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;
Morning all! Kane or no Kane? Which would you go for 1 or 2?
No Kane
Kane
No Kane
Hmm considerations, considerations! 😉
Sorry – in the wrong spot!
Indeed, indeed…
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Or 2, sorry messed up my comments!
2 looks better balanced to me. Schneiderlin has no place on any team, never mind a FH one
It’s just that teams can’t get the most of him, like Everton now, he was absolutely fantastic at Soton! :p
Perhaps that was his level. Point was fantasy related though, stick him in the Man City Team for all I care, I still wouldn’t pick him.
Yeah I know what you meant was just messing with you
I wouldn’t touch him in FPL either, of course not, but still it’s a fact that he was great at Soton and then not so great at United, not unlike Lambert at Pool, or even Lallana although he had that one good season at Pool…
What do you mean by “his level” though, the last season he played for us was 14/15 when we finished 7th, 13pts above 11th Everton, 2pts behind Liverpool… Soton had a GD of +21 that season compared to Liverpool +4 and Spurs +5, only 4 goals shy of United +25… 😉 Short memory or what?
Ah yeah, apologies. I forgot that season, no idea how, it should be etched in all of our memories. The glorious 7th, etc.
We finished 6th the year after in 15/16 (without Schneiderlin, perhaps he wasn’t so good after all :smirk: ). It’s the glorious sixth, the year Soton was Top-6 😉 😆
Good morning all
Any advice on what to do with this lot? I used my FH last week, should have kept it for this week. Lesson learned! Currently top of my ML however not by much.
Any money to play with pn?
Hi I have 3.3 itb. Was considering a wildcard :s
Tough call, how many have you got for GW33 as it stands now and how many would you have if you wildcarded? It’s difficult to match the two weeks up really. Given the choice I’d prioritise this week with the chance to have 22 players I suppose.
Currently have 8 for game week 33. I was thinking of the wildcard now to maximise my points for my mini league
I’ll reply here as it’s silly having two seperate conversations
I’d agree that WC’ing this week appears the right thing to do. Put your WC team together and we can see how you’d then be fixed for BGW33.
Get your own convo Kop 😉
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Ha ha!! Setting a wildcard team normally takes me a week
Quite many moves that you could make here, Salah —> Hazard being perhaps the most obvious one… Also could sell Fabianski to Ryan/Guaita, or Vardy to Rashford/Zaha depending on how injuries play out, and even Digne to a DGW defender…
Thanks Zed. I feel Aguero is a must this week. Hazard is also a great shout.
+1Salah out Hazard in
Have you played your WC? I’m not necessarily suggesting you play it this week but it may impact on your transfers.
Hi no I was thinking of wildcarding as an option this week
The problem you face whether you WC or take hits is that a lot of the teams with doubles in 32 don’t play in 33.
Chelsea & Palace are the key teams for you
Thanks Kop, currently have 8 for game week 33. I was thinking of the wildcard option this week to maximise my point total for my ML.
Please rate my team, still not sure about my triple captain choice, Hazard?
That’s a decent non-FH team! With regards to the Triple Captain chip, I don’t know but I would definitely feel safer with a City boy as my TC as City will most likely score more goals than Chelsea, although most of Chelsea’s goals should come through Hazard, I am probably capping Sterling because he’s in such a great form so I would suggest him as TC as well, I feel Jesus poses more threat to Aguero than Mahrez poses to Sterling although I feel both will start given City need to win to win the title! So Sterling for me I think, based on his great form!