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The Rough With the Smooth – Gameweek 32

Welcome to the latest in our new regular series of articles gathering our community’s tales of joy and woe from the last Gameweek in the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) game. This will look at the key decisions made that proved either inspired or saw overall ranks plummet. We also find out what lessons our community have learned from their key captaincy, transfer and benching decisions over the week.

This week saw unexpected injuries blighting many Fantasy managers’ performance, but for those investing in Crystal Palace’s potent attackers, the week was one to savour.

The Rough

Jaffalicious was left counting the points arrears caused by transferring out two-goal hero Sergio Aguero for Daniel Sturridge, who failed to show up due to injury. To make matters worse he put the armband on the Liverpool striker, with Hazard’s six extra points in his role as vice captain proving scant consolation. “Needless to say I will not be trusting Danny ‘glass legs’ Sturridge again this season,” he said.

With two free transfers the week looked rosy for Nick. After he rejected the chance to swap Tim Krul and Charlie Austin out for Crystal Palace’s Glenn Murray and Southampton’s Kelvin Davies, who both scored well, he opted for a far more costly option. In binning Terry and his clean sheet and Austin he opted instead for Loic Remy and Nathaniel Clyne, both of whom failed to play due to injury and rotation respectively. He only fell 12 places to 450 as a result, fortunately.

Remy also cost MM0507 dear. He swapped out Christain Benteke, who scored the only goal in Aston Villa’s victory over Tottenham, for the Chelsea man. “Don’t be led by fear,” is the lesson he learned after succumbing to the considerable optimism among the community of Remy’s chances of success.

Rupert was left regretting his decision to favour West Brom’s defence to Sergio Aguero’s prowess. In benching the Argentine and backing the Baggies defender Craig Dawson he has learnt “never bench an attacker for a defender,” adding “sure you could get an extra four points from a clean sheet, but the attacker, especially when his name is Aguero, can really punish you. He adds though that drafting in Glenn Murray helped in some part to avoid a complete disaster in Gameweek 32.

For RedLightning nothing seemed to go right. Not only did he captain Harry Kane, who notched up just 2 FPL points, but he also sold the clean sheet-grabbing Laurent Koscielny for the non-playing Clyne and played Tim Krul, who conceded to Liverpool, while leaving another clean sheet-grabber, Villa’s Brad Guzan, on the bench.

Roscola’s week was so rough that he has declared that “I can’t bring myself to log into FPL to see the damage”. He not only brought in Remy, but Sturridge too.

The Smooth

Palace’s sharp-shooting striker Glenn Murray proved instrumental in Somalian’s smooth sailing through Gameweek 32. In dumping Charlie Austin and Swansea’s long term injury victim Kyle Naughton for Murray and Liverpool’s Alberto Moreno, his team was 17 points better off. He said of the week, “what I’ve learned is that if you genuinely don’t believe a player is a good option, as in Loic Remy, then don’t bother with them. I was always bringing in Murray as his form is impeccable.”

The Dimitar Berbatov award for the smoothest set of transfers of the week goes to Rab C Spatburgunder, who took out West Brom’s long-term injury-hit goalkeeper Ben Foster, Charlie Austin and Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla for a point hit and replaced them with Liverpool’s Simon Mignolet, Jordan Henderson and Glenn Murray. Not only is he 19 points better off but he can also field 11 in Gameweek 33 and has seven double Gameweekers already in place for Gameweek 34. His lesson learned is “who needs a Wildcard!”

To see more Gameweek 32 tales of woe and joy click here.

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  1. J0E
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    • 14 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    I was another Remy recruiter. Clyne's benching also hit me badly, as did captaining Kane.

    But Ramsey, Silva and Aguero saved the day...phew.

    Thanks all for submitting your tales of the Gameweek. Really enjoying compiling these articles.

  2. andy85wsm
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    • 13 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    That is some transfer from Rab C Spatburgunder, nicely done!

    1. J0E
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      • 14 Years
      8 years, 11 months ago

      Not sure whether to call that award the Sade smooth operator award or stick with Berbatov...either way Rab C pulled off a blinder there...great forward planning plus instant reward - a rare gameweek indeed.

  3. Dr Dream
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    No mention for my, and Australia's, magnificent 24 pts off the bench for Bolasie...Smoothest of the smooth...

    1. Arrow Marked Drogba
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 11 months ago

      Its cause weve heard it for an entire week now...

      1. Dr Dream
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 11 months ago

        Hehehehe...

    2. Rupert The Horse
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      • 11 Years
      8 years, 11 months ago

      Thats because we all hate you now.

      1. Dr Dream
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 11 months ago

        Booooo...

    3. Punty
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 11 months ago

      If anything Moin's Bolasie in the starting 11 is more smooth than being lucky to get him of the bench:p

    4. Desertbug
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      • 12 Years
      8 years, 11 months ago

      Yeah, smoothest of smooth if you could actually convince anybody that you did it on purpose....
      🙂
      GW34 on the horizon -- NZ vs AUS
      Storm's a coming

      1. Woy of the Wovers
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 11 months ago

        I wouldn't call it a storm. More like a bout of bad wind.

  4. Rupert The Horse
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    • 11 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    I also learned not to go with the popular 'safe' choice on here. I had a really bad feeling about Remy after I got my first Scout Picks (community) selection and Drogba played. Well it happened again.

  5. Spatburgunder
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    • 11 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    @Jonty I'll take the smooth operator award thanks 😆

    I never have such luck normally !

  6. RedLightning
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    • 13 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    Didn't Nick fall 342 places to 1389th?

    1. RedLightning
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      • 13 Years
      8 years, 11 months ago

      Oh, you must mean Nick Bach, who fell 22 places to 450th though.
      Both Nicks brought in Remy and Clyne (but they probably weren't the only ones).

      1. Breadbin
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 11 months ago

        Reply fail on a thread from 3 hours ago?

        1. RedLightning
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          • 13 Years
          8 years, 11 months ago

          Not a reply fail, I just got a bit confused.
          Jonty mentioned in his 'Rough with the Smooth' article above that Nick had brought in Remy and Clyne but had only fallen 12 places to 450th.

          I assumed he meant Triggerlips Nick, who also had a disappointing GW with Remy and Clyne in his squad.
          - Then I realised that it was a different Nick (Nick Bach) who was 450th.
          - And then I realised that Triggerlips hadn't just brought in Remy and Clyne anyway - they were already in his squad.

          So, quite a catalogue of mistakes on my part - I should have checked the facts more thoroughly before posting - and then not posted them! 😳

  7. Woy of the Wovers
    • 13 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    "Told you so" - Capt. Hindsight.

  8. Mr. Perfectionist
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    Talking about rough :-

    I brought in Sturridge & Gomis for Aguero & Austin for my 2 FT! 😎

  9. Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    Daniel flippin' Sturridge!! 👿

  10. FPL P0ker PlAyer
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 11 months ago

    Enjoying listening to the Scoutcast, and adding my Aguero to Remy transfer to tales of woe, but what makes it especially galling is that I've always missed his big scores, by either dropping him a week early, not captaining him in supposed tougher fixtures when the majority does so regardless, and delaying bringing him in by one fateful week, e.g. his 4 vs Spurs. I have exactly the same relationship with Eriksen and Henderson!

    ***FPL Community Challenge*** In an exercise of self-aggrandisement, I compared my points (The Emre Can Can - 29029) total for the past 10 Gameweeks with the top twelve players in the world (Overall League) yesterday - #TooMuchTimeOnMyHands - and was pleasantly surprised to find that my 696 points for GW23 onwards outscored them all. Can anyone better that? Or would I be the #1 player in the world had the season started on Jan 31st?