Site Team Gameweek 1
Hello and welcome to Site Team Gameweek 1. Seeing as FPL opened about 4 months ago, you would think we would have spent hours formulating our plans for the team, endlessly researching the stats and pre-season appearances of the players and balancing our budget to accommodate the must haves and the dark horses.
No. We all forgot about it until the Taskmaster that is Mito, clipped us round the ear and made us do stuff. Well, even then it was just to say if we liked ‘his’ team that he had created for us.
( …and even still we have our suspicions that The Legend played Twitter roulette and copied the first template he found).
But guess what? We all, in the main, loved the draft. A little tweak here and there to justify our enormous salaries but by and large we felt great and FPL could start in five minutes time if it liked.
Then Watkins came off injured.
Then Robertson did his ankle.
Then Toney had a knock.
Then Watkins was OK again.
And going to be playing in the middle!
It’s great to be back!
The Squad
OK so we know what you’re thinking and yes, we have taken the plunge on Tsimikas. His three assists and nice fixtures have us on the end of the line. We double him up with Trent and the obvious Mohamed Salah pick rounds off our maximum Liverpool exposure. Curiously Jota wasn’t given any thought so we must all be happy without him.
We don’t want to be faffing about with goalkeeper transfers at any stage (except maybe the wildcard(s)) so we’ll spend just £8.5mln and go all in on Watford with Bachmann and Foster offering an assured goalkeeper each week (don’t mention the ‘C’ word).
Joining the Liverpool lads in defence then are Luke Shaw, Luke Ayling and Ben White – who really should have been called Luke by his parents. We will likely use 3 defenders most weeks at the start and those will likely be our Liverpool two and Shaw but incase we don’t and/or we need a sub we are nicely covered.
Bruno is in and it shouldn’t take that much explaining and we have Raphinha and Harvey Barnes rounding off the spots in there. We usually always like the look of Leeds’ and Leicester’s attack and these two seem quite assured there and each for a favourable price as well. Burnley’s Josh Brownhill is the back up.
Our attackers are Danny Ings Ollie Watkins, Michail Antonio and Ivan Toney in what will now be known as the *drumroll*
‘AN-TONEY-KINS’
… we’ll work on that and come back to you …
There you have it. We have no plans to play early chips or wildcards and will see where the game takes us this season.
Captain
I don’t think this one needs any explaining, nor does the vice.
The Site Team
The Site Team of 2021/22 is made up of:
Inittowinit
Kop Warrior
Mito
Floydeth
Gallant Pioneer
Rosco
TheSwirly
Summary
We are all hoping for a more normal season than last when it seemed that the virus was strangling not only FPL but football itself and the return of supporters and normal match schedules are hopefully also back for good.
Good luck to absolutely everyone from us all at FF247 Site Team.
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I see Lukaku is no on FF – priced at 11.5m worth re-jigging to get in now?
Or wait a few games.
I’m waiting. I don’t think he plays GW1 and I’m not bothered tearing up my entire team to bring him in especially with the fixtures.
Is he even going to start GW1? Might come too soon? Think I’d wait and see on it
ERS ?
Probably ESR
Oh ok what player is this ?
Emile Smith Rowe
Cheers
Hi all exciting news.
We already have 30 managers so far in the FF247 Doubles League.
The code is oe2ckx. You still have until 6pm tomorrow to join.
The prize is a pair of FF247 Tshirts.
So to um Double the fun we are now also going to have a FF247 Doubles Head to Head League.
The code is nqpzdf
If you need a partner just post here and we’ll try to pair people up.
I have just joined the Doubles League
That’s great hammer!! Welcome!
@hammerfan Don’t forget to join the H2H league too
Toney is the second most owned striker in the game with 30.7% ownership, whereas Armstrong is at 0.8%… If someone wants a good differential…
I think after a couple of weeks to bed in he could be a good pick. Probably depends on how much of a car crash Southampton are…
Indeed, same should be said for Toney/Brentford, in the least…
Isn’t Ward Prowse on his way out as well now? I know I’m biased, but I genuinely would be avoiding them. They’ve sold their best centre back, their best full back, their best striker, and their best midfielder looks to be jumping ship too.
I know I’m biased too
And yeah obviously we’ve lost some important players, but you’re not saying anything about who we’ve bought as replacements. Bertrand –> Perraud (was one of Ligue 1’s best LBs last season, apparently made some magazine’s team of the season there as well)… So who knows, he might be better than Bertrand. Vestergaard was never our “best centre back”, he wasn’t that good, it’s not a big loss, at least not for me. And so forth…
Ings is a big loss, obviously, but he needed to go, running out of his contract next summer, it’s sell now or lose him for free next summer. He wants to go. They sold for 30million and bought a replacement for 15million who seems to have good potential, that’s good business. Selling players and buying new players is what football clubs do, nothing new under the sun here.
With regards to JWP, I obviously don’t have all the information, but if another team wants to buy a player it doesn’t mean that that player “looks to be jumping ship”, don’t you think? I don’t think he’s going yet, although him going would make perfect sense money-wise. A small team needs to play the money game, sell a player for good money when the time is right, unless he’s a true fan of the club and he never moves on. But it’s just so natural that great players want to step up to the next level.
You sound in a far more positive mode than other Southampton fans I’ve spoken to. You usually find a way, so there’s a good chance you’re right.
ps JWP is a Pompey lad at heart, so can’t see him having too much loyalty
See, that’s something I didn’t know. Born in Portsmouth, his family are Pompey supporters, but he joined Southampton at the age of 8. Interesting!
Which is better…
1) Schmeichel & ESR
2) Sanchez & Harrison
Hmmm I like them both but I think B shades it due to the injuries Leicester have.
That’s a bit of a tough one, depends on how nailed ESR will be… I don’t really know. Think I’d prefer Sanchez & Raphinha for only 0.5m more
That’s precisely my problem. I’m trying to find 0.5 from somewhere! I know what you’re gonna suggest
Banjo
Stones to Coufal gets you your 0.5m
Also Harrison to ESR allows you to upgrade Amarty to 4.5m
Cheers Bigpopz! My head is starting to hurt now – I think I’m overthinking it. No doubt I’ll change my mind a hundred times before randomly choosing something at 18:29 tomorrow.
Haha