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.
Our 2021 and Overall History
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Hi all exciting news.
We now have a FF247 Doubles Head to Head League.
The code is nqpzdf
There will be a pair of FF247 T shirts for the winners.
So far there are only 6 entries so you have a great chance to win.
We already have 30 managers so far in the FF247 Doubles Classic League.
The code is oe2ckx. You still have until deadline tonight to join.
The prize is a pair of FF247 T shirts.
If you need a partner just post here and we’ll try to pair people up.
How does it work. I have a partner. Do we both just join and let you know we are partners?
Create a new team together and enter the leagues (don’t enter your individual teams)
What with a new email address? What’s the point of calling it a doubles league when anyone could be doing the team by themselves?
I have 5m left for a midfielder. Who is the best choice?
Would this player have to play every week?
I’d try to stretch to 5.5 or drop to 4.5 and bank the extra 0.5mln
+1
Nobody worthwhile yet at 5m its either a benchwarmer or 5.5m for a smith-rowe type.
Thanks both. I’ll drop to 4.5 I think.
Hi everyone – I’m so happy that the new season is kicking of tonight!
Left it a bit last minute with my drafts
Putting a team together for myself and another for my 6-year old (which basically becomes my B-team :-D).
First draft for the boy (my team will have Lukaku).
Feel I’d have more options without Vardy…
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thank you and GL everyone!
CC
Big calls made with mane over salah and going vardy but nothing wrong with any of this.
Not sure Dallas is worth it as he’s classed as a mid this year so doubt he’ll rack many points – who else can you swap him for?
Thanks webstar – I’ve gone Smith-Rowe
Ultimate differential team.
Mane captain could be gold like last game of season last time. Vardy and Chilly too, good luck.
Thanks Webstar and Little Red.
Yeah – it’s nice with the B team – you just chill and it ends up doing quite well LOL.
Yes – I wanted Raph – I’ll see who else i can for Dallas
& this is my “A” team … feels a bit slap dash …
It’s got a few different names in it CC but it isn’t bad at all.
Why not?
Sterling may be eased back in is all but he may be worth having for GW2.
Thanks GP!
Hi all. Hope everyone enjoyed a nicer summer than last year’s! Decided to wait until today to sort my squad as I knew doing it the last few weeks, I’d have little to no hair left! Currently on this squad. Nothing left itb. I’ve covered 10 teams with my squad. Would appreciate any feedback
A very well balanced squad. If Armstrong doesn’t start now for you, will he ever?
Cheers. Amartey and Armstrong are my main concerns with game time. I think I might try get Toney for him. The only way I could do that is downgrade Barnes to Raphina but I don’t really want to do that
Like it.
Sorry for posting again.
Barnes, Dele & bench fodder or Dele, Toney & ESR(or another 5.5 mid)?
Or just Dele to Toney with a different bench fodder?
Or something else (I can free up another 1 M if I downgrade Digne)?
Thanks
Tornado
I think you keep Dele as it’s clear you fancy him a bit. Which is fine. Don’t let us talk you out of it.
Bench Toney and play Stones or leave it as it is?
I’d definitely leave as is, or even sell Toney for a certain A. Armstrong and get even more points per million for a player
Cheers Zed. Contemporary but not a bad advice