GW28 Captain Thread

dr.kenneth noisewater

Mane or Lukaku for me this week

Father Hernandez

Lukaku for me. May swap to Mane before Sat morning

Shanotheslayer

Mane at the moment, possible change to Lukaku Saturday morning

Trimm Trabb

Mane

km79

Will be a tough call between mane and lukaku and may be a massive factor in the week considering the likely low scoring

PARlance

(C)iggy at the moment even though he's away. Will probably change. Just want to use Ciggy if I'm being honest.

CSF

Lukaku for definite. West Brom haven't been a defensive stronghold at all for most of this year.

pimpmyhat

It's hard to look past lukaku.
Liverpool mid also a strong option but choosing the right one is the problem.

Iused2likebusts

Mane or firmino

spock.

Mane.

Rikand

class CaptainMane

If mane is playing a top 6 team, captain him.
Else don't captain him.

PARlance

Rikand wrote: »

class CaptainMane

If mane is playing a top 6 team, captain him.
Else don't captain him.

Fake News!

Have you actually had a look at his returns? He has had a lot of very big scores against non Top 6 clubs.

Sooner or Later

Torn between Lukaku and Mane

Will probably go with the troll given the unpredictability of Pool midfielders

Crucial week for getting it right when I only have 8 playing

Cartman78

Had an unsettling thought just now...Big Andy with the armband....I think I need a couple of strong painkillers and a lie-down asap

FHFC

Sooner or Later wrote: »

Torn between Lukaku and Mane

Will probably go with the troll given the unpredictability of Pool midfielders

Crucial week for getting it right when I only have 8 playing

Yeah I'm wary of the Liverpool mid as captaincy options. I know explosiveness is important but they are very inconsistent. I see Lukaku as the safer option. Owning 2 Liverpool guys as I most likely will is probably enough eggs in that basket too.

gammygils

Llorente for me. Lukaku does fúck all when I captain him.

Rikand

PARlance wrote: »

Fake News!

Have you actually had a look at his returns? He has had a lot of very big scores against non Top 6 clubs.

Alternative Facts

Its been ages since he did though (GW17) more recent history seems to indicate that I am indeed correct!

PARlance

Rikand wrote: »

Alternative Facts

Its been ages since he did though (GW17) more recent history seems to indicate that I am indeed correct!

He scores well against all teams.

Build a wall and get over it!

COH

Cartman78 wrote: »

Big Andy with the armband

Ease off the heroin there mate

Mike Ehrmantraut

Between Mane and Lukaku. Currently have it on Mane in the Liverpool midfield lottery. He seems to have good returns at Anfield and Burnley's poor away record swaying it for me.

manual_man

Going for Mané over Lukaku. I think WBA have the physicality in defense to shackle Lukaku, Burnley have physicality as well, but that doesn't help much against a player like Mané who's so elusive and fast. Also I fancy Liverpool will want to send a message and exact some revenge for what was an embarrassing performance and loss at Turf Moor earlier on in the season

iroced

The way things are generally going during DGWs & BGWs I'd say Coleman or Jakupovic are the best candidates :P.

alchemist33

Will the bookies help me?

Lukaku to score anytime: evens

Mane to score anytime: evens


So, no.

CSF

This is a very basic and lazy analysis of what will probably be alot more complex than this, but Mane won't be well served playing against Burnley notoriously sitting really deep. His recent successes (and the majority of his successes in general in this Liverpool team) have come against teams who want to come out and play the game too, leaving space in behind. While Liverpool will surely score at least once against Burnley I think it may be somewhat of a case of the Liverpool lottery here. Lukaku for me.

Iused2likebusts

alchemist33 wrote: »

Will the bookies help me?

Lukaku to score anytime: evens

Mane to score anytime: evens


So, no.

Mane gets an extra pt for his goals and a point if they get a cs

spock.

I'll probably end up captaining Firmino just because I feel he is just as likely to get points as Mane and I'd prefer to captain the less owned player.

Green&Red

Coutinho is top of FFSs goals imminent table, he's my choice

manual_man

I'm getting this funny feeling Carroll may be the one to captain this week (Andy, just to avoid confusion). I can't bring myself to do it though

TacT

It's a Llorente Lukaku or Mane shootout here and only fielding 6 players I'm nervous! Probably Mane to trainwreck my season once and for all after that magnificent TC fail on Kun last week.

Scorpion Sting

Taking a bit of a maverick punt on Antonio.

extra gravy

Lukaku (c) was always the plan this week but my gut is telling me not to. Think I'll go with Mané.

PARlance

Can't stop the feeling... Lukaku the troll gets it.

iroced

Wanted to change to Mané but think I did not confirm it. So Lukaku it is. 2 pts at best then :pac:...

spock.

Coutinho

iroced

iroced wrote: »

Wanted to change to Mané but think I did not confirm it. So Lukaku it is. 2 pts at best then :pac:...

Well Lukaku did the job for the first time since... feels like ever for me :pac:. Weird feeling now to hope for a 'Pool semi-blanl tomorrow :pac:. Mané & Coutinho assists for Heaton double own goal ....

FHFC

Busts sermon about Liverpools home form convinced me to switch from Lukaku to Kane at 1.30.

Here's hoping we're both smiling tomorrow.

Iused2likebusts

FHFC wrote: »

Busts sermon about Liverpools home form convinced me to switch from Lukaku to Kane at 1.30.

Here's hoping we're both smiling tomorrow.

Hopefully its badly needed.

spock.

FHFC wrote:

Busts sermon about Liverpools home form convinced me to switch from Lukaku to Kane at 1.30.

Here's hoping we're both smiling tomorrow.

Let's hope Liverpool sign Kane first :pac:

Mr.Prodston

FHFC wrote: »

Busts sermon about Liverpools home form convinced me to switch from Lukaku to Kane at 1.30.

Here's hoping we're both smiling tomorrow.

I hope you've got a good VC? :pac:

FHFC

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I hope you've got a good VC? :pac:

Even autocorrect is screwing me over this GW...

FHFC

FHFC wrote: »

Yeah I'm wary of the Liverpool mid as captaincy options. I know explosiveness is important but they are very inconsistent. I see Lukaku as the safer option. Owning 2 Liverpool guys as I most likely will is probably enough eggs in that basket too.

I'll just leave this here as a deserved slap about the head for myself. :mad:

Changing that C goes down as one of my worst calls of the season.

extra gravy

extra gravy wrote: »

Lukaku (c) was always the plan this week but my gut is telling me not to. Think I'll go with Mané.

Well aren't you the clever one :rolleyes:

Iused2likebusts

FHFC wrote: »

I'll just leave this here as a deserved slap about the head for myself. :mad:

Changing that C goes down as one of my worst calls of the season.

I did say Liverpool have been averaging 2 goals a game in home games this season. Of all the things that went against me this week I've no problem with the captaincy shout. It was a marginal call I'd always expect Liverpool to score more against Burnley than Everton would against wba.

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

I did say Liverpool have been averaging 2 goals a game in home games this season. Of all the things that went against me this week I've no problem with the captaincy shout. It was a marginal call I'd always expect Liverpool to score more against Burnley than Everton would against wba.

I changed my mind to the opposite of a long considered plan at the last minute on a whim. So deserved what I got.

I also spent a good while on Friday night planning a few weeks ahead and talked myself out of getting King as he'd be a hit waiting to happen and went for Coutinho instead.

25 points odd in those 2 narrow calls.

iroced

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

[...] always expect Liverpool to score more against Burnley than Everton would against wba.

Even this season? I feel like the old Pulis is gone. WB conceded 2 or more goals 8 times this season. And they only have 5 CS so far. Much much lower standards than what we're used to from Pulis isn't it?

Iused2likebusts

iroced wrote: »

Even this season? I feel like the old Pulis is gone. WB conceded 2 or more goals 8 times this season. And they only have 5 CS so far. Much much lower standards than what we're used to from Pulis isn't it?

That was only the second time this season wba have conceded more than 2 goals in an away game. They conceded 1 at both arsenal and Chelsea. I do agree with you pulisball is dead however if you look at Burnley and wbas away goals conceded and Liverpool and evertons home goals scored you would expect Liverpool to at least match or score more goals than Everton at the weekend. Having said that Burnley are now much better away from home than they were lots of narrow 1 goal defeats as opposed to the start of the season when they were losing by 3 goal margins.

spock.

Iused2likebusts wrote:

That was only the second time this season wba have conceded more than 2 goals in an away game. They conceded 1 at both arsenal and Chelsea. I do agree with you pulisball is dead however if you look at Burnley and wbas away goals conceded and Liverpool and evertons home goals scored you would expect Liverpool to at least match or score more goals than Everton at the weekend. Having said that Burnley are now much better away from home than they were lots of narrow 1 goal defeats as opposed to the start of the season when they were losing by 3 goal margins.

I went with the bookies when choosing between Lukaku and Liverpool mids.
Everton to score 3 or more goals was 5/2, Liverpool was evens