Saturday’s Dugout Discussion
Manchester United. Double gameweek. It all kicks off right here, right now with the first game of the week already so prescient in our thoughts. A million and one managers with Wayne Rooney inevitably as their captain will be hoping it starts with a bang.
Everton have unsurprisingly named the strongest line-up available for the tie, having recently had to get to grips with the absence of both Fellaini (long term) and Cahill (short term) while Fergie pulls a cat out of the bag and starts Dimitar Berbatov in what may be classed as a big game. Vidic is only good enough for the bench in his recovery from nerve damage while club captain Gary Neville gets to play against his brother Phil once more, relegating Rafael to the bench.
That’s not all that’s in store though, once the two Scotch managers head off to the managers office for a glass of wine and conversation consisting of nothing but the words och and aye we’ll welcome a light smattering of 3 o’clock kick offs into the fray…
West Ham are the lighter burden of this double gameweek but will start with a relatively plum home time against Hull, meanwhile Chelsea (sans Lampard) head to the midlands to face Mick McCarthy who is disdainfully recovering from the wrapped hands he received from the FA this week. Wengers Arsenal also play host to Sunderland who have so many injuries and suspensions in their ranks at the moment it wouldn’t be all too surprising to see chairman Niall Quinn squeezing into his old shirt just in case.
Finally, if you have a tolerance for pain greater than Jack Bauer, we will round out the day with the all star tie of Portsmouth vs Stoke. Perhaps the managers off-field antics being the most interesting Tête à Tête this evening, massage parlours in the blue corner and naked headbutts in the red.
As usual this here post is ready and waiting for your discussions of all of the days action, and for those of you who want an even larger slice of the pie can head on over to our Chat Room for some afternoon delight.
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Andy has scored fantasy own goals since before the game began.
What a crap gameweek and Portmouth are a disgrace.
By the way did anyone see the Valencia assist? Came off an Everton player didnt it?
Portsmouth are a disgrace? How exactly?
A crap GW? We haven’t even played half the games.
I think his assist may get removed for that very reason, nearly everyone has him and not as captain so no great loss either way.
Nearly everyone? 3/20 people have him!
I didn’t mean everyone globally! Certainly everyone in my mini league does at any rate, myself included and even you, so I’ll reiterate nearly everyone that knows what they’re doing on fpl.
I don’t think it will
I really want to get O’Hara into my team but I can’t see how.
My midfield is: Fabregas/Valencia/Lee/N’Zogbia/Etherington.
Ill prob sell Ethers for Pienaar this GW but after that I don’t knoiw what to do.
Lee would be the obvious option but with a possible DGW in 29, I’d like to keep him.
Any suggestions?
please dont say youre being serious with O’Hara. its unclear whether they’ll have a team by march as they must pay there debt by 1st march
Totally agree!
Yeah, stay clear of O’Hara till after the court stuff. If Pompey go out of business he’ll go back to Spurs and be on the bench at best even though I reckon he’s a better player than Jenas, and as influential as Hudd atm (albeit in a poor Pompey side).
Yeah definitely better than Jenas
Yep i’d wait on that one. Good player to have in the squad as long as you don’t intend to rely on him week in week out. O’Hara is the diamond in the dirt at the moment. Come March I reckon he’ll be the diamond in the shit hole.
Out of all of the above it’s got to be lee, but on that score I’d leave it as it is . Wish I could affort pienaar for etherington, don’t have the cash though
Ok, forgot about 1 march.
I rescind my earlier comment as you clearly don’t know what you’re doing if you want to bring IN O’Hara when he’ll be babk warming the Tottenham bench soon.. which was the very reason I moved him on.
*back
Can you link where it says he’ll be going back to Tottenham please?
Cos O’Hara cost me! Ok to be fair they did NOT deserve to lose but the one time I play Ohara he messes up! I only played him cos of the disasters this week with Lamps and Tevez etc.
No point bringing in OHara now in my opinion dude. Portsmouth are in dissaray..
Keep your midfield, it is pretty solid. Only sell Etherington..
How did O’Hara mess up? He got booked? Other than that I thought he played well.
It’s hard to look good all the time when you are surrounded by the sh it that Pompey call a team. At least they try to play football, not like the Stoke’s and Blackburn’s of this world.
Points man!!! And why did he mouth off to the ref? Thats another point lost!
And he will definitley not get any bonus now..
Yeah i agree it has when your surrounded by sh*t but he was brilliant in the last two Pompey games so I was hoping he would do similar..
Yeah Stoke are a bunch of w*nkers. they might aswell play Rugby!!!
How did he “mess up”, miss a penalty?,red card?, tried his best in a poor team didn’t get the rub of the green but he didn’t duck and hide.
Yellow card
The game I watched he gave his all, but what do you expect for that price?, poor team, bottom of the league, low on confidence. Deserved the 3 bps=he will get nowt
The cup is back!!!!
So?
If i do my next two transfers I ‘ll have too many options in my team each week. I dislike getting into a situation like it is a headache choosing the first 11 each week. Is this the best way to go or would you rather have a strong 11 and cheapies on the bench? My squad will look like this:
Cech Hart
Ivanovic Evra Dunne Baines Ridgewell
Fabregas Diaby Milner Pienaar N’Zogbia
Rooney Drogba Saha
ok i want to do tevez out and probably saha or donovan in…which one should i get? also i have gallas and diaby out already and evra and rooney. hopefully one of the gunners will be back. who else should i transfer out? thanks.
saha. donovan is gone in march
true. who else should i get out? kinda want to get out ivanovic or hughes cuz they miss a week. who should i get in?
baines
yea that’s what i was thinking. for hughes right?
am maybe ivanovic cuz with boswinga coming back his place might be under threat if ur looking to the long term
hughes’s fixtures get reallly bad in a little. i think i might just get out hughes. do you know if gallas or diaby will be back this week?
is zirkov to baines a good transfer also wen will garry cahill price drop. thanks
yea and idk.
yes 3 bps fab and 3 shawx
good for fabs
so eboue got no bps anf fab again 3………i really did shoot myself in the foot!!!!
should i do tevez>saha now? it doesn’t really matter right?
Tevez is gonna drop again.
Saha is prob gonna rise.
so i’ll do it now that’s fine right?
Id go for it.
Unless the loss of money doesnt affect you.
Not saying i agree with the transfer (defo prefer bendtners fixtures) but if your going to do it then i would now.
o i would be going for bendtner but i already have 3 arsenal players. 2 of which are injured :/ but yea.
Ouch, 4 point hit for no points.
I can really see bendtner scoring more points than diaby anyway.
44 with Gomes, Dunne, Dann, Nelsen, N’Zogbia, Valencia and Rooney (c) to play.
What bout everyone else??
really bad for me. could you answer my question above?
39 with Evra, Dunne, Baird, Evans (hopefully), Milner, Rooney (C) to play. (Yes, I realise that I have 2 villa and 3 man u for a week when none of them will play
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