Our first delve into the members data this week sees us assess the recent displays of Sergio Aguero, Diego Costa and Olivier Giroud and take a look at the “Sherwood effect” on Christian Benteke as Villa prepare for double Gameweek 31. We also check out the form of Swansea and Tottenham’s playmakers as the fixtures turn kind for both clubs.
Why ask for advice if you're going to be resentful of it???
What on earth do you mean, im torn on the decision.....
Was in all likeliness talked out of it last week rightfully. Sturridge could of scored easily."Wanted to do .... got talked out of it..."
Grow a pair, man!
I ignored the advice last week and took a hit to do Boyd to Puncheon. That didn't work out so well. But I did it. Balls out man that is the only way
Absolutely! There's no enjoyment any other way.
You win some you lose some...
Balls firmly out and worked -
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2015/03/12/scout-scribbles-blues-shocked-at-the-bridge/?hc_page=2#hc_comment_9906569
Balls tucked up after being talked out of it -
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2015/03/10/scout-scribbles-welbeck-wins-it-for-arsenal/?hc_page=3#hc_comment_9898178
-Benching Mane was always logical
-honestly I'd have encouraged that Studge>Costa move last week.
We move on eh?But I didn't bench mane. I played him. Hence the balls out and going with gut.
I really think Liverpool will struggle in the next two. So as long as you haven't got more important transfers to make, I'd do it.
I think Liverpool will beat Man Utd. Genuinely.
Yes,
I take it you've Kane/Aguero as others?Yep i do. Thanks
Hard to ignore Giroud only way is to get Terry/Ivan/Haz if you went down that road,
Kane/Aguero/Giroud owner here and I can't see who to make way for Costa?
Aguero it seems but I don't think his season is over yet, Kane is the ultimate enabler so that leaves Giroud... The mans on fire and you can't drop a player on form and in a hot streak so maybe for me Terry....Im getting Terry for the double and will have a Costa Kane Aguero/Sturridge (if he gets a double) for GW34
I would 100000000000% do it. 🙂
That's a 4,000,000,000pt hit. So not for me.
Ask again tomorrow, i'm sure Giggs Boson will talk you to keeping Studge.
Seems like a straightforward move to me . I mean the main reason to own an expensive player is they are a regular captaincy option . If you can't see yourself captaining Sturridge over the next couple of weeks he is not worth keeping .
2 FT's and 0.5 in the bank. Any advice? Obviously Foster is the most pressing concern.
Foster
Van Arnholt - Koscielny - Clyne
Hazard - Sanchez - Eriksen - Coutinho
Aguero - Kane - Austin
Hamer - Boyd - Wollshcied - N.TaylorFoster > Guzan.
Yeah, I've been looking at various replacements and that one seems the most logical. In terms of price and form.
Think I can maybe save the second transfer?PvA would be the next suspect, but with the new manager, you never know. Yeah, save for another day.
I just wanna be really prepared for the upcoming DGW's. Which is another reason for getting Guzan I guess. Thanks for the help by the way.
do we think Rambo will have license to roam so far up the pitch in the PL or was it special case because they desperately needed 2 goals?
also is he back to nailed on now with only PL and FA Cup left? he played 90 vs West Ham..Ignore the nailed on part, Arsenal could rotate at will. I think we'll see both Ramsey and Walcott start against Newcastle.
I dont think he will be nailed, i think Wenger would like him to be nailed but he will be cautious with him due to his injury record. Will still play most though...
Instead of who?
Welbeck i reckon
Ozil will shift out wide with Caz in hole or visa versathis, Welbeck is too one-dimensional and IMO a little out of place in a team full of highly-technical players..
Whose left in the cups?
2/2 here !
🙂1/2.
+2!
where do we check?
You missed qualification by 1pt
both were 30?
You had to get 81pts last week to be in the cups, you got 82pts -4?
AH gotcha..kk thanks Rover
Sorry, 3pts
cheers! always next year 😉
1/2 and feel lucky at that
only in ffs cup and got thro with 32(-4) by 2 points
I could really do with Foster back for GW 33 or I will be without a keeper
We have free transfers 😉
That is true but I have plans for those. We have DGW's to negotiate
What are the chances of Arsenal having a DGW31 now they are out of the CL?...
Hope so, having the dgw before the blank is so much easier to navigate
That is true. Especially when others have their DGW's after you can easily switch to
Yeah...much easier.
I don't care when it is but I would like to know when it will be so I do not do anything daft.
As a non-Giroud owner, I hope it's later...
A) Ramsey
B) Siggy
C) any other 8.6
Ramsey
Siggy
Because he is at least nailed on?
yeah
But he has no one to assist? Gomis is terrible
Oh right. Not sure why you put him as an option then?
There are just so many people sugesting him, but I'm not convinced bringing in either Ramsey or Siggy, but I need to get some differentials in as I'm falling behind in my ML.
Ramsey is probably gonna get a holding role if he starts, due to the fact that Arsenal have far too many attacking opions.
Siggy has proven that he can assist and score goals and I have some faith in him, but now that bony is gone, he is struggeling to perform as good as we know he can be.Atleast you know Siggy will start the games. He might not assist as much, but can still score and looked very threatening vs liverpool with 5 shots. Ramsey isn't a sure starter, so based on that i think Siggy should outscore him. You already have Mane who would probably be other best option. Not really many other standout options
I didn't get to watch the Pool - Swansea game, so thanks for letting me know, made me a bit more confident about bringing in Siggy 🙂
Potentially on pens too, with Bony gone. Although it could also be Gomis. Need to wait and see
Ramsey, just, for me.
Siggy / mane.
Forgot to mention that I already own Mane
Hendo is in Ramsey/Yaya mode too as far as I can see.
Yeah, and some tough fixtures coming up
I know-just throwing him in the mix.
It's gonna be a hard desicion, and I've thought about him, but his fixtures and defensive role makes me doubt him
Fixture proof 😉
If you don't have Mae, Siggy for sure, IMO. Great Gw33 fixture as well fwiw
*mane
RMT
Panti
Clyne Naughton Pva
Mane(C) Eriksen Ramsey Siggy
Aguero Sturridge Costa(VC)
Krul Moreno Lescott Ameobi
Thnx
Is it better to delay your free transfer as late as possible this gw to get more news on dates of upcoming dgw's?
I am, we're very late in the season..no need to really worry about 0.1m, especially considering how rare mid-week price changes have been lately
Think Hurrikane's comment is more about those that did Austin > Giroud, before the DGW was announced (still might be the best move, btw, just don't know how many would've made that move knowing about the DGW).
yeah, but still think it holds true generally speaking.
True dat.
At least wait for City to play tomorrow.
Always better to delay really but yes good advice
I accomplished one of my two pre-season goals in holding my original wildcard until late season.
Next season I will accomplish both and not take a single hit all season.
I believe!Yeah, right!! I've held on to my WC for the last 4 season. Not even close to avoiding hits.
YE OF LITTLE FAITH!
I'm on a policy of only hit if absolutely necessary. and I've taken 3. Suspensions to Rooney & Costa compounded with injuries to Ramsey/Kompany/Aguero all meant I needed 2 big hitters quickly. Two of those hits got me big green arrows as I'd reacted quickly to selling high ownership players.
is absolutely necessary down to not being able to field 11? less? out for a really long time and you'll lose a lot of money?
Absolutely necessary is leaving a 9m+ player on the bench first time round I had 1ft with Roo/Rambo out and second time 1ft with Costa/Adm out. that is some serious cash that can be reallocated
my current injury/out of favour crisis in defence isn't big enough to warrant a hit. been taking out Baird Wisdom et al. one by one.
nice
Ouch. My final GW rank was:
3,132,559
By far from worst. Never got to 3M!That is quite bad
3,211,303 😎
GW rank of 3.4m. My 11 players averaged < 2 points per player.
Terry, Bellerin, Fonte, Hazard, Sanchez, Eriken, Silva, Aguero, Kane ... never seen anything like it!Only one who didn't blank was Lescott for me 😆
Tank god for the beast that is Schlupp
Team looks immense for this GW though ... on paper at least 😉
Yes. Well I hope it does well.
Doing Jones>Zouma last week was dreadful.
Hopefully he starts!How did it look in advance of last week?
Decent but not amazing.
I thought my side looked pretty good. But at least everyone seems to have done badly so you shouldn't have dropped you to far.
Reasonable. Wasn't expecting big things.
Same here McShane for me 🙂
3,224,380 here!
Worst score/week in my FF career
Bellerin more or less nailed on now till Debbie returns?
Hope so.
You gotta think so now, I'm gonna hold and see.
Getting a bit of Deja Vu re Aguero....Seems he is becoming similar to RVP two years ago. Like Aguero this year he went off the boil quite a lot in the second half of the season but nobody wanted to quite believe it.....meanwhile Benteke outscored him by a distance...mmmm...
Just one more week, he will explode.................
Meh, you've never been a fan. Always questioning my total devotion 😛
Just like you he still owes me a lot of pts...Some of these Johnny come lately owners might be in profit but I reckon he needs another four or five hat tricks to pay me back for seasons past...
Except 2 years ago, RVP was 3 years older than Aguero is now.
I'm potentially getting rid this week and just keeping Silva
2FTs with changes in mind, are there anymore news to wait for before pressing the button?
Not looking to get any City players.wait for DGWs
if you own any City or Everton players you should probably wait as well.
that being said, it's late in the season so generally there's no need to rush and you may as well wait until the last day anyways (training injuries are also a possibility)Cheers mate
Hey Wild Rover, did you not captain Mignolet in UFPL then?
😥
Seems I never confirmed sub, left me with Foster 1pt in goal and Kane 2pts capt. Cost me 13pts.
Rookie error 😛Ah Jeez, unlucky.
Lucky to get this far without a mistake tbh, had to happen some time
Done a couple of errors at least, missing deadline mostly. Have to say I enjoy the format.
Me too. Will be my main focus next year assuming they do it. Tough next week as not most are playing gw1
*match day 1
Really, I've got 11 & 7 MD2 on the bench.
Good luck, you're having a great season. 🙂My post confused even me.. I have 4 likely starters for md2 and will prob have to bench the likes of Giroud and Ings md1. Thanks 🙂
thoughts on this team plz?
Panti
Clyne Naughton Pva
Mane(C) Eriksen Ramsey Siggy
Aguero Sturridge Costa(VC)
Krul Moreno Lescott Ameobi
ThnxMissed the games tonight.
Fair scorelines?Blackburn unlucky 😛
I asked this earlier today and didn't get any response, but I'm genuinely baffled why George Boyd has fallen in price this round?
7,000 transfers in
1,000 transfers out
Am I missing something? How does the price rise/fall thing work again??I think he dropped Saturday night due to all the transfers out on Saturday morning being part of last GW transfer stats. See his game week history.
Still, I don't think it is consistent. Guzan has had 104,000 net transfers out in the past 8 GWs and not dropped even 0.1m from 4.7m despite starting the game at 4.5m.The sellers were before his goal, the buyers after
I'd say City have a 20% chance of getting through to the next round. What do you think?
Yeah, I'd say so. They're 10/1 on some betting sites. If they played Barcelona 5 times would they go through once? Possibly.
I say I'd give you 5/1 (20%) they won't 😉
20% would be 4/1
Oh dear.
What have I missed?
Just basic maths fail.
I don't think so.
Just to explain, Gnu, 4/1 means 1 chance in 5 that an event will occur and 4 parts in 5 that it won't. Hence 20% that it will and 80% that it won't.
Not basic maths then. 😉
He's right though.
Hi Gnu, Did you get my mail about the cricket? I imagine you want to be in it?
Hi Trev, absolutely. 🙂
I'm sure I replied to your new e-mail,but also spoke to 4Vets so it's game on. Everything in place or is it still too early?Still too early, but it won't be too long. Interesting call-up for Matt Ritchie, Strachan has clearly been watching Bournemouth. If we do go up, he's in my fantasy team next year!
It is, I've only seen snippets of him so hard to make a judgement at this stage but glad to hear you rate him.
Great if you guys go up 🙂 Do you reckon you'll stand up to the pressures of the run-in?Well we had our bad run in February, so hopefully we can push on again now. We're home to Middlesbrough on Saturday lunchtime, that is a massive game. We have a decent run in after that, so everything crossed!
Good luck, helluva tight at the top 3 from 8 for the automatic places.
Cheers!
3%
That Henderson goal and Liverpool win is as jammy as it gets.
I'll take it though 😎I am off to bed. The only thing to remember is leave all your transfers until the last minute
Then complain when you wake up late Saturday because you got hammered with your boss and ended up naked in a hot tub.
You must have known you were going out and there was going to be a chance of this.
There's always a chance. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Not if you have only seen your manager twice in the last 12 months there isn't
Takes your reasonable advice.
FPL site goes down minutes before the deadline.Okay maybe not the last actual minute. But late enough to collect as much info as possible
Just playing with you!
Is what the boss might say.
Night ladsThe boss does what he wants!
Night.
How would this sound?
Zouma + Sturridge
out for
Ivanovic + Giroud
for -4?
Or save the transfer?If you're first substitute is good in case Zouma does not play save your FT. If not the moves are very reasonable.
Yep I have decent subs so Zouma isn't that much of a problem 🙂
I'd keep the FT in case of injuries over the international break.
Or
Jagielka + Cazorla
out for
Ivanovic + SiggyNot for a hit.
Cool, cheers AA7
What is Koeman on about? Saints reeling and he thinks it's kosher to advertise himself for a big job?
Cringe.Foster to drop tonight?
No, I don't think he will drop at all, unless he is the only playing keeper then players have far more to worry about
mane ramsey eriksen siggy strong enough mids?
hazard is the one id worry about....a must for the double
Cazorla -> Siggy for a free? 🙂
if no other pressing transfers then worth a shot
I prefer Downing personally. And I wouldn't make that transfer. Cazorla's earned his place compared to Siggy.
Masterful article Paul, cheers!
Any thoughts? 1 FT 1.2 ITB
---------------------------- Pantilimon ( Myhill) ------------------------------
----------Clyne----Azpilicueta----Hutton---Bellerin--- Dawson------
--------Mane----Hazard-----Sanchez-----Silva-------Boyd------------
-----------------Giroud----------Aguero------------Kane-----------------
i was thinking Hutton----->Toby double Saints defenceI'd do Azpilicueta>Terry for the long-term. He's nailed on for the rest of the year and presumably the double gameweek. You can field a good back three this week with confidence too.
mane (c) brave or stupid?
Nothing wrong with the idea
Yoshida > Allderweirder ?
Yes, he's a bargain at 4.7 million
Yay
9 years, 1 month agoWanted to do this transfer last week but got talked out of it....
Sturridge -> Costa ......... still an unneeded vanity transfer? Studge next two are tough and hes not in great form.....
Thoughts? Cheers.