and the Leeds double of Bamphinha combined with a rock solid defence consisting of Digne, Dias and Cancelo meant we are extremely pleased with a rise of almost 110,000 places and a third consecutive green arrow. In fact that’s 9 green arrows in 10 now.
Easy this FPL lark.
Our GW25 Result…
Now, looking back at our wildcard selections, we view that with enough forward-planning, joined-up thinking and no particular animosity in selections (see; “boring”) we see what past ‘us’ has left for present ‘us’ to use, and now come to decide what future ‘us’ will have to say next week about what past ‘us’ was thinking.
In other, simpler terms, let’s go see what was decided.
Our GW26 Transfer(s)
In discussions about transfers it was noted that we only really had two Leeds players on single gameweeks and unanimously everyone agreed that Raphinha wouldn’t be sold and if we did, quite correctly, “we’d want him back soon enough”. Raphinha stays.
Bamford then was under the microscope. That sounds harsh but DGWs are DGWs and although we don’t hate the Leeds man; the return of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, the impressive way Everton dealt with Liverpool, the Toffees matches in the double being against Southampton and West Brom and the fact we could do it for free meant that this was a big favourite for us. Dominic Calvert Lewin is in!
That left us with only McCarthy with a single gameweek and to be honest, he and Southampton haven’t been doing it lately (putting it mildly), so we thought about a DGW goalkeeper and all we could afford was either Sam Johnstone of West Brom or Alphonse Areola of Fulham.
We picked the Frenchman due to him having many more points so far, the fixtures in the DGW for both were a bit muchy muchy.
The -4 for this will hopefully cancel out if it is only two 2-pointers but we are optimistic. Afterwards he becomes a cheap option on our bench as we most likely revert back to Martinez with no harm done. Areola nips in for a -4.
To confirm then we have SOLD PATRICK BAMFORD AND ALEX McCARTHY and BOUGHT DOMINIC CALVERT-LEWIN AND ALPHONSE AREOLA
***BENCH BOOST IS ACTIVE***
Captain – HARRY KANE
This wasn’t straightforward at all. The first three votes were for Harry, Bruno and Lucas (Digne. Yep. Guess by who!).
The fourth and fifth votes went to Harry so that’s that decided. If things go wrong, new signing Dominic Calvert-Lewin carries the vice.
Our GW26 team in full…
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Well done site team, you now overtook me in the overall rank!
This is me with a -8 (Vestergaard, Grealish and Ings to Pereira, Barnes and DCL) with Bench Boost activated.
And DCL captain! That’s the only thing I’m not sure about.
Fingers crossed.
Nice team Frenchie. I’m not sure on captain either but I was thinking DOC earlier in the week.
That’s either a new acronym or an almost unfortunate auto-correct :rofl:
Yeah auto-correct at it’s finest! :rofl:
I’d say it did you a favour there! 😯
Sometimes it saves you, other times it puts you in hot water!
-12 and Bruno TC! Let’s go!!!!! :biggun:
Bold move Tekkers! Hope it pays off for you. Who did you bring in and replace?
Hiya Matt! I did Ings, Bamford, Sterling, and Burn to Kane, DCL, Barnes, and Pereira. I feel good about those moves and we’re supposed to have fun playing this game, right? 😎
Selling Sterling is a bold move but I like the players you’ve brought in! What is this ‘fun’ you speak of? :hippo:
I’m selling Sterling for Gundo! Yes, I’m one of the wallies who doesn’t own Gundo.
Or now Sterling… :rofl:
Hey lads,
On a WC and mulling over:
Digne (and 4.2) or
Dier and Raphina
Rest of team for the GW is (no BB but might TC Kane):
Martinez
Stones, Dias, Digne
Salah, Barnes, Fernandes, Gundogan
Kane, Vardy, DCL
(Fabri, Struijk, Mendy, Dunne)
Digne has SOU and WB (and few more decent fixtures)
Dier has BUR and FUL.
Plan is to get Dallas in for Digne for GW29 (as well as Raphina and Bamford).
What do you lads reckon?
So either:
or:
Hey Sanchez, for me it’s got to be team 1. Main reason being the fact when would you ever play Raphinia over that front three bar GW29?
I prefer team 1 Sanchez.
+1. 1.
Thanks lads. Will go w/ Digne, tho I almost wanna play the Leeds lads vs Villa sans Grealish… but tuff to replace any of the attacking guys I have. After the Villa game, true, Leeds have a tougher couple of fixtures before GW 29.
:scratch_one-s_head:
I saw that Init. Here’s the transcript
Carlos Vinicius has scored nine goals now, albeit not in the Premier League, what more can he do to get into your plans?
He has one problem, and the problem is Harry Kane. It’s as simple as that. You need to be a special guy, you need to be a special heart, a special mentality, a special feeling in relation to what you mean for the team, what the team expects from you.
To be a striker in the same team as Harry Kane then you need to be a special guy, always motivated, always happy to have one minute, five minutes or start the game. He is giving us what we want. In the Premier League he is going to play because we have so many matches that Kane cannot play every match. First season in a country is never easy, especially a South American player that doesn’t speak the language, that is the first time he leaves a certain comfort zone.
Portugal is a comfort zone for a South American player, it is the weather, the people, the style of football, the language, Portugal is a perfect comfort zone or adaption zone to these players. To come to England for Carlos was not easy at all but he is giving us what we wanted.
There’s as much chance of me starting ahead of Harry Kane!
What price are you?
Honestly? I wouldn’t pay anything over 4.0 for me!
If you look at the banner above Kop is a 6 mil keeper so definitely won’t play over Kane :wink2:
:big-lol:
I need the cash you are in Kop
Talking of keepers @Matt…… #Pickford
The :jester: is coming home, I may even Capo him for the fun of it! :bop:
He’s not even in the correct position in front of the goal in his FPL pic! :rofl:
Going with capt Bruno…just don’t trust Spurs right now…hide behind the couch time.
I’m with you bees. Hope the sofa is big enough for two to hide behind.
I’m going to sit on the couch and stare in a glazed way at whatever unfolds.
Remember it is a bubble here and that the transfers, hits – hopefully lots of hits – and strategies playing out in our respective MLs are very unlikely to be similar. I’m sure I’ll see as many Salah captaincies as Kane or Bruno and I daresay one or two people on City players. Bearing that in mind I feel pretty relaxed about the
looming cataclysm about to engulf my sideGW.:big-lol:
What should I do here?
1. Ings and Coufal to Kane and Aina (-4) and TC Kane
2. Do 1, Steer and Raphinha (12-) to Areola and Jorginho and play BB
3. Play WC to field best XI for the DGW
Thank you.
1
You can do #1 and still confidently BB.
Reason I say that is mainly because there will be other good opportunities for the TC, maybe less guaranteed ones for BB.
Ings to Kane. Raph start over lowton.
Cheers guys. I’ve done Ings and Coufal to Kane and Aina. Haven’t decided to TC Kane or bring in Watkins for Bamford (-8) for extra BB coverage. Do you think the latter is worth it?