Gameweek 16 Captain Poll

Dont be at yourself

Voted Lukaku, but might go for Ivanovic just to shake things up!

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Lukaku
Hazard
Suarez
Aguero

are my 4 realistic options like many people this week.

Lukaku - Meulensteen factor
Hazard - Not frequent enough with the points hauls. Too likely to get a 2/3
Suarez - No Gerrard/No Sturridge
Aguero - Against a pretty mean (of late at least) Arsenal defence.

Currently leaning towards Lukaku and have voted that way but with no real confidence that this will still be my choice on Saturday morning

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I'm looking at a differential to try and sneak ahead of my rival this week but a captain Hazard or Lukaku off day would then lead to a very anxious wait until Suarez takes to the field at 4pm on Sunday. It's a really tough call.

dahat

Think i will follow the FFS poll as i can't really decide, if i had Rooney i would give it to him though.

iroced

the whole year inn wrote: »

so whats the deal with champions league,has city def qualified and what about arsenal and united if all main players are playing (rooney,augero,ozil) then its has to be suarez otherwise i want to go with rooney.

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Lemlin wrote: »

It doesn't really matter anyway because Pellegrini has openly said that with Arsenal next weekend he'll use the Bayern game to rotate.

I just think if you're going to post stuff on here as if it's a fact you should do your research and make sure its correct.

=> Pellegrini confirms he will field a 2nd string team against Bayern Munich with Hart set to start :cool:

Lemlin

Lucas Hood wrote: »

I just think if you're going to post stuff on here as if it's a fact you should do your research and make sure its correct.

I totally agree. The user above had a number of items wrong.

Danger781

PARlance wrote: »

He must have been looking at the goal difference of +13 (Bayern) and +7 (City) to come up with the 7-0 requirement....
Even at that, it's wrong, a 3-0 win would see them on +10 after the game.

Not that any of that matters. It's decided on head to head Danger.

This. Sorry lads.

I shouldn't be answering questions on the verge of falling asleep :P

Necronomicon

Quite conflicted at the moment, it's certainly not the no-brainer that the last two GWs have been. Spurs at home to Liverpool, Liverpool injury problems, I'm leaning away from Suarez. It's hard to look past Aguero at home to anybody, but I'm not sure about the Arsenal fixture. At the moment Oscar and Lukaku are my most likely candidates.

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With Vertonghen and Chiriches out, Capoue will probably fill in at centre back again. It's one thing keeping Fletcher and Altidore quiet but Suarez is a different story. For that reason, I think I'm going to stick with Suarez as I just can't see Dawson and Capoue being able to stop him.

AdMMM

It'll take a brave man to look beyond Suarez!

I'm going to wait until he has a bad week before I even think about taking the arm band off him!

Danger781

Necronomicon wrote: »

Quite conflicted at the moment, it's certainly not the no-brainer that the last two GWs have been. Spurs at home to Liverpool, Liverpool injury problems, I'm leaning away from Suarez. It's hard to look past Aguero at home to anybody, but I'm not sure about the Arsenal fixture. At the moment Oscar and Lukaku are my most likely candidates.

I'm thinking along the same lines..

Leaning away from Suarez with both Gerrard and Enrique out. He won't find it overly easy to score against Spurs at White Hart Lane either.

As you said, had to look past Aguero. Arsenal have champos league midweek and will need to field a solid team if they definitely want to qualify. Surely their defence will be tired for the City team.

Lukaku looks a good choice, but he can be really inconsistent though. On top of that, based on the Fulham game just gone by, Aston Villa managed only one shot on target against them. Big changes happening since Renee took over. Also, it wouldn't completely shock me to see him rested! He's only 20 and has started every game since GW6..

Chelsea up against Palace. Hazard sounds appealing since their forwards aren't doing the business this year. Midfielders are always hit and miss though when it comes to captaincy. Sometimes it pays off nicely, a lot of the time it doesn't. Hazard looked unplayable against Sunderland though. More of the same against CP if he doesn't play in the CL.

Decisions....

jma

Danger781 wrote: »

I'm really struggling to decide..

Nobody can seem to stop Suarez at the moment. Tottenham have been utterly disappointing defensively as of late.

Aguero at home is always a safe bet.. Although Arsenal are strong defensively..

Lukaku at home to Fulham.. Fulham conceded 26 goals this season and managed only two CS

Hazard at home to Palace.. In good form at the moment, although Pulis seems to be doing a great with the back line

EDIT:
The more I think about it, it's definitely going to be either Suarez or Aguero.
- Lukaku is inconsistent, and Fulham have a new manager Rene Meulensteen so we don't know if he can turn things around for Fulham, similar to Pulis.
- I don't feel comfortable captaining Hazard. Midfielders don't always pay off, and Palace are doing extremely well lately.

What about Hull just over a week ago? Gerrard was the only one to score, and Pool lost 3 to 1.

Lemlin

AdMMM wrote: »

It'll take a brave man to look beyond Suarez!

I'm going to wait until he has a bad week before I even think about taking the arm band off him!

Suarez is the new RVP IMO. If in doubt, just captain him.

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Lemlin wrote: »

Suarez is the new RVP IMO. If in doubt, just captain him.

No Gerrard, no Henderson, no Sturridge. Liverpool may struggle similar to the Hull game.

I'm shocked at how low Aguero is in the voting, he was my 2nd choice and is probably the one I'm most likely to turn to if I do start to doubt my original choice.

masti123

Rooney is rested and Aston Villa are looking weak in defence i think rooney could score a few goals

Danger781

masti123 wrote: »

Rooney is rested and Aston Villa are looking weak in defence i think rooney could score a few goals

I'd likely pick Rooney if I had him. But I don't.

I'm leaning towards Aguero for now..

garra

I fancy Suarez against Dawson/Capoue, all the better that other FFers are being tempted to switch to Lukaku etc

Danger781

Surely it'll be Dawson / Kaboul?

Isn't Capoue a CM?

Lemlin

I don't believe it...

Lukaku is running away with the FFS poll. He's 25% and ten percent ahead of Suarez and 13 ahead of Kun Aguero. Hazard is on 22%.

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Lemlin wrote: »

I don't believe it...

Lukaku is running away with the FFS poll. He's 25% and ten percent ahead of Suarez and 13 ahead of Kun Aguero. Hazard is on 22%.

I think Hazard is a crazy enough percentage. Lukaku I get. There are massive question marks surrounding the other 2 strikers this week. Lukaku will not score the amount of points those 2 will total this season, but the question marks surrounding him this week are much smaller. It's not going to be a pleasant week hoping for 3 of my players not to do amazingly (assuming rivals choose differently to me)

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Danger781 wrote: »

Surely it'll be Dawson / Kaboul?

Isn't Capoue a CM?

He can play as CB too, played there against Sunderland and did ok. Not sure what the situation is with Kaboul but don't think he's fully fit yet.

kevohmsford

Michu might be an option this week. Will probably go with Aguero.

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kevohmsford wrote: »

Michu might be an option this week

WHAAAAAAAAAT

moreau

Aguero for me, having seen he didn't feature tonight.

Actually surprised to see regular posters who clearly know their stuff, vote whoever is top of polls? Noticed this throughout last year too, polls interesting for me but no more...

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moreau wrote: »

Aguero for me, having seen he didn't feature tonight.

Actually surprised to see regular posters who clearly know their stuff, vote whoever is top of polls? Noticed this throughout last year too, polls interesting for me but no more...

It isn't the deciding factor for me in making my decisions but I do value the collective opinion of this forum and would be heavily compromised and would need to have a serious thinking about what logic they were working off that I wasn't and to reevaluate whether I'm still happy that my original logic is more solid than the 1 I'd just been introduced to.

Iused2likebusts

moreau wrote: »

Aguero for me, having seen he didn't feature tonight.

Actually surprised to see regular posters who clearly know their stuff, vote whoever is top of polls? Noticed this throughout last year too, polls interesting for me but no more...

aguero for me too, once arsenal play a strong team tomorrow.

the whole year inn

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

aguero for me too, once arsenal play a strong team tomorrow.

I hope they do field a strong team and if so im going with augero other wise its on rooney,he looked good tonight and would have easy got one or two if young was so greedy/sh!t !!!

alchemist33

moreau wrote: »

Aguero for me, having seen he didn't feature tonight.

Actually surprised to see regular posters who clearly know their stuff, vote whoever is top of polls? Noticed this throughout last year too, polls interesting for me but no more...

Going with the most popular option (among active players) will lessen the impact if it all comes off, but it also lessens the potential disaster if your captain fails while others succeed. It's low risk/low yield but over the course of a season, it's a sensible strategy.

Iused2likebusts

alchemist33 wrote: »

Going with the most popular option (among active players) will lessen the impact if it all comes off, but it also lessens the potential disaster if your captain fails while others succeed. It's low risk/low yield but over the course of a season, it's a sensible strategy.

It would have to be a captain that the masses will go with for me to go with the poll rather than backing my own judgement. For example suarez last week was a landslide so a big risk not to go with him. This week the armband will be spread around a lot so it isnt as much of a risk to go with your gut.

moreau

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

It would have to be a captain that the masses will go with for me to go with the poll rather than backing my own judgement. For example suarez last week was a landslide so a big risk not to go with him. This week the armband will be spread around a lot so it isnt as much of a risk to go with your gut.

Agree. The other thing is a lot of teams are looking very similar now (which will be worse after WC). When your gut captain choice does well it can prove to be a differential in weeks like this, which are hard to come by at the moment. The best example for me was a few weeks back when Ozil away to Norwich was a very popular choice in polls (41%) but went with suarez (24%) which was always my planned choice.

Of course it can swing both ways, but if it fails, at least it will be on your own terms, which is the only way to play this game IMO