With Liverpool due to bring Gameweek 24 to a conclusion with their Anfield clash with Fulham tonight, it’s time to cast our minds back to the weekend to give our Members a closer look at some of the key performances that may have slipped under the radar…
Team is currently
Hart (Stockdale)
Hangeland, Rafael, Djourou, Coleman, Walker
Nani, VDV, Adam, N'Zog, Fabs
Tevez, Carroll, Berbs
2.2 in the bank, 1 Free transfer.
Was considering waiting til the deadline day and doing Adam > Theo if Adam goes.
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holloway is going to play 'the price is right' for a while. adam wont leave blackpool soon.
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will still don't know if carroll will be out for two months... you should wait also to check that out....
Open ControlsYeh, I've been holding off on Carroll because I've had him since the start and 3-5-2 hasn't been a problem since he's been out.
Striker of choice at around 7m or less?Open Controlsodemwingie
Open ControlsOdem this week and drop one of the midfielders?
Was otherwise considering Hart + Carroll > Gordon + RVP but with Sunderlands upcoing fixtures and Stockdale's probablity of being dropped, not so sure.Open Controlsstockdale will be dropped next week, sunderland have bad fixtures. just carroll>odemwingie looks good. i'd keep hart if i had him
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Last post got lost??
Right its 100% wildcard time now.. Need help BADLY!!
Thinking of:
Hart Foster
Huth Kelly Coleman Djourou Evatt
Brunt Ferguson VdV Nani Adam
Berbatov Van Persie Tevez
Keeping Brunt in for this GW
Kelly and Djourou should play
Evatt as BP should keep a CS against West Ham
?????Open Controlswouldn't count on the evatt cs...
ferguson good for bonus, but nothing more than that... you should better wait to TGW for birmingham to get it...
imo I wouldn't go for hart (unless you already have it) too expensive... but maybe it's just me...Open ControlsMy current team is:
Hart Soderburg
Baines Alcaraz Evra Crainey Skertl
Brunt Bale VDV Nani Adam
Tevez Bent Carroll
As you can see it is a mess and hence the fact that I have only got 69 so far for the GW and only have Skertl to play again... 🙁
So in essence I badly need to change the whole team and feel now is the best time so I can have 2 subs ready for the DGW...Open ControlsI'm going to write the options you should consider...since I don't know your budget you'll have to choose the ones which you can afford.
foster; robinson ; hart ; Jaaskelainen
rafael ; djourou ; walker ; murphy ; coleman ; kelly ; bardsley (rough fixtures though)
VDV (wouldn't recommend to have both VDV and Bale); adam (if he stays) ; fabs ; nasri ; walcott ; nani ; cahill ; malouda
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evatt? oh please.
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Evatts a great little benchwarmer... useful to wheel out for week 27 dbl and i might even play him next week vs WHM
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Surely Murphy is a better option.
Cheap in a team that can actually defend.
Or go Walker.
Fail to see how Evatt can be a good option.Open ControlsHow many clean sheets have blackpool had this season?
How many clean sheets have brum had this season?Open Controls
why would you want a benchwarmer when you are on wildcard? pick 15 proper players. evatt isnt the solution
Open Controlsmore to spend on the 11 you actuall want to play... i put him in using last weeks wildcard... didn't play him though. Already have 2 birmingham players.
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Evatt is 4,3. With the same money you could have Djourou or Kelly who you would actually want to play. And there are even cheaper options like Murphy, Walker, Wilkinson, Givet...
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RMWCT - GW 26 to be played and saving the transfers for GW 28
The main change is no Nani. I had to risk it. I don't like his out put, his form ,the fixtures and Valencia, hoping to be back.
Foster* (Begovic)
R.J*, Murphy*, COleman*, Kolarov, Kelly
Fabs*, Cahill*, Brunt*, DVD*, Adam*
Berbaflop, Tevez, RVP*
Missing 0.1 if I need Nani back, but hoping to make that 0.1 somewhere.
Opinion,
Cheers,Open ControlsWhen?
Subbed once, rested once.Open Controls
Since GW13 he's been parked on the bench three times, subbed off three times. One of those he was 3 minutes short of collecting of collecting points for a clean sheet.
Open Controls2 of those times he was injured/ill.
He was only 'rested' (by choice) once, in the saem week Tevez was rested - hardly conclusive.
He got subbed off yeah, only once that actually mattered to fantasy managers - that's just bad luck. Tevez gets taken off most games but it's not gonna stop you picking him is it?
The idea that his place isn't safe isn't in keeping with what we've seen at all. It's an idea that is often overstated on this site.Open Controls
Kolarov will play I believe is better value than Rafael. I watched him he is goal threat and has set pieces in him, I believe that there is a possibility even to take penalties cause Tevez is missing them lately and Barry could not be on the pitch. I like his fixtures.
Etheringhton is planned yes I will have cash for him in the bank he will be a replacement for Brunt cause I don't like WBA fixtures after the double.Open Controls
I wish i could afford that team. i like it. i'm keeping kolarov. only point is watch adam if he leaves Bpool.
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are you mental thinking ur season is over?,,unreal rank,some people just don't know how good they have it!
Open ControlsI was furious after that Berbaflop 5 goals. I am changing it, needs to be refreshed. Thanks lads.
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I am confident for them till the end of the season so never mind the double. Actually if Ars are gonna miss GW 28 I am gonna have one GW punt of Malouda/Lamps
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You're ranked in the top 3,000. Quit with the whinging would be my advice!
Open ControlsOk Bubbles I will accept. I will change my nick name.
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I think I'll be in Norway for the GW 28 deadline. I doubt there will be internet.
I may have to trust my brother with my team 😕Open Controls
why would there be no internet in norway? its a really modern country
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Can someone clarify the fixture situation to me for gw28?, a bit of a mess looks to be on the cards with the Carling cup and im trying to be the best lil boy scout that i can be and get all prepared n stuff.
and please don't be throwing links at me to fpl fixture list.
cheers in advance for helpOpen Controlsright now there will be ifs and buts. wait until tonights birmingham game then it will be clear.
Open Controlsi know that has a big influence but in general whats the jizzy jazzy?
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Open ControlsWas angry with your sarcy reply,,,,however that awesome jazzy melody soon remedied that,nice link!
Open ControlsSorry - but I thought you might like it! 🙂
(ARS tot)
AVL BLA
BIR che
BLA avl
BPL wlv
BOL new
CHE BIR MUN
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FUL mcy
LIV whm
MCY FUL
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NEW BOL
STK WBA
SUN eve
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WBA stk
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What keeper combos are people thinking of having for the run in to the end of the season?
Foster and Robinson aren't a great choice but they've done pretty well for me so far this season. Might be time to change it though with the wildcard coming up.Open Controlsfoster begovic good rotation imo
Open ControlsFoster Gordon for me, after 28 they rotate pretty well.
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Indeed. Althoug their home/away rotation gets interrupted in GW35 you can still gett new WOL whm out of the last 3 games. Pretty decent. I'll go for that combo in my wc.
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http://premierleaguefantasy.blogspot.com/
Scroll down to 'Goalkeeper pairs'.Open ControlsI like that site, pretty informative
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Fabianski/Begovic are near perfect.
Foster, Gordon, Robinson are other options.Open ControlsProceed with caution regarding Fabianski. I'd echo Chamakh that's comment below.
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Im just going with a Cech, VDV or Hart. If Szczesey keeps his number one it will be him. With cheap options like Kelly, Djourou, Rafael, Bosingwa, Kolarov available from the big clubs i would rather have a good keeper and just play him every game.
Open ControlsVDV? That should obviously be VDS 🙂
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If I was a manager, I'd spend the whole season biiding £1 for every player on the teams I faced each week.
Apparantly this would unsettle the players and cause the other managers to flip out about undervaluing their players.Open Controlsits like barca bidding 7m for bale
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Is rafael playing nxt week ?
Was o'shea in the subs against blackpool ?
Torres or Rvp ?Open ControlsRafael is out of soton game with concussion.
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Where's MMW at?
Thinking of buying Bollinger or Moet for valentines (if I can find the cash), but not sure which is best or if they're worth it.Open Controls
Bolly is much nicer than Moet imo
Open ControlsHere. The answer is no, in my opinion ...
Open ControlsNot worth it? Bolly was £40 and Moet was £30.
I actually really enjoyed that Taste the Difference Prosecco over xmas - went through 4-5 bottles in the end.
But I thought it might be nice as a sort of grand gesture. Donna is notoriously unfussy about wine - stuff that I'd send back, she claims to like.Open Controls
i got a nice bottle of mumm from sainsburys on offer for just under 30
Open ControlsAre you near a Nicholas?
http://www.nicolas.com/page.php/en/178_287_934_vicomtedecastellanesaintandrebrut.htm
Top stuff! 🙂Open ControlsNever heard of that place!
Thanks for the advice thoOpen ControlsWhere are you again -Bristol?
Open ControlsWe have an Averys, but I don't know if it's a shop any more.
Open Controlshttp://www.averys.com/article~id~AV0497500F~brand~AVERYS~mscssid~DD86C31F008D4B0195F6DA79B4E560F2.aspx
Hmm. they have a Grande Annee 2000 Bollinger...Open Controls
Crap and expensive ...
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I know, thats why girls like it. Plus the pretty metal box.
Anyway, on good / bad wine. Surely taste is in the tounge of the beholder. I dont like Mushrooms, some people do. You like Cinsault, some others wont.
The producer, the story, the location, the soil, the grape is all very clever marketing to add value to the inflated cost of expensive wine / champagne. Taste is taste.Open Controls
Quick question while I'm on a wildcard...
A) Lampard and Adam
or
B) Malouda and Tevez?
A) would mean I'd have a cheapish striker (Carroll, Elmander etc. about 6.7) alongwith Berb and RVP, and B) would make me have one very cheap midfielder (e.g Ferguson)
Rest of midfield is VDV Nani Fabs.
Anyone? CheersOpen Controlswhat gameweek will cahill be back?
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After the Utd game, i would have no problem with playing Friedel every game up until the last 2 GW's. Might do Reina - Friedel after a GW, not a fan of rotating keepers this season.
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Teams for GW 25?
Open Controlsomg! villas fixture list is focking amazing! hello ashley young
Open ControlsCrikey, you're not wrong there actually.
Gonna get Walker in for sure, might go with Young too.Open ControlsIs Walker assured of starts? Isn't Clark better value?
Open ControlsI think he will be when fit. I'd rather back Walker sicne i don't know much about Clarke and i doubt he will be as good going forward.
Gotta go with what you think though.Open Controls
Which midfielder u gonna sell in order to get Young?
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Kakuta to Fulham.
Reckon he will get into the team?Open ControlsWouldn't be going there if that wasn't the plan.
Open ControlsI mean he might get some minutes but not sure he's going to start.
Is he OOP as well? He's listed as a Mid but Sky Sports keep calling him a forward.Open ControlsHe did at the start of the season? In fact jsut had a look and he's played most of the season 1225 minutes...
What do Fulham get out of it if he doesn't play? What do Chelsea get out of it if he doesn't play? What does Kakuta get out of it if he doesn't play?Open Controls
is Kakuta any ggod/worth considering?
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Just a little reminder to all Members - the Members Cup is open for registration in the Members Area. You don't automatically get entered you have to sign up for it.
Look forward to knocking you out/whingeing at you 🙂Open ControlsSomething went wrong when I pressed submit. I'll try again when I get home, this browser has a bad habit of screwing things up.
Open ControlsIf u have a loan of a tenner Atilla, i'll soon wipe that smile off your face!
Whens the non members cup 2 start!?Open ControlsYou don't get one in the cheap seats, be grateful for what your given young man. 😛
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I'm in! 🙂
Quite like to get a regular on here for the banter side of it.Open ControlsFor the Members cup yes, there's already been a general cup for the riffraff. 😛
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Is Berbatov worth getting in??? Not sure I can handle his goal drought that tends to follow a brace or two...
Open ControlsYou'd have to have some pair on you to boot him out now.
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Better than Rooney's permanent drought..
Open ControlsDon't have him, looking to get of Roon, just not sure whether to jump on the Berb bandwagon as it seems to mis-fire for too many games before exploding...
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With the exception of Carroll, ALL of the strikers this season are like this. Jesus!
Open ControlsNot to the same extent. Tevez has been more consistent, and RVP is looking like he will be if he stays fit.
Open ControlsI didn't say he was consistent.
Note - MORE consistent - which he is.
Hence why i said 'Not to the same extent'
the point is anyway that with famine and feast players liek that you need to be on board when they're feasting. Non berbs owners have obviously missed that boat so i don't think there is much to be gained from jumping on it now.Open Controls
And others. The issue will be do I get RVP / Tevez etc instead. To have Berbatov when he goes on a 3 game run with doing nothing, which he will, those, no doubt, will be the weeks I give him the captains armband.
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That's my feelings. I'd rather get on someone who scored regularly (Tevez). Can't be doing with the 2's and 1's from berbs.
Feel like i've missed his big ones so no point getting on board to share the low ones with everyone else. When he does score big they'll all have him too. Rather back the players i've backed and stick with them (for me - Tevez, RVP (soon) and Carroll (Maybe Odim soon)).Open Controls
My thoughts exactly. I'm gutted I didn't have him for the double but just have a feeling that if I finally ditch Caroll, Berba will stop scoring!
Open ControlsCorrect me if im wrong but did the drought not coincide with Rooney being out? Rooney + Berba = big points for Berba, I'm keeping now.
Open ControlsIf I already had him I'd definitely keep him. As I don't I do need a bit of shifting to get him in and sod's law then says he gets me 2 points for the next few weeks
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I think hes gonna have a little dip in form over the next few fixtures. I did actualy think that drought would start last night. And really he wasnt in the game until Blackpool totaly ran out of steam at the end of the game.
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if a player gets concussion does it say somewhere he automatically misses next 2/3 games/weeks?
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Open Controlsi thought i heard/read this as a precaution or something, head injury and all that
Open ControlsLogical I suppose - but very doubtful.
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exactly and if u get athletes foot you are not allowed near a football stadium for even numbered gameweeks that fall on the half moon of Venus during the second quarter of the new potatoe season
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Berba and Brunt or Nani and Odemwingie for WC?
Open ControlsIf you could only play one defender with GW25 in mind, who would you play?
Open ControlsGotta be an Arsenal or perhaps a chancy Skrtel.
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Which combination looks better:
Nasri
Drogba/Berb/Van Persie
or
Fabregas
Drogba/Carroll/Van Persie (if Carroll is alive)Open Controls
myself and a friend of mine came to a great point yesterday on the whole Gray/ Keys saga-
we were saying how, ever see that show 'Take me out'? where women basically take shit about the bloke for ages etc etc, real sexist derogatory shit at times, and how a show with blokes all ogling over a bird and saying X y and Z about her would just never happen on TV.
This whole sexism thing is pure bollox if you ask me and they were just being lads,and joking about shit that most lads joke about, JOKE about, just like women joke about how men can't do two things at once and so on..
And as far as the lineswoman is concerned, of all the professions in all the world,she had to pick being a lines 'person' ? She knew something like this would happen eventually. If you ask me, it was the FA looking for more controversy because they know that the only thing that keeps the game going (no goal line tech, video reffing etc) and sells papers, and keeps people talking about what are, for the most part, shite pieces of entertainment to watch. i actually feel sorry for the lineswoman, cos she's been used as something a pawn in my eyes.
had the powers that be only watched the following part of this clip (please fast forward to 1 minute 23 seconds if it doesn't automatically take you there), NONE of this would ever have happened, and we'd still have Andy gray to laugh at.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6498959850449025437#t=1m23sOpen ControlsYou cannot tell me Richard Keys does not come across as an utter desperate dickhead in this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPJ0Ys-7ANY
Its not like they are all laughing and joining in, they all look uncomfortable.
Quite often PCness annoys me, but certainly not in this instance.Open Controlscompletely agree on keys, twit
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cant watch the vid in work, but v good point.
Open ControlsRidiculous.
Banter is banter but if she wants to be a linesperson she should have the same opportunity as anyone else. High profile media types aren't the ones that should be knocking that. If it's between mates then fine but he was representing sky.
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Hey all..Is O'Shea likely to slot in at RB while Rafael is out?
Open ControlsThe midfield is becoming a mine field again, so many options:
Fabs / Nasri / Walcott - great fixtures & form.
VdV - Mr Relaible but possibly looking tired & has champions league distraction.
Cahill - fixtures & plays high up the pitch
Young - see Cahill
Nani - done fantastically upto now but Valencia coming back may mean moving to unfavoured left side.
Adam - reliable again but maybe on the move
Malouda - Chelsea picking up again possibly?
Dempsey / Nzog - solid FPL players, poor fixtures tho.
Brunt / Dorrans - good short term fixtures
What's everyones thoughts on who are the people to have?!Open ControlsIm going for
fab cahill nani vdv barton
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You've overlooked Etherington in there, he's got some v decent fixtures coming up.
I'm going with..
Fabs / Nani / VdV / Etherington / Adam
Then changing Adam to Brunt if Adam leaves / doesn't play.Open Controls
Nani > A young?
Open Controlsi'm thinking its time to say bye to nani after a long stint in my team....
maybe malouda worth looking at also?Open Controls
Check out this one of Richard Keys asking Redknapp "did he smash some ex - bird of his",,,you can see Souness kicking Keys to make him shut up at the end!,,,Quality Tekkers,,Keys looks like such a smug Git!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX7noqN6SOIOpen ControlsI have responded more politely to your question above ... 🙂
Open Controlsdamn you Atilla ,,beat me too it,,,,just realised!
MMW-awsome reply,,cheers mate
still got the jizzy jazzy dingle in my head,,sweet!Open Controlsso basically,
arsenal spurs is now off as they qualified,but mite be on the wed nite
if bir win they have no game,and che just have man u
if wham win ,their game with lpool will be off.
Am i missing anything there?Open Controlsi know ya cheers ,just tryin to get a fix on the situation as we are now,facup is bound to facup everything aswell!
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Having used the WC as soon as it was available I'm regretting putting in nasri and fabs rather than fabs/nasri and RVP. Team is currently:
Hart (Stockdale)
Kelly Djourou Rafael (Coleman Carr)
Nani Fabs Nasri VDV Adam
Berb Dzeko (Carroll)
Also regretting the gamble on Dzeko. Thinking Dzeko->RVP but not sure who to switch Nasri to, any ideas who would slot in well? Currently looking at Dempsey and Young, anyone else?Open Controlsimo
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chelsea utd in gwk 28 at risk
from utd site
Please note the away game at Chelsea is subject to neither team being involved in an FA Cup 5th round replay. Should both teams be knocked out of the FA Cup prior to this date the match may be placed on to an FA Cup weekendOpen Controls
*poof*
I'm back.Open Controlslol, hope the going's good for you mate 🙂
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