Wildcard Time?

JR6

Lads,

I realise there is a thread for week 2 transfers but I thought we could start a thread for wildcards only!

I had a good start with 67 points but I am really thinking about playing my wildcard to get a dream front 7!
Is this madness or should I just wait and see what happens?

My thinking behind it is that I should rarely have to change front 7 barring injury/form whilst still having a decent defence.
I realise that if I want Aguero down the line, I will have to downgrade one of the mids.

Should I keep my wildcard or go with this plan?

Thanks,
JR6

New team


Old team

PARlance

You're basically using a WC to get Siggy in. Madness.

Correct me if I'm wrong... But your WC team has 8/11 of the same players.
Siggy, Keeper and cheap defender.

I'm not convinced the new keeper and defender are that much better.
So it boils down to Siggy.... ALL ABOARD

Chesty08

I have 6 of that front 7 before a ball was kicked!

I had Sterling in all my drafts (and as skipper) leading up to it but opted for an 8.5 million forward instead. I felt Liverpool have two tough away games next Ciity and Spurs,. Was waiting until after GW 3 to act on Sterling.

Other than that I also have Hutton and Terry plus (Chambers in place of Debuchy temporarily).

It is a cracking team and will not need much transferring over the course of the season as you say!

JR6

PARlance wrote: »

You're basically using a WC to get Siggy in. Madness.

Correct me if I'm wrong... But your WC team has 8/11 of the same players.
Siggy, Keeper and cheap defender.

I'm not convinced the new keeper and defender are that much better.
So it boils down to Siggy.... ALL ABOARD

Also to get Silva in my team in place of Bojan.
I had too many Man united players in my team so need to get rid of at least one of them too.
I would be changing 6 players in total and this team gives me cover from all the top teams and in reality should score alot of points throughout the year.

G1032

PARlance wrote: »

You're basically using a WC to get Siggy in. Madness.

Correct me if I'm wrong... But your WC team has 8/11 of the same players.
Siggy, Keeper and cheap defender.

I'm not convinced the new keeper and defender are that much better.
So it boils down to Siggy.... ALL ABOARD

He's bringing in Silva too though. It's a tough call. No real cover if someone gets injured but an unreal midfield.
Who would you sell to get Aguero in? Can you get him in with two transfers?

OneColdHand

JR6 wrote: »

Also to get Silva in my team in place of Bojan.
I had too many Man united players in my team so need to get rid of at least one of them too.
I would be changing 6 players in total and this team gives me cover from all the top teams and in reality should score alot of points throughout the year.

Yeah but not all the moves are necessary. For example, bringing in Hutton is crazy (have you seen who Villa play GW4 - GW8?). You're essentially switching Silva in for Mata, which is also not a good idea based on fixtures.

I can see that you want to get Siggy in, but I think you have a solid team there, and it's a bit of a waste of a WC imo.

JR6

G1032 wrote: »

He's bringing in Silva too though. It's a tough call. No real cover if someone gets injured but an unreal midfield.
Who would you sell to get Aguero in? Can you get him in with two transfers?

I would have to sell Costa/Rooney and whichever midfielder is not performing if I want Aguero.
Because of how injury prone he is i'll be waiting until he has a good run of games under his belf before I make this move.
I got burned a couple of times last season making place for him in my team only for him to get injured soon after!

JR6

OneColdHand wrote: »

Yeah but not all the moves are necessary. For example, bringing in Hutton is crazy (have you seen who Villa play GW4 - GW8?). You're essentially switching Silva in for Mata, which is also not a good idea based on fixtures.

I can see that you want to get Siggy in, but I think you have a solid team there, and it's a bit of a waste of a WC imo.

I agree regarding Hutton; I just put him in there as Bruce has an injured flag on him. Bruce will possibly be staying in my team if I do this wildcard.
Also the -12 I talked about earlier does not have this move.

Hard to call between Silva/Mata. I thought before the weekend that Mata would easily have outperformed Silva...Mata was rubbish and City score alot of goals which Silva will be central to.

PARlance

JR6 wrote: »

Also to get Silva in my team in place of Bojan.
I had too many Man united players in my team so need to get rid of at least one of them too.
I would be changing 6 players in total and this team gives me cover from all the top teams and in reality should score alot of points throughout the year.

Mata -> Silva
Sorry I left that out of the "changes" as you could do that transfer today, for free, if you wanted.
Thus, I wouldn't factor it into a Wildcard debate.

You're wild carding to bring Siggy in basically.

KevIRL

Lol

JR6

PARlance wrote: »

Mata -> Silva
Sorry I left that out of the "changes" as you could do that transfer today, for free, if you wanted.
Thus, I wouldn't factor it into a Wildcard debate.

You're wild carding to bring Siggy in basically.

Sorry I forgot to say, I have already done my one free transfer this week which is Mate -> Siggy. This is done since Sunday night.

So my front 7 right now is

Ramsey Siggy Cesc Sterling
Bojan Costa Rooney

So this is why I say Bojan -> Silva...

wonski

As above, given your score and a fairly good team i wouldn't touch the wildcard now. Makes no sense.

G1032

You've had a great start with 67 points. I think it's crazy playing the wildcard now with your team. Tempting and all as that midfield is, it's not worth wasting your wildcard on.

JR6

Maybe I'll give Bojan another chance so!

G1032

JR6 wrote: »

Maybe I'll give Bojan another chance so!

I think that would be wise

Backstreet Moyes

I really think waiting until the end of the transfer window is wise before using the wildcard.

roryc

If you play the wildcard this week you are playing the game wrong.

Iused2likebusts

Nuts102 wrote: »

I really think waiting until the end of the transfer window is wise before using the wildcard.

absolutely particularly if you have made a good start and have a decent team. If you have got off to a shocker, picked up a few injuries and have picked players that arent starters then by all means wildcard.

The Wild Bunch

Wait til the end of the tranny window

breffni bogballer

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Wait til the end of the tranny window[/QUOTis
is frank maloney joining FF!!!!!

zarquon

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Wait til the end of the tranny window

Whilst abbreviations are useful short hand for difficult to spell names on here abbreviating transfer to tranny is the most pointless and ridiculous one of all, to save 2 letters for a word that is quite simple to spell.

Okay, mini rant over. Who else is using their wildkar this week?

Brendan Filone

Might seem early to some here but I'm glad I'm on a wildcard now that Ramsey misses the weekend game.

zarquon

Brendan Filone wrote: »

Might seem early to some here but I'm glad I'm on a wildcard now that Ramsey misses the weekend game.

I hope that's a joke. With all the craziness here at the moment, it's hard to tell :eek:

It would be hilarious if some transferred him out due to his red card. I'm sure there are some who will do this.

Edit: As an experiment i monitored his transfers out. In 3 minutes he has had 82 transfers out

:eek::eek::eek:

Liam O

He'll be back for the CL next week week too so more chance of another suspension or injury. Makes sense to get him out now everyone.

The Wild Bunch

zarquon wrote: »

Whilst abbreviations are useful short hand for difficult to spell names on here abbreviating transfer to tranny is the most pointless and ridiculous one of all, to save 2 letters for a word that is quite simple to spell.

Okay, mini rant over. Who else is using their wildkar this week?

Shut up :cool:

Guffy

zarquon wrote: »

Whilst abbreviations are useful short hand for difficult to spell names on here abbreviating transfer to tranny is the most pointless and ridiculous one of all, to save 2 letters for a word that is quite simple to spell.

Okay, mini rant over. Who else is using their wildkar this week?

Abbreviating a word to save on letter in a rant about a two letter word

hate the tranny one myself though

zarquon

gufc21 wrote: »

Abbreviating a word to save on letter in a rant about a two letter word

hate the tranny one myself though

It was a purposed joke to parody the futility of such actions. Similarly this thread is just as futile. It's absolutely incredible that people are using their wildcards already. :eek:

I'd be very interested to see the current team of anyone contemplating a WC.

Sgt Pepper 64

resist, resist!

Shane St.

I'd wait till the transfer window closes at least

Mint Sauce

Will hold of till the start of the International Break I think. Two weeks of prize changes to capitalize on.

Dearg81

152,604 wild cards played in week 1! Didn't think it would be that high.