no to aspas, hernandez won't play

hazard is still a concern IMO, chelsea fixtures are tricky and the don't play at all week 3, so it still depends on a DGW announcement.

navas and negredo are both rotation worries, i'd def go for silva over navas at least. chicarito is a major punt and surely won't get many games? aspas isn't certain to play either although he probly will...

Good, Good, Good, Distinctly average, Crap
Rotation risk, Cack, Won't start.

Not mad on Navas.
Negredo should be good when he plays but I'd opt for Soldado if that goes through.
Aspas could be a good option first few games while Suarez is out but after that I'm unsure.
Chicarito probably won't be a starter

A

easily A

Anelka was in a top 15 EPL finishing team?

Good point, perhaps compare United and Spurs' fixtures and see when you would want to captain both in order to judge WCP (Waste captain potential)

Completely agree. Had planned on trying not to play my wildcard until latter part of the season this year, but the prospect of another Chelski DGW to kick off proceedings, along with the need to somehow amass enough funds for both RVP and Bale has put that one to bed!

definitely...RVP was rarely a great capt pick last season for any one game (i think he only scored more than one on about four or five occasions, less than Rooney as i remember)...but was by miles the most consistent...Chop and change and you lose a lot of the value of owning him...

Hahaha. Genius. 😀

😆

Spot on. Just what she needs.

😆

Close, but no cigar ... yet!

1 if I was forced to choose, I don't particularly fancy any of them.

2

Forget pienaar. He's well past his best.

B

I wouldn't rely on southampton defence

If Pool don't buy a cb it is very tempting to go Boruc and Toure (9.5) over Migs and Clyne (10)

Between 9 and 10.

9 - 9.5
Shouldn't be 10.. but could be

9

9.5

soldado has past his time

😆 Don't sweat it. There is so much time for so many more changes that he may well become irrelevant anyway 🙂

Ok until the bench.

I had Lukaku but was worried about rotation, team looks pretty good though

That word again, "balance".

IMO, balance isn't just about picking loads of mid priced players, I'd actually say if you downgraded some defenders and upgraded your strikers the team would be more "balanced", but I dunno.

Suit yourself. 🙂

Just as last year, I've come to the conclusion that it's far too early to come to conclusions 🙂

I've come to the conclusion that drinking a full bottle of scotch gets you flutered!

I've just told myself he was never that good anyway.

I did that too. And then I realised it was

Thanks for letting us know! This makes things much easier 😉

Another +42.

well it's too early to say. Someone might hit terrific form first 2 games who may become a stand out choice

Like Jonty said, Arsenal Spurs games are always goal-fests!

Unless you want a Newcastle captain you must have City.. 😉

That game is when Negredo gets his 10th Premier League goal. 🙂

Bale or Walcott. Lots of Gauls in that game

It's at least 2 games too early to worry about that.

GW1: Kun breaks leg, RVP scores at hatty

get a city guy

You'll be back. In 2011 I went to live in the middle of the bush in S. Africa. I got 20mins on internet a week on a poor mobile network signal. Managed to finish 99th. It is possible!

Surely you can pop on the internet at hostels for a cheeky 20 minute transfer session once a week?

... and you'll be #1 after gw 5... the pain! 😉

Just make one designed for the first few GWs and WC before you go?

If I were building a team to ghost through the season, I'd go something like:

Mignolet (Boruc)

Mertesacker Kompany Johnson (Collins -1) (Parr -2)

Bale(C) Walcott Snodgrass Noble (some nailed on 4.5 mid -3)

Benteke Berbatov Sturridge

I'm not a big fan of Anelka and Sturridge is currently injured. Apart from that good team.

Oh, and you seem to be missing someone up top, you know, that Dutchman, the top FPL scorer for two seasons in a row....

😎

Are you an arsenal fan Bemba? Is there any chance if Fabianski being 1st choice?

Oops *4 Vets*

I'm there! 😀

Cheers guys, no prize last year, Sorry 4 Vets 🙂

A fo' sho

No confio en el Sunderland unicamente por Di Canio.

How many players have they bought now?

Bale & Bale -> RVP & Carzorla

Hehe. Glad I'm not on that one.

Shite, no room.

🙂 I can see him scoring in his first game though.

**Cue reply from Jonty asking to mail him**

tl;dr

I agree with all that apart from the down voting bit. It's a shame people give a siht about their rep. Having said that there's no doubt there's more quality informative posts now. I just wonder why people only do it for rep!

All good points. Don't worry voting is something we are discussing back at FFS HQ.

And no, I'm not going to ask you to email me. 😉

I would like to keep the voting but take away any purpose of it other than a bit of fun.. (The report button would need to be reinstated though..

I'm pretty sure things will calm down, posts possibly got a bit out hand in years gone by with some vitriolic language and bullying going on and in an effort to be more all encompassing there seems to be a clamp down but to give Mark his due he's been more than fair and an excellant host over the years. I' m sure he's taking on board what's been said otherwise this sight will lose it's character and it's equally charismatic and colourful posters.

Did you see the funny one yesterday? Shortly after discussing ungrateful gravless rmt posters, Parmtree replied to one telling him he would reply when he got a grav. Parm got loads of downvotes and the poster got loads of replies..... Nobody got any thanks 😀

I actually really like the new voting system. As someone who doesn't have the time to spend all day/night on the boards it is really handy to be able to click on each article, sort by discussion rating and get the best posts. Some are a bit meta like this one but most have been really solid pieces of analysis, data and discussion

not sure about 90% but will play a fair amount, probably more mins than last season