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:
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Mito
Floydeth
Gallant Pioneer
Rosco
TheSwirly
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Start tsimikas or maguire?
Both?
Show team, will be able to better give advice.
I found that with those two cheapo defenders I was straying dangerously close to starting with 5 at the back – though I suppose horses for courses and tactical flexibility and all that. Who are your other defenders? TAA, Shaw, Ayling, someone from B&HA?
I’d say both
Great stuff guys, Martinez is the most picked goalkeeper. Will he start? Anyhow keep up the good work.
Oh yeah he’s first choice at Villa. No worries there.
After last season’s heroics, I don’t se who else would start.
Would be good if he didn’t, given the ownership, but I’d splutter out with surprise if he’s not in the starting XI
Sorry m8s should of clarify. For the first game. Seeing as everyone that went out on internationals are trickling in.
Still yeah.
Hello everyone on this forum – thanks.
My name is Mark and i am from luxembourg
best regards
Hi Mark from Luxembourg! Good luck this season!
Afternoon people. Went away for a few days and just back so I’ve decided today is the last day I’m going to look at my team. Whatever happens, happens… unless there is a massive covid outbreak or an asteroid wipes out the North West of England.
I’ve just dropped Buendia for Raphinia but I still kind of want Villa attack so my last decision has come down to this:
A. Mahrez and Scarlett (no Villa and 352)
B. Ings and a 5.5 mid or less like ESR or Gilmour to save the cash
Is there any other issues that I’ve missed the last few days?
Looks good Matt. Enjoy your break.
Cheers Elle. It was good to get away for a few days
Anybody want to chime in here please?
Anyone know odds on DCL starting?
Doesn’t look likely for GW1 from what I’ve seen.
He has back in training. Should start I think
Now that Firmino is playing and scoring again is getting Jota too risky?
Jota has always been a risk and will likely always be one. Unless Klopp clearly states he’s changing formation to 4 attackers there will always be rotation and I don’t see him doing that.
Out he goes then. Thanks Matt
Now I could be wrong but think Jota will always be first choice for rotation with Firmino so they will share minutes. I favour Greenwood at that price due to Rashford being out for months
Jota should start the season as he had full pre – season. Long term cant say. I think Jota starts more games than Firmino but not all the time.