[FPL] - GW28 Team News & Match Thread

dahat

Raylor not playing tonight apparently,he has tweeted so according to FFscout facebook page.....

pah

36, hoping oxtail soup doesn't figure as i have moses first sub with 9. Williams coming in with 9 for Kolarov takes me to 45 with RVP & Suarez to play + ox/moses. Did nicely on BP's too this week.

Vorm 1
Cahill 2
Williams 3
Moses 3
Young 2

Took 4 point hit to get in Suarez for Aguero so no loss thankfully

Gameweek 28

Happy enough tbh, gone top of my money league decent scoring from me combined with poor scoring from those above me, was 100 or so behind about 2 months ago. :eek:

thunderdog

dahat wrote: »

Raylor not playing tonight apparently,he has tweeted so according to FFscout facebook page.....

looks like I'll only have 10 playing this week so

roryc

Lemlin wrote: »

And to think we had people on here predicting the demise of Swansea's clean sheets.

Yep, after two clean sheets in Swansea's previous 11 games (last one against rock bottom Wigan), it was obvious they would go on to keep a clean sheet against top of the table City who have scored in practically every game this season, and who hammered 4-0 Swansea on the opening day.

Insightful comment.

carlcon

roryc wrote: »

Yep, after two clean sheets in Swansea's previous 11 games (last one against rock bottom Wigan), it was obvious they would go on to keep a clean sheet against top of the table City who have scored in practically every game this season, and who hammered 4-0 Swansea on the opening day.

Insightful comment.

As I said to you at the time of you telling me to drop Taylor and Vorm a few weeks back;

We have cheap players like those for home games. 3 of Swansea's 5 previous home games were against Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs. It was always going to be a rough period - but that's all it was; a rough period.

Were Swansea favourites to have clean sheets this week? Not at all. But it was always possible. The suggestion that "they weren't as good as before", or "had lost it" was just simply untrue. Using stats and simply looking at their number of clean sheets only gave about 20% of the story. They're better than that run suggested, as they've shown now in the last 2 games. Swansea are that good at home, and are still one of the most trust-worthy sides in the PL when it comes to clean sheets.

carlcon

Ah balls.

I didn't know there was a time limit on editing posts. Can't update the OP. Stupid long weekend! :mad:

Dempsey

I could really do with Danny Simpson not playing...

manual_man

Raylor not playing means I'll have BAE coming in with 1 point. Sweet

darego

Caulker or Simpson for the rest of the season lads? i can see swansea picking up more clean sheets at home than newcastle starting with everton (H) next week

opinions? ;D

Jax Teller

Newcastle: Krul; Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini (c), Santon; Obertan, Cabaye, Tiote, Gutierrez; Ben Arfa; Ba.

Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Koscielny, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Song, Arteta, Rosicky, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Van Persie.” 

carlcon

darego wrote: »

Caulker or Simpson for the rest of the season lads? i can see swansea picking up more clean sheets at home than newcastle starting with everton (H) next week

opinions? ;D

Can't argue with that. Simpson is very much "just there" in the Newcastle defence. Doesn't do too much in attacking terms. Caulker has turned into some kind of BP magnet lately, so I'd go for him.

Not to mention Swansea not having too many "big" teams ahead of them.

S.M.B.

Shotton is worth considering too (in 2 gameweeks time).

I'll probably downgrade from Simpson if I need the extra .3 million that the transfer would give me.

Dempsey

Chamberlain will run riot because he's on my bench and will not be subbed in

manual_man

Anybody know what the deal with Raylor is is he out for long

Nuri Sahin

zerks wrote: »

Liverpool are the only team to play with no strikers,Suarez is more of a playmaker.Shows how much faith they have in Carroll.They look utterly toothless & whoever stated on here that they are going to give someone a battering needs their head examined.

The only ever present I have is Enrique and he's on my hitlist now as 'pool can't keep a clean sheet either.Suarez is going after Tuesday's game.

Aye. Carroll wasn't playing terribly for a few games just before the Carling Cup Final game though, it looked liked he was finding some form albeit still a lack of goals but his all round game that aside was very good actually.

For what you said about Suarez, I can't argue. Spot on. He can score goals, just the role he's playing atm just doesn't suit especially with the players there. One thing doing it for this Liverpool squad and another thing doing it for Uruguay with their brilliant players to help take the burden off him.

As for Enrique, I'll be keeping him. Don't want to be making too many transfers at this stage now being where I'am. Had him in since the start of the season.

Dempsey wrote: »

Chamberlain will run riot because he's on my bench and will not be subbed in

I'm holding you to that Chuffed he's starting.

carlcon

Cisse not starting is an interesting one. Hope I don't regret dropping Ba!

I guess the minimum I can truly be happy with tonight is a couple of goals from RVP. Needs to at least match Rooney to make it the right captain choice.

Ah FFS he just missed a sitter!

FatRat

Lemlin wrote: »

And to think we had people on here predicting the demise of Swansea's clean sheets.

Bit hypocritical, no? I remember well having an arguement with you when you came out and said that Swansea will lose their ability to keep clean sheets in the second half of the season. If i remember correctly you said that defender from each of the big teams was a must for the end of the season and that Swansea's defence was destined for demise. I would pull it up only it'll take me forever to find it but you definitely said something along those lines a few months ago.


Anyway! I happened to be one of those that left 18 points on the bench with caulker and Vorm and it's a right kick in the balls! Arsenal game underway.... hoping for a 1-1 with VP missing a penalty and not scoring/assisting. I have him but I really need him to draw a blank!

My name is URL

haha, I've RVP as captain and Ben Arfa on my team this week.

DazzlerIE

RVP!!!

Moar please

carlcon

Not to get ahead of myself, but RVP has had 3 good chances already. Asking for at least one more goal is far from greedy... could be a good night!

DazzlerIE

carlcon wrote: »

Not to get ahead of myself, but RVP has had 3 good chances already. Asking for at least one more goal is far from greedy... could be a good night!

One of the worst things in FF is getting a toss-up captaincy decision wrong, it was one of those with Rooney and RVP, so I'm hoping for one more goal to justify my selection!

carlcon

DazzlerIE wrote: »

One of the worst things in FF is getting a toss-up captaincy decision wrong, it was one of those with Rooney and RVP, so I'm hoping for one more goal to justify my selection!

Exactly the same here. I don't care that I also have Rooney... if RVP gets 12 points to Rooney's 13, I will still consider it the wrong decision.

Another chance just there! A little too straight though.

FatRat

carlcon wrote: »

Exactly the same here. I don't care that I also have Rooney... if RVP gets 12 points to Rooney's 13, I will still consider it the wrong decision.

Another chance just there! A little too straight though.

Chasing a lead so I put the captaincy on the Yak in the hope he'd have another 4-goal wondergame. At the moment RVP has the same amount of points as him and the game isn't even half over. It's fairly annoying but I can't say I didn't expect it. I'm better off sticking to the big guns with the captaincy from now on and just hope my non-captain players do well enough to gain on the leaders in my leagues.

carlcon

FatRat wrote: »

Chasing a lead so I put the captaincy on the Yak in the hope he'd have another 4-goal wondergame. At the moment RVP has the same amount of points as him and the game isn't even half over. It's fairly annoying but I can't say I didn't expect it. I'm better off sticking to the big guns with the captaincy from now on and just hope my non-captain players do well enough to gain on the leaders in my leagues.

Captain hindsight here, but even though I advised lots of people to give Yakubu a chance over the next 3 GWs, captaining him when Roo and RVP had these fixtures was a bit... well, mad.

Although to be fair, another good tactic each week from now on is to do what you did this week, and just captain a player who's playing against Wolves. They're kind of shocking... and you were probably unlucky not to get more out of The Yak this week.

FatRat

carlcon wrote: »

Captain hindsight here, but even though I advised lots of people to give Yakubu a chance over the next 3 GWs, captaining him when Roo and RVP had these fixtures was a bit... well, mad.

Although to be fair, another good tactic each week from now on is to do what you did this week, and just captain a player who's playing against Wolves. They're kind of shocking... and you were probably unlucky not to get more out of The Yak this week.

Well Rooney is my captain next week and he's playing Wolves. Dempsey was my captain last week and he played wolves. I only notice the pattern now But Wolves are pants, anyone that could score playing against them should be captained! 5 points ain't bad, not much complaints. Could've gotten a 2-pointer had I chosen Dempsey or Silva etc. I should just stop trying to force my way to the top of my leagues with risky decisions.

carlcon

No Santon for the 2nd half. No clean sheet anyway, but I'm sure that's annoying news for one or two of you.

Dempsey

RVP, stop toying with Newcastle and bag a hattrick plz

carlcon

Krul isn't doing us any favours here. Has a number of saves from RVP under his belt tonight.

Shane732

RVP just put the ball in the net FFS!!!

carlcon

Chamberlain off for Gervinho. Had a pretty poor game, but still one to watch.