That's a great tactic. Been mine for the two seasons I've competed. Last season I wildcarded even earlier than the season before - with great success.

No it isn't stupid, it's just a bit risky. I'm trying to steer a middle ground between capitalising on the first 4 and not leaving myself in a position where I HAVE to WC after 4.

I usually wild card in week 2. Works quite well.

A waste of a wildcard IMO where the only purposes is to gain a little money. The extra value is worth surprisingly little in the way of higher points.

Exactly what I'm doing, and I like it. Every year I wildcard early for one Reeson or another, so this year I'm planning for it.

This is what I did last year, but only because it was the first time I had played FPL and my starting team was so cack.

Another good WC strategy seems to be to use them in pairs - create a brand new team with the first one when there are some attractive DGW fixtures involving teams you might not normally cover, and then the second one a week or so later, to sort the team out again.

depends how lucky you are with your startling line-up I guess.

I like this a lot and agree with the Suarez move.

Is drogba certain to start??? I think Roman will want his star signing to start the season rather than drogba. I feeling safer getting some coverage from the midfield, though thats not so easy either!

Do you guys think Benayoun will get a start? He's been great in pre-season

Could be.

However it's more likely a massive unnecessary headache for those of us who have been planning for weeks (months even?) since the fixtures were announced.

Very similar team to mine (see above), defferentials being:

ME: Ruddy, Lescott, N Taylor, Nani, Drogba
YOU: Al Habsi, Kompany, Hughes, Sinclair, Rooney

He's definitely in the "wait for more info" category. Wait for more information and have a back-up ready; I guess a certain French winger springs to mind.

cheers.like BBC things like this....!

He's a midfielder playing 'in the hole' for Sunderland and has scored well in preseason games.

its just a bandwagon some ones been watchin you tube

Yeah he's been doing great in pre-season. Haven't picked him yet though, not convinced about his starting fixtures!

He's been pushed up behind the striker, so is *arguably* OOP, and he's been doing well there pre-season. I think he's a bit much myself particularly given the first fixture - 6.5 feels a lot for a player you will rotate.

giv it a few weeks

sigh... no Jafalad

I was looking at him, might still include him, nicely priced

Ramsey is ready and waiting to come into my team.

if both go he is def worth a look

Too little in defence imo, although I think you might be able to get away with it, you do have a kickass front 7. Although if you have DJ, why bench him GW1? If you have him, play him

I am toying over this too. Bosingwa or Ferreira could be worth a punt with a decent covering defender on the bench.

if i thought clarke was going to be a starter he'd be straight in my team!

Warnock and Young have played the friendlies im fairly sure.

Sounds reasonable mate, very generic but I like the Dzeko choice, he has been playing well pre-season, should come alive a bit this season I reckon.

Looks a good team. Cant really fault it. Dzeko is the one punt but I feel he will score very well gw 1 anyway. I like it 🙂 Not sure about Luiz starting role though. If he costs that much Id want to be assured that he will start!

Formica is bizarre selection IF you're going to bench him GW1 - GW1 is about as good as it gets for Blackburn. Briggs probably won't play, Ruddy AND De Laet is a bit too much Norwich - maybe go with Orr over De Laet, Bosingwa rotation risk, Richards rotation risk.

Not sure about Bosingwa. That bench is non existent. Don't like Dzeko.

lots of risks there, you can try and have a different team but don't get carried away.

Briggs doesn't look like he's gonna start unfortunately, he was in my team for ages, but unfortunately Etuhu has kept his midfield place as Dempsey came back, which was the only chance of grabbing starting XI.

I see Bosingwa has been starting, but I wouldn't want to risk that myself 😕

Like the rest of the team though man, looks solid 😉

i like the bosingwa selection atleast for the first game week since luiz and ivanovic are injured i think he starts

Death by cholestrol/calories? 🙂

Often done with TimTams/Penguins too.

"goes melty" hahahaha!

pretty impressive, look forward to seeing you at the top on gameweek 1

There's better options than brunt for gw's 1&2. Imo yaya is way overpriced. Rest looks good

Yeah come on Mark, give Scotland Yard a ring and sort it out!

Check the tweets JOnah there's going to be an announcement tomorrow.

If there's no official information, what are you suggesting happens? Guessing? You can guess as well as anyone else.

Let's wait for the facts.

Twitter suggests update on Thursday... That's plenty of notice.

"and then bench ll of them for week 1?" bench 11 of them? bench of them? what does this mean?

There's a meeting tomorrow to decide if any games will be called off.

Originally they said London teams, but now it's spread, it could mean them all being postponed.

I guess it'll be just like when games are postponed, you look at the following fixtures and plan accordingly.

Surely everyone has their own ideas on what the right strategy would be?

Sorry, I apologise everyone for my lack of clarity, and what must have seemed like a lack of empathy for the situation. Obviously no-one from the police e.t.c. should see football as a priority,

I mean why haven't the Scout posted anything regarding the possible cancellations. As far as I can see all of our pre-season plans are facing the possiility of going out of the window, and time is of the essence, and the top post here is, and has been for some time, an analysis of the most consistent midfielders last year.

What about a post outlining various possibilitieis (London matches cancelled, London and Birmingham matches cancelled, all big city matches cancelled), and a way to capitalise as an eager Fantasy Manager.

Can do it for ourselves of course, but if Fantasy Football Scout is for anything isn't that the sort of thing?

Orr is an option

N Taylor gets forward quite a lot when Swansea play at home,overlapping like a winger. (That was in the Championship tho, obviously).
Might pick up an assist or two.

GJ & rvp injury concerns

not yet

chamak is shite so im seeing RVP and Gervihono up top. Bendentner a doubt because of his constant tranfer talks

Gabbidon.

Orr, imo.

keeping baines in transfer, jagielka out for simpson or some other 4.0

Has Taarabt done anything in the pre-seasons? He was branded the new Adam but I have heard very little about him.

nice team! great options at the back & you'd be happy to play any of your bench

is formica a nailed starter? even if dunne is fit? right now i have him in my team but honestly have no idea about his prospect.

I'd go Rod to Zamora - Moses is enough Wigan risk IMO

Hmmmmmm. I'd prefer to put my eggs in the Zog basket I think.

Yeah, at last someone else that has Givet and are considering a Swans Defender.

😉

Good team, imo.
I don't like Moses or Silva, and really think Rodallega is a poor shout. I shall wait and see where Holt is concerned. 🙂

To much in faith in Wigan though...

So there are no glaring errors then?!

I'm not passing up the perfect opportunity to have three Wigan attackers. I love it!

Neil Taylor, Swansea LB. I reckon he might have competition for that spot from Tate.

Sess-->Sinclair.

Ka ching.

downgrade luiz, he's not guaranteed starts
ben arfa is injured and he's doubt for GW1