No.

28 games without a clean sheet, and counting, mad

I like your thinking, have the same budget mids myself, only trouble is GW8, after that you have a decent pick of players each week.

Certainly not mad. These guys are in great form and scoring plenty of points.

Not really. It seems to be what quite alot of people are doing.

but, personally, I dont like to have more than 1 or 2 cheap mids, and have 3 big hitting mids if you can count Eriksen as one too.

Are you looking to upgrade your defence or attack with this plan?

seems like the way to go at the moment, although you could upgrade one to Paulinho at some stage

No but good luck picking the right one to play as you can see from my last effort.

2 Prems, 3 quality budgets looks like a good squad structure currently with the lack of mid price midfield options. Considering something similar myself once the Ramsey train goes off the rails. Whittingham feels the most lightweight of the 3, maybe Amalfatino will maintain his form.

Livepool easy

I'm leaning towards Liverpool , captaining Suarez. Although, I'm quite tempted to go the other way with Rooney

Liverpud. Suaz could go very big v Palace.

Depends on the player. In this order

RVP
Suarez
Sturridge
Rooney

Save.

B. You can still get a decent team out w/out Brady et al.

I would probably do (A) and make the switch to make sure you get a team out but just not sure how well Erik will score

First thought was to remove Kim and Mirallas (although wait to see if he plays).

Michu appeals to me as you can then bring someone in who will have great fixtures for the next 5-6 weeks. Pity you can't swap Eriksen for him as he's underperforming imo.

Ah.. Eriksen owner 😉
Michu is the best premium mid to own at the moment. i'd do that move in a heartbeat. though Soton are tight at home Michu will pay you back over the next couple

GW 10 SUN last i heard.. Perfect timing in other words.

Hey Sports guy.. Tottenham's fixtures are decpetively bad for Clean sheets.. While WHM, HULL, NEW look primed for CS's.. avl(Benteke back) eve mci MANU are prob the worst games possible. that's 3 chances in the next 7. imo Swansea may keep more CS's in those(though tottenham have been tight) or Terry. Just a thought.
If going ahead -
No issues last night but you might as well wait for the press conference in 8 hours.
Barfa rotation threat discussed on last page

what post? i did something similar to that a couple of days ago 🙂

I tried to get my head around the analysis but i'm a visual person so it was abit of a mess, no offence Blue Baggers! 🙂

So i made this gantt-chart type graphic to make it visually digestable at a glance. Hope it helps. Credit to BlueBaggers for the work of course!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4whcaoip53gtdqb/Fixtures%20FPL.pdf

Neither would I. Sell him then. May as well bite the bullet and get Ramsey in.

WBA will keep it tight.. they looking set for a good run. Sturridge for me.. Palace looked good defensively the first few games but they are all over the place now 🙁

Sturridge

Colo to Terry? he should cover your hit this week so you wont have to waste a free next week AND is 100 times a better option than Colo. Wait for news on Rio., but Coleman is an able replacement. Nasty should start most games

I'm sure he'll play. Can't see the fuss personally. Moyes has slready said he'll be ready for the weekend.

I'm sure he can play. Of course they may decide to milk it and get him out of international duty, that's the only worry.

I tend to us the team stats rather than fixtures.

Yeah, i think this is sometimes overlooked by people. Whether the side is attacking or defensive is huge

Yes for the suarez deal this week. Do it. There is a chance suarez could get the highest score of the whole season this gameweek and that's not even an exaggeration. If you don't take that hit you could regret it big time.

As for the gw8 plan - Cross that bridge when you come to it.

Out of interest, any reason RVP isn't in there?

I don't own him but would rate him top 3 captains this week objectively.

I thought you might have given up after your last effort 😉

Amen to that

A by a longshot.

A, but I honestly prefer paulinho as an fpl player (nowhere near as an actual footballer mind you)

A) beyond doubt

You already have Suaz. Don't think you need to do any trades tbh. Decent team. Knowing yer luck, HBA will probably bang a goal in this week.

A

Yes and no. Have to admit I've certainly been lured into chasing individual players 'cause of their past weeks points. And convinced myself that their fixs are probably decent enough. Still, usually try to make individual decisions focused on the fixtures to come considering the players form.

Actually regarding Ramsey. It was a hard call to pick him up this week, even if his fixs are decent. Just the fact i'm ever so late on the train made me want to look elsewhere. Swallowed my pride though and got on board.

The difference is we sometimes outsmart ourselves

There are a lot of ways to think about the game longterm whether it is fixtures, value for money, stats, etc.

I'd agree the main thing is not simply chasing last week's points and looking beyond 1 gw. Saying that, I brought in ramsey and suarez this week!

Chasing points is sometimes chasing form.

Hmmm....there's plenty of points chasing on here though. Two goals and it seems that nearly every blighter has to put that player in their team.

We are massively guilty of chasing last weeks points. Take Baines for example, he scores 2 goals and for one week there's a massive clamour to get him in. He doesn't score the next week and it all dies down again. It's not like its a huge surprise he can score from free kicks but the bandwAgons roll regardless.

Why would you even bench most of those players?!?!?!?!?

Paulinho. DM playing a solid West Ham defence. Still yet to deliver imo

Wba should keep it tight so maybe ramsey. OR yaya who i'm not convinced will get much vs Everton. That is a lot of so called DM's in your team.. look to downgrade someone soon or this will be a weekly question

Oscar.

Have to bench someone I suppose haha. Paulinho or Moses I reckon

Very tough obviously. Personally I'd bench Paulinho

nights aqua

Sleep well 🙂

Your sleeping now ?

Personally I'd go for Turner over Shaw. Simply because you have Michu

Coleman is not Baines.
Just clearing up this point.

Pick someone else then. He is the stand out cap choice of the gw though.

Also seems intelligent with the ball. Makes good decisions and doesn't seem to be in a hurry. You could say he's aware of his surrounding. Kinda like Zizou or Litmanen was.

The points are coming.. sminkypinky promise 🙂 .. Check out the hot topic i'd posted earlier regardin his average positioning etc. Cant be bothered to post it again but he plays in the same average position as soldado. The modric comparison is just lazy

I agree that you should bench Clyne. Simply because you have Michu

The Barkley issue is rotation. If there is for example 30 percent chance every game he will start on the bench, then his scores will be 30 percent lower.

Surprising since Barkley is 5th in their watchlist with no rotation risk tag.

It's interesting - my entertain level increases in inverse proportion to how well I'm doing. Unfortunately this season is very entertaining so far...

I try to steer away from boring players eg Brady and go for a bit more flair eg Taarabt haha

Also steer away from my main rivals players unless they are necessary

I try my best points wise. I support Newcastle, and I've no Newcastle players in my team. yet I would rather see them win every game. It just makes the dull makes better, like you say Stoke v Norwich. it's also good banter with makes. It's hard to have proper banter with them unless your team is facing theirs, which doesn't happen too often. (Most of my mates are either Utd Liverpool or Arsenal fans)

*bleeding*

As far as I'm aware he continued playing after the head injury?

Played with it with no problem.. should be fine. there will be a press conference today either way

HBA

Barkley