Parent club for Sahko so could be goals. Palace vs Pool is normally a goal fest and Palace have a decent record.

Was just about to do a hot topic on this...so thought I'd hulk up yours instead...Really good initial summary and echo those views too.

Its a horrible DGWK with Only Ibram, Valencia appealing. Will take a punt on a palace or manU mid maybe as well but really don't want to have their players long term.

In addition de Room is a good option as well

Mata might be my luxury punt.

Appreciate the insight

I think I would be not loading up too much, other SGW players have good fixtures

so for me Mid GK, MID def, Valencia and Ibra

then only left with 2 players to move out and can deal with via subs if required until

I know DDG has another double so may still be considered

I've had a look at the other fixtures that week for the popular mids and forwards:
Alli/Eriksen/Kane (if fit) - Palace away
Sanchez - Leicester home
Siggy - Stoke home
King - Boro home
Lukaku - West Ham away
Hazard/Costa/Pedro - Southampton home

I'm not sure you would want to transfer/bench any of those for a Palace/Boro mid bar maybe King. Plus you want most of those above for the other double game weeks. So you're looking at King + 4 versus Zaha probably.

Think I would rather bring in PVA and Gibson for bench fodder defenders in terms of investing.

hmm. i would prefer own Valdes as keeper

Gabiadinni in for a hit cost me my H2H this week.

Smooth- Lukaku (c), Carroll, Sanchez, heaton, Alonso.
Rough- Going Costa over Vardy. Bad choice. And funes mori's 1 point off the bench. He is killing me.

Smooth : 81 pts Lukaku (C), got in Alli, up to 10k rank

Rough : None

Smooth - Lukaku(c),
Rough - Firmino to Pedro(-4), still owning Cout, benching Lanzini

Absolute joy. Finished with 94 points. It stopped a terrible run of results for me

Failed punt on Son, as I'm sure many here did. Just stick to Eriksen or Alli imo

Alli in for Sterling. Kept Aguero.

Smooth 89 for me and highest gwk rank of the season. Alli in for Coutinho....went for him as he looked really up for scoring in interviews post Kane injury - had no idea he's extend that to pens too - so nice bonus there.

9/11 gave returns - even Charlie Daniels in his testimonial for me.

86.. All 5 defensive players got returns which is always great, also almost 40 pts above average for the 3rd time in a few weeks

Smooth : Sold Brunt + Sane for Valencia + Sanchez (-4)
Benched Mawson for Funes Mori

Smooth(ish) managed to collect a respectable 74 points despite Costa to Kane to Costa shenanigans

Smooth: 85 (-4), Lanzini, Sanchez, Lukaku (C), Coleman, Alonso, Pickford, Aguero.

Rough: My two transferred in players, Sanchez and Gabbiadini, both got injured.

Rough: Brought in Walker for a hit (1 point), Mori didn't start (1 point), Grosicki did not play and double up Liverpool (Cout + Mane) got me 3 points...
Smooth: Lukaku captain, Alli penalty

Smooth

Mane/Cout/Kane to Sanchez/Alli/Costa (-8)

GW score of 96, and up to 605th

Smooth:
Kane, Carroll > Vardy, Sanchez for -4
6 assists this week on my way to 81.

Rough: King (c) but still did better than some of my previous captains so not very rough

Rough: Captaining Sanchez over Lukaku and not getting in Alli over Mane. Smooth getting 30 points from my defence and Goalkeeper.

Smooth: Vardy over Costa, Lukaku (C), basically all of Saturday

Rough: Sunday. No Utd, no Spurs, double pool

Smooth - Wildcarded for 87 points, getting in Valencia, Alli, Eriksen, Sanchez, Coleman.

Rough - Getting in Deeney over Vardy. Painful.

Smooth: Sold Mane + Coutinho for Sanchez + Alli
Rough: Kept faith in Funes Mori. Sanchez injury.

Smooth: WC team yielded 84 points. 19k OR from 64k in 2 GWs.
Rough: Walker, Hazard, Deeney & Gabbi.

Smooth:

The Defence - Pickford, Alonso, Williams and Valencia bringing in 29 points.

Lukaku Captain

Transfers - McAuley and Phillips out, Sanchez and Valencia in (-4), net gain of 11.

Rough:

Swansea assets

Going into the last game of the weekend with Sterling and Mane, dreaming of breaking the 100 point barrier with a bit of luck...

Ended up with 84 (-4), big green arrow up 115000 places 🙂

Smooth: did nothing, saved FT, 91 points and into the top 4k now.

Rough: Smalling's brain fade cost Valencia plenty points. And Aguero's misses were costly too. He'll be gone next week so I can go back to hoping Pep drops him. 🙂

All smooth after last week's horror transfers. 82 pts and into top 16k.
Back 4 all returned for 30 pts, brought Alli in for Coutinho and captained Rom.

Smooth = winning my mini-league's monthly prize for march.
Brought in Sanchez for Mane and captained Lukaklu. Heaton; Coleman; Alonso; Aguero chipped in to reach 77 no hits.

Smooth: Wildcarded scored 94 and gained 30 points on ML rival. Now with DGW announce dont feel at a disadvantage as GW34 is poor, I have coverage and can easily manage all DGW players for GW37 with free transfers.

Rough: Sanchez and Gabbiadini injuries

Smooth: Lukaku (C), Alli, Coleman, Heaton

Rough:
- Transferred in Deeney to negate the early Kane transfer. Well, he did score...
- Another own goal, Mawson this time
- Mane in for the first time this season, missed a sitter

Smooth

Valencia & Sanchez in for Brunt & Coutinho for -4. Score of 88 in total.

Smooth - 75. Lukaku (c), Sanchez, Heaton.

Rough - Had Baines, Walker, Snodgrass & Kane all flagged. Swapped Snodgrass to Antonio & Kane to Costa for -4.
Now have Antonio, Sanchez & Schneiderlin flagged.

Rough: Bringing in Mawson for a hit

Smooth: Getting in Alli for Sterling and keeping Aguero

smooth - dawson, heaton, lukaku, lanzini
meh - captained alli
rough - brought in deeney for -4

75. -4, smoothish

Ridiculously smooth week.

96 points, no hits taken. Jumped from 48k to 21k OR.

Lukaku (C).
Brought Vardy in for Ibra.
Hazard didn’t play so De Roon came off my bench with a random assist and even more random 5 points.
3 out of 4 clean sheets; Heaton, Baines, Smith.

86 -8 here.
Lukaku captain.
-8 hit. Brunt,Mane,Coutinho > Valencia,Sanchez,Alli.
All 3 came home and those who I transferred out failed.

Over 30 points in hits now over the last 5 or so weeks and a rise in rank from 700k > 144k in that time.

Smooth:
- Sanchez in for Sterling for free. Very rare an impulse transfer works for me, but you talked me into it on the Scoutcast...
- 72 all out with the help of Captain Lukaku
Rough:
- Played Foster over Heaton. Why? Whyyyyy?

Smooth: Lukaku(c), Valencia, Pickford, Spurs double (Erik + Alli)
Rough: Liverpool mids (Mane + Cout), Costa

Brought Alli in for Stanislas, which went pretty well 🙂

Smooth with 87 point no hit.
All green arrows including cutting the gap with the leader to 20ish points in my main ML.

Rough:
wasted a FT by selling Lanzini for Sanchez.
Benching Baines instead of Llorente, Barnes, Mane, or Siggy

Heaton, Coleman and Alonso - Eriksen, Ali & King, Aguero and Lukaku [C] - 88pts - 22,116 - best position in x5 years - oh yeah!
Only poor Mr Mawson [-2] but ....

Wildcarded and got 94. ~5k GW rank. 300k rise. Alexis, Gabb and Antonio flags are issues but wouldn't mind one of them being out so I don't have a benching headache next GW.

Smooth - full house for Pixckford, Alonso, Baines and Coleman.

Baines and Coleman have racked up around 76 points in 8 weeks between the two of them.

Lanzini is looking like a good pick.

Rough: brought in Gabbiadini for the injured Kane

Rough - Transferred Agüero out for Kane before the Millwall game to catch the price changes (please don't shout at me Jonty) then transferred Kane out to Costa for -4. Agüero scored and Costa got booked. Brilliant.

Smooth - captained Lukaku and moved up to 75k OR.

Smooth: Saved FT, Lukaku (c), held Lanzini, 81 pts. Up to 8k OR, still in LMS.

Lukaku has been a beast for me this season, 6 x captain and average of 11.5 PPG (only one blank)

Rough: Transferred in Kane and Walcott
Smooth: Bought in Vardy and played AOA with Williams and Coleman at the back. Pickford, Eriksen, Carroll Captained Lukaku 85pts (-8)

30 points alone from my back four, pickford Baines valencia alonso.

Lukaku capta in

Only mane costa and siggy blanked. 88 and up to 11k big smooth this week. Got in valencia and sanchez.

Rough not much
Just Funes mori coming on so lost Alonso's points

Smooth
Everything in terms of descions went right for a change
Valencia in for McCauley
Deeney in but is ok for a few weeks still
Lukaju Captain
80 points with a -4
5 points behind ML
just inside 180K and climbing still - highest rank so far this yr

Smooth :
Coutinho Brunt > Alli Valencia
Luka(k)u Aguero Eriksen Alonso Coleman
Pickford (Heaton)
89(-4)

Rough :
Like a few on here, Valencia in meant A.Smith dropping to the bench - so lost out a little there.
Still pleased to have Tony V back for the DGW's.
3 blankers - particularly frustrated with Siggy Llorente double act. Mane's 1pt'er to be expected.

Rough: Carroll (5) -> Costa (1)

Smooth: Coutinho (2) + Mane (1) -> Alli (7) + Sanchez (9) -8. Gained 1pt on my hit and more importantly improved my team substantially.

84-8 all out, 6th green arrow in a row. Gone from 410k to 49k in 6 gws.

Smooth: full house from my gk/def and kaku captain mostly green arrows climbed up to top 500
Rough: took a hit for Walcott and blanks from my whole midfield

All in all: smooth. While my AOA chip didn't yield a wealth of results, I wouldn't have done better not using it. My DEF of Pickford, Alonso, Coleman yielded 22 and Lukaku (C), Kun and King brought offensive returns.

80 pts for the week, which is also my ML lead, moved into Top 20k and most importantly, saved my FT which should be helpful ahead of GW30.

A nice solid 68.

Smooth; Lukaku (c), didn't sell Firmino.

Rough; Costa in for Ibra didn't yield much but at least he didn't get sent off! Other option was Gabbi and he got injured so actually as much smooth as rough!

Up to 640k. Still poor but slowly getting there.

Smooth:
Phillips+Brunt=> Sanchez+Yoshida
Lukaku, King, Carroll, Aguero but specially the double Everton defence and Heaton.

Rough:
Mawson OG and I lost a H2H match up.
Sanchez captain instead of Lukaku

Still got 77(-4) which was decent.

I captained Coleman a minute before the deadline when I had Lukaku as (C) all week. Also took two pointless transfers to get Costa in for Llorente, and getting Baines out for Coleman because otherwise I would have 10 players

I took a hit to switch Brunt and Snodgrass for Valencia and Alli, couldn't have gone much better. 88 points and 24k GW rank which is my best ever!

Smooth this week - 88 points and my 9th green arrow in the last 10 GWs moving me up to 31k. First time in the top 50k all season after being 888k only 10 weeks ago.

Brought in Alli and played AOA - a 9 point gain from choosing that move instead of the other alternative I had considered of taking Carroll out for Costa.

Only real rough was Mane bringing in just 1 point to now have got me only 3 points in 2 weeks since I brought him in.

Smooth was 91 (-8), Lukaku (C) like most but even happier that Vardy punt paid off!

"Rough" Mawson, can't really complain when he was one of the obly three in starting eleven to not deliver.

Rough: Brought in Kane for Aguero before the millwall game.

Smooth got 75 points over all so 67 after a -8. Did Coutinho to Alli and Kane to Vardy. Had Lukaku captained. Jumped massively off the bottom of my mini league and can now relax a little knowing I am relatively safe from the threat of the lat place forfeit ie. wearing a dress and cooking a meal for the lads in the ML.

Smooth: Lukaku (c), Sanchez, Pickford, Alonso, Eriksen and Coleman.
Rough: Benched Daniels instead of Coutinho and blanks for Siggy and Llorente and 1 point for Walker. Getting Costa in instead of Vardy.

80 points so quite smooth but what to do now with Sanchez and Coutinho. Need to get Alli if now on pens but with Burnley next can I afford to wait and wait for news of Sanchez injury.

Very smooth week for myself. Took a -4 to bring in King/Sanchez and removed Snod/T.Carroll, decided to bench Kane and play Carroll in a 3-5-2 rather than take a hit for Costa which paid off, scored 28 points from defence/GK resulting in 87 point overall, my highest GW rank of the reason and up to 12k OR - my highest ever ranking.

Smooth: FT Kane>Vardy leaving 10.2m in bank 😆 Lukaku C

Rough: Nothing

Smooth: Captain Lukaku
Rough: not listening to my gut and failed to bring in Pickford for Mannone (-4); played Jakupovic :/

Smooth: 79pts with Lukaku(c), a return for holding on the Sanchez over his blanks, playing Heaton, benching Mawson.

Rough: -12 hit from doing Kun > Kane & Llorente > Gabbiadini early (-4), then Kane > Costa (-8) and last minute Snoddy > Son (also swapping a benched Snoddy to a benched Gabiadini).

Net return for -12 was -16 points after Kun scored.

Rough:
Kane (0pts) >> Costa(1pt) Coutinho(2pts) >> Son (4pts) Captain for a hit
Almost did Kane >> Vardy Coutinho >> Sanchez 🙁 went punty and was a epic fail

Smooth: double Everton defence/Pickford/Alonso/King/Aguero total score of 68 -4

Rough: 8 pts by 5 players ➡ Son, Walker, Mane, Siggy, Llorente, Aguero misses
Smooth: 68 pts by 6 players (incl. C) ➡ Lukaku (c), Pickford, Alonso, Coleman, King, Aguero

Smoothness : Scored 83 (-4) reaching highest overall rank yet 22k.
Transferred out mane and coutinho for sanchez and eriksen.
Got returns from 8/11.
Rough: Alfie mawson own goal

Nice! 🙂

Nice one

AoA in GW38

good call

Why would anyone want Palace? Have you learnt nothing in these part years? Boro is a bit iffy too...

I don't really like to WC in Arsenal and Southampton players in GW35. Arsenal have Man Utd in GW36. Southampton have Liverpool away. Chelsea play Everton away in GW35 and Tottenham play Arsenal at home. Man Utd is the most solid bet for GW35, but I think they have the worst value out of the top teams with those fixtures. If I WC in GW35 I'd have to keep United players. When I WC in GW36 I can get rid of all of them. We can't forget about the good Crystal Palace fixture in GW35 either. If I WC in GW35 all hits taken in GW34 feels a bit wasted if I am going to WC out all those players.

In the midst of everything it's also important to remember that value is very important for composing a good BB GW37. Arsenal, United, Spurs, City, Chelsea and Leicester are the most expensive teams in the game. Watford, Southampton, WBA and Sunderland offer some decent options, but the fixtures aren't great for any of those teams. Ibra and Sanchez could make BB difficult to pull off.

Arsenal and Southampton both have a decent run of fixtures until GW35. It's in my eyes better to do some long term planning from now on in case we do get DGW35. It's likely you will have at least two players from Arsenal and Southampton by GW35 whether they have a DGW35 or not. Sanchez and Gabbiadini are difficult to pass on. Why WC a week earlier when you already have the two players you'd want the most?