Mar07
Sunday’s Dugout Discussion
Posted by Mark •
There’s just one Premier League matter to settle today, with Everton hosting Phil Brown’s Hull at Goodison for the tea-time kick-off. Before that the FA Cup provides our entertainment. Villa take on Reading at lunchtime with Fantasy Managers hoping that the pair avoid a replay to help preserve Villa’s potential double fixtures. Later on we will be looking for more of the same when Chelsea take on Stoke.
The Chatroom is now open for Sunday Service.
imve had a total rethink and think this 4 point hit could be a really good move..opinions??
out go hangeland, gera and matty taylor……
in come warnock, arteta and milner……
Do it, Do it NOWWWWWW
sweeeet move
thats alot better!!!
Pick 2 out of Rooney, Torres, Drogba For the next few weeks considering fixtures, form and fitness
Rooney & Torres.
Torres & Drogba.
for me if i had a wildcard in my pocket id only like torres longterm ,
i believe there are some nice altenatives out there with some dgw coming up.
rooney cant go on forever, and drogba will score aswell but i dont think they wil do those as previously.
Im thinking Rooney and Torres for gameweek 32 onwards??
no way man, torres and drogba all the way
i dont see a need for rooney beyond week 31.
im looking at torres , bendtner and tevez until city play united at least.
Is Carew likely to play full 90 minutes in both of the coming DGWs after his performance today? What’s you take?
Maybe, but you just cant trust him, wether it comes to rotation risk or performance. On his days he is brilliant, but then you have all those other days. Still remember those matches he played in the CL for Valencia and Lyon against A1 opposition. Damm, what a world beater
i think that MON will have to rotate to keep them frsh – will Heskey be able to play in all 4?? He does struggle with bumps & bruises. I think to A’bon +1. So bit risky me feels!!
valencia -> Milner
rooney -> drogba
this sound sensible? gives me a front line of drogba, torres, bendtner
dumping rooney?? weird choice..
not for next week unless hes still injured
my thinking is rooney playing fulham, liverpool and chelsea all within next 4 gameweeks is worse than drogba playing whm and then having a dgw
yay, green arrow, 2 (!) positions up
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What are everyone’s plans re Villa DGW’s?
2 or 3 Villa players and who out of Agbonlahor/Carew/Milner/Downing/Dunne/Collins/Warnock/Cuellar
If Carew was starting I rate him quite highly but will be going for Agbonlahor and Milner i’d say
I will be going for Collins and Milner. Gotta get on that Villa defense
agbonlahor and milner
Young or Milner for The 2 double gameweeks
Milner.
young
its 50:50 in my eyes…
Can’t decide either. My gut really says Young but will anyway wait till friday.
My brains say Milner, but my guts say Young. Hard choice
young is the better player at the moment but id bet all milner has to do is cough and a few bps would go his way,
id be very wary of rivals with milner so ill have him to cover myself.
My gut feeling is Young too.
Can someone please explain to me what is so great about Milner. Decent player but is he really that good an FPL prospect? 8 games without scoring or assisting doesnt exactly fill me with excitement, and I still havent forgiven his last DGW where he got me 1pt as captain
he batters poor opposition at home. the 1 exception all season has been his big haul away to suderland.
downing for a diff & i think nailed on starter in 4 as he’s not played too much this season.
both
Just in, been out all day. 28 with 7 to play, a green arrow as well. A red in the FFS league which is bad for my cup hopes. How’d ye all fare?
28 with Torres, Insua, N’Zog, Tuncay, Dann & Sorensen to play, pretty good I suppose.
28 from 4 players – good.
Possibly only 3 players left to play – not so good.
Random question- anyone know a good website for buying bundesliga tickets from? The one I’ve found is charging £81 for a Hertha Berlin ticket! I thought Germany was cheap…
yeah thought they were like 20 euros a ticket, ensuring packed stadiums every week. can’t help on the website though sorry
Me too AB. The Hertha website seems to be in that price range, but it’s all in German, unsurprisingly…
http://www.herthabsc.de/index.php?id=557
I have 4 questions that for you to pass opinions on:
1) Who to get rid of Evra or Insua
2) Who to bring in Warnock or Collins
3) Who to get rid of Pienaar, Lee or Modric
4) Who to bring in Milner, Downing or Young
Cheers
Why on earth would you want to get rid of Pienaar?
I don’t, but Villa midfielders play 4 games in the next 2 weeks compared to Everton’s 3.
out evra in collins
out lee in young/ milner you decide
If you had tho choose one captain for the next 4 gameweeks, any player, who would it be? (gonna do some off-pist travelling the coming weeks)
a bit boring but if fit fabregas
Drogba.
What about one of those villa suspects, they have 6 matches in this period while arsenal has 4, and chelsea 5.
But yes, drogba seems a good shot as I probably wont know enough about fabs before I leave
like camping and shit?
will carew play in the dgw? thinking of getting 2 aston villa def & carew if hes playing, if not i’ll just just stick with the 2 defenders
Good question here for all you who think you know footie, no cheating allowed!
Name the 7th English players who have cost over 7 million, but have never represented England at senior level? I got 4…
Kevin Davies?
YES
I expect that everyone who answers this succesfully will have googled it.
David Bentley?
bentley has
cort?
holdsworth?
d richards?
c davies?
sutton?
Smalling, Sturridge, A Johnson?
aj has played the other 2 were not over £7m?
smalling was £10m and johnson I think was £7m
francis jeffers? (everton-ars)
seth Johnson (derby – leeds)
Jeffers got a cap (and a goal) vs. australia
jeffers playing in the friendly against austrlia (the 11 sub game) and I think seth johnson played at least one (against italy?) for england
unbelievable the caps that were given away in them days!! Thats me done then
Stabs in the dark:
Adam Johnson, Michael Ricketts, Bobby Zamora, Sean Davis
johnson and smalling are gd shouts, michael ricketts got 1 cap
did he? arggh I thought that was a good one.
smalling , adam johnson, michael bridges?, gary o neil? (stab in the dark really),
richards from southampton, kevin davies, …..kevin campbell?, dion dublin?
Malcom Christie?
did some1 actually spend over £7m for him?
Middlesbrough spend a bit on him. Dunno if it was as much as 7 mil though.
christie us a great shout…….is i right???
Michael Bridges & Darren huckerby?
rickets also ada cap i believe? I know tis shocking
Correct so far:
Curtis Davies, Kevin Davies, Chris Smalling, Dean Richards, Carl Cort.
Two to go….
johnson has to be right
Pennant?
Richardson?
he scored twice on his debut for england v usa
i think thats a good shout too…..
reo -coker
chris sutton, dean richards, adam johnson
all ive got
Sutton played for England didn’t he?
dunno. thought he refused to play a b international under hoddle and never got a call up again as a result
1 cap. just wikipedia’d his arse
reo coker and anton ferdinand?
Cattermole?
michael turner????????????
sidwell?
Boom. We have a winner.
so really there are more than 7!
spew them all Jamie = who’d the 7?
PS good question!
Reo-Coker, Ferdinand, Richards, Cort, K.Davies, C.Davies, Smalling. 7
There was always going to be one from Aston Villa. O’Neill loves over spending on England U21 internationals.
very true!
reo coker is some joke now,
i remember united sniffing around him around 2006 when he was on world cup stand bye.
mighty have falling, couldnt be happier though he was a caricature for everything that was wrong in the game,
money , fame, flash cars , no work and it didnt last
btw i was close with bridges …he was worth 5mil
I think both of those are right.
Whats the 7?
smalling, dean richards, reo-coker, anton ferdinand, carl cort, kevin davies, curtis davies. adam johnson, just like in fpl, cost 6 mil
When asked I didnt get Cort, Richards or Ferdinand.
God knows why Newcastle paid over 7 mill for Carl Cort. I went to go and watch Brentford vs Southampton a couple of months ago, and he was a second half sub for Brentford!
injuries. he made kieron dyer look like robocop in his newcastle days
i’m still waiting on the answer to be confirmed. C’mon
i really think with the amount of doubles coming up, drogba is the only essential big striker- the rest of the money should be floded into midfield for the rest of the season , pretty much. so i reckon ill be losing rooney with the injury, and i wont be touching off torres, too expensive, not fit, and a 6 mil forward (not bendy) will get me half his points and allow me a milner or an arteta.
at the business end of the season now, and i feel this must be my strategy if im to have any hope of caching rials, and, domesticatig my dog.
im normally with you RBJ, but dissagree on this one,
torres effectively has a double verus rooney and drogba this week and next without the captains luxury.
i too think il be losing rooney soon,
lampard is banging them in so he can cover drogba ,
and torres, tevez and bendtner have the best fixtures for next 3 or 4 weeks,
drogba would be in my frontline if i didnt have lampard though,
torres has a one in 2 record , he will score and its world cup run in so he has enough motivation to get into the spain team. (its not clear cut yet)
you really think hes not a dead cert to go?
Torres will go, but his starting place is under threat. It’s basically between him and Fabregas for one spot in the XI.
i mean he is not a dead cert to start in the 11,
spain seem to prefer villa uptop with one of fabregas or torres in the 11,
when torres plays he is central and villa to the side slightly,
but right now torres is certainly not in the 11, for the squad he is a certainty
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for GW 30:
1)
ricketts & valencia OUT
collins & milner IN
2)
in the team: pienaar (Birmigham away)
on the bench: wilshere (Wigan at home)
(or wilshere in team, pienaar on the bench)
… thoughts, please
in GW31 with all those doubles, who will have the balls to captain torres on his return to old trafford. i will be tempted
i may have the balls to bench him
no, that would make you a fanny
vidic guaranteed red card as well.
VILLA cant defend for toffee! Milner is all ya need this week
Milner didn’t do much today to be fair.
true but they’ve leaked so many goals (more so in the cup) this last 4-5 weeks so 2 away games doesnt give me confidence in their clean sheet abilities…..
Who is a better choice agbon or carew,
Obviously people will say agbon as he has a better chance of playing (thats if he recovers from his stomach bug) but surely with the form carew is showing lately he cant be benched