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Hello fellow DZers
Help appreciated, what would you do with this bunch - 1FT, £1.4 ITB
Szyczesney / Given
Baines / Ivan / Zab / Clyne / Dummet
Fab / Sanchez / Siggy / Downing / Ameobi
Austin / Costa / Bony
thanks in advance
Downgrade one of Ivan or Baines. Upgrade Fab to Yaya or Hazard.
Thanks for the tip. might consider it,
Turn Baines + Ameobi into O'Shea and someone punchy (can you get Silva?)
2FT 0.5 itb
Guzan
Baines Zaba Wisdom Dummett Duff*
Sanchez Haz Yaya Eriksen Siggy
Costa Austin Sakho
a) Sakho Duff to Kane Debuchy/Jones
b) Baines Sakho to Debuchy/Jones Benteke
c) Duff to O'Shea
Is there any chance/risk of Giroud rising again tonight?
Really??? 🙁
If Costa returns another mediocre score tomorrow I'm considering the following for an 8 point hit:
Costa to Kane
Boyd to Silva
Duff to Zabaleta
Opinions please...
Looks good 1 solid pick for 3 solid picks!
You know what will happen as soon as I drop Costa though!
Just do think he is worth the money at the moment. Absolute average returns at the moment. Just think the funds could be distributed so much better.
Would potentially leave the defender swap to week after to avoid the further 4 point hit.I personally don't think he's worth it at the moment. I may be proved wrong tomorrow but I doubt it at stoke. He just seems rubbish for assists, bps and bookings plus no pens. If u can hold off on the defender, can u field 3 at the back?
I currently have Ivanovic Baines, Chambers and Yun at the back also. So hopefully... Just depends on the Kosceilny situation and any potential rotation... Baines is testing me at the minute but gonna keep until Jan wildcard at least as you just cannot predict when he could explode.
Been meaning to get Duff out for ages but always find attacking changes to do instead.
You must be over the moon with that ranking.
Nice ranking btw!
Is zabaleta rising tonight?
No. Tomorrow probably.
No.
Best move here chaps?
A) Yun -> Baines/Zaba (benching Hutton)
B) Carroll -> Giroud (1 week punt before switching to Austin/Tekkers)
C) A&B (with Zaba) for a 4 pointer
D) Save
Hart
Terry, Chambers, Hutton
Sanchez, Hazard, Eriksen, Siggy
Costa, Kane, Carroll
Elliot, Downing, Wisdom, Yun
Bank 4.4m, 1 freebie
Siggy >AdM then next week
Carroll >Austin
Rotate 3-5-2 for Austin away games
B and then to Austin
Can also afford E) Yun & Carroll -> Baines & Tekkers
Reckon a 1 week Giroud punt is worth a 4 pointer?
How about:
GW18: Yun & Carroll -> Baines & Tekkers (4 points)
GW19: Chambers, Siggy & Costa -> Zaba, Silva & Austin (8 points)Dont thinks its worth the hit. Carrol to Giroud this week for free. Next week maybe a hit for Yun to Zaba and Giroud to Benteke
*Giroud to Austin. Its early!
De Gea
O' Shea , Chambers , Taylor
Bolaise , Siggy , Sanchez , Hazard , Yaya
Costa , Austin
Gilks , Sakho , Bertrand , Caulker
Nine players at home is a major worry considering the next two are back to back home fixtures . Save the free transfer ?Save
save looks good
I completely failed with my City defensive coverage this week.
brought in Clichy when Zabs was on offer 🙁
Can anyone give me some insight into who they think will play more / consistently over the next month for Man City?
A) Zabs
B) Kolarov
C) ClichyI think Zabs. But if you have Clichy prob hold, hope that that game was his rest
I have Hart and Zaba
Me too and Silva.
interesting Flynn.
not bad options at all. I just have Yaya and Clichy.
City have to come:
west brom
BURNLEY
SUNDERLAND
everton
not sure I can see any of those teams scoring against themyep, Hart coming in this week for me too
Why not consider the centre backs?
have always just liked the attacking options of the wing backs.
Mangala is the only one nailed on though right?
Does Wisdom to Zab/Demi make my team too back heavy??
Forster (Mccarthy)
Taylor Baines Azpi (Wisdom) (moore)
Sanchez Eriksen Hazard Downing (Boyd)
Costa Bony Austin
New article about Wild rover
http://whichtransfer.wordpress.comAt least now he will have to read it to the end lol
Love reading your blog , you are 'the special one ' of FFS
Ah Trigger, it's been a while...
High scoring week this week then?Yep, how did you guess
Feel as if i have been doing badly this season, but rank just about holding together
How are you doing?
Your 1k trigger??? Seriously man. Holding it together?
There have been more bad weeks than good. Missed the Sanchez wagon, was out to 5k a few weeks back, standing on the edge of the abyss
I'm on that abyss.
I hear you thou, I ain't got your history but I feel my mistakes and what could've been and set my standards a bit higher than previous years.
Yours are obviously higher again.
Kinda feel as if I can't get it going this year that I'm bobbing up and down but not making any real headway.
Not so bad, slowly moving in the right direction..
Your always a slow starter, from there you should see plenty of green arrows
Thanks for posting these, always a decent read...
2FT 0.5 itb
Guzan
Baines Zaba Wisdom Dummett Duff*
Sanchez Haz Yaya Eriksen Siggy
Costa Austin Sakho
a) Sakho & Duff to Kane & Debuchy/Jones
b) Baines & Sakho to Debuchy/Jones & Benteke/Giroud
c) Duff to O'Shea
Deciding who to get rid of Costa or Baines has been hard for me but I decided it has to be Costa. He certainly won't start all the games over the Christmas period and Baines has good fixtures even with Mirallas there.
Sakho>Benteke
Costa>Giroud
and banking 1.4M looks likelyWill Giroud start all the games?
I think he will considering he doesn't run that much and Arsenal have a injury crisis.
he also was out for a while due to injury, so already missed some games
Thinking of Baines & Sakho --> Hutton & Giroud (-4pt).
Yes or no?
Current team is:
Guzan (Foster)
Zaba Naylor Chambers Baines (Saylor)
Yaya Hazard Sanchez Downing Siggy
Costa Austin (Sakho)Wow. We have such a similar team and rank 🙂
Ha! And we both (regrettably?) captained Costa over Austin, Yaya and Downing.
So are you sticking with Baines?Yeah I'm just hoping for a single Costa goal tomorrow to make me happy! Options I have come up with are:
1) Sakho>Benteke, Costa>Giroud
2) Baines>Debuchy, Costa>Benteke
3) Simply Sakho>Kane
4) Sakho>Kane, Sigurdsson>Sterling, Baines>Zabaleta
Rotating Sigurdsson and Austin
I have 2FT by the way
Part of me is thinking of going Sanchez to Yaya this week.
IMO Sanchez isn't going to start 3/3 of the games over the xmas period and if he's going to be rested it's definitely going to be QPR at home....I think Wenger will use it as a good time to start Walcott...
On the other hand with Yaya going to AFCON in Jan/with Citys injuries he is nailed to start a resurgent CIty's next 3 games......thoughts?If you have Giroud I would do it , then swap Yaya back for Sanchez when he leaves
what do you think about bony to giroud and sanchez to yaya for a -4??
Classic overthinking. He is the top scoring fpl player against the weakest away defence in the league.
the voice of reason. thank you
Cheers thank you...........just feel with all Wengers musings about him needing a rest he would go for that fixture rather than saints or west ham away!
Good to go?
Guzan (Foster)
Baines/Cahill/Naylor (Hutton/Wisdom)
Yaya/Sanchez(C)/Hazard(VC)/Silva (Jedinak)
Austin/Bony/Giroud
Hoping not to need my bench, but order is Jedinak, Hutton, Wisdom as at least one starter likely to be rested
thanks.
I'm currently sat at 39k overall. I have Terry & Hazard tomorrow with no points to come off the bench.
Do you reckon I'll rise or fall from current position?With a clean sheet you should hold quite steady. sub pts may hit you though
All depends on costa.
Depends on Costa I think. If he outscores Terry/Hazard you'll probably fall.
Costa/Hazard captainers feeling confident?
Hoping for a Costa single/brace. If he blanks I'll be gutted.
as would I
not really (costa)
Nope , got C)osta and with Austin and Yaya it already feels like a fail
Hmm. I'm feeling quietly confident with C)osta
Dreadful week, 34 points. Austin VC is salt in the wound. Need Haz to do well tomorrow.
If he gets rested or injured pre kick off your points will be doubled before a ball is kicked 🙂
Money not an issue which are the three best strikers for the next three fixtures?
RVP Austin Costa
Not scared of Costa getting rested for Remy/Drogba?
He may only need 2 games to do the damage..
I'm a scared non-owner so maybe that has something to do with it! 😉I own him and I might get rid of him. We'll see how he plays tomorrow.
Austin, Benteke plus 1
Cant be Costa, need to look at three that are nailed
Austin would be one
Bony would be oneAnd Benteke
Bony/Benteke/Austin. I may be biased because I own them but in theory all three should be nailed on (*Insert expletive about Bony) and have great fixtures.
I agree, they look good at this time of year, although RVP or someone could do plenty of damage with a game less
True. Could wind up being Costa as well, but the probabilities favor the ones who play 3 games.
i agree with this and Bony has had his rest so in theory is nailed on for next couple of games.
Hmm was thinking Benteke/Austin but I'm torn for the third spot between Giroud/Bony.
Yeah, but like Djenzio said, Bony should be nailed on now that he's had his rest and I like his fixtures a little better than Giroud's. Giroud does look a great pick this week though.
After this week am considering Costa ➡ Benteke to give me Austin, Bony, Benteke and I think they are the best three
That's my front line 😎
When are the press conferences for next gwk? Xmas eve?
most likely
playing against Real Sociedad on fifa i noticed that their CAM had a great name. occupying that remote intersection of Nietszche and fantasy football team names is ' Thus spake Zurutuza'.
We just call each other David. 😉
Thanks Pantsman, saved my defence this GW.
Total of 3 points from Baines, Clichy-x, Wisdom and Dummett.
Glad I chose him 2 weeks ago! 😉Just brought him in this week. Saved my ass
I was gutted after losing Fabianski for him during my WC last week when Fab scored 8.
Worked out well in the end 🙂
Any arsenal experts here?
Why did Debuchy play CB while Chambers play RB? Chambers supposed to be the utility man and Debuchy is a specialized RB.
What does that mean when Kos is back fit?It means Chambers on the bench
Arsene has obviously gone off Chambers as a centreback option
Debuchy being a french boy will be number one right back
Debuchy was v.good centre half last week vs. Newcastle and wins a lot of aerial duals. Perhaps Wenger trying to mould him into a back up centre half as opposed to having to play Monreal there again.
Or just play Chambers there, as he is naturally a CB?
May have been unsettled by Chambers display vs. Stoke and then when Debuchy filled in vs. Newcastle he actually looked pretty good.
Probably because Sterling was false 9 so it would be better not to have Chambers directly exposed to him
A. Sakho -> Benteke
B. Siggy -> Sterling
C. Save FT?D wait for Siggi news
So if he's fit, C & if not, B pretty much..
You could do A if there no pressing alternatives
Reply fail
Got it. Cheers!
What do you think about Giroud, Benteke and Lukaku?
Feels a bit risky to drop Lukaku before his home game against Stoke.
Is it time for the Falcao rush?
I didn't see much of him vs. Villa to suggest there should be a rush for him. I was more impressed by Benteke tbh..
I feel i should have some Man U but so uninspired to get any. Think i will wait to see how ADM is incorporated back in
I have Tekkers and Austin. Love a striker gamble and he might be the man. His stats look good both for threat and creativity and he's a world class proven goalscorer. (Massive differential too)
Andy Carroll has the same low ownership, a more secure place in the team, better fixtures (after this week) and is 3.5m cheaper. Something to ponder?
Better fixtures? in what world?
I do agree though that Carroll is a good option but a W Ham double up with Downing doesn't sound too appealing.Yeah, I might have been pushing the boundaries a bit with that particularcomment 😉 Still ARS, WBA, HULL are decent home matches. Like I say, just something to ponder.
DZ is DZ this morning then... Ha
I stand corrected.
LoLoLoloLoL ______________
Hazard and Costa
Own both but neither captained. Do I want them to score big?
Off topic alert
Looking to get a call of duty game, a first, which one should I get?Modern warfare 2 is my fave.
Cod 4, the original modern warfare is my favourite game of all time , the online play is amazing , the best maps of all the cod games by a million miles
Hazards last 5 home games:
11,10,11,9,14
Wow.Austin's last 5 home games:
13, 7, 10, 6, 17Not bad for a 6.0m striker!
They rotate perfectly for the captaincy as well.
