Two finishes of the highest quality finally rolled over the Rovers resistance at Ewood and saw United defy Roberto Mancini’s prediction to open up a five point gap at the top. Here’s the key stats from United’s 2-0 win, along with our prediction of where the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) bonus points could be heading…
Have overall ranks updated yet? I think my GW score has but im still the same overall as yesterday. Surely a bigger green arrow with 57pts with the avg being 39?
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Just a heads up to you De-zo's.
I have a good history with my first subs - 25 Lord Sig points and 30 Sir James points in the last 7 weeks.
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Hi all,
Thoughts for my team this week?
Bogdan
Evans Caulker Simpson
Walcott Bale Walcott Valencia Siggy
RVP Rooney (c)
Subs: Vorm Papis Cisse Turner Gibbs
ThanksOpen ControlsOops 2 Walcotts. I meant
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Evans Caulker Simpson
Walcott Bale Dempsey Valencia Siggy
RVP Rooney (c)
Subs: Vorm Papis Cisse Turner Gibbs
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hey guys, but i posted this at a dead hour, so hopefully i can get more responses this time
i know it’s a little early to be tinkering with my team, but I just want to know what you guys think will be my best starting XI. so far, i have it as so:
schwarzer
evans, cahill, caulker
valencia, walcott, bale, dempsey
rvp, rooney, cisse
bench: vorm, sig, kelly, king
i want to play sig for this gw, but i have no idea who to drop. also, am i right in playing schwarzer in front of vorm, since vorm as an in form newcastle (even though they are home).
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Like above; If you want to play sig you need to drop cisse while you're playing caulker in back
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i have the same mid problem on who to bench. leaning towards siggy as well
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looks good to me, I love vorm and I was almost in the habit of just playing him everyweek. I think this last game when newcastle played liverpool showed that they can score against good defensive teams (liverpool is 4th overall in least goals scored agaisnt) and cisse is on fire right now. To me you are better off with schwarzer in there like you have. As far as who to put siggy in for thats a hard one. Dempsey will most likely be playing up top with Pogrebnyak hurt so his chance on goal is pretty high on my mind. If i had to pick one to take out for this upcoming gameweek if you really want to put siggy in, it would be walcott or bale. Bale has been a little off form lately although today he had a good showing. I say walcott because he can be hit or miss and also because you got really good offensive cover with RVP. Hope these thoughts help!
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Ranks updated, up to 22.7k
Open ControlsENR back in business! Top 3k.
The FPL dream is alive 😀Open Controls
Well Done 😀 I've achieved the heady heights of 70k, my best rank till now 😉
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I really need that Ba Assist! 🙁
Open ControlsCant believe they gave us hope and snatched it right away!
Open Controlslol I know and I'm 12 points behind my rival! It would have been 6 if Ben Arfa lost the assist and Ba got it!
Plus with Valencia 3 bonus points to come it would have only been 3!! 🙁Open Controls
Me too. Kind of differential for my league..
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Just inside 7K. Peak so far this season. 🙂
Open ControlsNice, will start updating the Open later this morning with a new tab on the spreadsheet.
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Dempsey Bale Sess Siggy Young
RVP Rooney Graham
Who to bench from this front 8 ?
and i just cant decide to take 4pt hit for Young -> Valencia.. any advice?Open ControlsGraham. I have him too, wish I didn't as he takes up a valuable spot. Might sell him soon without playing him. 😕
Open Controlshmm.. i want to keep graham at least for GW 34 😀
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graham.
same with your problem. i have Young too and i really want to get rid from my team.Open Controls1165 with Valencia(c) bonus to include
Open Controls*shite..suppose for new post
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Hoping to break 1k first time in 5 season
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Valencia (c)? Cheeky monkey!
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Man, you guys sure know how to make a 56 feel crappy.
O well...........Champions league knockout stages, here I come!Open ControlsB2B Ballacks is heading home.
Open ControlsThanks man, hows Europa going?
Open ControlsI'm through and so is Bora, Disparate dan and RCA are going home in that one, I'm second in the group because Bora beat me twice
Open ControlsGood for you advancing, though. Hope you don't end up drawing against B2B.
I'm glad Dan is out....the less liverpool the better.Open Controls
Whoops. The crowd in the UCL final will be disappointed then!
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55 here if it makes you feel any better. F**king Fulham.
Open ControlsThat does help, espeically with how much I revere you as a manager.
Open ControlsIs it my turn to buy a round already? 😉
55 is my target for each week, so I try to focus on that ... and not my idiotic self-inflicted wounds *not trading Ba for Cisse, cough-cough* Green arrow overall, but lost nearly 20 in my ML with a challenger 20 behind.
F**king heathen.Open Controlsbummer friend. Hopefully GWs 34-36 prove the payoff for the quality managers.
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since we are having a gloat session:
another season high noted for me! hopefully it will be even a bit higher when Valencia baps and the Ba assist is re-redeemed (surely it must happen?).Open Controls18k
last 6: 113k, 45k, 35k, 23k, 21k, 18kOpen ControlsWoah, nice, makes me feel way better about my top 1k by the end of the season objective.
Open Controlsits the Siggy ranking rocket all the way
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Ive gone from 9k, 2k and 6k the last few seasons to 110k! I am furious! I blame the new Vice Captain rule and dodgy bonus point systems
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1. Wouldn't it have happened by now? New to this league, but I thought the correction on some misattributed assist earlier this season happened pretty quickly.
And did I miss something last night? I thought it was given to Ba, but then was back on Ben Arfa again... or am I wrong?Open ControlsMy FPL Open hangs on it... Currently 56-51, but waiting to see Valencia baps and final attribution of assist. I have the points from it right now, but if it goes away, might Barfa baps drop to one? That could drop me to 51-51. And what would Valencia baps be? I'm pessimistically assuming three, but hoping that a yellow card might prevent that from happening.
Open ControlsBarfa got it first. Then FPL realized "sh*t! we cant actually see any distinct touches between Ba and Cisse" and gave it to the Senegalese. And then god knows what happened next, but its back on Hatem.
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Its been confirmed that Arfa's assist will stand.
Open Controlslol it is so silly, surely if there is any doubt that Ben Arfa touched it then it should just automatically go to Ba since he was the one who actually looked up and saw Cisse and played the pass to him!
Open ControlsAgree! However, I have a feeling FPL are leaning on some other "official" source ... can anyone confirm this?
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care to share the link?
Open Controlsby who? and why..
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While I'm okay with 63 this was a week of what could have been - What could have been if fulham had kept a CS or ba kept that assist, or if dempsey got 3 bp's etc.
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"The main point of note came at the Sports Direct Arena, where Hatem Ben Arfa has now been awarded the assist for Papiss Cisse’s second goal against Liverpool. The Press Association had initially accredited Ben Arfa with the final touch prior to Cisse scoring but, upon initial revision, the decision was reversed, with the award going to Demba Ba. After further analysis of the incident, however, it was concluded that the Frenchman did, indeed, make contact with Ba’s pass, meaning Ben Arfa received assist points for both Newcastle United’s goals on Sunday afternoon. "
From that id assume the matter is done with, Arfa will keep it.Open Controls🙁
Open ControlsBa definitely have to go this week!!
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How to put that smiley? I mean where do you guys find the rest?
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However, it was concluded that the Press Association had their heads up their arse.
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So, fellow deadzoners, we're all aware of the 6 April 16:00 [Friday here in U.S.] deadline, yeah?
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We'll get Swansea and Newcastle teamsheets before the deadline
Open ControlsYeah, noticed it this morning. Does it make me a bad person if I neglect to mention it to my mini-league opponents? Actually, feeling safely far enough ahead that I'm sure I'll drop them a little textmessage, just not sure whether I do it on Thursday night (US) or Friday morning...
Open ControlsDon't do it!!
Open ControlsFriday 10mins prior to kickoff 😉
Open ControlsIf you send note late, you'll get awarded with a late call, no matter how soon, dig?
So either do it early or at the last minute.
By the way, I did this 3 years ago with my brother ... ended up winning the year by 1 point. Flair.Open Controls
Why is that, exactly?
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Slowly climbing the ranks, hoping to get into the top 10k by the end!
ML leader will be exactly 38pts ahead after valencia bonus, and he is 7.8k, so i think its achievable.
If i failed to mention my ML leader is my stupid twat of a brother, gets lucky each time! Every player he brings in turns to gold! Prime example: Adebayor this week.. it seems i will catch him in the long run but its annoying as he has bragging rights each week.
Differentials:
HIM: McCauley, Enrique, Kelly, Young, Ferguson, Adebayor
ME: Komp, Verm, Caulker, Valencia, Siggy, Cisse
You'd think i have a good shot with all the differentials, but somehow we outscore eachother by 2-5pts each week! 🙁Open Controls
If I wanna ship out Ba who do you guys suggest as his replacement?
A) Bendtner (GW 34 decent fixtures)
B) Yakubu (GW 34, Decent fixtures)
C) Ade (No GW 34 but good fixtures coming up.
D) Someone else?Open ControlsCisse imo
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Alreet deadzone,
1) Switch Enrique to a sunderland or swansea defender and play 11 in GW34. I will then need to take a hit to field 7 DGW players
OR
2) Leave Enrique for the DGW and just play 10 in GW34. I will then be able to have 8 players for the DGW, with no players
It basically comes down to whether we think that Liverpool are going to start keeping clean sheets again or not. Do we know when agger is back?Open ControlsIf you have Sess, Valencia/Rooney, Siggy, and a Sunderland and/or Swans Defender, you can get away with 7 or even 6 doublers.
Open ControlsI am looking at bringing in Baines, VDV, and Adebayor, for Kompany, Walcott and Rooney. If I go for option 2, this would mean a hit, and leave me with 7 doublers. Option 1 would be free, and give me 8 doublers. But leave me stuck with enrique!!
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I honestly think liverpool have one of the worst defences in the league atm, and without reina will be even more disastrous at the back. Id get in a player who will play in GW34 but who also has kind fixtures, possibly a swans or sunderland defender.
Open ControlsThat's what I would be looking at. Already getting turner in for santon for GW34, so if i go swansea or sunderland (the only options I am looking at), I would be doubling up. But then I have absolutely no problem doubling up for good fixtures. I'm thinking Rangel or Williams.
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The only way I could afford verm is if I was to get a cheapo in for dempsey. Planning on getting walcott at the moment
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Is Sess or McClean not an option in midfield? I imagine you wouldn't want to triple up on Arsenal players anyway
Open ControlsI guess I could get mcclean, and afford verm. But Mrs China Mag has both of them, and we like to mix our differentials.
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After barfa got his dodgy assist back, am i right in thinking that my dynamic duo of dave and barfa has scored and assisted all of the toons last 5 goals? Got to be some sort of record that. I'm not just taking fantasy, either! Can anyone think of a similar run? Maybe valencia and rooney last year.
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I have 2 ft this week , if I use only 1ft then will I have 1 ft next week or 2 ?
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Open ControlsYes, but which one?
Open ControlsValencia! 😀
Open ControlsHe is in that kind of unstoppable form, I'm expecting a brace and 3 assists! but only 1 Bonus Point because he had a shot off target
Open ControlsTaiwo to grab the 3BP after scoring another direct freekick to make the score 5-1
Open ControlsBen Afra to grab the other 2 BP after a mistake from FPL which will be fixed but then eventually Ben Arfa will get the 2BP back
Open ControlsValencia will also lose an assist and it will be credited to 'Random Fan #1' for yelling out "Welbeck is free, pass to him!"
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so if you have a draw in gw points and OR in a league with your rival. how do they see which one is at top? the one with less overall transfers or only for that parrticular gw ?
Open ControlsThe one whose players have scored more goals will win .
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I have a bit of a goal keeping problem with both my keepers out for GW34
Begovic and Krul
Both do have a DGW in 36 so thats 3 fixtures over 3 gameweeks. However if I sold one for Given I could have 5 fixtures over 3 gameweeks with back to back gameweeks in week35 and 36 if I rotate them. Thats 2 extra fixtures then what I currently have. Granted Given is away to United in GW34 is it a good idea to get him in? or should I get Mignolet for 1 extra fixture but essentially use a transfer for only playing him in a couple of games between now and the end of the season?
I would really appreciate some advice from the deadzone, thanks in advanceOpen ControlsNo. I have already used my FT and if anything I may consider getting rid of Kelly or Cahill before GW34
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It depends what other transfers you have planned leading up to GW36. In some instances it would be better to play a man down in GW34, as it allows you more transfers to play with for GW36
Open ControlsIts not productive having two keepers with no GW34 fixture and each having a double in GW36. It would mean I have 1 less DGW player or 2 less DGW players if I don't get Given.
Current scenario: 3 goalie fixtures over 3 gameweeks
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