Tuesday’s Dugout Discusson
Tonight’s action has Bolton play their second fixture of the gameweek as they travel to the Stadium of Light and face Steve Bruce’s Sunderland. At the same time Portsmouth host Birmingham for the second time in four four days having disposed of Alex McLeish’s side in the FA Cup on Saturday.
Sunderland have already taken the lead within one minute of action through Frazier Campbell, while McCleish provides an even bigger shock on the south coast as he leaves fantasy managers agog with a really strong bout of rotation fever. The likes of Bowyer, McFadden and Carr are all given a rest this evening.
My Knee Jerk nightmare Nicklas Bendtner has also rubbed salt into open wounds by scoring from open play with his first attempt this evening, unfortunately for me the Champions League doesn’t offer any favours to my fantasy team..
The Dugout Discussion is up and running to catch your joy and agony in real-time.
who to get rid between roon, drog and torres?
torres
Long term or short term
long term
Torres, but i would give him one last week at home to Pompey
Well I wouldn’t get rid of Drogs until after his double, Rooney might have the worse fixtures out of the three but he’s in form, and Torres has the easiest but didn’t look to good against wigan.
Personally, since I Have both Rooney and Drogs, I would say Torres…
still Torres.. he’s unproven, Rooney is gold, Drogba has slightly better fixtures and can explode anytime.
i’ve got Rooney, Drogba & Bent till the end
Torres…LIV show no promise of scoring many goals and they don’t have the doubles like Villa, CHE, ManCity
What’s the other website besides FISO to track player price changes?
Also is there a twitter service that updates rises & drops before they happen? that would really be useful.
http://www.fantasytools.co.uk/
This is pretty good for following prices
updates regularly so its more accurate…it’s only flaw seems to be when players are price protected
thanks.. did i miss it in the links page? or is it not there?
not there
I dont know why its not included in the links section. Use this more than the FISO one now
True about protection Seanigula, FT should work alot better next season with this season as a good base.
Lol twitter service, next you will want a service that automatically trades for you when a player is ready to go up.
for $10/day I’ll text you when the players you want are about to rise/fall
sounds like a sound biz plan.. i’ll market it for you and take 50% commis
that really makes u wonder.. would it be possible to play FF 100% based on mathematical formulations? would be interesting if someone could challenge the system sorta like a Big Blue vs. Kasparov
I think we sort of do…choosing players rising in value with easy fixtures…Capt the most obvious choice like Fab this week for most
so technically someone could write a program to play FF?
and i think the choice might not be too obvious this week with Milner DGW and Drogba at WHM
I think Milner likely to score slightly more, unless Drogba has 2+ goals…Milner the conservative choice, Drog for all you Kenny Rodgers wannabees
Hey Torres…who should I bench this week?
Besides Lee and Jarvis, I like them all.
Very tricky decision, I have a similiar team to you. Fab might be out so the decision might already be made. Apart from that good luck
I actually hope Fab is out this week, I’ve got the depth to deal with it.
I even like Jarvis, he looked good vs Man Utd for 4.4 million
Any prediction on Burnley vs Stoke game?
1-0 Stoke
I’d love that, especially if Etherington scores the goal (probably won’t even play)
Hey…new here. Can anyone tell me who my captain might be if I have both Vermaleen and Bent? My preference is set for value. They’re my highest valued.
Vermalen most likely as it goes to form before the GW. A link to your team would help too.
I’m working on that. Thanks for the reply. been reading for a while. just finally signed up.
are`they worth the same ammount at the start of the GW?
i transfer in Milner for Etherington.
should i take 4 points hit to transfer in Collins for Scharner?
thanks
Milner yes, the extra hit no. You already have Dunne and 2 Villa defenders is a bit risky if Villa concede. They have 2 tricky away games first up too. I swapped Dunne for Collins a few weeks back as I thought there is no point having Dunne when you could have a teammate for 2million cheaper.
thanks Jafalad
maybe next week will downgrade Dunne to Collins if i want upgrade Modric to Arteta.
Bugger. Bowyer doesn’t play, Ricketts gets sent off and concedes 4, Hart lets a goal in and to cap it off, the player I outed, Jerome, scores a double. Bugger, bugger, bugger.
More bugger:saw Bendtner’s name in hatrick headlines and then realised it was euro cuppy. Bugger, bugger, bugger.
for a sec i though you were having a go at me.
Nvm seems like you have the same bad luck i tend to have, i tend to get ppl injured or rotated so as i bring them in.
This game is all about luck and less about judgement, in my book.
how does this team look for gw 31:
Hart
Ivan Collins Dawson
Fabs(c) Milner Nzogbia Arteta
Drogba Tevez Bendtner
Is there anyone i really need, lamps and bullard are the only ones that come to mind.
I’d be tempted to captain Drogba this week esp. given the uncertainty over Fabs.
That’s a tasty line up though only missing Rooney and Lampard from the heavy hitters.
im going gerrard , probably the last time i will this season captain a pool player
Gave up on Gerrard months ago. He’s had a mare of a season and don’t see how it can help England in the world cuppy.
yeah ive been thinking of selling Gerrard for Milner but its probably Liverpool’s easiest game of the season and they should look to show some reaction after the Wigan defeat ..
might captain Drogba over Gerrard but scared after Drogba drew blank last GW against MCY when i had him captain
its a line up for the week after, not this gameweek.
Sorry buggu, it’s been a long hot day here in godzone and I’m, er, buggered.
Yes I can see your drift. Tevez will be a good buy and 1 I’d like.
im not very keen on playing Baines this week vs birm away, I reckon everton will concede
i’m thinking of bringing in Gareth Bale for Ricketts, which would mean doubling up on Spurs defenders (Dawson and Bale) for BLA and POR home games.. good/bad idea?
That’s the thing about EVR:they do concede quite a bit and I don’t see the point in investing in a defender at 6 mill that ships goals no matter how many crosses he puts in da box.
I s Bale sure to start? If Spurs concede, then the impact is doubled. They do look like good cs opportunities though.
bale played on the left wing against Fulham , so even with Assou-Ekkoto playing im thinking Bale will start … gonna wait till the game tonight before doing anything though
this article swung me towards bale :
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.co.....90310.html
Yeah I can see how that would float your boat. He played a stormer against us in fa cuppy when he was reintroduced to the side.
He’s the sort of player u need, ay!
he is a great differential too, only 1.1% of people have him !!
what do you reckon about bendtner, worth keeping for another few weeks?
well I sometimes think that footballers are like racehorses…they have these golden patches of form so I think it pays to stay with Bendy this week.
Gutted this week…took an 8 point hit for Pienaar, Bendtner and Nando.
Bendtner misses a truck of chances against Burnley, then bags a hat-trick tonight. Nando draws a blank against and Carragher loses a clean sheet against Wigan – and my closet rival in my mini league has Scharner.
I have hart and ridgewell and they lose a clean sheet 2 minutes into stoppage time…and to rub salt in the wound, guess who my mini league rival has? Jerome…..sheesh love and hate this game at the same time
I feel your pain brother. However, one bad week is followed by a stormer so fill your boots this gwk.
It could be worse, you could have trippled up on Birmingham defenders like some on here.
seriously – triple Birmingham defenders?? that does make me feel better.
To make matters worse I dropped Drogs for Torres, now nervous to hold on to Nando – really want Drogs back – especially as my rival has him…
Triple Birmingham defenders came in last week and was stoppage time away from coming in this week which would have proved a genius move, its fine lines unfortunatly in fantasy football and that’s the way it goes when you take the risk and think for yourself rather then hang off the scouts picks or hang off the contributers every word and let them pick the team for you.
On to next week…
Nah mate. It was just a bad idea
No it wasn’t, after 180 mins there were 2 clean sheets, stoppage time made it look a bad choice, this is all you can do in ff unless you wanna be gormless and just pick who you are told to pick like Pienaar and Bendtner and then cry about it all week afterwards.
I disagree, 3 brum defenders is madness, especially when away. They hardly ever keep cs’s away. Pompey scored as most would expect them to at home against brum, doesn’t matter if it was in the 1st min or 90th.
For what it’s worth, I happen to think it was well worth a punt and unlucky not to come off. Bottom side club, already relegated with their attention now more on the FA Cup? Hardly a bad idea.
Hey all team is
Sorenson (robinson)
Ivanovic, R Johnston, Evra, Dawson (zayette)
Fab, pieneer, Nzog, (bowyer, eagles)
Drog, Rooney, Bendtner
2.2 in bank
1. Zayette to Collins
2. Evra and Bowyer/Eagles for Collins and Milner (4point hit)
3. Evra to Collins (then bowyer/eagles for milner next week)
4. Pienaar for Milner
5. A better option???
Thanks
2.
i think MU will struggle against fulham and liverpool (like usually they did).
Eagles on rotation.
Milner look like a must have for the rest of season,and have double DGW.
i dont pick opt.4 cos you need to cover everton player.
I need to get something off my chest. In fantasy football terms I despise Darren Bent, hate him with a passion. F**k him and the horse he road in on. Together with Richard Dunne, he has caused me no end of pain all season. And as for Bendtner – you were 3 days too f**king late, mate!
Top of the morning to you, chaps. Carry on as you were.
LOL… I dont RD
PS, I may sell Evra too (for Villa def) – no funds to upgrade Dann from my plans !
Top post! I couldn’t agree more, I’m always finding reasons to avoid those 2 yet they keep burning me.
http://fantasy.premierleague.c.....?id=707593
For the coming gw i really want to get out Taylor, but my 1st choice in from Villa would be Friedel.
Ideally maybe Robinson > Friedel and Taylor > A Young, but im like 0.2 short.
Is Downing a really poor alternative in this case?
I have Fabs, but want to hang on to him and see what happens. One option would be to drop Valencia for Milner/A Young, but like i said. Its Taylor i primarily want to kick off the team.
do you think walcott is a certain starter this weekend??
Nope. Even when fit & in form & favour Wenger likes to use him as an impact sub. The fact that Nasri, Rosicky & Arshavin came off easly last night suggests it’ll be those 3 + Diaby and Bendtner + 1 of Denilson, Eboue, Walcott or of course Fabregas if fit.
Current team for this week is:
Sorensen (Hart)
Dunne Insua Alexander Ivanovic (Baines)
Fabregas(c) Taylor Kuyt Pienaar (Eagles)
Bendtner Tevez (Bent)
nb this is assuming cech starts…if not sub off ivanovic for Bent
1.8 in the bank, 0 transfers so far this GW
what is the general consensus on torres and pavlyuchenko? i feel, despite bents hattrick i should bring in one of the two as well as possibly getting rid of kuyt and or taylor for maybe modric?? thoughts?
I assume if Cesc doesn’t play Bent and Ivanovic would both be playing.
Not Torres, Pav or Modric.
Taylor to Milner’s the obvious one. And maybe start Bent instead of Pienaar…