Managers of the Round Table – Fantasy Premier League 2014-15
We have gathered up six prestigious members / writers around Mito’s Round Table to answer a few quick fire questions in the lead up to the opening of the FPL season. They have been asked to make choices over some of the same key questions many of us are currently facing. As one would expect we got a wide range of varying answers, everything from a unanimous decision on formation to six different choices for Flop of the Year. See what our esteemed panel answered and please share your answers and views below, including that tricky last question. And don’t be shy; they sure weren’t when expressing their man crush.
Below is a self-described introduction to their FPL playing style.
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Bryan Munch Conservatively reckless bandwagon-avoiding contrarian. Likes puns and yogurt.[/one_half]
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NIN Conservative in general, but not afraid to take risks when needs be.[/one_half_last]
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Calvin Clyne Friend of hits and gut-feelings.[/one_half]
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Tekno-Kun Rational and pragmatic. Prefers safe options, but always looks for thought out punts.[/one_half_last]
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Chins and bellies Planner. If in doubt, I save my FT. Like the odd punt. Do what the country music tells me.[/one_half]
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Migs Play hard in the beginning, then more cautious towards the end.[/one_half_last]
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Evening all, please RMT my 5,437th attempt 😉
De Gea (Murphy – Won’t be used)
Debuchy, Van Aanholt, Wisdom (N.Taylor) (Duff)
Ramsey, Mata, Fabregas, Eriksen (Siggy)
Rooney(v), Costa(c), Jelavic
Thoughts?
Too much money in Siggy or Jelly sitting on the bench tat could be used elsewhere
Siggy will rotate with Jelavic as i will play 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 depending on the fixture. Just don’t fancy having a 5th mid or a 3rd striker that i don’t have confidence in using. Cheers mate
MadHatter – Interesting line up. Wisdom’s game time is in question, which is unfortunate because he’d be a great budget option. Other than that, i like it. If you could squeeze an extra 0.5m from somewhere to put into your defence then it’d be that bit better. Rotating 4.5m GK’s perhaps? Or as TD said already, slight downgrade of a mid. Good squad though.
Need at least one United player in defence and De Gea is my way in without worry of rotation. The other way is swapping Debuchy for Jones and getting 2 x 4.5m keepers to give me the extra 0.5m but i don’t like the sound of that really. Will just have to keep my eye on Wisdom and hope for the best as i don’t wanna mess with that midfield or forward line. Cheers NIN
Sounds legit. No problem.
MadHatter, this is the exact same front 8 I’ve more or less settled on (though I can’t afford Siggy due to more money tied up in defence). I think it’s strong!
Latest team – not lovin it
Begovic/Mannone
Caulker, Davies (Hull), Davies (Spurs), Janmaat, Taylor (Swansea)
Ramsey, Fabregas, Mata, Davis, Albrighton
Costa, Giroud, Rooney
Opinions?
TD – I’ve never been, nor will i ever be a fan of Giroud but he is by no means a bad pick. The only iffy one i see here is Albrighton but that’s no real biggie as he’ll likely be backup to your backups. Solid squad mate.
Not really a fan of his myself NIN but not sure who of Jovetic or Dzeko will start for City. Had Silva for a while (now have no City cover) but Ramsey was on fire last year, Fabregas has been good in pre season and Mata has great fixtures.
Yep. The City forwards are a bit of a bugger to choose from! I reckon it’ll be Dzeko who gets the nod but that’s just a hunch really. Ramsey over Silva any day, right choice there, for me.
I feel theres a bit too much money invested in defense, you have no 4.0m players, that could be used further forward in the team, such as upgrading Davis, hes a good player no doubt but it will harm your team long term to have him in there every week.
The rest is good.
True Burnsy – just need to find a 4m guy that Im sure plays I guess
No City Coverage ?
Giroud out > Dzeko/Jovetic in For Me
Midfield a little bit weak but decent team Overall All !
but which one Jeet…
Flip a coin, heads Dzeko, tails … Dzeko! 😉
Jovetic in form looking good in Preseason plus could be a great differential !
You around Silvers? Just flicked you an email.
Hope you are enjoying your summers gents.
First draft. Lots to change I think!
Krul Mannone
Shaw Sagna Cahill Bruce Ferdinand
Sánchez Henderson Yaya Puncheon Tiote
Sturridge Diego Costa Zamora
hey James – Sagna wont play over Zab while Bruce is formation dependant.
dont think Zamora will play either. Lack of united players is a worry.
You too James.
GK’s are nice, rotate well but we don’t know if Mannone will be number one so keep an eye out.
I like the defence bar Sagna, it’s a nice idea but I cannot see him displacing Zabaleta early in the season.
Midfield is strong but Tiote is probably not the best 4.5m as whenever you play him he’ll probably only get you one point and he’ll end up getting suspended. Sanchez is a good risk, that could pay off handsomely and whilst some doubt Hendo, I really think he has the potential to shine this year. Yaya, need I say more.
Sturridge is a good sight but I think Rooney is needed there because of how strong uniteds fixtures are to begin with, you could easily drop Yaya to Hazard and then get RVP in there, but that’s personal preference.
Other than that, I like it.
Hey mate, still winter over here, but looking forward to summer haha.
If I were you (which I’m not!) I would downgrade Yaya to Mata, and upgrade Henderson to Markovic/Sterling. I think your putting all of your eggs in one basket with Sanchez and Yaya, and if neither perform your in trouble. The rest looks good for now, perhaps Studge is a bit of a risk but you know that already.
Not sure what formation you would play tho… seems you have a lot of “good” players, which means you have to bring in cheapos like Tiote and Puncheon. I prefer to spread out my cash more evenly.
Thanks gents.
Tbh I put in a team as I needed to sign up for the Banterbury league.
But I’ll definitely think about your suggestions.
Holy sh*t!! Where have you been James? Init and Mito said you’d be taken hostage by Potty and sold to Libya as part of an arms deal.
Hey mate. Just a little work related travel keeping me busy.
Good to see you. Hope you’re doing alright?
Cool! Yeah I’m doing good. The geezers here are keeping me on my toes. Glad to have you here again mate. Hope you’ll be sticking around!
Yeah, I’ll be around. Good to hear you’re okay.
Draft 2!
Krul Mannone
Shaw Cahill Debuchy S.Taylor Dummet
Erikson Yaya Puncheon sigurdsson Albrighton
Rooney Costa Giroud
Bryan, Calvin, Chins, NIN, Tekno & Migs…
Have only just had the opportunity to read this now, thanks to you all for contributing and thanks to Mito for putting it together.
Barclay better than Albrighton, albeit .5 more and could go well for a bench man
SORRY, Barkley (spelling)
Have you been to the bank this morning
musungu – Barkley is 7m mate!!
k iv got,
De Gea, (Hamer – wont be used)
Coleman, Shaw, Lovren, (Vermaelen)
Ramsey, Barkley, Hererra, Nasri, (Henderson)
Luakaku, Giroud, Lambert
suggestions?
Jcorb, I assume you have some cash left over ?
Coleman and Vermaelen are both injured. Lovren is now at Liverpool so do you really want Liverpool defenders?
Herrera unlikely to do much to justify 7.5mln.
For Nasri and Henderson I would want Silva and Sterling.
Your attack is your call, but I would raise personal question marks on all 3.
I would be looking at replacements for all the above in:
2 4.5/5mln defenders who rotate well
Silva, Sterling, Siggy, Eriksen, Tadic, Mata
Right ended up going with a complete overhaul…
DeGea (Myhill)
Jagielka Sagna Cameron (McShane O’Shea)
Ramsey Schürrle Herrera McCarthy (Tiote)
Aguero Rooney Costa
I kno defense isnt fantastic subs leave a lot to be desired.
I like herrera, had a good pre season an fits in to LVG style pretty well.
Costa im not sure about
jcorb88..schurrle not going to start half of the matches.same goes for hererra.. aguero’s play also in jeopardy as he is suffering with injury issues. would suggest you to strenhthen your mid more.