Gameweek 17 Matchday Thread

Mr.Prodston

"Clean sheets are falling,
All Around me,
Austin’s playing,
Having fun.

It’s the season,
Boyd and Siggy,
Merry Christmas everyone.

Time for parties and celebrations,
Fabregas assisting all night long,
Time for Bonuses
And exchanging transfers
Time for signing Alex Song.

We’re gonna have a goalfest tonight,
I’m gonna find that captain underneath the captain’s poll,
We’ll shoot up the rankings right.

Momentum’s swaying, Hazard’s playing
All the goals, we love to cheer
All I wish that everyday was FPLmas,
What a nice way to spend the year.

We’re gonna have a goalfest tonight,
I’m gonna find that captain underneath the captain’s poll,
We’ll shoot up the rankings right.

Clean sheets are falling,
All Around me,
Costa’s playing,
Only scored one.

It’s the season,
Baines and Downing
Merry Christmas Everyone,
Merry Christmas Everyone

Oh Merry Christmas Everyone

Ooooooooooooooooooooh

Clean sheets are falling,
All Around me,
Yaya’s getting suspended,
He gets done.

It’s the season,
RVP and Sterling
Merry Christmas Everyone,
Merry Christmas Everyone

Oh Merry Christmas Everyone


Ooooooooooooooooooh"

Probably not quite up to last season's festive offering but it's something to really kick start the festive fortnight. I was tempted to do "A Christmas Andy Carroll" but I don't have him :pac:

Here's to another good gameweek for the FSA

Mint Sauce

Matchday Thread!!

Its only just gone midnight FFS!!

:P

Devia

Brought in Santi for his usual Christmas cheer!

wonski

2 quick questions:

Forster (at home vs Everton) or Heaton (away vs Spurs - extra save points maybe???)?

Dummett at home vs Sunderland or Clyne at home vs Everton ?

At this moment have Forster in goal and Dummett on with Clyne benched.
Have I missed anything?

Something to look at ahead of GW17:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2522850455001?bckey=AQ~~,AAACSBmEp-k~,k6M0BLQIXJ_fOxXUjJd4CUhd7yHzmz9-&bctid=3949971567001

G1032

Morning

Going without City cover
No hits for once
RVP captain

Not going to see the City game and won't be able to get updates. Maybe it's just as well.

I've chosen Coloccini over Wisdom

irish son

Team for the week:

Hart
Yun Taylor Baines
Sanchez Downing Hazard Yaya
Bony Austin Carroll(c)

Brought big Andy in this week and giving him the armband, only 1.9% ownership so a hatrick from him would be sweet

stiffler123

De Gea
Clichy, Azpi, Yun
Silva, Yaya, Sanchez, Hazard
Costa, Austin, Giroud(C)

Going to try and not cave and captain Yaya before the deadline, the captain poll is worrying me though.

Copper_pipe

Green
Zabaleta-Azpil-Dummett
Yaya(C)-Sanchez-Hazard-Siggy
Austin(VC)-Costa-Bony

Elliot- wisdom-Boyd-Duff

internet_user

Fabianski
Azpi Naylor cresswell
Hazard Sanchez siggy Silva
Costa Austin(c) benteke

Jakupovic yun cattermole Moore

No standout captain choice, hope Austin does the business!

Rikand

Guzan
Bertrand - Cresswell - Azpili
Yaya - Erikson(VC) - Sanchez - Hazard - Siggy
Costa - Austin (C)

Jakupovic - Wisdom - Dummett - Ings


Come on King Charlie!

spock.

Hart
Zaba Ivanovic Dummett Cresswell
Yaya(c) Hazard Sanchez
Austin Benteke Giroud
(-4)
Double up on city defence and Yaya captain. This week could get off to a great start or an absolutely terrible one. Cmon city!

FrClintPower

Lloris
Yun - Terry - Zabaleta
Sanchez - Eriksen - Hazard - Downing
Bony - Rooney (c) - Austin

McCarthy - Boyd - Naylor - JOSH

Got Rooney in and handed him the armband, he's got a great record against Villa. Just hope RVP, Costa and , especially, Yaya have quiet weeks.

Gooners

Siggy to Nasri
Or
Ings to Sakho

no city players atm

dahat

Last week of my pre Xmas mini league, 37 points ahead, hoping to collect my first ever cash prize from FF,€240.

Adrian
Baines Terry Yun
Yaya(c) Sanchez Hazard Eriksen
Rooney Austin Bony

Tool a -8 to block Bony and Yaya.

OneColdHand

Silva and Zab in for Oscar and Duff.

I'm not certain that will repay itself this week, but it should over the next 4 weeks, which is all that matters.

iroced

Gooners wrote: »

Siggy to Nasri
Or
Ings to Sakho

no city players atm

Sakho owner here. He is a great shout for this week but after it's Chelsea away and Arsenal at home. TBH I regret not having gone for Bony instead.
City have wonderful fixtures. Siggy has not scored away since GW1. I'd go for option 1.
Why Nasri though? Because you don't have the funds for Silva or Yaya? Or because you rate him a little more?

dahat wrote: »

Last week of my pre Xmas mini league, 37 points ahead, hoping to collect my first ever cash prize from FF,€240.

Adrian
Baines Terry Yun
Yaya(c) Sanchez Hazard Eriksen
Rooney Austin Bony

Tool a -8 to block Bony and Yaya.

Strong side. 29 pts ahead now should bag it home for you :cool:. Your only worry may be a Costa masterclass... which is nowhere near expectations.

Paully D

Morning lads, here's how I line up:



It's Cresswell's last week of a 3 week gamble that has of yet didn't pay off (though he was unlucky not to score last week in fairness).

Chester makes his debut in my team as I go with Hull's nice fixtures over the next few weeks despite their form (just a cheap gamble really), but probably a certainty to get his 5th yellow now today :pac:

Silva comes in to my side as Manchester City coverage. I'd love to get a defender in too so may try to work something out with Cresswell going this week.

Van Persie nicks the armband ahead of Austin, which means I'll be watching Aston Villa v Manchester United at 3pm.

The vast majority of the big boys away from home so I'm going to predict a pretty low scoring gameweek.

Good luck all.

Gooners

iroced wrote: »

Sakho owner here. He is a great shout for this week but after it's Chelsea away and Arsenal at home. TBH I regret not having gone for Bony instead.
City have wonderful fixtures. Siggy has not scored away since GW1. I'd go for option 1.
Why Nasri though? Because you don't have the funds for Silva or Yaya? Or because you rate him a little more?

Thank you for reply. I don't really rate him but can't afford Silva or Yaya on a straight swap. I could buy Silva on a hit and swap Ings for a v cheap striker Kane Ayoze or Agbonlahor maybe. What you think?

alchemist33

O come, captain Yaya,
Come and score a hat trick.
Penalty, free kick, or even from open play.
Assists would be nice too.
Don't get a yellow card.
O come, captain Yaya,
O come, captain Yaya,
O come, captain Yaya,
And score a hat-trick.

Necronomicon

Forster
Chambers Dummett Taylor
Eriksen Yaya(c) Hazard Sanchez
Austin Costa Rooney

Bench: Wisdom, Boyd, Moore

Decided on Yaya for captain. Hoping the 12:45 curse doesn't strike.

I was a bit torn between Chambers, N.Taylor, and Wisdom for two starting berths. Went for Chambers and Naylor, mostly because I can cheer for an Austin goal without cannabalising one of my own clean sheets.

iroced

Gooners wrote: »

Thank you for reply. I don't really rate him but can't afford Silva or Yaya on a straight swap. I could buy Silva on a hit and swap Ings for a v cheap striker Kane Ayoze or Agbonlahor maybe. What you think?

Well I have to be honest I can't stand Nasri at all. He's a disgrace to my country.
But, we have to be pragmatic with this game and even I did and still am considering him. Last year he played 3 games and featured for over half an hour in the 4th during the festive period. He seems to be on form. So not sure Silva is worth a 4 pts hit compared to him. FFS have him playing upfront too. And Adebayor is back fit so Kane may not be such a great idea ahead of Christmas.

To summarise, I don't think any of the cheap alternatives to Ings are really worth Silva > Nasri + 4. Agbonlahor could be the best one but Villa ain't scoring much.
To phrase it differently, if you go for Nasri, can you upgrade Ings?

Gonna be:
Heaton (purely for save points. Can't see a cleanie here)
Clichy - Ivanovic - Jageilka
Eriksen - Sanchez (c) - Siggy - Fab
Austin - Giroud - Costa

Still unsure about the captain choice.
I have a feeling (wishful thinking more like!) that Liverpools defence will be rumbled by Giroud and Sanchez. But I'm also doubtful that Sanchez will last the 90 now that Walcott's on the bench, and Sanchez is used to a winter break...

Edited to add:

Subs: Foster, Dawson, Wanyama (not playing) Duff (not playing).

IsMiseMyself

Going with RVP as captain. The one thing that scares me is having no City coverage. I'm bricking it there, but I hope Palace can be my heroes for the week and at least somewhat keep them at bay. Well, keep Yaya at bay anyway. Milner can score all he likes. :pac:

I bought RVP in last Sunday with the intentions of keeping him relatively short-term. I *hope* he can repeat his last two GWs and get a nice score otherwise there will be no more knee-jerk transfers for me!

El festino

Torn between kompany/ Siggy out to either:
1. Zab and Silva
2. Yaya and £5m def

Tick tock...

Gooners

iroced wrote: »

Well I have to be honest I can't stand Nasri at all. He's a disgrace to my country.
But, we have to be pragmatic with this game and even I did . He seems to be on form. So not sure Silva is worth a 4 pts hit compared to him. FFS have him playing upfront too. And Adebayor is back fit so Kane may not be such a great idea ahead of Christmas.

To summarise, I don't think any of the cheap alternatives to Ings are really worth Silva > Nasri + 4. Agbonlahor could be the best one but Villa ain't scoring much.
To phrase it differently, if you go for Nasri, can you upgrade Ings?

Yes but would still need a hit as I have just one FT. I would have 6 mil so Sakho Cissé or Austin would seem best choices.

PARlance

Just out of the Chairman's office. He ain't happy.... Burp.

irishbuzz

Any chance that City's starting lineup will be named before 11.30am?

CorkyLFC

DDG
Rose-Clyne-Terry
Downing-Haz-Eriksen-Sanchez
Carroll-Costa(c)-Bony

Happy Christmas Lads

FHFC

El festino wrote: »

Torn between kompany/ Siggy out to either:
1. Zab and Silva
2. Yaya and £5m def

Tick tock...

I'd do 1.

Just about to do Kompany to Zab. Think he'll play at least three of the next four and will score at least 1 goal.

Copper_pipe

Had a dream last night that George Boyd scored a hat trick......

El festino

FHFC wrote: »

I'd do 1.

Just about to do Kompany to Zab. Think he'll play at least three of the next four and will score at least 1 goal.

Thanks.. Are you goin with any city attacking coverage or holding off for now?
I could do Kompany to Zab for no hit but worried about having no city mids.

IsMiseMyself

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Had a dream last night that George Boyd scored a hat trick......

I had a dream last week that Costa would score two. I put captaincy on him for about ten minutes before realising dreams are stupid and put captaincy back on Hazard. Moral of the story: don't listen to your dreams. :cool:

FutureGuy

Although Samir is long gone, I think the Christmas Carrolls will Pablo cheer me up.

There's my three transfers for the week.

Iused2likebusts

Ddg
Terry Dummet Naylor
Haz sanchez eriksen capt siggy Yaya
Austin costa
Ings wisdom hutton

FHFC

El festino wrote: »

Thanks.. Are you goin with any city attacking coverage or holding off for now?
I could do Kompany to Zab for no hit but worried about having no city mids.

Yes. Too early to say how they will line up, and Jovetic may be back next week so any 'false 9' roles will be shortlived IMO. Plus my current mids have great fixtures (Downing and Eriksen) so not worth hit to get rid of them, yet. I waited last week and got away with it, so hopefully the same this time.

Plus Zab pretty much is City attacking cover!

Transfer done now.

Green
Terry, Zab, Dummet
hazard, Sanchez, Eriksen, Downing
RVP (c), Costa, Bony.

Boyd only fit sub.

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Ddg
Terry Dummet Naylor
Haz sanchez eriksen capt siggy Yaya
Austin costa
Ings wisdom hutton

Eriksen capt

Or

Capt Siggy?

Ziegler1988

Going with:

Heaton
Yun Baines Terry
Yaya Sanchez Hazard Downing
Austin(c) Bony Benteke
Subs: Siggy Clyne Moore


Hoping that Siggy doesn't do too much from my bench and that Captain Chazza delivers the goods at home again.

Iused2likebusts

FHFC wrote: »

Eriksen capt

Or

Capt Siggy?

Eriksen

iroced

Gooners wrote: »

Yes but would still need a hit as I have just one FT. I would have 6 mil so Sakho Cissé or Austin would seem best choices.

Oh yes, I didn't mean for this week (though with Burnley away to Spurs Ings may not return much).
Nasri & Austin would be my pick. Austin has shown a great home form and has 3 out of the next 4 at home (WB, CP, Swansea).
I think Nasri + Austin > Silva + Kane/Ayoze/Agbonlahor.

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That said I'm giving advice but just can't manage to choose between Silva and Yaya for my own team :pac:... It's the £2m diff that makes me hesitate since this could allow me a premium def and/or more flexibility in midfield and upfront. And Yaya's on 4 YC. But he's on a great run and he was so good for my team last year, I almost owe him :pac:...

Mr.Prodston

I had a dream that Nasri scored in the 48th minute according to Soccer Saturday. It was quite vivid, Jeff Stelling even made a joke and everyone laughed.

De Gea
Azpi - Cresswell - O'Shea
Hazard - Sanchez - Siggy - Sterling
Austin - Bony - RVP (c)

Boyd - Wisdom - Hutton

Choosing between Wisdom and O'Shea is harder than I thought

El festino

Kompany to Zab done.

Guzan
Terry Zab Widsom
Sanchez Hazard Eriksen Siggy
Costa Austin(c) Bony

Boyd only available sub.

Good luck all!

jimmii

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I had a dream that Nasri scored in the 48th minute according to Soccer Saturday. It was quite vivid, Jeff Stelling even made a joke and everyone laughed.

Hope you back him to score! I remember a story of someone having a dream about the minute of a goalscorer before and it came in!

Mr.Prodston

jimmii wrote: »

Hope you back him to score! I remember a story of someone having a dream about the minute of a goalscorer before and it came in!

I actually woke up pretty groggy this morning thinking I'd slept in til after the early kick-off

finnharpsboy

guzan
clichy wisdom clyne
sanchez hazard yaya (c) sterling
bony sakho costa

lets be havin ya

Gooners

Guzan

Dummet Chambers Yun

Nasri Sanchez Sterling Hazard

Austin (c) Bony Costa

Read it and weep all my rivals in payleague.

km79

signed giroud for dzeko
yaya for fellaini
8 players away from home so I could do with captain yaya delivering and baines and Rooney too would be good as not many have them around me
could do with Sanchez staying quiet too......although if he is assisting giroud goals that will be OK

iroced

iroced wrote: »

That said I'm giving advice but just can't manage to choose between Silva and Yaya for my own team :pac:... It's the £2m diff that makes me hesitate since this could allow me a premium def and/or more flexibility in midfield and upfront. And Yaya's on 4 YC. But he's on a great run and he was so good for my team last year, I almost owe him :pac:...

Finally went for Silva. This will allow me to do Wilson -> Terry next week and...

... if it goes tits up will let me be able to drown my rage, anger and regrets into a wild hit which'll result in a Hazard Sanchez ADM Eriksen/Sterling Silva midfield by just downgrading Baines to Terry.

jimmii

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I actually woke up pretty groggy this morning thinking I'd slept in til after the early kick-off

Thats not a dream thats a bloody nightmare!

Swiper the fox

I'm not really worried about Yaya to be honest, however a one pointer (booking) would be a beautiful thing. twould be a great start to the weekend, the kids don't want a grumpy daddy to be taking them to see santy.

KevIRL

No lampard

KevIRL

Milner in false 9