The extra madness of GW31

roryc

While GW29 is all about scraping to field a team, the weeks following will be focused on GW31. Seems to be tough to keep track of the DGW's and it could be a make or break week for some people with City, United, Hull and West Ham all guaranteed doubles. Planning should really start now, the more info you have before the weekend the better.

Confirmed DGW matches in GW31
Manchester United Vs Manchester City
West Ham Vs Hull City
Liverpool Vs Sunderland

Games that could be played in GW31
Everton Vs Crystal Palace (doubtful)
Arsenal Vs Swansea (possible)
Newcastle Vs Everton (likely)

Arsenal I have no idea about. There's nothing stopping them playing it in GW31.

There's some great analysis here which discusses the above in a lot more detail, and discussed the permutations for GW34 and GW37. I would assume the focus will be on Liverpool, Everton and City for these.

Bring on the madness!

FutureGuy

Liverpool v Sunderland is going ahead in GW31. Announced by Premier League a few moments ago.

roryc

That was unexpected. Will edit the initial post.

I wonder if that means Everton v Newcastle goes ahead?

Not great news tbh.

Ziegler1988

FutureGuy wrote: »

Liverpool v Sunderland is going ahead in GW31. Announced by Premier League a few moments ago.

Reduces Mannone's (immediate) appeal since his first DGW is Norwich A and Liverpool A. Means that Liverpool have a very appealing DGW of Cardiff A and Sunderland H; I'll have to get Studge in now....

roryc

I'm looking at Gerrard, Henderson or Sterling for the DGW. 3 Liverpool players a must imo

FutureGuy

roryc wrote: »

I'm looking at Gerrard, Henderson or Sterling for the DGW. 3 Liverpool players a must imo

+1. 3 attacking Liverpool players is a must. They have no other competitions to play in and are completely focused on the League.

Ziegler1988

From another forum:

Yes, Liverpool v Sunderland will be LIVE on Sky Sports on the above date.

Unless Hull v Sunderland in the FA Cup ends in a draw, so their replay will be on the above date, therefore the said league game will be cancelled for a second time and rearranged for another date.

I doubt this is true though; they could have the replay on Monday 17 March as precedented by yesterday.

jimmii

So glad I have my WC! Currently have 2FTs to navigate the next couple of blanks then fire up the wildcard to load up on GW31 prospects! Could be a season defining few weeks.

Menas

jimmii wrote: »

So glad I have my WC! Currently have 2FTs to navigate the next couple of blanks then fire up the wildcard to load up on GW31 prospects! Could be a season defining few weeks.

Well done for your patience on keeping it so long. Puts you in a very sweet position for the doubles and in the run up to season end.

roryc

Planning for this is a nightmare. I'm doing my two free transfers this week to get rid of Yaya and Zab, and then worrying about it once the fixtures are set in stone. Times like this I was I was a casual player.

jimmii

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Well done for your patience on keeping it so long. Puts you in a very sweet position for the doubles and in the run up to season end.

Sure does before last season I had never managed it! Having said that I was top 900 when I fired up the WC around the same time last season and then going into GW38 I needed a decent green arrow to secure a top 10k finish so it doesn't always work out well!!

Mint Sauce

Wonder when the FPL site will update to show this, as not yet showing Liverpool v Sunderland. Only shows 12 fixtures so far.

Could be a massive points haul, without deductions, especially if playing a reduced side in GW29.

qwabercd

Anybody if Aguero is likely to be fit for GW31? My transfers this week are dependent upon his potential return.

jimmii

qwabercd wrote: »

Anybody if Aguero is likely to be fit for GW31? My transfers this week are dependent upon his potential return.

Unless he has a set back in training its practically certain. I would imagine we will see him get 90 minutes somewhere before then too.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9182459/

Menas

Aguero is key for me. If he looks like playing and all goes well I hope to have a Suarez, Sturridge and Aguero front line that week.
But Suarez's position in my team in very much under review. Last chance saloon Luis!

G1032

If Arsenal do have their DGW in Week 31 I might hold off on Kompany and stick with Kos for that week. Need to have a proper look at this tonight.

Mint Sauce

Looks like I'm going to have to decide between Nolan and Aguero for this GW. Cant afford both.

roryc

Terry and Ince in this week. Evra in next week. Aguero in the following week. Would give me seven for the DGW, although I would likely take a 4 point hit to get Nolan in for Lallana. Hopefully Everton Vs Palace also goes ahead and I would have 11 DGW'ers

Would mean resting Terry, Azpil and possibly Hazard who are up against Arsenal, although I would likely play one of them over Colback. Terry out at a hit for Kompany is also an option.

PARlance

Holy Sh*t..........I didn't see this coming so soon!

Bit of a disaster I terms of having the edge over people that aren't planning as much! Trying not to say the C word :P Casuals

PARlance

Anyone thinking of Jelavic for the DGW... from the little I've seen of him, he could be a nice differential that scores as well as other strikers, but allows a really strong MF for the DGW.
Maybe I'm reading a bit into the last game a bit too much but I really like seeing a striking partnership playing together like himself and Long.

Thinking it will be Sturridge and RVP up front with him. A RVP to Suarez move is definitely on the cards though, if I have a decent GW 28 - 30 I may need to get a bit safer.

CSF

PARlance wrote: »

Anyone thinking of Jelavic for the DGW... from the little I've seen of him, he could be a nice differential that scores as well as other strikers.
Maybe I'm reading a bit into the last game a bit too much but I really like seeing a striking partnership playing together like himself and Long.

Thinking it will be Sturridge and RVP up front with him. A RVP to Suarez move is definitely on the cards though, if I have a decent GW 28 - 30 I may need to get a bit safer.

He isn't a bad option at all when you just consider him on his own merits. But with Suarez, Sturridge, Rooney, Van Persie, Aguero and Negredo all having DGWs too, I couldn't consider him, I'll be figuring out my best possible combination from those 6, and to be honest I'm not sure I'll have huge difficulty in doing so.

PARlance

CSF wrote: »

He isn't a bad option at all when you just consider him on his own merits. But with Suarez, Sturridge, Rooney, Van Persie, Aguero and Negredo all having DGWs too, I couldn't consider him, I'll be figuring out my best possible combination from those 6, and to be honest I'm not sure I'll have huge difficulty in doing so.

I was just editing my post as you posted.

Jelavic isn't Option 1,2,3.... at present but I'm still looking for differentials and while I don't think he would outscore many of the big guns, he mightn't be too far off (Relatively decent fixtures for Hull for the DGW).

Where it might pay off is in the 5-6m that might be invested in MF for the DGW.

Anyway, just a thought, you lads up the leaderboard don't need these differentials/gambles.

G1032

roryc wrote: »

Terry and Ince in this week. Evra in next week. Aguero in the following week. Would give me seven for the DGW, although I would likely take a 4 point hit to get Nolan in for Lallana. Hopefully Everton Vs Palace also goes ahead and I would have 11 DGW'ers

Would mean resting Terry, Azpil and possibly Hazard who are up against Arsenal, although I would likely play one of them over Colback. Terry out at a hit for Kompany is also an option.

No Yaya?

Steven81

The games are added for GW31 now on the fpl website.

roryc

G1032 wrote: »

No Yaya?

It's either Yaya or Aguero.

Still no news on Everton Vs Palace? Makes a massive difference for me.

G1032

roryc wrote: »

It's either Yaya or Aguero.

Still no news on Everton Vs Palace? Makes a massive difference for me.

I think I'll try to get them both but I'll be selling Lallana for Yaya.

roryc

I'm not willing to dump Suarez or Sturridge when they have a DGW. And it would be tough to afford all three of them, Aguero and Yaya

Ziegler1988

roryc wrote: »

Still no news on Everton Vs Palace? Makes a massive difference for me.

I think it will depend on if Arsenal v Everton goes to a replay. That would need to be played March 25/26 since Tottenham v Arsenal is Sunday the 16th ruling out Monday the 17th for a replay.

roryc

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

I think it will depend on if Arsenal v Everton goes to a replay. That would need to be played March 25/26 since Tottenham v Arsenal is Sunday the 16th ruling out Monday the 17th for a replay.

Cheers, good point. So if either team win the Everton Vs Palace game goes ahead?

PARlance

I am waiting to hear back about a potential job today or tomorrow.... lets just say I am way more concerned with my front three and stockpiling for GW31 than I should be today.

Can just imagine how it'll go down when I get home:
Missus: "Well.... any news?"
Me: Ah complete disaster, not the news I was looking for at all... Liverpool Sunderland reshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttteeeeeee..... no, no news on the job front yet darling. Hopefully I'll hear back tomorrow (will the Everton game be included in GW31)

Mr.Prodston

PARlance wrote: »

I am waiting to hear back about a potential job today or tomorrow.... lets just say I am way more concerned with my front three and stockpiling for GW31 than I should be today.

Oh well this is awkward, did nobody give you the memo yesterday? The position has already been filled :pac: