The Premier League Returns… and so does FF247!
Welcome to The Premier League Returns… and so does FF247!
Guess who’s back, back again… with fresh hair cuts and strippers galore!
Yep, we’re back, we hope we are anyway…. Unless any more players test positive between now and June 17th, because… you know, they just absolutely had to get their hair cut. Or party with some strippers. Like we are sure we all have in lockdown….
Anyway, we just wanted to give you an update on both the key points from an FPL perspective but also from ours in terms of what to expect from us over the next few weeks.
FPL Changes
The main one here is that those of you who have been diligently (let’s face it boredly) making transfers each week to get your teams in the best possible shape for the return may find it was a fool’s errand as we all now have UNLIMITED transfers prior to the next deadline. Which is WEDNESDAY JUNE 17TH AT 5PM.
Rather than waffle on needlessly, here is what the Premier League state on their own site:
FF247 ARTICLES
What to expect.. not a lot in all honesty! But why? Here’s why…
FPL Fixtures
Other than the addition of an initial DGW the rest looks like it will pan out exectly as originally planned. At least for now. That is apart from GW31+ being reinstated in full, as opposed to it being a ‘blank’ ish one, as it was originally scheduled to be.
That initial DGW sees the addition of Aston Villa vs Sheffield United and Man City vs Arsenal as they begin the new regime on the Wednesday before the rest start over the following weekend. Our Fixture Tracker has been ammended accordingly but we would probably take our usual colour ranking with a pinch of salt right now as it is based on normal conditions and does definitely take into consideration some sort of home / away bias, and if the Bundesliga is anything to go by then that particular advantage is out the window. Especially as some of these games look like beieng played at neutral venues. Can’t even begin to imagine why. At least not without insulting most of Liverpool or Manchester…..
We may do an initial Fixtures article but beyond that the opportunity to provide any articles between GW’s will be tight, and limited at best.
FIXTURE TRACKER
This has been updated accordingly and now looks like this:
FIXTURE TRACKER LINK
Player Tips?
See the above, basically. Probably the best we can do here is to promise that your usual protagonists will be around in the comment section to help and advise where possible.
CAPOS
We intend to do one of these prior to ‘GW30+’, in fact it is already in hand. Beyond that though we can’t promise anything, again for the reasons stated above; literally no time.
FF247 Site Team
We shall continue to do our transfers and we will post those and our weekly Captain Picks in our Live Match Chat article as detailed below.
Live Match Chat
This will be posted prior to GW30+ and will have the usual stuff on it such as the deadline and the weekly fixtures picture, as well as the new addition of the FF247 Site Team info.
We don’t intend to post a new one prior to each GW, instead we shall do what we have done with Bundesliga and simply update the article each time a deadline passes with new info. Given that it will contain the aforementioned FF247 Site Team info it will be updated earlier than usual.
The games for GW30+in full…
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GW32 looks a reasonable option for bench Boost. City and Pool are likely to field strong sides, quite a few teams will have next midweek off due to cup games, so there may be less rotation that GW.
Yeah you know City and Liverpool will put out strong sides. A lot of those fixtures are quite hard to predict though when I had a look. There maybe more rotation from the other teams
GW32 looks quite tricky to me tbh. Honestly, my head is a mess right now :laugh2:
I will give it a break for a week, meanwhile we can gather some more data to work with.
There is also the worry for GW30 of going blind without any pressers and a few days for potential injuries before the bulk of matches are played.
There might not even be any pressers going forward
Just a generic question: everyone is talking about strong FPL bench due to increased rotation and new substitution (5 subs/3 times) rules.
But I guess with this new sub-rule, rotation across matches will reduce and rotation in a single match will go up. Like 2 players subbed at 59 min. (the worst case) and another 2 plays for 30 minutes and may be the reverse in next match. Managers do not need 1 player to be rested 100% in one match and play in the next. At least in Bundesliga so is the trend for big teams.
In that case, having a strong FPL bench is meaningless as bench will not come into play – rather we will have lot of 1 points (and feel sad). Anyway, its a speculation. But once Pool wins in couple of matches, this might happen more to Pool, City who have nothing to play for, rather use the matches as pre-season.
Yeah that’s how I see it. We will see more.players and less miss out all together. What we might see is more rotation in full back area and they are always less likely to come on as well
There’s always the need for a bench player if one of your starting players misses out completely though – in the case of unreported injury for example.
Hi Elle,
Is the quarter finals of the Regulars Cup taking place in game week 32+?
Is the head to head league finalised for the season?
Thanks
Jamie
Jamie,
I believe Elle is reacting to the news of the FPL return with regards the cup.
I’ll make sure he sees this message mate.
Thanks GP.
Jamie
Sterling, Saka, Gomez and Lundstram
Or
Mahrez, Pepe, Kiko (only 4.2) and Basham?
Because of the competition to Lundstram from Berge and Saka from any number of Arsenal players, I prefer that second group.
Tough one but probably I’d go for the second group (but just, like 51/49)
I would be tempted to counter the group below assuming it works:
Mahrez, Fleck, TAA, Doherty.
Already got TAA in. Doherty is interesting
For SHU would triple defence or 2+ Fleck be better? Price wise they are about the same.
All decent enough options kind of depends on the alternatives
My team, No transfers made.
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