FSA FPL Rate My Team Thread 2014-15

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Paully D wrote: »

They certainly do offer perfect rotation but even so I reckon they'll be lucky to get 10 clean sheets between them and Hutton is a prime candidate for numerous minus point outings due to being a card magnet.

Wisdom will likely lose his place once their defenders recover from injuries and gain fitness.

Yep both likely to end up in the bottom 6. However, better them than their 4.5m counterparts! (WBA have 3x 5.0m defenders)

FHFC just had a good post in the cheap defenders thread about the 4.0's. Not too many around.

Will be more useful in the Ultimate game though (doing my team now). Rotating 4.0m defenders could be very useful as prices don't change in that game so it's cheapies from the start.

skippy15

The Sparrow wrote: »

Ok made some changes based on feedback above. Mata and Fabregas are good shouts.

Downgraded from Sturridge to Costa and am a bit worried about that. Also Lamela is a gamble but I have a feeling he will have a good year.

Very similar team to mine- erikson/ lamela and different defence+ 3rd striker.

Azp may not be guaranteed game time,
And debuchy will be a solid player but tough opening fixtures, so will pick him up in a few weeks time

Lemlin

Have been away and just got back tonight so made a few changes.

Jelavic, despite originally hoping he'd be a secret weapon, has been transferred out for Fletcher. The position may yet go to Bojan but I think I will go with one of the 5.5s so it's pretty much down to those two.

That frees up .5 million so Taylor has been upgraded to Pieters. Stoke and Hughes speak for themselves IMO. Good team and a manager I really rate, Monk, on the other hand, I don't rate.

Albrighton also taken out for Isgrove.

De Gea/Gilks
O'Shea, Coloccini, Terry, Pieters, Moore
Siggy, Mata, Hazard, Ramsey, Isgrove
Sturridge Rooney Fletcher

Oranage2

Lemlin wrote: »

Have been away and just got back tonight so made a few changes.

Jelavic, despite originally hoping he'd be a special weapon, has been transferred out for Fletcher. The position may yet go to Bojan but I think I will go with one of the 5.5s so it's pretty much down to those two.

That frees up .5 million so Taylor has been upgraded to Pieters. Stoke and Hughes speak for themselves IMO. Good team and a manager I really rate, Monk, on the other hand, I don't rate.

Albrighton also taken out for Isgrove.

De Gea/Gilks
O'Shea, Coloccini, Terry, Pieters, Moore
Siggy, Mata, Hazard, Ramsey, Isgrove
Sturridge Rooney Fletcher

My team is very similar, is there a reason You've Gilks and not myhil?

Lemlin

Oranage2 wrote: »

My team is very similar, is there a reason You've Gilks and not myhil?

Haven't even looked at the different 4 mil keepers tbh. I don't expect whoever I get to play so don't see any difference between them all.

Iused2likebusts

Begovic ( Given)
Evans Chambers Dunne ( van aanholt Collicini)
sterling fabregas mata ramsey ( siggy)
Rooney Costa jutkiewicz

GKs Happy to go with just one playing GK due to stokes opening fixtures. Went with Begovic due to uncertainty over a couple of the 5million options in the stoke defence

Defs Taking a punt on Chambers chances are he will only play the first game but you never know and may catch a CS and price rise from him. Van aanholt and collocini have H/A rotation but due to opening fixtures I may start both some weeks. Dunne Qpr have some decent fixtures in the first 8.

Mids Sterling has been excellent pre season so hoping he will get some points against southampton. I will more than likely transfer him out after Gw 1 for either eriksen or lamela. Siggy is on the bench for the first week but will play most weeks.

Fwds Jutkiewicz bit of a punt he should start most weeks as burnley usually play 4 4 2/ 4 4 1 1 and have done in pre season. Very low ownership and a goal will see a bandwagon. Will alternate between 3 5 2 and 3 4 3 so he will play the odd week. Decided to go for costa over sturridge based on the first 3 fixtures .

Lemlin

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Begovic ( Given)
Evans Chambers Dunne ( van aanholt Collicini)
sterling fabregas mata ramsey ( siggy)
Rooney Costa jutkiewicz

GKs Happy to go with just one playing GK due to stokes opening fixtures. Went with Begovic due to uncertainty over a couple of the 5million options in the stoke defence

Defs Taking a punt on Chambers chances are he will only play the first game but you never know and may catch a CS and price rise from him. Van aanholt and collocini have H/A rotation but due to opening fixtures I may start both some weeks. Dunne Qpr have some decent fixtures in the first 8.

Mids Sterling has been excellent pre season so hoping he will get some points against southampton. I will more than likely transfer him out after Gw 1 for either eriksen or lamela. Siggy is on the bench for the first week but will play most weeks.

Fwds Jutkiewicz bit of a punt he should start most weeks as burnley usually play 4 4 2/ 4 4 1 1 and have done in pre season. Very low ownership and a goal will see a bandwagon. Will alternate between 3 5 2 and 3 4 3 so he will play the odd week. Decided to go for costa over sturridge based on the first 3 fixtures .

Very good team for me. No Chelsea defensive cover but you can't have everything.

I'm thinking about Fabregas over Hazard myself. Hazard hasn't played much pre season and from watching SSN this morning I see Fabregas got a decent individual goal for Chelsea over the weekend.

I'd agree with your tactic re Sterling. He's too highly priced IMO.

Do you think will Dunne start enough for QPR?

average_runner

Lemlin wrote: »

Very good team for me. No Chelsea defensive cover but you can't have everything.

I'm thinking about Fabregas over Hazard myself. Hazard hasn't played much pre season and from watching SSN this morning I see Fabregas got a decent individual goal for Chelsea over the weekend.

I'd agree with your tactic re Sterling. He's too highly priced IMO.

Do you think will Dunne start enough for QPR?

Fabregas will be playing in centre mid, hazard as amc

Iused2likebusts

Lemlin wrote: »

Very good team for me. No Chelsea defensive cover but you can't have everything.

I'm thinking about Fabregas over Hazard myself. Hazard hasn't played much pre season and from watching SSN this morning I see Fabregas got a decent individual goal for Chelsea over the weekend.

I'd agree with your tactic re Sterling. He's too highly priced IMO.

Do you think will Dunne start enough for QPR?

It looks like qpr will go 3 5 2 with caulker dunne and ferdinand first choice. I think he played nearly every game for them in the championship last year so hopefully his injury problems are behind him.

OneColdHand

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Mids Sterling has been excellent pre season so hoping he will get some points against southampton. I will more than likely transfer him out after Gw 1 for either eriksen or lamela. Siggy is on the bench for the first week but will play most weeks.

Nice team, but just going to comment on the above. You are essentially picking a player for 1 GW (Sterling) that you know you're going to transfer out for GW2? This doesn't make much sense to me. Transfers are precious. What if someone else gets injured, or doesn't start (Chambers, for example)?

Each to their own, obviously, but I would definitely be going with Eriksen/Lamela in this case and saving a transfer (and 0.5m).

Iused2likebusts

OneColdHand wrote: »

Nice team, but just going to comment on the above. You are essentially picking a player for 1 GW (Sterling) that you know you're going to transfer out for GW2? This doesn't make much sense to me. Transfers are precious. What if someone else gets injured, or doesn't start (Chambers, for example)?

Each to their own, obviously, but I would definitely be going with Eriksen/Lamela in this case and saving a transfer (and 0.5m).

Ye its a slightly risky strategy its not definite Ill make the move and tbh Id like to see how spurs look and line up before I go with either eriksen/lamela.

Lemlin

average_runner wrote: »

Fabregas will be playing in centre mid, hazard as amc

I'm aware of that but playing central midfield didn't stop Ramsey or Yaya scoring well last season.

Fabregas was also taking alot of the corners and free kicks in earlier friendlies. I'm presuming this is still the case.

Lucas Hood

average_runner wrote: »

Fabregas will be playing in centre mid, hazard as amc

Hazard will be wide left as usual.

Lemlin

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Hazard will be wide left as usual.

I think he meant attacking midfielder. Either way, Fab sitting back isn't troubling me until Hazard gets some form.

average_runner

Lemlin wrote: »

I'm aware of that but playing central midfield didn't stop Ramsey or Yaya scoring well last season.

Fabregas was also taking alot of the corners and free kicks in earlier friendlies. I'm presuming this is still the case.

Toure played more in the attacking mid three last year as Aguero was injured and was on pens. Same for Ramsey as Arteta and Wilshere played the central role.

Hazard will take the pens and set pieces.

Lucas Hood

Latest effort, bench is crap but I like the first 11 no doubt It'll change though.

Johnny Drama_11

Here is mine...all comments welcome.

Mannone

Davies Lovern Shaw

Coutinho Sigurdsson Ramsey Mata Hazard

Rooney Lukaku

Subs
Krul
Bruce
Wisdom
Naismith

Lemlin

average_runner wrote: »

Toure played more in the attacking mid three last year as Aguero was injured and was on pens. Same for Ramsey as Arteta and Wilshere played the central role.

Hazard will take the pens and set pieces.

Any City game I saw Toure started in the 2 sitting mids of the 4-2-3-1. That said, like Ramsey at Arsenal, he played the more attacking player of the two whereas the other (usually Fernandinho) would sit back as the holding mid.

Toure often also pushed up towards the end of games when Garcia might come off the bench or City were chasing a game.

I'd expect Fabregas to take up a similar role. Hazard will take pens but I'd imagine set pieces will be shared.

The other factor is that Hazard hasn't played a full 90 minutes in pre season yet I believe. 63 mins has been his max from what I've read.

SpaceCowb0y

Lemlin wrote: »

Any City game I saw Toure started in the 2 sitting mids of the 4-2-3-1. That said, like Ramsey at Arsenal, he played the more attacking player of the two whereas the other (usually Fernandinho) would sit back as the holding mid.

Toure often also pushed up towards the end of games when Garcia might come off the bench or City were chasing a game.

I'd expect Fabregas to take up a similar role. Hazard will take pens but I'd imagine set pieces will be shared.

The other factor is that Hazard hasn't played a full 90 minutes in pre season yet I believe. 63 mins has been his max from what I've read.

FFS just when i thought i was settled on my team now i have to start thinking about Hazard/Fab again! Didn't realize Hazard hadn't played a full 90 yet. Although i would still assume he will start at the weekend but his fitness and therefore form may not be up to his £10mil price tag just yet... hmmm:rolleyes:

Ziegler1988

average_runner wrote: »

Hazard will take the pens and set pieces.

Someone on FFS said that Mourinho gave an interview on ChelseaTV and named Costa as the penalty taker. Don't know how true it is

Ziegler1988

Oranage2 wrote: »

My team is very similar, is there a reason You've Gilks and not myhil?

Myhill has high ownership and more susceptible to price drops since I assume Foster is nailed on

y0ssar1an22

Here's mine (3-4-3)

Mannone / Krul

Chambers/ Manquillo/ Evans/ Dummett / Targett

Schurrle / Mata / Ramsay / Nasri / El Ahmadi

Dzeko / Rooney / Diego Costa

Concerns:

Subs: Haven't really researced them yet, so dont know if they'll start. Will change these based upon who is more likely to start.

3 starting defenders: are these going to start? Chambers is a short term option.

Schurrle probably wont start the 1st game so I'll swap him for Barkley maybe.

Chances of Nasri and Dzeke starting?

After reading baclk over this there are possible issues with players not starting :P

Wile E. Coyote

My starting 11


Schmeichel
Koscielny, Filipe Luis, Shaw
Gerrard, Coutinho, Mata, Barkley
Zarate, Lukaku, Rooney


Jaaskelainen, Sigurdsson, Upson, Steven Taylor on the bench

tom_k

Getting close now.

Changes to my earlier drafts are:

De Gea to Krul. I'm happy enough to run with Newcastle keeper despite an unfavourable opener.

Uncertainty over Davies means I've changed to Ward, again not a great first fixture for Palace so will probably change to a Stoke defender yet.

Changed Debuchy to Evans due to favourable fixtures and van Gaals comments.

Sanchez replaced by Ramsey, I just cant ignore him. This and other savings has allowed me to bring in Eriksen.

Flavour of the fortnight Bojan replaces Jelavic.

Will probably play 3-4-3 for GW1, benching Siggy and seeing how Swansea look from GW2 onwards.

OneColdHand

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

My starting 11


Schmeichel
Koscielny, Filipe Luis, Shaw
Gerrard, Coutinho, Mata, Barkley
Zarate, Lukaku, Rooney


Jaaskelainen, Sigurdsson, Upson, Steven Taylor on the bench

Can you give reasons you are going with Gerrard/Coutinho/Barkley over the the more common choices of Eriksen/Siggy/Ramsey?

OneColdHand

tom_k wrote: »

Getting close now.

Changes to my earlier drafts are:

De Gea to Krul. I'm happy enough to run with Newcastle keeper despite an unfavourable opener.

Uncertainty over Davies means I've changed to Ward, again not a great first fixture for Palace so will probably change to a Stoke defender yet.

Changed Debuchy to Evans due to favourable fixtures and van Gaals comments.

Sanchez replaced by Ramsey, I just cant ignore him. This and other savings has allowed me to bring in Eriksen.

Flavour of the fortnight Bojan replaces Jelavic.

Will probably play 3-4-3 for GW1, benching Siggy and seeing how Swansea look from GW2 onwards.

I hope you do great, cos I have a VERY similar team. Only difference are instead of Elliott, Wisdom and Hazard, I have Mannone, Pieters and Cesc.

Paully D

Latest draft and it will stay this way for a few days at least as I've a bit of stuff on. I'd appreciate some feedback if anyone would be kind enough.

Concerns regarding Eriksen playing in the hole and Fletcher's role clearing up with the Wickham bid from West Ham this morning in line with George Caulkin of The Times' comments on said bid have moved me away from the 3-5-2 back to a 3-4-3. This allows me to improve Dzeko to Sturridge, who alongside Rooney, provides me with a guaranteed captaincy option every week.

I know Albrighton's injured so a replacement will be researched when I get a chance during the week.



I only really have two concerns though more may come to light as you lads have a look.

1) I needed to scrape £0.5m together so went with Luis ahead of Terry. I'm not too happy with this. I may consider going with Krul/Elliott instead and that would allow me to get Terry. Newcastle have some nice fixtures during the first part of the season so I wouldn't be averse to going with their keeper.

2) Sigurdsson playing as a wide player. I'm hoping Garry Monk gets some sense and goes back to 4-4-1-1 with Sigurdsson in the hole as if he plays out wide he's not good to us FPL players, even at £6m. The move to 4-4-2 smacks of thinking he was going to lose Bony early in the window and/or now trying to keep Gomis happy who probably joined on the same proviso of Bony leaving and/or being promised games.

I think it's quite good other than that, what say you?

Lemlin

De Gea/Gilks
O'Shea, Coloccini, Terry, Pieters, Moore
Siggy, Mata, Fabregas, Ramsey, Isgrove
Sturridge Rooney Fletcher

I'm pretty much set on this bar the defence. The attack offers coverage from Liverpool, United, Arsenal and Chelsea. No City but they have a tough start and players still returning from WC.

The defence I'll have to look at in depth in work. Terry, Moore and De Gea will stay. Moore because I'm happy with him as a 4 mil filler who will only play if its the apocalypse.

I want to look at how O'Shea, Coloccini and Pieters rotate for the first six weeks. I may change one of them for Taylor at Swansea or another 4.5 or 5 mil player.

This team leaves 1 mil in reserve for a transfer e.g. De Jong scores first week so I can get him in for Siggy.

Like last year, I'll be looking in the first few weeks to maximise price rises if I can.

Wile E. Coyote

OneColdHand wrote: »

Can you give reasons you are going with Gerrard/Coutinho/Barkley over the the more common choices of Eriksen/Siggy/Ramsey?

No really technical/scientific reasons. I went with Gerrard because he's always good for points. He should start each game, scores goals, gets assists and nearly always puts in a MotM performance. Barkley and Coutinho I think are two young players who are going to have very good seasons and I've Siggy on the bench. Leaving him there for the United game as I want to see how Zarate does.


Nothing against Ramsey or Eriksen I just went with who I think will do better. In saying that my whole team could change 20 times by Saturday morning.

Lemlin

Paully D wrote: »

Latest draft and it will stay this way for a few days at least as I've a bit of stuff on. I'd appreciate some feedback if anyone would be kind enough.

Concerns regarding Eriksen playing in the hole and Fletcher's role clearing up with the Wickham bid from West Ham this morning in line with George Caulkin of The Times' comments on said bid have moved me away from the 3-5-2 back to a 3-4-3. This allows me to improve Dzeko to Sturridge, who alongside Rooney, provides me with a guaranteed captaincy option every week.

I know Albrighton's injured so a replacement will be researched when I get a chance during the week.



I only really have two concerns though more may come to light as you lads have a look.

1) I needed to scrape £0.5m together so went with Luis ahead of Terry. I'm not too happy with this. I may consider going with Krul/Elliott instead and that would allow me to get Terry. Newcastle have some nice fixtures during the first part of the season so I wouldn't be averse to going with their keeper.

2) Sigurdsson playing as a wide player. I'm hoping Garry Monk gets some sense and goes back to 4-4-1-1 with Sigurdsson in the hole as if he plays out wide he's not good to us FPL players, even at £6m. The move to 4-4-2 smacks of thinking he was going to lose Bony early in the window and/or now trying to keep Gomis happy who probably joined on the same proviso of Bony leaving and/or being promised games.

I think it's quite good other than that, what say you?

Looks good to me as we've the same front 7! I don't particularly rate Monk but a lad I know supports Swansea and reckons he's a great coach and that the Spanish players like Michu have been cleared out because they were causing problems last season.

My friend watched every game of theirs last year and has both Siggy and Bony in his team. He reckons Bony was the first name on his team sheet.

I'd have no worries except your subs. Albrighton could be out for a few weeks and Wisdom may not start.

I've also gone with Fab over Hazard for reasons outlined above.