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I always ask myself, 'What would SAF have done?'
he would of named his penalty taker and that player would of taken if the situation arose..
no player would of dared to go against that
My toes curled.
Have you ever heard Martinez say anything even slightly negative about anything regarding his team?
Naismith should have just said "No comments" how hard was it lol
Embarrassing. Specially when Naismith started mumbling about Baines missing a penalty vs. United. The guy has scored 15 of 16 penalties. Hard to come a cross a better record.
You'd only do that when you're well ahead in the game and the penalty doesn't matter. Everton are on a horrific run of results, they needed a steady head to take that penalty, but even more so, I needed the points 🙂
Some Baines owners on here seem almost happy to sacrifice the points for the sheer FPL moment this has created. Personally, I prefer the extra 9 points :-).
At least it gives us another anecdote although I'd happily trade that in for the points.
Not just the 9 points BTW, West Brom clean sheet, so a large swing, 13 points.
To think that we have anxiety over 4 point hitsAh yes, it seems all the Baines owners (bar Mark) didn't have a WBA defender. It's a cruel world Granville.
Remember Zlatan did the same thing in a international game for Sweden years ago. Sweden were up by a couple of goals when they got a penalty. Zlatan grabbed the ball and Kim Kallstrom, who normally took the pens went up to him and Zlatan just ignored him.
Zlatan scored the penalty. The whole stadium booed him. And the whole nation turned against him for quite i while.
I look back on earlier in the season when Drogba took a pen off Hazard. How did Jose react? He told Drogba off (but commented that at least he scored) but came out and said publicly that Hazard was the club's penalty taker and would take every pen when he was on the pitch. No pussyfooting around
What was the score at the time? 5-0. Basically the penalty didn't matter.
It didn't, and Drogba asked Hazard if he could take it. Yet Jose still came out and said Hazard should have taken it, and it didn't even matter.
Martinez thinks he's brushed it under the carpet but you can guarantee the press won't let that happen. He's going to have to explain it again and again and you just watch, the story will change a little bit each time.
As long as it doesn't happen again!
No. And actually it was Didier's first goal back at the club, one he needed. The previous goal had been his winning 5th penalty in the CL 2012 Final. So no-one could be too annoyed and the crowd loved it of course. He went on a little run of goals after that so it helped the team as well.
A decision made when the team is way ahead by request is completely different to pushing your team-mate (an expert penalty taker) out of the way at 0-0 just to satisfy your own ego. Mirallas is a drag on that club and he thinks he is too good to play there anyway. SAF would have him out of the door quick and that's what Everton should do.
To be able to afford aguero I need to get rid of Ivanovic and baines for Kos/clyne and jones. Do we think kos/clyne and jones can match Ivan and baines somewhat similar next 3-4 weeks ?
Yes.
Yes.
First green in 5 weeks! Only up 700 places but I'll take it!
Will Costa or Aguero rise tonight?
No chance.
Quite possibly not this GW. FFF has them both miles away and only rising slowly.
Forster Hamer
Terry Bertrand Bellerin Hutton Baird
Sanchez hazard Puncheon Cazorla Boyd
Aguero Costa Kane
What do you think of my wildcard?
Not bad.
I'd take PvA over Hutton.
Also consider Foster/Myhill. Bank the cash for later or take Elia over Boyd.
For WC, go with Jones or Fonte? Thanks
Acutally
A) Jones and Terry
B) Fonte and Cahil
A
Cheers. Kinda scared of no Southampton D
jones for now. i think it might be worth waiting for toby, especially if he drops to 4.9
Good point. Thanks.
A) Terry + JWP
B) Ivanovic + Albrighton
Also anyone one waiting for Azi for their Chelsea defender? Frees up 0.7 million!
A, but depends on the rest of your team. If you're not considering rotating anyone up front, and you're happy with the risk of injuries, then B.
Foster/Myhill
Baird/PVA/Bertrand/Bellerin/Koscielny(swap to azi when fit)
ADM/Haz/Moses/Sanchez/Puncheon
Costa/Kane/Aguero
Would have to downgrade Punch to boyd or JWP to get Terry instead?
So the only way to shoehorn both ADM and Costa into my team is to downgrade defence a bit (Gardos as a SOT option). Gives me:
Pants Krul
Terry Gardos Bellerin Wisdom 4.2
Hazard Sanchez ADM Puncheon 4.5
Kun Kane Costa
Worth the downgrade?
unbalanced, dont like it
I had Fonte/Clyne instead of Gardos before (but no Costa), is that more balanced?
gardos and bellerin are not as nailed as people assume
I would drop terry, but most people would disagree
Yeah, I'm one of them 😛 He's the safe option, and I think he'll top score for defenders.
Fair enough. They're short term options though - will downgrade Bellerin to a cheapie that rotates well, and will upgrade Gardos to Fonte. But I do still have to save transfers for that.
Think it's fine. Could easily change gardos further down line
Congrats to whoever wrote todays script. Well done.
actually got one thing wrong...wisdom's indecisiveness in the box when he should have just put his foot through ball and into the back of the net
So Kane next fixtures are:
wba ARS liv WHAM blank
Not that great. Hmmm....
Not that bad either
why blank?
Capital one
you assume they get to the final, because its Suprs we are talking about they are famous about their choke
Play Ayoze (hul) over Chadli (wba) yeah?
Form over fixtures, so I would say no (Ayoze has been getting 2). Though wba wiill probably not be high scoring.
It's Hull. Dare I bench a striker versus Hull? He's due too 😉
Hmmm, tough call but yes.... maybe. 🙂
On a different matter, any differentials lined up with your transfers in UFPL?All my forwards and most mids playing on day 1 so may get Wally and giroud
I'm leaving at late as poss but Giroud looks a decent shout, might be more inclined to get Ramsey back in if he's starting again.
It's going to be hard to make up the ground on the leaders I reckon, I'm 1 place behind you in the Salcombe league.Long way to go but yeah, will be tough.
Yes, imo.
Any bias? 😉
None at all 😉
Though I do honestly believe that ayoze is a good pick. Despite our crap form recently, he is still consistently amongst our best players, and he will get/make chances for himself.
Also, who am I to deny the Pulis effect? 😛
I think Ayoze may well be on bench that game. Seems like a Siem De Jong comeback game to me
There's no way he gets benched. He's been one of our best players this season by a good margin, and de Jong favours CAM. Yet I don't think de Jong will be back for a few more weeks yet. He's back in training, but he's been out for a long time and will need to be eased back in.
Thanks
GW rank updated. Greeeeeeeeeennnnnnn juuuhuuuu even with Kun captain. Loving this game sometimes. After being above 3m GW rank 😉 😛
Key note. Strong defense is needed for stability in scoresI'm shocked I got green. After sat when I got red with no costa and (c) Kane, with other peoples agueros to come. Damage limitation in overdrive!
Just finished work and I'm very upset. I'd like to put it on record that mr Kevin miralles is a massive douchebag as he's cost me a £60 bet, baines prob 9 points and prevented me winning money in playon. Cheers for everything u massive bell end!
Costed me my Accumlator and Baines was my captain in FPL.
I had £5 on baines for first goal scorer at 12-1! Also in playon had them both and either scoring the pen would have won me money! I'm prob most upset however at my loss of fpl points! As I said, what a bell end!
Just noticed Smartypants' FPL discovery site pointing out that this was the first time in his year long history of doing the blog that the average of the random sample of 20000 had beaten out the top 10K average.
Costa made it a week for the casuals. Many dead teams will have (c) him.
In fairness..
We should have all seen that coming.
Swansea defence has leaked way too many chances.
Not captaining Costa a big regret. VC not good enough.
Costa will reach semi- necessary soon I think which wiĺl make things more interesting.Tough to fit both him and aguero in. I see aguero as more essential tbh. I don't want 3 Che just yet either if they blank gw27.
Not one bit surprised with that.
Hindsight is a beautiful thing 😉
Im talking about hindsight!!
Costa effect. He's a darling of the casuals.
What do u think to the new open all hours? I was sceptical when it first came out as thought it wouldn't be the same without Ronnie but I think David Jason makes it as good as it possibly could be.
Yeah same here, not a fan of the xmas episode but I watched it last week and quite enjoyed it.
Don't think I've seen an Xmas one but I've watched 3 new ones on I player and enjoyed them all.
wc'ded last week and got my worst gw rank all season -.-
1FT 0.0 itb any changes i should make?
Foster
Terry - Clyne - Fonte
Haz - Alexis - ADM - Chadli
Kun - Costa - Kane
Bench: Myhill / Boyd - PVA - Baird
nothing to change here, looks excellent. Same with me, I wildcarded last week and finished below average for the first time. However looking at only very small reds, fell worse overall than I did in fantasy football mini leagues which shows people at the top had rough weeks unless you captained Costa. Aguero, Hazard, Sanchez, ADM all blanking....look at the fixtures this week and I think your midfield should be on for fun times 🙂
Option A, B, C or D please people.
A - Do Fabregas to Sterling/Cazorla this week, and then Di Maria to Puncheon/Austin to Costa for a -4 the following week.
B- Save FT for next gameweek and then do A the week after for a -4
C- Ignore Costa and carry on with big 4 in midfield
D- Austin to Defoe
Panti/Foster
Terry/Bertrand/Van Aanholt/Wisdom/Hutton
Sanchez/Hazard/Di Maria/Fabregas/Boyd
Aguero/Kane/Austin
Cazorla
So is "hamstring injury" the new code for "you missed a f***in PK, you idiot" 🙂
code for im a bollockless little tw@t and my players have zero respect for my authority
Seems like it
Anyone heard any news on Mané Sakho Alderweireld injuries?
Juz realize that. Damn u baines
Simple question. Did Martinez get the job just on the basis of winning the FA Cup, which obviously never done? Here's something Martinez has done that Moyes hasn't, been relegated from the PL
No way would Kenwright have appointed a manager from a team that had been relegated without that cup win IMOUre probably right tbh.
he is a good manager, I can see a similar scenario for southampton next season.
It's worth pointing out that Moyes had some very rough seasons aswell . They have nearly been relegated and finished 11th more than once .
68 points to N1 is it doable?
no
I'm about 60 and I believe so with dgw's coming up. Obviously would have to take it by storm though....
Probably not, but you're closer than me 😛
If you have a WC then yes, but you're going to have to get past me first!
Mate no3 is only 40 points ahead and the top two could slip up, easily doable.
Of course it is. This week is a classic example of what could happen any given week.
Finally watching 'The Living Dead' on Sky catch up. Been pretty good so far, great cast. Just finished the 'Otis' episode in series 2 .... Oooh.
You mean Walking Dead? I'm going to buy the complete series on Blu Ray 🙂
I'm surprised it's as good as it is even though it comes highly recommended, I've been pretty critical so far but I'm still watching and to be honest fairly hooked.
Recorded series one on Sky HD box, went to watch them all back to back and realised I had missed episode one 😆
😆
Touche, I did exactly the same thing with the Wire, ran out of memory and it deleted first couple of episodes.
Watching TWD mixed in with odd episode of 'This is Jinsey' from series 1, haven't seen the wife in days.. 🙂
Doh... The Walking Dead..... 😳
Not a fan myself but apparently it gets better
The bad use of John Murphys 'Adagio in D minor' had me in a small rant but I've persevered, I can be a bit picky & over critical when it comes to TV and film. 😉
Favourite show ?
Hmmm let's think, GoT, CSI (the original Vegas one) Battlestar Galactica (I know).
True Detective was an excellant watch & still to watch the Wire & BB.House of Cards is fairly good , Never watched original CSI but used to laugh at CSI Miami constantly , Firefly is amazing ,
Yeah, heard House of Cards is good.
Really like William Petersen which drew me into CSI and it's just been constantly great after 13/14 series.
Other CSI's have been pretty poor & badly cast.
Good time pass
Good time to start watching Gnu, this season has been the best one yet imo.
Half way through series 2, what's it on now, 5 or 6?
Half way through season 5 right now mate, the second half starts in February
And it gets better you say Zasa, good, I'll be up to date in a week or so. Maybe longer, can't watch when the wife's in the room 🙂
My wife won't watch it either. Her loss.
GNU -- Hang in with the series. You will not be disappointed with the Walking Dead. The first few seasons are interesting . . . . BUT it is absolutely amazing now. Each season gets better and better.
a) Bellerin/A.Johnson/Costa
b) Wisdom/Oscar/Giroud
Who wins?a
b
a
thanks!
b
B
Thank you Mirallas, for screwing up completely. I'd put my money on a West Brom clean sheet
... and Baines would most definetely have buried that
a) Foster, Myhill, Lescott, PvA
b) Pamti, Mannone, Lescott, Baird
In A) Lescott and PvA would be part of a rotation, in B) Lescott would play every week with Baird as a playable cheapie and Hutton/Stoke to cover WBA away at CityA
My saga and plan:
I WC last week due to Aguero obsession, and a handful of defenders who needed to get swapped out. After seeing Costa get a goal a game for so long, I thought it made good sense to hold onto two cheap forwards, Kane and Austin, and sell Costa for kun. I then went with 3 pricey mids and 3 pricey defenders, and vwoillah!, 31 points with not a single goal or assist. My high scorers were Terry and Baines.
My gut is to overreact and fix my strategy, but I have to believe that for every week a decent set of players on paper fails to score, they will regress to the mean and rock out another week. Sooooo, I'm going to try and hold steady with my underperforming lot of:
Heaton, Panti
Baines, Terry, Bertrand, PvA, Baird
Sanchez, Hazard, Silva, Chadli, Boyd
Austin, Kane, Aguero
I may move Silva, and could still have a dram or two and then do the radical silva and Austin to costa and ward-prowse reactionary thing, and I will be in a support group over the next two weeks to try and refrain.
Just an FPL rant. You may now return to your regularly scheduled station.Nice rant walkman.
I have close to that team but have WC to go and not sure if to change it to fit Costa in or continue without.
Currenly have this WC team.. Any changes required ??
Foster - Myhill
Terry - Clyne - Wisdom - Muniesa - PVA
Sanchez - Hazard - Eriksen - Puncheon - JWP
Aguero - Costa - Kane
Thanks heaps!Panti or Foster as only keeper?
I think Panti for the save points, spent most of the evening weighing it up though
Cheers, I got Panti at £4.4 so hard to see past him. His save points are great and fixtures are turning for the better.
Seems WBA are now a different beast so will weigh it up.
foster
Foster
Like many others I am trying to decide when to play my Jan WC. Current squads will of course play a factor, but assuming you are reasonable happy with yours I have noted a few pros for each week:
GW23:
- 2 week period (minimise adverse price movements)
- fixtures swing for a few teams (good for ARS, MUN, SOT, SUN, STO, bad for WHU, TOT)
- will see nearly all of the actual Jan transfers
GW24:
- an extra week to gather data, eg late new signings, players returning from ACON, injuries and players that look good but have question marks over starting roles (Bellerin, Ospina, Baird etc)
- can wait until after che to load up on MCY players (Aguero)
For me, whilst my squad looks alright on paper, I want to make quite a few changes. In particular I only have 1 starter in total from the 5 teams above with good fixtures, and with a few tricky fixtures up next, triple Spurs and Downing needs fixing:
Lloris, Elliot
Baines, Terry, Chambers, Wisdom, Hutton
Sanchez, Hazard, Silva, Eriksen, Downing
Costa, Kane, Austin
Bank 0.0m, 1 FT, 2 WCSame boat Jins, team is ok but not great and not sure if waiting another GW will help.
That's just it. Are the price movements and missing out on ARS/MUN cover this week really worth 1 more week of data? If likely still want players from mostly the same teams unless there's a real shake up with injuries and signings in that last week of the window.
Simple question lads - WC this week or next week? Have 1FT and £0.2m in the bank. Leaning towards next week as I've missed a couple price rises already
Hart
Coleman Cresswell O'Shea
Silva Hazard Fabregas Sanchez
Costa Kane Austin
Bench - Wisdom, Marney, Hutton.
i've done it this week, some of the home fixtures look good for this gameweek tbh but that's just my view!
I'd hit the button on that.
I'd want to move out Hart, Coleman, Cresswell, O'Shea, Hutton, Silva and Marney. Possibly Austin too .
9 years, 5 months agoPeople sticking up for Naismith and Martinez are missing the point. Sure, they shouldn''t wash their dirty linen in public but to come out with such blatant bs - Naismith even said they did not have a designated penalty taker! 😆 was just embarrassing. They should have simply dodged any questions by saying any issues would be dealt with internally.