Gameweek 21 Captain Thread

stephenl15 · 04-01-2016 4:05pm #1

Haven't seen a GW 21 captain poll, maybe it's a little early. But, who are you going for?

spock. · 04-01-2016 4:07pm

Costa or Aguero

manual_man · 04-01-2016 4:15pm

have it on Kane currently. Arnie vice

alchemist33 · 04-01-2016 4:17pm

Because at this stage I'm mostly playing for the craic, Costa. Kane VC

stephenl15 · 04-01-2016 4:17pm

manual_man wrote: »

have it on Kane currently. Arnie vice

Missed that one my bad. Currently on Aguero myself.

greedygoblin · 04-01-2016 4:17pm

Aguero for now.

Lights On · 04-01-2016 5:12pm

Aguero. It's time he starts paying me back for all the captain blanks last year!

Lemlin · 04-01-2016 5:17pm

Aguero once he gets through the cup games.

SkySter · 04-01-2016 6:55pm

Costa. Won't captain Aguero until he does 90 minutes and scores a hattrick

the groutch · 04-01-2016 7:27pm

wonder will anyone have the balls to go captain Payet?

Ziegler1988 · 04-01-2016 8:05pm

the groutch wrote: »

wonder will anyone have the balls to go captain Payet?

Bournemouth have been pretty good defensively of late and Payet still has to prove his fitness

Rikand · 04-01-2016 8:13pm

Sergio!

Antibac · 04-01-2016 8:19pm

Currently on Aguero

Ace2007 · 04-01-2016 9:03pm

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Bournemouth have been pretty good defensively of late and Payet still has to prove his fitness

i posted this in the wildcard thread yesterday about Aguero, although i would never do it - captain Payet isn't the worst choice when you see the defensive stats of city's next two games, and people have no problem captain Aguero with the idea that city are going to go mad.

Aguero bar the goal yesterday didn't do much - just look at the GW thread and see the comments about him, yet folk are now getting the fear??? Everton and Palace in the next 2 games - again they are among the best defensive record this season away from home (Palace are the best, and Everton joined 3rd). If you are transferring him in out of fear, you'll probably make him captain for the same fear?

Lemlin · 05-01-2016 7:13am

Ace2007 wrote: »

i posted this in the wildcard thread yesterday about Aguero, although i would never do it - captain Payet isn't the worst choice when you see the defensive stats of city's next two games, and people have no problem captain Aguero with the idea that city are going to go mad.

Everton are far from good at the back IMO though. They conceded four against Stoke at home for example.

Martinez isn't s good defensive manager. They did well defensively in his first season but that was because of a lot of the work Moyes had done.

I'll be going with Aguero once he comes through the two Cup games.

Necronomicon · 05-01-2016 7:35am

I'm starting to get flashbacks to GW30 last season, where 99% of players were in one of two camps: you captained Aguero (WBA) or Kane (LEI). I captained the former to a 2-pointer, and my main rival captained Kane for his hat-trick and overtook me for the first time in months. That caused some serious FPL trauma.

That said, I'm still leaning towards Aguero this time around.

danganabu · 05-01-2016 12:52pm

Lemlin wrote: »

Everton are far from good at the back IMO though. They conceded four against Stoke at home for example.

Martinez isn't s good defensive manager. They did well defensively in his first season but that was because of a lot of the work Moyes had done.

I'll be going with Aguero once he comes through the two Cup games.

Not really for this thread but please indulge me

I agree to a point but it must be noted that Everton haven't had their first choice back four in place yet, but will very soon, I will be keeping a close eye on them when they line up with

Coleman Stones Jagielka Baines

That on paper is a serious back four, Howard will be on my radar when that back four is in place.

Now back on topic

I am leaning towards Costa over Augero at the minute but could go either way, Costa may be more of a differential as most are playing a wait and see before getting him in.

SantryRed · 05-01-2016 1:29pm

danganabu wrote: »

Not really for this thread but please indulge me

I agree to a point but it must be noted that Everton haven't had their first choice back four in place yet, but will very soon, I will be keeping a close eye on them when they line up with

Coleman Stones Jagielka Baines

That on paper is a serious back four, Howard will be on my radar when that back four is in place.

Now back on topic I am leaning towards Costa over Augero at the minute but could go either way, Costa may be more of a differential as most are playing a wait and see before getting him in.

I doubt you've been watching Howard this season? Fans are very much against him and his form has been very poor.

Cartman78 · 05-01-2016 1:47pm

Will probably go with Aguero (once I actually buy him) but am half-tempted by Arnautovic

danganabu · 05-01-2016 2:04pm

SantryRed wrote: »

I doubt you've been watching Howard this season? Fans are very much against him and his form has been very poor.

Completely irrelevant from a FF perspective, he wont be dropped and I expect Everton to be far sounder defensively when that back 4 are in place. As things stand he is the 6th highest scoring keeper with a patched up back 4 in front of him.

SantryRed · 05-01-2016 2:57pm

danganabu wrote: »

Completely irrelevant from a FF perspective, he wont be dropped and I expect Everton to be far sounder defensively when that back 4 are in place. As things stand he is the 6th highest scoring keeper with a patched up back 4 in front of him.

How on earth is it completely irrelevant when his poor form will lead to less clean sheets? Also, the only season Everton have been solid under Martinez was the year directly after Moyes had left, he was living off Moyes tactics that year. He cannot set teams up to be defensively solid at all.

danganabu · 05-01-2016 3:05pm

This is not for this thread and we'll just agree to disagree!

Lemlin · 05-01-2016 5:03pm

danganabu wrote: »

Not really for this thread but please indulge me

I agree to a point but it must be noted that Everton haven't had their first choice back four in place yet, but will very soon, I will be keeping a close eye on them when they line up with

Coleman Stones Jagielka Baines

That on paper is a serious back four, Howard will be on my radar when that back four is in place.

Now back on topic I am leaning towards Costa over Augero at the minute but could go either way, Costa may be more of a differential as most are playing a wait and see before getting him in.

It is for this thread. We are discussing how a manager sets up his team in relevance to clean sheets.

Everton had that back four for most of last season and only managed 7 clean sheets. For the price of their defenders, that is poor. Burnley for example managed ten, WBA twelve and Sunderland eleven.

Martinez plays attacking football that looks pretty but puts undue pressure on his defence. As I've often said, I look at managers for clean sheets as much as team personnel and Martinez is not a manager who would encourage me when buying defenders.

I would have no problem captaining Aguero against Everton's defence.

Ziegler1988 · 05-01-2016 5:33pm

danganabu wrote: »

Completely irrelevant from a FF perspective, he wont be dropped and I expect Everton to be far sounder defensively when that back 4 are in place. As things stand he is the 6th highest scoring keeper with a patched up back 4 in front of him.

I doubt he has the 6th highest PPG though. I had Howard for a good while and only benefited from one cleanie, I was not happy with his returns

PARlance · 05-01-2016 6:01pm

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

I doubt he has the 6th highest PPG though. I had Howard for a good while and only benefited from one cleanie, I was not happy with his returns

There's no way he can have the 6th highest PPG. He lies 7th in total points having played 20 games. Unless the 6 above him have played extra games, which they obviously haven't, he's at best 7th.

DDG right behind him in total points but leap frogs him in PPG. So that's him down to 8th at best.

Inspector Coptoor · 05-01-2016 6:14pm

I have it on Payet at the moment with Kane as VC.

I know Bournemouth haven't conceded that many but I think Payet could be a good catalyst for West Ham to score a couple of goals.

stephenl15 · 05-01-2016 6:21pm

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

I have it on Payet at the moment with Kane as VC.

I know Bournemouth haven't conceded that many but I think Payet could be a good catalyst for West Ham to score a couple of goals.

The best options are usually the obvious ones ie not Payet :P Too soon and will lose loads of ground if the popular options score highly. Gotta play it safe and play the percentages when it comes to captaincy imo.

IsMiseMyself · 05-01-2016 11:09pm

It'll be one of either Costa or Aguero - whichever one I buy this week. Right now I'm thinking Costa. Chelsea were very good against Palace and I think this is their turning point; I expect plenty of goals from them until the end of the season. I wasn't terribly impressed by Aguero last game. He's still not 100% back.

Obviously he could do a lot of damage and Everton have been leaky. However, I'd say it'll be Costa and I'll wait another week to bring Aguero in for Kane.

Chesty08 · 10-01-2016 3:43pm

Kane home to Leicster! Goals galore

2nd Row Donkey · 11-01-2016 1:30pm

Rooney (c) vs. Newcastle.

alchemist33 · 11-01-2016 1:45pm

With Costa doubtful, I'm switching to Kane.

Iused2likebusts · 11-01-2016 2:35pm

Aguero

Hococop · 11-01-2016 2:36pm

I'm thinking Kane or arnautovic, home to Norwich could make a good score

Ziegler1988 · 11-01-2016 3:26pm

KDB unless Lukaku is ruled out for more than three matches

Xaniaj · 11-01-2016 7:30pm

On Kane at the moment with Aguero VC. No doubt it'll be changed a few times before the deadline!

Fenson · 12-01-2016 10:02am

Arnie.!

Tony_Montana · 12-01-2016 10:07am

Who will be liverpools centre backs this gw. Tempted to switch to giroud

Benimar · 12-01-2016 10:18am

Tony_Montana wrote: »

Who will be liverpools centre backs this gw. Tempted to switch to giroud

Kolo and either Sakho or Lucas. Sakho has a 'chance' of making it.

Cartman78 · 12-01-2016 11:35am

Currently Aguero but have a sneaky suspicion that Mahrez could go on a rampage against Spurs so will probably change it about 100 times before kick-off and then make the wrong choice

2nd Row Donkey · 12-01-2016 3:15pm

Tony_Montana wrote:

Who will be liverpools centre backs this gw. Tempted to switch to giroud

Steven Caulker is going to be one by all accounts

manual_man · 12-01-2016 3:31pm

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Steven Caulker is going to be one by all accounts

very much doubt it. kolo toure and sakho both fit according to Klopp. Lucas an option should either of those 2 miss out. be astonished if Klopp throws Caulker straight in he's probably yet to kick a ball with his new teammates