After assessing the Defenders and Midfielders over the last four rounds of fixtures, we finish our trio of members articles with a look at the men up front. A host of popular picks from City, Leicester and Everton come under scrutiny, whilst we also take a look at Arsenal’s misfiring Frenchman and United’s big-money starlet in light of Wayne Rooney’s knee injury absence.
Shaqiri good shout for this week?
Potentially. Only 1 of 2 Stoke mids I'd consider.
Who are you really? Trying to figure it out. You're like the secret footballer version of a FFS poster. The Secret Poster
damn u got me...
Maybe, I would prefer Arnie i think.
Walters if guaranteed starts
My best impression of an optician...
Which grav does Aguero look clearer on?
the green: http://goo.gl/Ijievj ...?
the grey: http://goo.gl/P6E7uy ...?
or the white: http://goo.gl/VdEcsU ...?
Magic from The Wizard. 😎Green 🙂
Have you tried this http://reactiongifs.me/royal-finger/
😉
Good luck catching me off guard http://memegenerator.net/instance/29555124
what?
Is it a joke that it doesn't? 😀
that's what I was thinking, all the same
The gravs get updated on each post, obviously 😀
It does.
The gravs get updated everywhere, they're all the same.
Read his post again, click on the links and then look at the background colour. That is the whole point of his post.
Oh right, sorry. Is it magic? 🙂
It is something. Not quite sure it is magic 🙂
Who do we think is a better captaincy choice:
Mahrez or Kane?Kane
Kane
Kane, but I'm at mahrez atm so...
mahrez
Kane, but I am probably going to Captain Vardy
This.
updated after today:
watford with a full week to prepare for a match:
P23, W13, D5, L5. scored in 18/23 games.
midweek game/weekend game after a midweek game:
P7, W0, D1, L6, scored in 1/7 games.That is depressing but I can't sell him for a - 4
Views upon drafting in Shaqiri?
If I do I will be captaining him 100%Gottlieb take a punt every now and then
damn autocorrect
worth going triple spurs: Alli, Kane and Eriksen.
Possible blank in GW30 - see what result is tomorrow v Palace
I thought this was a good read.
Do teams play worse after European games?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35146716TL:DR
No.attention spans are too short now
Their method is incredibly dim (or ridiculously stupid, however you wish to put it), and they're in particular focusing on the wrong theory. Take a serious look at it, and it's a fact that teams do worse in _away_ matches after an european clash in which they play their first team. All teams. I make most of my betting profit from this fact alone.
What have we learned today? Sorry, I was offline all day. Everton blank gw30?
Bournemouth and Swansea have a GW30 fixture. Everton, Sunderland, Watford and West Ham blank I think. Is that rights peeps? Was offline too, but did the calculations myself. Can anyone confirm this? Also, does Arsenal and West Brom not have a fixture too?
Arsenal and West Brom replay is likely to tack place on the Saturday of GW30.
Means they can decide the tie before GW30, but Arsenal and West Brom will still blanks if Arsenal win the replay.
Yes, Everton and Sunderland have blanks, Bournemouth and Swansea don't.
and Watford and West Ham have blanks
Thanks.
Who should I get rid of for Mahrez
A) Barkley
B) Firmino
TaB
Cheers
B
Thanks
B
Just about to pull the trigger on Gosling ---> Shaqiri
Any reasons not to?Gosling is cheap, nailed on, gives a return once a while when needed, and has a match GW30. I wouldn't sell him.
This even though I did Gosling > Arnie earlier in the week. Slightly regretting it.
Injuries
this
Benching headache is a reason I don't take Stan out. That's a reason.
Getting migraines over making a simple decision is a reason not to play fpl.
Having a decent 5th is a reason not to worry when one of the other 7 gets injured/dropped. Alli been doing that for most of the season for me.Agree with this, but Gosling is an ok 5th midfielder. What you want the most is certainty, he gives that, and has an attacking potential too.
kane/alli have 2 games to get injured in
Aguero has 60 minutes to get injured in.
gonna happen sooner or later
If you have 11 playing this week (3 non playing subs) and 1 FT - do you save the transfer or use it to get an extra player?
Save imo
Cheers
Preferably save, but depends on your players.
Thanks
I'd go with save
Ta
save
Depends on who you buy/sell.
I have 11 and I'm tempted to sell Stanislas (yes I hear ye lol a gw30 player).
Mainly because if Chelsea win tomorrow I could be rocking 7 gw30 players already and have 5 fts.
I really want to watch a good zombie film tonight but I think I have seen all the good ones. Maybe I'll just watch a reply of man utd passing sideways for 90 mins, close enough?
Chuckle. There are always more good zombie films. Have you seen Colin?
Colin is great.
Proud to say it was one of the last dvds I bought.
Versus
I'm waiting for a decent copy of the new one to appear to dl
Zombies have more life in them than Man Utd...
The Battery is a good new zombie film.
Oooo not heard of that, will see if it is there
Serpent and the Rainbow is a pretty cool film, forced to watch it with some friends last year as a man with little interest in zombie films and it was rather enjoyable.
Cheers 🙂
Not a zombie film but maybe if you fancy something a bit weird.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.Cheers, that's 3, my night sorted!
Jim Jarmusch! Great indie film. Seen several times.
Super 8?
Cockneys vs zombies
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Any Evil Dead movie by Sam Raimi
Fido
Life after Beth
Tucker and Dale vs Evil is very funny, cleverly written.
Agree. Loads of laughs.
So Everton will have 2 dgws after wk 30.
Robles as a second keeper ?Loading up on these 2 x dgw players post 30 seems the way to go.
U think Robles will keep his place?
4.3m good back up to come in for dg weeker?Great penalty save today I thought.
Did he no harm.
I hope not. Howard has struggled this season.
True
Ooft
I.thimk with Howard stating he's leaving in the summer and Everton out of contention in the league would make sense to give him experience. He is good after all
Barkley, Lukaku and Coleman/Deulofeu
Duelofeu won't start 2 games in a row.
The other 3 are good options.With that many games, rotation will kick in
That's why Joel will probably be a good option. If he's cemented his place keepers don't usually get rotated.
Can someone recommend me something to read that will change my life?
Or at least the way I think
Like: The selfish Gene or the Atlantic article on ISISElon Musk by Ashlee Vance
Elon is the new Henry Ford, Getty etc , really transforming the world
Have heard its good. Weirdly I've met the mgmt team at Tesla. V impressive
Just bought the book myself, but on the back of the many articles I've read about him I've bought shares in Tesla, big long term bet, like buying into Apple early
So much in the price already mind
Still think you'll do wellplummeted Athey moment need to buy more to average down
Not easy to pick direction at the mo
Good luck!
I quite liked...
Hidden Soldier: An Irish Legionannaire's Wars from Bosnia to Iraq.
And...
Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh.If I had to pick one itd be the second one.
Tony, how come its £58 on Amazon?
Interesting, never gone that route. Ta
You from near there in ireland?
Im from crossmaglen myself?
freakonomics
Read it, liked it,
Podcast as well
The White rabbit Yeo-Thomas puts modern day life troubles in perspective
Guns,germs, & steel Jared DiamondI'll second Guns, Germs and Steel.
Amzing book, will change how you see everything.
Collapse by Jared Diamond is fantastic as well.*adds to basket*
The God Delusion.
Read it, loved it
Yep.
Not worth reading, tbh. May change some lives, though, not contesting that. But only if you're completely ignorant on its subject before reading it.
The True Believer - Eric Hoffer
Great book that explains how mass movements start.
The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
Goes into stoicism, which has made a big difference in my life, and has been handy in FPL this year given how difficult it has been.
Ryan writes very thought-provoking articles as well, like this one - http://observer.com/2016/01/this-is-the-hollowed-out-world-that-outrage-culture-has-created/Cool,
I'll have a gander thanks
If you want something that's not too hard read while also changing the way you understand the world and yourself, I can recommend Consciousness and the brain by Stanislas Dehaene. High end neuroscience in a very easy to approach form.
Cool, not too hard is appealing!
I may be exaggerating with "very easy" though. Just mean that these are some challenging ideas, and well founded scientifically which is hard to follow sometimes, and here's somebody who is at the source of that very novel scientific progress and has also put it into a form that to my mind should be readable to a commoner. Not sure if it will change your life, though. It's not one of those demagogue manifestoes urging you to action. It rather changes the way you think about thinking.
The Dice Man
Anyone going to get rid of Aguero if he has 2 Blanks in the next 4?
Nope
my transfers going on my mids, Firmino, Ramsey and Payer all in the firing line
Some are.
Do you have a magic carpet?
I have a nice little 2 seater.
Not 100% ruling it out, but I'd say it's highly unlikely
Butland Hennessey
Bellerin Dier Cathcart Daniels Simpson
Sanchez Ozil Payet Mahrez Alli
Aguero Kane Vardy
2 FT 0.2ITB
A) Sanchez->Arnie, Cathcart->Fonte
B) Cathcart->Targett
C) Save
D) Other?C until Friday.
^^^^€€
With Swansea now having a game in week 30. Keep or sell Paloschi ?> Vardy
Or Aguero > VardyPaloschi is the new GoMiss.
Yeh leaning towards selling and maybe getting Siggy in for Sanchez in wk29
Firmino - Siggy then maybe..
Crap fixtures though.
GW 29
Best punt for next week?
Must have 5% ownership or less!Austin?
Now that really is punty!
Noooot for me...
Think risking it on Shaqiri is enough risk for one week
Diouf
Will Diouf likely start though?
As an alternative to scrapping Cup replays, how about exempting all Premier League teams from the League Cup?
This should free up a few earlier dates for Premier League match-days and thus reduce the current late season fixture congestion.
It might also encourage some Premier League teams to take the Europa League more seriously.I'd like to see the League Cup become a British Cup.
There used to be an Anglo-Scottish Cup once.
Perhaps this could be for those Premier League teams that are not competing in Europe, together with a few clubs from the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Leagues.
A British Cup might have created a little interest about 10 years ago. Nowadays a Scottish club would classify reaching the last 16 as a success.
Who are the good things for GW30 thus far? Perhaps a Newcastle attacking player might have to be given some serious merit given Newcastle's GW31 & 32 fixtures thus his non immediate transferability.
Wijnaldum anyone?Oh, Swansea have Villa the week after I see. Some of those chaps as well perhaps?
Siggy gotta be worth a look from week 29
Yeah, good shout. Didn't even look at the week before!
CHARLTON SUBS | Pope, Johnson, Motta, Suk-Young, Fanni, Ghoochannejhad, Lookman #cafc
Charltons sub bench today...no words neededGenius
Legit?
Oops SW made my last post marked for review.
Has anyone found a good quality version online of the famous series of 6 (now 7) movies based in a galaxy far far away?
Quiz
1) Which Former Tottenham Player won both Euro & World Cup with his national team ?
2) Which Former Swansea Player scored in Both EPL derby & league cup final ?
3) Which Former Swansea Player won Champions league , EPL , FA cup & League cup ?
4) Which European team founded in the same year as Swansea had Ben Affleck as coach ?1 Klinnsman
2 erm. Shelvey?
3. Erm Cardiff?
3 Fat Frank
2) no
3) Frank Lampard
correct
Klinsman,
yes
Neutrals should want Chelsea to beat City tomorrow
a Chelsea win frees up GW34 for City v Newcastle to go into
a City win creates utter chaos
In the same way a Bournemouth win today would have freed up GW34 for Merseyside derbyI don't have a back up keeper so I would like a City win and chaos is definitely better for people who are not doing well
most importantly chaos on here is usually very funny
Does chaos mean a TRIPLE gameweek? If so, chaos please.
Just imagine a triple Aguero triple captain gameweek. You wouldn't need any other players
Until the hamstring injury 😉
Chances of Aguero starting all games in a TGW = 0
There has only been 1 recorded TGW, no player started every game, not even the keeperTriple Aguero gameweek + triple Aguero captain = triple Aguero hat tricks for sure
Aguero cubed
Injured after 6 mins of first game. = disaster.
I couldn't possibly believe that might happen
I don't think so it just means people losing the plot , taking stupid hits and generally panicking
Triple Gameweeks will be an nightmare, no one will play all 3 games IMO
I have 5 FTs between now and GW30 so as it stands my plan
GW27 Johnson and Ward to VVD and Daniels for free
GW28 save
GW29 Ramsey and Iggy to Siggy and striker for around 7.0
GW30 wing it but possibly Sanchez out if Arsenal are blankingHow many do you have at the min ?
for GW30
3x LEI that are guaranteed
I did have GJ but he looks like being injured still
chances are I'll also have Henessey4 at the min . Francis , Fuchs , Mahrez , VVD . That puts me in a decent spot right ?
2 FTs this week or 1?
with 1 FT that means 4 FTs before then so that's 8 without any hits which seems pretty good
By my count with the 5 FTs I have I'll have about 8 or 9 depending on what I do GW301 🙁 . It depends on who the 9th player is 🙂 . I will probably get Vardy this week . I might have a few more depending on how the matches go tomorrow
plus given Pelle's comments I;d bank on a weak City team tomorrow, increasing the chances of a Chelsea win
I could do with that . I don't want to take a hit on a goalie
you have Courtois and Spiegel
a Chelsea win leaves you keeperless, a City win leaves you Kunless.It's bad either way . A draw would be a bit of a disaster
a draw would be carnage absolute carnage as City are due to play CL in the midweek between GWs 29 and 30 which creates the possibility that the replay itself goes to GW30 and the QF has to be fitted in
oh, they're not, they are due to play the midweek after, so it could go there, which rules out them putting the Newcastle game there
I want Chelsea to win so I have Aguero to play GW30.
This. Need a captaincy option
We like chaos
Dreary. When did Saturday night TV become so poor. It's just rubbish.
agreed. Have some films I've recorded. i save them until the tv is awful. Gonna watch one tonight, probably Amy
I have a couple of DVD's saved somewhere....good idea.
Happy enough watching old episodes of british bake off.
Joel Robles has started last 6 games in all competetions and has kept 4 clean sheets
His spot to lose now right? Comes at only 4.3mNice. Hard to work him in though yet.
yeap if not for all this blanks and dgw stuffs could be a potential bargain to hop on
After gameweek 30. If he continues to starts. He's coming in in preparation for the 2x DGW he'll be getting
Martinez has said he is no1 I believe.
Whaaaat
You'll always be sweating on him starting. Especially if he has a bad game.
I remember getting him when he was at Wigan and had begun starting. Come the DGW I got him for I'm sure Al-Habsi got restored
but with 2 blanks in his next 4 it's also a bad time to pick him up
Reduced to watching Led Zep from 2007 on a SKY channel.
I love music of just about any type but Led Zep are one group I've never been able to get along with...and I don't even know why.I tend to watch Youtube. Tons of stuff you'll enjoy.
Oh aye. I watch a lot of it these days through my Xbox...Some really good stuff on there.
The related videos can take you on an addictive journey though.
Yeah, link > link > link for music. I've been watching a series on there this past week called "Prisoner of War", It's quite good. I must have missed it when it was originally released.
Two songs down and I've just remembered why they are one of the few bands I can't get along with.
It's because they are just a big mush of noise and I'm not wearing my 1970's emperors new clothes. Time for MOTD.
Led Zep rule. Remember the times. They were ground breaking. Heavy metal owes them a thank you.
I think it may be because they're rip-off criminals who stole other people's good songs and just played them louder.
They had a couple of good songs that at least so far have not been identified as rip-offs. But who knows, maybe their agent just killed the original artists before anybody else heard them.
I remember them at the time. A lot of my friends liked them but I just didn't get it, watching this type has just confirmed I was right.
Anyone know how bad Enner Valencia's inury is? I know he's out of the FA Cup but will he be back for the next GW?
So how many GW 30 players do you have? I have 7 confirmed so far.
4
4 (Butland, Huth, Williams and Mahrez)
I've got 2FT (plus 3 more to come), and am targeting 8 or 9, so i'm not overly concerned ATM.
You are doing well. 5 here
Yeah got 2 players from one game after Everton won today.
5.
Forster,VVD,Cedric,Simpson,MahrezYour banking on a Saints CS at Stoke.
4 atm
should have 7 by the start of the GWWho are the 3 you're expecting?
Henessey and I have 2 FTs so I'll be bringing in VVD and Daniels for Ward and Johnson
and maybe Kun as well if Chelsea win
4 I believe
6
