| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Raya Martin | ARS | B |
| Up |  Sanchez | CHE | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Pickford | EVE | A |
| No Change |  Roefs | SUN | C |
| No Change |  Henderson | CRY | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Verbruggen | BHA | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Dubravka | BUR | C, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Gabriel Magalhães | ARS | A |
| No Change |  Chalobah | CHE | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Mukiele | SUN | A, £ |
| No Change |  Lacroix | CRY | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Tarkowski | EVE | A |
| No Change |  Cash | AVL | B, Vs |
| No Change |  van Hecke | BHA | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Senesi | BOU | C |
| No Change |  van Dijk | LIV | B |
| No Change |  Andersen | FUL | C |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | A |
| Down |  Saka | ARS | B |
| No Change |  Fernández | CHE | A, Vs |
| No Change |  Rogers | AVL | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Semenyo | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Bruno Guimarães | NEW | A, Inj |
| No Change |  Wirtz | LIV | A |
| No Change |  Wilson | FUL | B |
| Up |  Ndiaye | EVE | C |
| No Change |  Anderson | NFO | B, £ |
| Down |  Mitoma | BHA | B, Vs |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | C |
| No Change |  Watkins | AVL | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Thiago | BRE | A |
| Down |  Ekitiké | LIV | C |
| No Change |  Calvert-Lewin | LEE | B, VsX |
| No Change |  Bowen | WHU | C |
Mark Newcastle’s fine 3-1 win in the Potteries brought gameweek ten to a close and, to round things off, we now offer our Members a breakdown of the ICT Index data from the match – together with our view on the likely Fantasy Premier League bonus point awards. No prizes for guessing where the maximum will be heading…
Bonus Prediction
Ba 3, Best 2, Walters 1
Ba as long as you use the 2m diff to have VP Silva and VDV in your team. The unstoppable trio are expensive so high scoring budgets are needed such as Ba.
I bank on Silva, VDV & RVP. Still have Rooney & Sturridge and I believe both will score well again immanently. I feel Ba though he has done well is the sort of player you bring in if you already have CHE, ARS, MANC & MANU attacking cover.
I have VDV and Silva, I have no United or Chelsea coverage. I have Aguero and Adebayor. I have 2 free transfers. I'm thinking Ag & Ade > Rooney and Sturridge. Make sense with Uniteds fixtures?
Ha - absolutley so. Just alluded to the importance of cover from those clubs in reply to the post above yours. 🙂
Its nice to see Woodgate picked before Upson, but what happened to Shawcross? I cant find any news on it...
Rooney.
My belated thoughts on Spurs QPR last night (couldn't post yesterday as too peed off watching the Pats pass 'defense' getting torched by Roethlisberger).
I thoroughly enjoyed the game despite the result (having VdV as my captain helped).
Spurs were a joy to watch, definitely the best team we've played thus far and they were better than Chelsea. No shame in losing to a team this good at all.
Taarabt was shocking yesterday and I actually hope Warnock drops him and Derry for the Man City game. We played better when he got subbed, probably cos the rest of the team were relieved that we now had guys up front prepared to run, chase and close down Spurs defenders.
Our second half performance gave me a lot of encouragement. If we can play like that every week we will be fine.
Bale's 2nd goal was a thing of beauty.
Hopefully the goal will give Bothroyd confidence and he can push on from here now.
So, all in all, I was thoroughly entertained and very impressed with Spurs.
Now then, what the hell do the Pats do about this awful inability to rush the passer?
They'll get by with their attack but the Pats cant defend the pass.
I dont think the have the horses on the line to open up pass rush
Its a historically bad pass D, Aguero.
One and done in the playoffs at best. Wasting the final years of Brady's career by hamstringing him with a cover your eyes awful Pass D.
I can't help but like Taarabt. I don't know why. We are of not the same race, nor club, nor personality. But, despite his being a petulant little fecker, I like him.
I think the problem for him is that he's a one-man team and QPR and shocking offensively; Wright-Phillips... Helguson... Bothroyd...
As a Liverpool fan, I'd like to see us go in for him in the next window. He could, in my opinion, replace Gerrard who should be sold while we can still get something for him.
Spurs are definitely not better than Chelsea. They won't make the top 4 this season.
I don't know, Spurs look pretty good at the moment. Chelsea look quite average.
Could just be a form thing, but who knows
All of Spurs' wins have come against easy sides, and they were comprehensively beaten by both Manchester City and United. Wait until their fixtures stiffen up and see how Spurs will go.
Can anybody give me advice on Champions League Fantasy football please?
Xavi or Mata?
Will Rodwell ever score many points with Everton? Want to bring in Drenthe for Brunt but fixtures wise and in terms of influence they seem quite comparable - doing Moses or Dyer to Rodwell is a back up plan for me.
How much do we expect the price of RVP to be by friday night? 12.4? 12.5?
Haha no way. 12.3 max.
12.4 there will be a gallop of transfers in last 24 hours
This is how I'm currently lined up for this GW:
Vorm (Kenny)
Woodgate, Enrique, Simpson (N.Taylor, Kompany)
VDV, Silva, Petrov, O'Hara (Dyer)
RVP, Rooney, Ade
Save the sub and make 2 after the internationals?
or do
a) Kompany > Warnock & Petrov > Ramsey/Walters
b) Kompany > Jones & Petrov > Drenthe
or sort my goalies out? any help much appreciated.
I need everybody's opinions before price changes take effect! Strictly out of the following two, which combo would you rather have?
1) Nani and Dyer
OR
2) Walters and Drenthe?
Thanks in advance.
I think the top 4 this year will be:
1. Man Utd
2. Arsenal
3. Man City
4. Tottenham
Arsenal and Spurs over Chelsea and Liverpool? Interesting
Man Utd's next 10 fixtures..... they should win all 10 pretty comfortably, they'll have a lot of points on the board after that period.
I'm a Liverpool fan but we've pissed away a lot of money on average players this season. Tottenham are a better footballing side.
Villas-Boas is utterly clueless and will be gone soon enough.
no chance arsenal will be second in front of city - once glass ankles gets injured then theyll be struggling to make europa league.
I respect your opinion... but what the fucl are you thinking?
if you take the first e out of below me
That's just too weird.
Man City
Man Utd
Tottenham
Chelsea
As an arsenal fan, i'm prone to believe they can get into that 4th spot, but their success is so tenuously balanced on RVP's health. They really don't have a way to cope without him.
Arshavin.
AA was a perfectly capable attacker until Wenger started messing him about with the rotation crap. Arsenal are not a one-man team.
Whilst van Persie is a fantastic player (if a bit tall/clumsy), Arsenal are missing other players to a greater extent. Wilshere, for one.
However, there's little doubt in my mind that they will still make top 4 - easily...
AA still is a capable attacker (IMHO), but he's not a center forward. Chamakh has no cutting edge. No confidence to turn a defender and take someone on. Its all hold-up play with him.
Hopefully this is all hypothetical and RVP plays 27 more league games, scoring a brace in each.
Is this a joke? I believe it will be...
1. Manchester City
2. Manchester United
3. Chelsea
4. Tottenham
I think Tottenham will be inconsistent over the season and Arsenal relies too heavily on one player to make the top 4.
Its times like these you learn to love again imo.
go with the ladyboy
i really believe RVP is the #1 striker in the world... i was saying this before the chelsea game too
He is the superdeal, Would imagine that in the last year he has scored as many goals as anybody
now imagine having a great midfield behind him ^_____________________^
yeh it's too bad wenger did not really bust a move for a big time mid last summer
Top 5 strikers in the Premier League:
1. Rooney
2. Agüero
3. Suarez
4. van Persie
5. Balotelli
He is all class. If only he had better hamstrings...
Young's price will drop again soon - below the price I bought him for.. Want to get in Walters, but has a Europa League game mid week... Do I wait to check if Walters comes through unscathed and take the price drop.. Or transfer now and avoid the drop but run the risk of Walters limping off?
In that situation, I always go with the latter.
I'm thinking of doing the same transfer, and I'm about to go ahead right now. Walters hasn't started in any of Stoke's Europa League matches so far, and came on in each match with about 10-20 minutes left. So I believe that there is a very small chance of Walters getting injured, or even risked at all, with Stoke currently sitting pretty at the top of their group.
If you think your transfer is worth more than .1 then wait.
shawcross 100% pass completion. bonus: shawcross 3, ba 2, walters 1
Reasonable plan?
GW11: No transfer
GW12: Given -> Howard
GW13: Dunne & Aguero -> N Taylor & Rooney
Given
Dunne, Simpson, Wilkinson
Silva, VDV, Ramsey, Sinclair
RVP, Aguero, Adebayor
Ruddy, Moses, Woodgate, Brown
Bank 0.4m
who will go down this year? - norwich and swansea look too good for the drop at this stage;
18. Wolves
19. Blackburn
20. Wigan (about time)
+42 for wigan. I like Roberto Martinez, mostly because of his commentating during last years world cup, but as you said... its about time.
Don't count out magic Mick McCarthy. They have talent, they could find a way. Wolves --> Bolton
I think Wolves will finish ahead of QPR
Wigan fecked my acca (5) for £1,500 on Saturday, which was particularly disappointing considering I'd already landed Arsenal at 4/1.
18. Norwich
19. Wolves
20. Wigan
I don't know. Wigan might do a late-season revival like they did last year, led by the wizardry of the one and only Moses. 😀
maybe Bolton...... just kidding man
i think its still too early to tell but my guess would probably be blackburn
remember blackpool last year?
by GW 15 they are no where near relagation, but then things turn badly by the second half of the season. As for wigan and wolves they have been battling in the relagation zone for many years, they are experienced in this....
Is it risky to go without United cover this week? I'm thinking of doing Young -> Walters, but might have to do Young -> Nani in case United goes bonkers against Sunderland.
Don't see em going mental, they might be a bit more careful and be defensive due to their thrashing they have probably been told to concentrate on it more. Think you might be alright without the cover this weekend.
~~sign~~
my team
Begovic
shawX - kompany - Enrique - Naylor
Silva - Gerrard - Ramsey
Rooney - Suarez - Sturr (c)
sub: krul, Fox, Cabaye, gabbidon
it really is the way the end this game week
losing my top spot on my mini league to my arch rival, Gerrard missing out on the pen and injured, red card on kompany. shawX and begovic were going to be my savior - he ended up injury for i don't know how long. hopefully he will be ok before the double home game on gw 12,13. I (c) sturridge but his goal was overruled. It was 5-3 man, he just missed out on the action.......
There is a lot of action for this gameweek but somehow my players just weren't involved in it. At the end i recieved a stunning 30 pt for this gameweek
i guess its time to move on to GW 11
hey we all make mistakes but you went sturridge captain against arsenal - why not silva or suarez? - (i still would ask had he scored more than them)
suarez is away game
silva might get put out early for CL
Chelsea under AVB plays attacking game at home, i pretty sure they will score more than 2 goals so i went for him, and i think my decision is decent since CH scored 3 goals in that game. But Sturr just wasn't part of it
I own Sturridge and when Lampard plays Sturridge's influence is much less. Out with Lampard I say
Going to resist knee jerking Bendtner to Ba. After next week Newcastle have 3 horrible fixtures, although, sometimes you just have to go with form....
Young and Adebayor out for Walters and Rooney for a 4 point hit - worth it?
Yes.
Looks good to me.
Did you know that you are far from Random
Just did Young to Walters. Now I have no Man Utd players... Surely I gotta bring in Rooney? Man Utd's fixtures for the next few weeks are delicious!
Happy Halloween everybody! Let's hope it's not a petrifying gameweek!
Because VDV and RVP rises again tonight I've been forced into my transfers early this week. I can't really take any more hits this GW so transfer advice is appreciated for next GW, but do rate my team/fix my starting lineup/get led astray by me into disaster:
Vorm
Bosingwa Enrique R Taylor
Van der Vaart Silva Nani Ramsey
RVP Sturridge Balotelli
Subs: Schwarzer, Dyer, N Taylor.
It's a ballsy play having Balotelli in there with all the good strikers on the go right now. Looks good to me
It backfired this week thanks to the Mancini random team generator, but fingers crossed on my big gamble paying off this week. I think Balo has his best ever chance of starting due to Aguero and Dzeko's CL adventures. Hoping this gives me a clear run for qpr, NEW, NOR. I'm just embracing gambling now as the alternative is staying 100 PTs behind league leaders. If Sturridge/Balo doesn't work out I'll go Chicarito, a huge differential IMO.
Lame question but is Jones guaranteed to start with Vidic back? Is he behind Rio in the pecking order?
Looking to transfer Bos for Jones, but feeling uneasy to get another pricey defender without guarantee to start.
Still the same answer. Jones should get some game but is not nailed on
Thanks, but I wouldve assume that Rio is out of favor and form, Evans is Evans, so Jones should be close to nailed on as he can also play the RB position right?
That's how I am playing it - I have him - but I know he's not nailed on. Ferguson needs to get that back four going and who knows how he'll finally nail it
Smalling out for 3-4 wks should help his chances in the short term.
I'm happy with that for now
Hi folks,
Late night dilemma. Should I do Rooney out, RVP in tonight while I can still afford it?
If I don't do it tonight I won't be able to afford to do so without taking a 4 point hit or waiting until next gameweek. I currently have no Arsenal coverage but this transfer will then mean I have no Man U attacking players. Worried about RVP getting injured midweek or Rooney doing the business against Sunderland (and in forthcoming good fixtures) but feel I just can't ignore RVP's form and Rooney's lack of it any longer!
Any thoughts greatly appreciated, really struggling to decide what to do for the best.
Damn don't bogart that joint my friend
Take a hit
You'll like it
Do NOT sell Rooney. Ever. If you do, he will crucify you. He's the only player who is 100% guaranteed to start in my team every year and remain in it until the end.
He's that good. He will be PL top scorer this year.
Rubbish, I sold him 4 weeks ago and he hasn't hurt me a bit. It's all about timing, and not being inflexible.
True, that. However, I just couldn't bring myself to sell Rooney regardless of his form (or lack thereof). Ever. He's permanent for me and he'll have the armband for each of the next 10 weeks, providing he remains fit.
I fecking love Wayne Rooney.
Typical one-eyed United fan.
For me, yep. Looking at the fixtures, Utd and Arsenal's are equally "easy". I actually have both in my team but I will captain Rooney.
I expect Rooney to be top scorer this year.
Wish I had sold him 4 weeks ago, kept faith in him and I'm nearly 40 points worse off because of it and that doesn't even take into account the doubled points where RVP could have been captain!
As I'm painfully learning, FPLis essentially about joining and leaving bandwagons early. Take the points and run. Rooney was shit hot in the first 6 GWs, then he faded. Same for Aguero. Now it's RVPs turn. You gotta see the warning signs early, I start to think 2 GWs against beatable opposition is enough. When CL calms down over the winter we'll see premium strikers back. And gone again as knockout fixtures resume... tactically it could get interesting when big guns are knocked out of CL
Im starting to think Hernandez may be a better bet than Rooney, when he plays Rooney tends to go deeper and assist Hernandez's goals. I would go RVP, he will outscore Rooney this year if he stays fit
yup I went the RVP route and may soon think of Nani to Ramirez and Sturridge to Hernandez
not a bad idea. Ramirez could be the new Lampard box to box midfielder and guaranteed Chelsea coverage
loved that Chelsea play when lampard was not starting and Ramirez could really run in the midfield. He's a great attacking mid - I hope he gets to play like it
Got to dump Briggs or DeLaet or play 2 defenders
Mind you playing 2 defenders would be better than Bosingwa the last 2 games
Briggs or DeLaet
What are the chances of De Laet starting again, after all Norwich still haven't kept a clean sheet
Current back line:
Shawcross, Kompany, Brown, Enrique, Simpson.
Not happy starting brown this week. Who do I sell?
