Saw your comment on my post earlier, with top players like Torres, all it takes is 1 goal to spark something, his confidence is being whittled away at in every game he doesn't score or is heavily criticised, I am certain that if he scores tonight, which is what I was saying, he will go into the Blackpool game fully expecting to net, and I would be expecting him to net a couple of times.

I think the biggest mistake this season has been to put faith in those top players who havent performed for too long. Nobody needs convincing thier good but surely its better to wait and see before jumping in!

13/2 for MOTM seemed hard to ignore as soon as you saw he was starting and they were bowling

Any ideas what he will get as captain, assuming he gets MOTM?

8 points is not bad.

what about 1-1

Terry and Vidic bullet headers ?

That's fine, as long as nani does not get red carded and misses a peno. I have my h2h wrapped up and don't need any nasty surprises.

I'm going college in a min.

I'm guessing most people on here do 😉

Jamsiep does- apparently.

I do. Taking orders in a Macdonalds drive thru.

the question is.. do you?

my day off college today btw.

Yep but once FF enters your life work takes a backseat 😀

Nope, uni soon though.

In work, but not doing much work. As per usual.

I havent worked for years FPL is my full time job :-p

I'm AT work, but I can feel man flu coming on, so feel sorry for myself

I work 3 days a week, 8 weeks holiday a year. Its a hard life dont you know!

I am not sure what I want to do with RVP. I held him this week for my Tevez/Rooney/RVP front line, and am thinking I want to keep it that way, him being guaranteed out this weekend may force me to knee jerk, but there is a big gap between GW29 and GW30 so he could/should be fit, and he is the main man at Arsenal again.

I am kindof tempted by Torres this weekend if he can get a goal tonight, he badly needs it. Getting back on the Chelsea bus is the way to go in the next few weeks I think.

If I were you, I would be doing Bardsley OUT Baines IN, I think Coleman and Baines offer more by way of potential clean sheets in the DGW than Birmingham, and offer more by way of attacking points, and for what it's worth I am thinking of doing Huth OUT Baines IN this week, but would have Carr/Foster/Baines/Coleman.

I think I will be holding on to RVP.

I am *probably* going to hold RVP pending what Wenger says, if he says anything in the region of "three weeks" then I assume it'll be at least a month and I'll ship him - but for a Chelsea striker probably rather than a 5 to 7 mil job (none of which I'm really sold on.)

If the RVP injury is only a 1 GW thing then I'll use it as an excuse to ship Odem now (probably for Zigic, despite what I said above) instead of in a few weeks. I'd be tempted to shift Bardsley or Brunt from your team if the RVP thing is only short term.

mishra?

they should nickname him the boomerang

Why sell Young? He has excellent fixtures. Arteta + Cahill(inj?) overkill IMO.

Keep Berba for next week. Could score big.

BTW, link your team. It's a lot easier for the rest of us to give useful advice.

Baird OR Luiz? Seems a no brainer! If Luiz can nail down a spot he seems to be a fantastic bargain, and as far as I am concerned the only way is up for Chelsea at the moment, I want to get on their players sooner rather than later, looking at Luiz and Torres myself.

baines probbers

He was benched Soop...I detect a lack of confidence in him since the Spurs red card. Wonder if Ferguson will go for his pace tonight though vs the threat of Cole and Malouda on the left.

He'll play tonight, keepin an eye on Cashley

Just rotation, O'Shea played against some of the bigger teams for his height and strength.

It is becoming very hard to predict when SAF will play Rafael since his red card and subsequent concussion, but I would certainly fancy him to play tonight, to counteract the speed of Ashley Cole and Malouda on the left. That being said, O'Shea has always been his big game RB, so it really is hard to call.

I'm hoping so - a few of us will need him to field XI this week - probably the same for the weekend as well.

All will be clear tonight

I think you have laid the seeds of doubt in your own head with that post, unless we get some positive news on his fitness, or indeed he plays tonight and plays well, there is nothing indicating that he will be a fruitful purchase for the DGW.

Your point is well made highlighting Brunt's form, ya, he did well earlier in the season, but he is now doing nothing, and people bit on that for the DGW, form can change quickly sometimes, but more often than not, if a players form or injury status is in doubt going into a DGW, there are better options.

I am going for Baines and Coleman.

that is undoubtedly the most awesome new post yet today.