| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  Donnarumma | MCI | C |
| Up |  Verbruggen | BHA | C, Vs |
| Down |  Raya Martin | ARS | A |
| Up |  Darlow | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Up |  Petrovic | BOU | B |
| Up |  Henderson | CRY | C |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  O’Reilly | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Gabriel Magalhães | ARS | A |
| Up |  van Hecke | BHA | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Hill | BOU | B, £ |
| Up |  Struijk | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Up |  Lacroix | CRY | A |
| Down |  van Dijk | LIV | C |
| Down |  Thiaw | NEW | C, Rest |
| No Change |  Kayode | BRE | B |
| No Change |  Cash | AVL | C |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | A |
| Up |  Semenyo | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Palmer | CHE | C |
| Up |  Tavernier | BOU | C, £ |
| Up |  Ismaila Sarr | CRY | A |
| No Change |  Gordon | NEW | A, OoP |
| No Change |  Rice | ARS | C |
| No Change |  Rogers | AVL | C |
| No Change |  Anderson | NFO | B, £ |
| Down |  Szoboszlai | LIV | B |
| Down |  Wilson | FUL | A |
| Up |  Hinshelwood | BHA | B, Vs, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | C |
| Up |  João Pedro | CHE | A |
| Up |  Welbeck | BHA | A, Vs |
| Up |  Calvert-Lewin | LEE | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Bowen | WHU | B |
| Down |  Thiago | BRE | B |
Mark A senseless dismissal for Robin Van Persie. A seething response from Arsene Wenger. A public apology from Cesc Fabregas. Beyond all the noise, it’s difficult to deny the quality of Lionel Messi and Barcelona, as Arsenal were again beaten in the Nou Camp to end another Champions League campaign.
“Great support from the arsenal fans. I take full blame for the result tonight. One of the worst moments of my life. I apologise.”
This is first time this season loving early price rise. Come on Lamps go up, go up tonight.
Moral dilemma:
There'd been a letter floating around the kitchen for a couple of months addressed to a previous tenant here. Before lobbing it I was nosey and opened it. Turns out to be a £50 gift voucher for M&S.
What would you do?
use it, obviously.
100% say spend. That's what I wanted to hear.
Thief! Thief!
Only kidding
Send it on to me 😉
Guilt and dilemma removed 😉
Technically you've erred by opening someone else's mail, which I've been told before is something you should never do even if you are the new occupant.
If I get stuff for other people now I just return it back to the sender, unopened, with a note on the back saying 'no longer at this address'.
So, realistically, now that you've opened someone else's mail your options are fairly limited, aren't they?
I'm sure you'll enjoy spending the vouchers though.
I've been doing that for years and they don't get the point - new mail goes straight in the bin now.
Should start opening it. M&S vouchers AHOY!
Yeah, I knew I shouldn't have done that- thought someone would mention that. Assumed it was just a christmas card and I was being nosey.
Just have to hope that it's not been cancelled at M&S and they don't rumble me at the counter!
Ooh that moment will be a butterflies in the stomach moment
Have to say, the one thing holding me back at the moment is that it was a gift (maybe a grandad to his gradndaughter, hard to tell) rather than something straight from M&S. Just don't that if I came clean, would M&S refund the original cardholder with the money? Don't know what their policy on giftcard refunds is. If they're going to bin it anyway, then I may as well use it. Otherwise, I would feel bad about it.
Spend it. If he was that concerned he would have set up a re-routing order at the Post Office
Mwah ha ha
😈
KERCHING!!! Dine in for £10 this weekend whilst watching MOTD.
I think because of the price they paid for gordon he'll always be first choice but it by far and away should be mignolet in my opinion.
Although there's a way to go yet, and with plenty of enthusiasm left for this season obviously, I find myself looking forward to picking my 2011/12 team so much at the mo! Just love it when it's all fresh and nobody picks the same names!
Gonna be intense, as will the run in im sure!
Will Boselli be in it? He'll be back from his loan by then.
Im retiring at the end of the season so i can enjoy football for the right reasons again i did the same thing a couple of seasons ago. I like to make a return and win my mates mini league in a george forman-esque fashion (ive won our mini league every year ive entered) every couple of seasons but i think i may finally retire for good this season. Im moving house in the summer and going back to uni e.t.c so it just seems like the right time
the only time i would give up playing FPL is if bristol city got promoted to the prem
You’ll be playing fpl for many years to come then 😉
indeed i will! dean windass made sure of that!
or if i didnt have a chance of winning money, if there wasnt a few hundred at stake id prob just do one where weekly transfers werent involved
Grr dean windass the mel b from bo selecta sounding bugger. How hes got a job as a pundit i really cant fathom!
I was going to say that but felt bad.... You heartless git lol
In the top 200k, close in the league too, so by no means am I losing interest this season, just raring to build another team!
Just put lampard and as worried by his price going up!! everyone can now get onboard!!
Thats a shame - i would love to see if he is still playing where he is and who is in his team
Raring to build another team ?
So what about when your 200k next season aswell, will you be raring to build another team for the season after that...
Please Rate My Team! I am 30 points behind my leader!
Foster - Begovic
Huth - Kolarov - Coleman (Smalling - Walker)
Nani - Arteta - Young - Nasri (Ferguson)
Berbatov - Sturridge - Tevez
I have £1.7m and 1 free transfer. Thanks.
Uefa charges Arsène Wenger and Samir Nasri over comments to ref Massimo Busacca ...
Getting better for Arsenal!
Score prediction for tonight in the big game at Goodison -
Everton 2 Birmingham 0
What you reckon???
1-2 Birmingham shock win for me
Wish id saved the WC for times like this. Team is f**ked. Cant see where im going to score big in the next few weeks.
50 points ahead in mini-league, rivals have similar teams.
What do i do? make my own moves and try extend my lead, or wait and see whether they bring in lampard etc, and then match that?
Zigic in was a disaster, I have coleman, kolorov and barton aswel who im not sure about?
Anyone out there who has held a lead in a mini-league before any advice?? (At the moment im debating whether to sh*t or get off the pot...)
with a 50 point lead you don't have to do anything drastic, but the same rule applies now as it did earlier in the season, forget about matching rivals, just pick the 11 you think will score most every week.
You can afford a few hits along the way with that lead but it is the kindof lead which can be turned over in one week if your captain gets you a 4 and the other has a Defoe 5 or Lampard 4 kindof week.
Steady as she goes basically, Zigic is grand for the bench, Barton is apparently back and fit and is grand for the bench too, Kolaroz and Coleman are gone from my team pretty soon though.
BODs!
Balls Out Differentials
I just did Nani > Lampard. Cost me £1.1M, as I bought Nani at the lowest price of 7.9. I know Nani may not miss too much play time, but I want a differential and Lamps is the only player capable of outscoring Nani, now that he's finding form. But still, 1.1M is a massive hit for one transfer. What's the biggest money drop you guys have ever taken, for one transfer?
It doesn't really matter. It's about the points more than anything, and there's not that many games left anyway.
@Soop
That's exactly why I did it. I want to win my mini leagues and everyone has Nani, so Lamps is the big differential I think may get me to the top 🙂
Lamps is a player capable of outscoring EVERYBODY.
He also usually has one massive game each season (4 goals and I had him captain for both!).
Good Move
Yep, Lamps in form and captained, can rocket you up the leagues, especially as so few have him, at the mo.
Afternoon guys, Safari froze last night on my iphone, so I activated a 'Debug Console' which is at the top of all Safari pages now. It usually says '3 Errors' or something along those lines.
Anyone know if it's any good/necessary?
anyone else think the 5/6 on less than 2.5 goals in the everton brum game is a very decent bet?
tempted to have 60 on it
how can you have a half of goal, forgive my ignorance if im missing something??
u seem to whack quite a bit on mate. u got plenty of cash or just a problem?
used to bet a hell of a lot durin my uni days more than i could afford tbh! drunken chasing was teh worst, goin down the footy on the pi55 at 11am by the time youve lost on teh evening kickoff youd be on the spanish footy just betting to win ur cash back
last 3 years tho having moved out n having bills etc, mrs n all that ive had to be careful so just bet big when i fancy something, been doing pretty well since then
I'd hate to give you betting advice and losing you 60 big ones! It does seem like it could be tight, 2-1 to birm isn't out the question either! Best of luck either way
i have a couple of bets every week but cant afford to do more than a £20er and thats pretty rare. usually a fiver here and there.
aslong as u keep track of every bet u do and look at patterns etc then its fine to bet bigger if u have the cash available
ie i bet alot on bristol city as thats who i support, towards the middle of last season i blew £200 backing them in a month so i stopped. only just started backing them again the last few weeks since r striker returned and made around £350 in 4 games
This is pretty important. You definitely want to track your bets so you can see what is most profitable for you. It's often surprising when you see the bets you should really avoid doing.
I've certainly found that when I've gone on a feeling rather than with my head then I'm far more likely to lose.
I never ever pick the right captain on fantasy cricket. Every time I have multiple players in the same game, I choose the wrong one.
Forget about the cricket. It's affecting your judgement when it comes to FPL.
O'Hara as capt!
Nearly as bad as tevez(c).
The facepalm was for you sir 🙂
He chose O'Hara knowing he wouldn't play, I presume Tevez is emergency captain!
Nope Pfor. Look closely at my gravatar and you will see my tongue in my cheek.
Sooo you and Frosty can fight it out for the facepalm that you are so keen on handing out.
x
Tell me about it. Tendulkar (c) 🙁
Anyone know if Zigic is starting or not, tonight?
nobody knows yet
I would take two goals TYVM. Somehow I get the feeling he's going to get 10 or 20 minutes, and only one point, in doing so, screwing me out of 8 autosub points.
I hope these 2 batsmen see India home. Don't want Yuvraj to come in and steal the MOTM away from Khan!
It would be a bit of a travesty if Khan does win the MOTM award for just mopping up the tail. That said, there isn't really any stand-out player so far.
Seelaar should get it for dismissing Sehwag, Sachin and Yusuf!
Spurs match not on tv?
Am I supposed to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdj9NRzqC4&feature=player_detailpage#t=63s ?
(not sure if time specific link works)
Just a some thoughts in reply to people who say, oh this game's all luck.
1. It's possible that you could set up a team in GW1, never touch it and end up winning the whole thing, since Fantasy Football is essentially a multiple choice competition. The right answer is there if you pick it. Odds of achieving this very small.
2. Experience of mini leagues would say that a person with good FPL knowledge who updates their team will almost always finish ahead of a person with no knowledge who updates their team. And both will triumph over someone who never changes their team.
3. While it's true that a rare person might be outrageously lucky (eg the current leader), for the average person their ranking is a true reflection of their success or otherwise, give or take a few hundred or thousand places!
Yeah this has been discussed a few times. My own opinion is that the game is a fair bit more luck than skill, as you have no control whatsoever of the outcome. You can pick a brilliant differential from your own research and you can be dead right that he's amazing- but if he hits the post 3 times instead of scoring a hattrick it counts for nothing. If your rivals all unthinkingly have Mr Big Bum, the most famous footballer in the conutry who flukily bums in two, then you're screwed.
All you can do is shift the odds in your favour.
spend the voucher mnl- dont mind those gobshites above. it was going in the bin- had it been important, then you would have made efforts to find the former tennant- they didnt leave a forwarding address...you did good, have no qualms. nomar and soop are a bit thick anyway... rather you than some corporation any day of the week. SPEND SPEND SPEND
Sounds like my experience with Arshavin at the weekend. Isn't awarded a penalty and then wrongly has a goal disallowed, then Mr. Boring (Nasri btw) goes and gets the 3 BPs. 🙁
I am of the very firm view that this game is 70% luck, and this isn't coming from someone with a bad FPL ranking (fell from 12,000th to 20,000th odd this week) blaming his "misfortune" on luck, I agree with MnL, but this debate always divides on here!
nasri was the best player on the pitch for arsenal agin sunderland
When I'm doing badly, it's mainly down to luck. When I'm doing well, it's mainly down to skill.
Tosey
seen the news about lansdown stepping down at the end of the season and sexstone taking over as club chairman. he will still be the major shareholder but playing a more back seat role...
dont think i like that idea
funny thing is i said last year i thought SL's main motivation seemed to be getting the world cup down there, since it went to russia hes been less and less in the news and its all been sexstone. the fact hes put his son on the board is good news though as if we didnt have his financial backing wed be screwed!
haha yeh his son absolutley loves city. im a good friend of his.
yeh sl is in jersey alot more now(tax reasons) but hopefully it doesnt disrupt much
Afternoon gents, just seeking for one or two opinions on my team for GW30 🙂
Foster
Djourou Coleman Vidic Huth
A.Young Meireles Arteta
Rooney(C) Zigic Tevez
Gordon Barton Kolarov Nani
I'm going to hold onto Zigic for the forseeable future but in the mean time I plan to do
Berbatov > Rooney: GW30
Gordon > Mignolet: GW31
I'm thinking of chucking out Bentley and Tevez/Torres this week for Bale and RVP?
Good move?
Wait until Bale gets thru his CL game and ManU/Arsenal game is confirmed.
Lamps in for GW 33 is an absolute must.
Not sure how im gonna do it though.
Thinking of (Dependent on fitness):
GW 30 - Jara > Walker - Merieles > Albrighton
GW 31 - Berbs/Tevez > Van P
GW 32 - Nasri > Walcott
GW 33 - Nani > Lampard
Only 4 point hit but really dont wanna lose nani
-1
gw 32
OMG! There is a generated player on my football manager career called nick griffin and hes black! As if i couldnt love footy manager anymore it then throws up a gem like that!
did they fix his come-to-bunk-bed eyes?
hi, does anyone when valencia is back for man u?
He's doing full-contact training again, and has played a behind-closed-doors friendly, but he'll be eased back in slowly.
Predicted 3-1 last night to Barca and won £20 with a 3-0 3-1 bet, so with this one i'm going to say 2-0 2-1 to Spurs.
hi, thinking of swapping giggs and tevez for lamps and carrol. Any thoughts?
RMT please guys:
Foster
Walker Hangeland Luiz
Lampard VDV Downing Arteta
Berbatov Tevez Doyle
8 Green arrows, 10 weeks, 700,000 odd places!
Nice team.
