Grab, Avoid or Bore Off! – Fantasy Premier League 2018-19
Usually when we ask our writing team to come forth for an International Break GABO we see tumbleweeds in abundance, and little sign of actual writers. This time however, for whatever reason, they were literally scrambling over each other to get involved. So much so that we have no less than two episodes of GABO to bring you in the break this time. We’ve decided to split them based upon perceived personality traits; Glass Half Full & Glass Half Empty. We say perceived personality traits… it was actually based solely on their original answers on WhatsApp to our request for entrants. Funnily enough, it was unerringly accurate.
First up then we have AT, Swirly and Rosco. AT and Swirly’s answers were very similar; when would you like it done by? As you’d expect. Rosco’s answer was a ‘brown thumb’…. which we took to mean a positive sign, others took it… well, we shall leave that to your own imagination.
Welcome to all, from the glass is half full club….
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Or alternatively, we have the (big) DGW’s in pretty picture format in isolation, courtesy of Rosco;
FH draft 4.0
looks good mate, perhaps spread the love abit instead of mila, could look at jota or delafeou
Photek, thanks mate – I don’t want any Wolves or Watford due to rotation risk.
I had triple palace in a draft. It’s one of those it could go very well, or at end of the game week you wonder what on earth you were thinking.
I’m tempted by Vardy instead of Higuain. Maybe Batshuayi to Rashford and Azp to Luiz for funds.
Higuain is a fixture punt given his history of only scoring against weaker teams.
With most FHers having a template of Kun, Sterling, Pogba and Hazard I feel nailing Chelsea could be the make or break for FHers this week.
Love it. Can’t thibk of any obvious changes
I like it, not too dissimilar to my latest draft!
Rosco,
Interesting with Mane & Erik – could pay off nicely.
Plenty time left so it’ll probably change a thousand times! Could switch Mane to Higuain so will just have to think that one over. He’s there at the minute as a bit of protection against my ML opponents who don’t have FH or WC left and will still have him. Not sure on Erik, but feel I need to spend the extra cash I have to try and gain an advantage in my ML!
Essentially if you had an additional £3.1m to your team above where would you spend it? Feel like it’s the only advantage I have, 2 of my opponents have exactly the same chips as me and one is 45 points ahead!
An extra 3.1mln to spend on my team or yours?
Yours!
What I mean is, if I replicated your team I’d have £3.1m left, but can’t decide where to spend it! Hence the current Mane and Erik picks!
Rosco,
I’d either keep Mane or get Kane.
How come you guys have so good TV is beyond me
Guess that shows how bad my season has been, had the wrong…
… players
I see you’ve found Quaner!
Oh yeah!! May not keep him but he’s there in case!
Love a bit of Quaner
Even you Cookie have more TV than me, I can get that same team with Townsend instead of Mili… Obviously Mili is miles better with pens and sure starter. This is by far the best draft so far with a lowish team value! :thumbup:
Higuain could be a very nice differential….
Morning all, this is already doing my head in lol.
This is where I’m at – if we find out that Lukaku is fit then Bats will make way for Rash and I’ll have to downgrade elsewhere – Kepa maybe.
Deulofeu is a punt but a good one I think
I like it! I’m not sure Id change anything!
Cant find anything wrong since its almost exactly as my team at the moment :p
Thoughts on this?
Looks great to me mate!
Hi all,
On free hit, here’s another draft.
Patricio
Laporte Lindelof Wan B
Hazard Sterling Pogba Deulofeu
Rashford Higuain Augero
Looks great apart from I don’t trust Piggy up front and Patricio has a chance of rotation.
Any suggestions for alternatives? I could have Alli and Batshuayi instead of Del and Higuain? Not sure I really want any spurs players though.
Why not experiment with 442 or 352 and downgrade Piggy to the cheapest possible?
352
Kepa
Laporte Lindelof Wan B
Hazard Sterling Pogba Deulofeu Alli
Rashford Augero
Looks nice. I prefer a punt on Higuain with those fixtures than a Spurs mid who prob won’t do too much damage with those fixtures. Spurs have a poor record against Palace of scoring goals, new stadium factor and other fixture is Liverpool away
Cheers Smash!!
Draft with Kane 1.0
4-3-3
Cheap defence but all the 3 cheapos have a good home game. Fair deal for the front 6?
4-3-3 might be a great idea, I’ve been struggling to find a 4th mid to go alongside Pogba-Sterling-Haz but this might be the answer… I like the fact you have amazing attack, obviously the defense is a bit meh, Kiko will most likely not ply twice. I’d think long and hard whether you want Kane in the team or not, could do wonders to your defense dropping him to Higuaín or even Batsu
What does it look like without him? I think this issue is fundamental to most teams. Not saying I have an answer either way! I’ve certainly not decided myself. Gut says he should be one of the first picks, team itself says otherwise.
Don’t think he’ll get much (anything) against Pool really, so looking at it as a double for Kane is a bit deceiving. I’d say it’s a 1.5 Gameweek for Kane 🙂
And look at the past results of Spurs vs Palace
Don’t care about the past, only care about the future 😀
You mean this what Smash said above: “Spurs have a poor record against Palace of scoring goals” 😀
Yep, it’s awful haha.
Great, looks like a Palace def is a nice choice this week! I don’t really get the new stadium argument in favor of Spurs assets, might as well work against them.
@init: before that Jane take #1 this is what I had (and have atm).
Before toying with the idea of having him in I thought it wouldn’t be possible/reasonable but after doing that draft it doesn’t look that bad in terms of balance and the front 6 seems more enticing that a front 7 without him. It’s a matter of how much faith we have in him scoring double digits and one or two of those cheapos in defence making a cleanie.
Jane lol
My Janeless side looks like this;
Pretty similar to mine in terms of team ‘coverage’ and indeed with 6 players in commun. I don’t know, I like the Son pick but everytime this time of the year it’s Kane & Alli that explode so I yeah Kane could be ‘the’ differential here . Lot to happen between now and then though.
Hello guys, please rate my team and/or suggest changes? I’ll be on Free Hit
Keepers may need a bit of work. Other than that it looks like a straight choice between Kane and Hazard.
Yes, I was thinking Ryan for Etheridge.
Do you think Hazard could do better than Kane?
Looking at the fixtures I think Hazard could definitely do better than Kane. The sky, it seems to me, is the limit.
What do you think?
His fixtures are definitely better than Kane’s.
You’re right.
I couldn’t afford both myself and ultimately I chose Hazard. Although I’m not very happy about it!
Manusai- if you downgraded ur subs, u could do a lot better with your keepers. One of your keepers to Speroni, Billing to a 4.2, even maybe Obi Wan to a 3.8, – prob allows Kepa then?