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Captain Sensible – Gameweek 24

31 January 2014 1546 comments

In Tommy We Trust

Our Gameweek regular for members is rolled out once again ahead of tomorrow’s deadline. Liverpool’s trip to West Brom sees Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge place highly in the Captain Poll, whilst United’s visit to Stoke also supplies our analysis with a couple of popular contenders. Arsenal’s home game against Palace also comes into the reckoning, whilst we also unmask this week’s “Captain Unsensible” and cite the statistics to back up our bold punt:

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Connor's Calling

12 years, 5 months ago
Is RvP worth stretching for if on WC?

currently going with Rooney as only ManU cover...
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1. Epic Fail
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Make a team with and without him and see which you like best.
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2. Connor's Calling
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Effectively:
  
  Eriksen + RvP
  
  or
  
  YaYa + Rooney
  
  (love the look of City's fixtures)
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You Must Be Jokin Ere

12 years, 5 months ago
Januzaj & 4.6m to who for a 4 point hit?? (max of 9.8 to spend)

Current other midfielders are Silva, Lallana, Gerrard & A.Johnson?
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1. BeachBadger
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Mata?
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  1. You Must Be Jokin Ere
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    Might leave that to next week and see how Roo, RVP & Mata linev up together tomorrow first.
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    1. BeachBadger
      
      12 years, 5 months ago
      Fair enough. I'd want a chelsea mid too(though not for this week) so maybe Oscar for the long run?
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The Chosen One...

12 years, 5 months ago
Januzaj > Lallana for a hit?
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1. Chris_White
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Depens who your backup is
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2. Tobiathan
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Wilshere to Lallana for hit here, so I say go for it mate! May he reward us 10 fold for our hits!
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Chris_White

12 years, 5 months ago
Lallana or Mirallas?
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1. Dr Dream
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  both
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2. Tobiathan
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Lallana for me
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3. Obi Wan Elokobi
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Lallana, nailed on
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4. don parcheesi
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Lallana
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5. bitterandstout
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  lallana
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6. La Roja
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Mirallas
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7. Kevin Twine
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Lallana.
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8. Chris_White
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Cheers fellas, looks like I'll have to get in Lallana the week after I got rid on WC 😆
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9. Assisting you all day
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  lallana
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10. BeachBadger
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Throw Eriksen into the mix too 😉
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TheSteady ¤ Wines th…

12 years, 5 months ago
Marshall(NOR)
Koscielny(CPL)-Azpi(mci)-Ward(ars)
Hazard(mci)-Lallana(ful)-Eriksen(hul)-Mata(sto)
Sturridge(wba)-Suarez(wba)(C)

Bench: Mannone(new) ¤ Coleman* ¤ Chester*

*Injured

SHOULD I take a hit to get in an other defender for Chester and then bench one of Ward/Azpi?

Or leave it? 🙂
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1. Connor's Calling
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  leave it imo
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0thebrodie

12 years, 5 months ago
Kostas Mitroglou Thoughts?
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1. SW6
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Well I'm excited, equally as excited about Holtby
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  1. 0thebrodie
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    Fulham fan?
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  2. don parcheesi
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    Holtby could be a great late-season differential
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  3. Tmel
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    +1 I have hope we can survive again!
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SW6

12 years, 5 months ago
The new Bernabeau? 😯

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25978150
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1. Epic Fail
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  They should ust that money to try and buy Messi.
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2. RabMac
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Pretty nice stadium but you can't beat Firhill with the rivers of pish at the bottom of the stands. 😉
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Sif

12 years, 5 months ago
RVP a good choice for Aguero? Had to do Lukaku > Dzeko, couldn't afford Sturidge.

RVP/Suarez/Dzeko ?
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Freshy

12 years, 5 months ago
Rambling about on the previous thread

Ya know every match seems to be cold and raining. If I'm a World Cup player with a niggling injury I might be tempted to play it up abit. Seeing Kun hobble off its obvious he came back too early, He could have torn something and be out thru the summer.
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1. don parcheesi
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Someone was saying something similar about the way Moyes will handle Rooney & Rvp
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  1. Freshy
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    RVP was who I had in the back of my mind
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hackneylad

12 years, 5 months ago
Aguero and Sturridge --> RVP and Adebayor

Madness or genius? Have Suarez too, obviously, but don't think that Liverpool are going to keep racking up 3+ goals a game so continuing to double up seems risky. Plus have to do something about Aguero.
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1. Think Tank
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  I have something similar - RVP, Giroud, Suarez.
  
  I think RVP(c) at home to Fulham next week could be dynamite.
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don parcheesi

12 years, 5 months ago
Is Fonte (5.1m) worth it over Yoshida (4.0m)?
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1. JK - Cønt ⭐
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  For now, no, long term yes
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Jafooli

12 years, 5 months ago
Rooney or Sturridge?
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1. Connor's Calling
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Roo if you have Sua
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2. Epic Fail
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Sturridge.
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3. Donnie Brasco´s
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Rooney start next week against stoke????Is he 100 % fit?
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Iceman

12 years, 5 months ago
Who to start?

Puncheon or Noone?
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1. Connor's Calling
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Noone this week
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  1. don parcheesi
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    agreed, and if Zaha does displace him straight away, punch isn't bad back-up
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2. Whazza
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Noone
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  1. Iceman
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    Cheers
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cjhewitt92

12 years, 5 months ago
Best way to replace Agüero.

Currently have Gnabry Eriksen Özil Silva Hazard
RVP Suarez Agüero

Was wondering people thoughts on whether I should bring in cheap forward to replace Agüero and upgrade Gnabry to Cazorla for this week then a Man City Mid week after, or stick with same midfield and just bring in Giroud/Negredo .

Basically whether time has come to play 3-5-2 or stick with 4-3-3.
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1. JUSTBLAZE
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  How on earth can you afford that? Your defense must not have any expensive players..
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  1. cjhewitt92
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    Defence is full is Alonso Bertrand Fabio Ward 4.0 with Goalkeeper of Foster and Davis.
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asquishypotato

12 years, 5 months ago
My thoughts on Rooney, why I am on the brink of picking him, and his gametime this weekend.

- you don't renew a contract with lucrative money to not play him.
- RVP started last week, Rooney came on. I think it will be the other way round this week.
- at the very least Rooney is playing behind RVP, and when they did play together, there was a lovely selection of double figure scores.
- Mata can only improve the situation
- They have nice fixtures
- I don't trust any of the City forwards to start more then 1 game in a row right now

Would love to punt on Dzeko or Jovetic, but it just seems a bit daft when this choice is here.

Any reasons I have missed out on? Any reasons why I shouldn't press the 'confirm transfer' button?
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1. Lazarus
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Did he sign a new contract??
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  1. asquishypotato
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    I thought that was finalised now? Something working its way to 300k a week? Whether he has signed or not I'm not sure, but there were definitely talks of it. What do you think of Rooney?
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    1. Lazarus
      
      12 years, 5 months ago
      I don't know about the contract.
      
      He is potentially a very good option, but I'd prefer RvP if going for a United striker. I'm still concerned about how they are both going to be managed coming back from injury. United also are scoring many at the moment.
      
      I prefer Sturridge personally, or a cheeky punt on Jovetic for a few GWs.
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2. Respect My Authoritah
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  You missed out that it's likely he isn't fully fit yet. Normally takes a while to build match fitness on return from injury
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  1. JK - Cønt ⭐
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    It does for Rooney. It takes him a few games to really get going normally
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3. Canadian Football
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  a groin injury can linger for weeks even after you are "fit". I might be worried about another sub appearance.
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4. Connor's Calling
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  agree with all the above and that's why i'm planning to get him on WC.
  
  Little doubt just creeping in about whether i should stretch to RVP tho...
  
  on pennas, will play furthest up etc...
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5. Donnie Brasco´s
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Rooney is No Brainer!
  Most important palyer of Man Utd
  I just buy Rooney for Aguero.
  I will never own Aguero, he is made from Glass....
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0thebrodie

12 years, 5 months ago
Yaya and Dzeko or AJ and Rooney?
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1. Elwood
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Yaya and Dzeko
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Rhinos

12 years, 5 months ago
rvp has 9 goals in 8 games v stoke, bit worried bout gametime but he shoud be ok, only played an hour
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Dr Dream

12 years, 5 months ago
Right..decided..No Man City strikers...Silva/Navas/Zaba for their three good home games..Now just need to decide what to do with Aguero.
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Assisting you all day

12 years, 5 months ago
Rio Ferdinand ‏@rioferdy5 1m
Fulham just signed our next CL opponents star man....good work Rene!! #TransferDeadlineDay
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1. r0nh
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Who does Rio play for these days?
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  1. Assisting you all day
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    bt sports 😉
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    1. r0nh
      
      12 years, 5 months ago
      Nooooooooooo 😯
      
      Id never watch it!
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  2. Breadbin
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    No-one.
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2. Epic Fail
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Following Ferdinand is almost as bad as following Piers Morgan.
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leo_messi

12 years, 5 months ago
Bench Hazard or Silva??

I have to bench one this week....
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1. RabMac
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Don't bench either in my opinion.
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2. Sir Atej
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  none. Then Hazard if you must
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3. BeachBadger
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  I'm benching Hazard. Feels weird
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Colonel Klink

12 years, 5 months ago
Dzeko, Sturridge or Negredo for he next 5 matches?
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1. Epic Fail
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Sturridge.
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  1. Colonel Klink
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    Cool. I prefer to avoid rotation headache anyway. Thanks.
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JUSTBLAZE

12 years, 5 months ago
Missed on the last page.

Just posted the next 5 fixtures without naming players for the best Kun replacements.

Results turned out having Carroll, Jrod and Benteke as being favoured. Carroll with one more vote. The Manchester boys (Dzeko/Neg/Jovetic/Rooney/RVP) did not get one vote. Take the risk?

These are the following fixtures:
Carroll - SWA avl NOR SOT eve
MUFC - sto FUL ars cpl n/a
Ade - hul EVE new nor CAR
Jrod - ful STO hul whm LIV
MCFC - CHE nor SUN STO n/a
Benteke - eve WHM car new NOR
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1. Lazarus
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  It's not just about the fixtures though.
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2. Rhinos
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  I may go Lambert over Rodriguez
  Not the worst idea but if you can afford rvp i think hes worth the gamble
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3. Respect My Authoritah
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  5 is too many. Look at 3 then decide
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Obi Wan Elokobi

12 years, 5 months ago
Hows this team look?

Boruc, Mannone
Lescott*, Kolorov, Mert (Ward, Bruce)
Mata, Lallana, Hazard, Yaya, (Puncheon)
RVP, Suarez, Dzeko

0.3 in the bank
* If he joins West Ham will go for Debuchy or Winston Reid if not
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1. Sir Atej
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Kolarov will break your, my and 184,314 owning him people heart.
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Alberto Tomba

12 years, 5 months ago
Ooop, unable to write a post with a rival website name in it? That's fairly strong sensorship!!
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1. Demí
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  Totalfpl Fiso
  
  What word was it?
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  1. Alberto Tomba
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    inside of fpl. Missing the middle word. The have a new website and I was just saying some healthy competition and new ideas could be good.
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Chris_White

12 years, 5 months ago
A) Agüero -> Sturridge and play Oscar(mci) or Noone (NOR)

B) Agüero & Oscar -> RVP & Lallana (-4)and bench Noone

Swaying towards B atm, Robin looks a good bet for the armband next week!
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1. Alberto Tomba
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  A and play Noone
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  1. Colonel Klink
    
    12 years, 5 months ago
    Would you also play No one over Hazard?
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RabMac

12 years, 5 months ago
I will not be surprised if RVP does not start against Stoke and Rooney does going by what Moyes said earlier.
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Djerbil

12 years, 5 months ago
The -4

Aguero and Goalman -> Dzeko and Baines
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1. Alberto Tomba
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  I think -4 for those two is a good idea. I'd prefer kompany from next week though. Vs and a DGW.
  It could be worth the wait.
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Top 210 Club

12 years, 5 months ago
Was worried, about my Dzeko over Sturridge move, but now members comparison tool over past 2 GW's has put my mind at ease =D

Wooooooow, no contest!
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Tobiathan

12 years, 5 months ago
Manchester United peeps: Surely Moyesy has to play Rooney in the #10 slot with RVP up front, Mata on the right and Janu on the left? Wicked formation that.... Though Young did look good v Cardiff.
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1. Epic Fail
  
  12 years, 5 months ago
  I can't see Januzaj playing much.
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La Roja

12 years, 5 months ago
Transfers done, dice rolled

Marshall

JT Kos Ward

Yaya Hazard Mirallas Mata

Dzeko Giroud Suarez

Subs: Speroni Poz Chester* Coleman

1,8m in bank
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