FF247 Site Team News Gameweek1
Our 2024/25 Finished Overall Rank and Recent History
Okay so we did not have a great season last year but Rosco already told you guys about all that in our Preseason Site Team article from two weeks ago so I won’t go back over it. You can see our teams history and the finishing rank in the image above. You can see we have had a very up and down few seasons with last year being our worst season EVER! That kind of means that the less said, the better.
Initial set up
We showed you all two weeks ago how we could go with a Bench Boost or not and showed you two drafts with minimal changes depending on which way we decided to go. Things have slightly changed in the FPL landscape since that article with what looks like a playing 4.0 keeper in Dubravka and a multitude of 4.0 defenders but the issue is there is a flag for Dubravka. Not a great sight. We also told you all that we would be putting more of a community voice into the Site Team this season and asking for your opinions. We felt that NO BENCH BOOST was what people kind of wanted and we agreed, so our team will not be one with BB in mind.
With that in mind, we basically just started picking players we wanted – regardless of price. That obviously wasn’t going to be allowed by the FPL PSR rules so we left the absolute locked players of Salah, Palmer Watkins. We voted on a goalkeeping pairing of Sels and Dubravka for that set and forget combo that will hopefully do well. After that, the lads kind of let me (Matt) take the reins! 
I was going to go a little crazy and put in differentials galore but decided I didn’t want to screw it all up from the get-go. Therefore I played it kind of safe and went with a largely template X draft. We do have a few yellow flags on the team but Rogers was seen in training so hopefully he’ll be fine.
Big at the back with Porro, Murillo and Cucurella will hopefully be a good mix of the DEFCON and attacking potential that all of them offer. Hartman is a little differential I’ve stuck in as he seems to be playing, isn’t owned by a lot of people and won’t really be needed anyway so price drops shouldn’t be a worry. You can see the 15 currently chosen in the screenshot below.
The Community Decision
We told you all that we would give you a voice this year but to make it as clean and easy as possible it might not be every week and it will only be one choice. We will decide the majority. There is one choice I wanted to give you all and it is to choose the final two up for grabs spots.
Therefore select one of these combos and I will tell you all in an edit to this article tomorrow before the deadline.
Which is your favorite combo?
Captain – Salah
Obvious choice here. Just play it safe and see what happens!
You can follow the progress of the FF247 Site Team here
Thanks for reading FF247 Site Team News Gameweek1. This article was written by Fantasy Football 247
PREDICTED LINE-UPS
Back by popular demand! Well, sort of… Drafthound have changed their line-up approach this season and what it means for us is that we are no longer able to display a live feed of it on here due to some technical difficulties. That said, what they have done looks great and is still only a click away so if you want to access those they are HERE
VOTE ON THIS WEEK’S CAPTAIN POLL
FPL FIXTURE TRACKER
Fantasy Football 247 League Codes:
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Site Team 25/26! Hopefully we can get back on track with a good season! Have a look and see what the team is. Give us your opinions!
Nice Matt, may the site team arrows be green.
Jamie
Hopefully Jamie
Hi Gang,
Today is Christmas Eve for us fantasy football managers.
Hope your teams are all looking good.
There are currently 85 of us in the FF247 Regulars Classic League.
There are a few Regulars who post on here but have not joined the above mentioned Regulars League.
There are four full FF247 Head to Head League of 20 managers and a fifth currently open with only 6 managers in this league.
Come on folks, drop me an email at jamie251069@yahoo.co.uk and let us try to get up to 100 managers joined up.
Thanks
Jamie
Nice looking team guys! How’s mine looking? Not too sure about vicario, and porro could easily become munoz. Also Watkins, tielemans and strand larsen could easily become joao pedro, sarr and solanke. Or evanilson, wirtz and thiago
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Hi Mr M,
Quite a lot of money tied up in your defence which allows you less to spend on your attackers.
Don’t know how effective Strand will be with no Cunha.
Plus in my opinion, Strand is not a second forward but perhaps a third choice forward.
Tielemens is not the worse £6.0m player but changing him to say Dewsbury-Hall at £5.0m will give you another £1m to allocate elsewhere in your squad.
Sorry not meaning to be too critical if your team as you have most of the big hitters.
Drop me an email about the Regulars Leagues.
Jamie
Thanks Matt.
So apparently flavour of the week after the PSG match is P Porro? Hmm, might have to think about that myself (but don’t wanna copy the Site mob either!). Personally I have Cucu, B White, Diouf, Konsa (or Anderson/Van de Ven/ some other knob), Gudmunsen (Leeds).
I dunno, but good luck to you and the team! 😉
I thought the same yesterday after the match, Porro was excellent. But decided to stay with my gut and keep Van De Ven and the extra 1.0 mil.
Honestly we had Porro in the draft already and with Maddison getting injured Porro is now on set pieces so adds to his appeal. He is an easy downgrade anyway but we are going to hope for attacking and defensive returns.
Love Cucu as he’s been playing in the pivot a bit during preseason so hopefully get forward a fair bit too!
Thanx guys! Hmm more considerations to be had!
Happy season’s eve gang! Many thanks to everyone here at FF247 for all their hard work yet again
Down to my last tinkering hopefully. Which do we prefer?
a) Mateta and Kudus
b) Bowen and Sarr (CP)
A for me Colriles.
Regulars League???
Jamie
I like both but I’d go B due to Spurs possibly buying Eze and Savio so Kudus might be a risky pick
Hi, any reason I’m not seeing Murphy in many teams? Am I missing something x
As in Jacob Murphy? Poor fixtures, Newcastle have had a terrible preseason, the signing of Elanga… lots of reasons not to have him to be honest
Thanks Matt I’m looking for a good 6.5 already got Roger’s I don’t fancy Everton players
Do you have I. Sarr? I have him and another I really like is Mitoma. Or drop down to 6.0 and get Tielemans, Paqueta or Rutter. In that order of preference for me.