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kennyb3 wrote: »

Second Captain, First Captain, whatever!

Seriously though, thought it would be good to start a weekly captain thread as its a very common question on the old thread.

So who will it be Saturday week?

Probably Ba for me!

Aguero for me

Would be nice if we could get a poll in here (*PS I demand John Ruddy be included in any captain poll herein*)

Yeah.... there should be a poll every week. I'm edging towards Rooney. Might stick it on Sessegnon though

Good thread idea! I have Silva penciled in at the moment but I'm not too sure as he hasn't been delivering yesterday. But Blackburn? You really would expect City to destroy them.

Definitely need a poll for these weekly threads.

kennyb3 wrote: »

Well i guess i made a balls of it, i leave someone else to open the poll.

I think you can add one if you edit the OP?

Just stick up a list of the main contenders, you could copy from FFS if you wanted.

+1

Since this is my first year playing properly, I decided to avoid money leagues and just have the Boards league as my main one. And I am doing HORRIBLY at the moment.

Excluding the double week for scores, I've done nothing right since GW 18. 6 really bad weeks have eventually knocked me off the top, and left me in a very average situation.

Decided to keep Nani one more week when considering Dempsey, then that week Nani gets injured and Dempsey scores a hat-trick.

Convinced myself Aguero was the better option over Rooney during my wildcard, my main opposition captains Rooney regularly, and completely stuffed me.

Went for Smalling over Evans, thinking Evans might struggle to play when United get Rio/Jones/Smalling/Rafael all playing... of course, since they're all made of glass, that backfired and Evans goes and gets clean sheets and 3 bonus points.

This week, thinking I had great cover on my bench in Senderos at home to Stoke, he gets a red seemingly out of nowhere on Friday, leaving me to replace Smalling with -5 goals Simpson.

Went for Walters over Sessegnon. Enough said about that.

But by far my biggest screw-up was Ba. The week I dropped Ba is the week I blame for everything. I simply didn't know how to manage my team without the luxury of having him. Dropped him early, expecting to miss the price fall as he had Liverpool and United to play before going away to the ACN. The bugger goes and scores 12 against United, rises in price, only plays 3 games in the ACN, refuses to drop in price due to silly "protection" rules I knew nothing about, and comes back into my team about 1.6m more than he was when I bought him.

If I just kept Ba on my bench during those 3 weeks, I would have spent my money bulking up midfield (Dempsey for Walters), had an extra MF spot (Sess), and not wasted time trying to rely on tools like Sturridge or Best.

And that's it really...

:pac:

1,865th overall, winning all of my smaller leagues, in the teens in the boards one. Been steadily rising every month since August which was not a good month for me.

Yes Augero seems the obvious one but will the FF demons come and mention the phrase "rotation" with Balo back in the frame................

Who_8_Paul? wrote: »

Since Carlcon is off the top, would it be a better idea to now copy number 1s team? No really just so happens my team is very similar to Carlcons (like so many teams after the January wildcard) and I've had the same issues, now got 2 breathing down my neck in my main private league.

PS don't follow bandwagons from the FF scout threads, advice on boards is infinitely better!

There's too much going on to put it that simply, IMO.

The only relevant difference in his favour between the 2 teams last week was that he had Rooney (captained for 26 points), while I had Aguero for 2 points instead, with Bale (3 points) captained.

All 4 of my MFs scored me 5+ points, while only 2 of his did (the 2 I also had).

I fully accept I've been poor lately, but my midfield of Bale/Valencia/Sigurdson/Silva/Dempsey with Sig on my bench is much more likely to score well over the space of a season than his of Pilkington/Sinclair/Sess/Silva/Dempsey with Pilkington on his bench.

So it basically came down to his better captain.

Again, while fully accepting I've sucked, you gotta look at the bad-luck value of having Bale as my captain, his team winning 5-0, but him (the best midfielder in the league) scoring nothing.

And with Ag/Roo, I think the general consensus (and something I am probably going to do myself) is to stick with Aguero for 2 more GWs, then take in Roo for the rest of the season.

Of the 3, I'd say Sig.

With a full healthy squad, I pretty much always have a 3-4-3 formation, with the same MF on the bench each week in my first spot. In this case, mine is Sig too.

With Ba back, then 2 of RVP/Roo/Ag up front, there's pretty much no excuse to have any other formation. Plus Ba's cheap price (for what he is) means there's also no excuse not to have 4 top midefielders, leaving that one 4.5-6m midfielder on the bench.

Leading my 16-man league of science fiction fans. Me and the guy in no. 2 have been the top 2 since GW5 and it's been nip and tuck since. I'm helped by the fact he missed a) the double GW b) his January wildcard and hopefully c) that his 2 Liverpool defenders won't be playing next week.
I'm also leading my 2 "man" league, but the opposition is more interested in watching Ben 10 these days.

Jeez too many threads too similar here now.