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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Good evening everyone,
Hope the tinkering is going well – this time tomorrow it will be out of our hans!
I think I’m pretty set on my team. Still debating the starters however.
As always, any criticism or discussion is welcome
Best of luck to everyone for the coming season!
0.5m ITB also
I’d use that 0.5 to upgrade one of those 4.0 defenders but rest of the team looks good
Hey Matt,
Hope all is well on your end.
Could be a good shout. Any suggestions for the 4.5m? Thinking Ayling, but I’m not sure
All good with me mate, cheers.
Ayling is the obvious choice there but if you want to go differential one of the Watford boys like Kiko Femenia or Sierralta could be a punt.
Or a Brighton double up.
Amartey to White maybe if you got 0.5 left
Did the site team leave 1.5m ITB?
Looks like it
For the Christmas party,
I fear I lost myself on the road to Tsimikas and end up here.
Other than the lightweight bench (which you’re of course aware of) looks as good as any!
I read somewhere Wilson might not be ready for gw1 but that was a week ago so maybe just keep an eye out for news tomorrow.
You are ready SF. Aiming for 90 points.
Righty-Hoot, this should be on the regulars thread but nobody goes there. Look out for late e-mails from me tomorrow folks. I’ve decided that if people are not in their respective H2H leagues sod them. I’ve got a spare hour in the morning so i’ll be promoting people. Whats the point of having leagues with 19, 18, 17 and 16 teams in ?
Sounds sensible. Will keep an eye on emails.
Also any merit in having a regulars WhatsApp or would that become unmanageable? Or regulars email group?
They’ve had ample opportunity Elle. Do what is best for the leagues.
Maybe there’s a chance I move out of Div 4…..how exciting!
Sounds sensible to me
Is it too late to join the h2h league, elle?
No, mail me.
What’s your email please? Sorry I see you post it a lot but its not on the FAQ/help pages from what I can see!
It’s on the league banner Burnsy;
elleffcee@gmail.com
Lol – I fully cannot see this, but I did have a few work lunch beers.
Thank you Init
How is this looking.
Still have 0.5m ITB, and considering Stones->Vestergaard if it happens in time.
And maybe Lukaku in if the price is right..lol
Play Nacho, bench Bissouma
Also, that 0.5 can make Raphinha out of Harri’s son
Little Red – done
Odd – Yes that can be done, but would you play Raphinha or still keep him on the bench?
Hmm, he can come in for Stones or Nacho if either doesn’t play. Or, if -god forbid- Benrahma doesn’t play.
I was going to to Stones->Vestergaard if that move happened before the deadline.
Not keen on playing Stones really against Spurs as there may potentially be no clean sheet for City (although I could be wrong)
Have all the managers press conferences happened already (can’t see them in US)? Or more happening tomorrow?
Thanks guys
Some Thursday, some Friday.