General FPL Chat 2017/18

P.Walnuts

manual_man wrote: »

Replacing the all out attack chip

But it's essentially a wildcard right?

Do the two regular wildcards still stand?

McBain11

P.Walnuts wrote: »

But it's essentially a wildcard right?

Do the two regular wildcards still stand?

Yep. So it's a way more useful chip than the AOA one. I must read up on the value thing during it though, I'm presuming you just gain/or lose any value added to your original squad while having the free hit squad for that week.

manual_man

P.Walnuts wrote: »

But it's essentially a wildcard right?

Do the two regular wildcards still stand?

Yep still two wildcards - one this year, one next year. The new chip is essentially a one week punt where you can pick a team to suit just that week. A 'skinny' game week, where there are less fixtures than normal has been touted as a good time to use this chip, and I'm inclined to agree. After using the chip, your squad goes back to how it was before - and indeed has been gaining(or losing) value in the meantime, like always.

P.Walnuts

manual_man wrote: »

Yep still two wildcards - one this year, one next year. The new chip is essentially a one week punt where you can pick a team to suit just that week. A 'skinny' game week, where there are less fixtures than normal has been touted as a good time to use this chip, and I'm inclined to agree. After using the chip, your squad goes back to how it was before - and indeed has been gaining(or losing) value in the meantime, like always.

Ah ok , that makes more sense....i initially thought it was just a third WC which would have been a little absurd, thanks for the info

Paully D

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Can any Newcastle fans tell me what Benitez preferred centre back pairing will be?

Three into two does not go and he is inclined to drop anyone if he feels there are better options.
So the lascelles captaincy does not make any difference?

When lascelles is back will he be paired with clark. Or will it be lejeune and clark/ lejeune and lascelles?

I'm on the other side of the divide, but Lejeune and Clark have had all the minutes in pre-season. Lascelles is captain but has scarcely played at all this pre-season.

Lejeune is in my team.

Shanotheslayer

Have to go to dinner with the missus tonight. Restaurant booked for bang on 8:00pm

The inevitable multiple toilet breaks to check score to see how my FF players will be doing is back!

Good luck tonight folks and good luck in work today if you manage not to tinker with it :pac:

2nd Row Donkey

Morning all

Favourite day of the season.

I imagine this is how footballers feel when they wake up on the day of a cup final or something.

I'm gonna start with a hearty but healthy breakfast, a quick stretch and then get a rub down from the physio before I settle down to pick my final draft.

KevIRL

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Morning all

Favourite day of the season.

I imagine this is how footballers feel when they wake up on the day of a cup final or something.

I'm gonna start with a hearty but healthy breakfast, a quick stretch and then get a rub down from the physio before I settle down to pick my final draft.

Lovely to have soccer back tonight and fpl. Feels so wrong tho that it's a Friday.

2nd Row Donkey

KevIRL wrote:

Lovely to have soccer back tonight and fpl. Feels so wrong tho that it's a Friday.

Aye, I'm on board with Friday night games but just like the tradition to have all gw38 games on a Sunday, Gw1 should start on a Saturday.

Copper_pipe

Many of ye going with Man Utd defensive coverage?

2nd Row Donkey

Copper_pipe wrote:

Many of ye going with Man Utd defensive coverage?

Yes, every 2nd team in the RMT thread has DDG or a united defender.

threein99

I cant settle on a forward line its 2 from Lukaku/Aguero or Jesus at the moment

Paully D

Productivity levels in work today may be at an all-time low in Ireland and the U.K. :pac:

wardides

Darmian, Blind or Shaw at left back for United?

FutureGuy

Lemlin wrote: »

Working from home 3-4 days a week now so those days where I left the house at 5.55 and arrived back at 18.30 are mainly over!

Yeah I'm wfh too full time, and although I never had a bad commute, it's great not to travel. No excuse for not getting top 1k Lemlin!

Mitch Connor

wardides wrote: »

Darmian, Blind or Shaw at left back for United?

It will be Darmian, but you'll get F all out of him for attacking related points.

km79

wardides wrote: »

Darmian, Blind or Shaw at left back for United?

Darmian
Mostly
But blind may get a game

Then either a new left back will be signed or Shaw returns

De Gea or bailly are the safest cheapest routes in

threein99

wardides wrote: »

Darmian, Blind or Shaw at left back for United?

Shaw is injured so one of the other two

Oranage2

Who's Alexander off Liverpool and why is he in some top players teams ?

Gaillimh1976

Oranage2 wrote: »

Who's Alexander off Liverpool and why is he in some top players teams ?

Second choice right back but first choice (Clyne) out for first few games

GLaDOS

Staying away from TAA myself after having him in my team for a bit.

Milner may well play there. Gomez also played rb a good bit in pre season.

Mokuba

Oranage2 wrote: »

Who's Alexander off Liverpool and why is he in some top players teams ?

May be starting until Clyne regains fitness.

Very cheap coverage of an elite defense.

But

Danger is that he may need to be transferred out fairly quickly depending on when Clyne comes in. Unless he plays out of his skin which is also possible. Also Liverpool have very difficult weeks in succession early. Week 3 Arsenal(h) Week 4 Man City(a).

GLaDOS

Is anyone going with Kyle Walker-Peters?

Edit: reading this, probably not

JimboJones99

Final decisions to be made.

Mkhitaryan or Pedro? Or Willian with an extra £1m to upgrade Goalkeeper/Defence?

tailgunner

JimboJones99 wrote: »

Final decisions to be made.

Mkhitaryan or Pedro? Or Willian with an extra £1m to upgrade Goalkeeper/Defence?

Pedro over Mkhitaryan for me. The second question is a bit tougher. Still trying to decide myself!

Paully D

FF Scout have their predicted line-ups up. Some things that stood out:

- No Cedric. They have Pied starting instead.
- Phil Jones alongside Bailly
- Alexander-Arnold and Moreno starting for Liverpool
- Knockaert in for Brighton
- Francis starting for Bournemouth (4.5m)
- Rodriguez out wide for WBA with Rondon the central striker.

I have Cedric but the more things I see and read makes me think what's the point in taking a risk when Yoshida and Stephens are the same price?

hefferboi

This is the first year I've taken this proper serious.

GK: DDG (Elliot)

DF: Bailly, Yoshida, Alexander-Arnold (Mbemba, long)

MF: KDB, Salah, Fabregas, Carroll (Ritchie)

FW: Lukaku, Jesus, Batshuayi

I've no budget left over. Questions are;
1: I'm fluttering between Jesus and Lacazette. I can't for the life of me pick which one, can someone make a decision for me??
2: Fabregas or Willian??
3: do I start Carroll or Ritchie?

Iused2likebusts

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Ah the free hit one looks good alright. Is that a new one this year? The triple captain and bench points ones are more down to luck I'm guessing?

The triple captain should always be used in a double gameweek

alchemist33

Paully D wrote: »

FF Scout have their predicted line-ups up. Some things that stood out:

- No Cedric. They have Pied starting instead.
- Phil Jones alongside Bailly
- Alexander-Arnold and Moreno starting for Liverpool
- Knockaert in for Brighton
- Francis starting for Bournemouth (4.5m)
- Rodriguez out wide for WBA with Rondon the central striker.

I have Cedric but the more things I see and read makes me think what's the point in taking a risk when Yoshida and Stephens are the same price?

Yeah, after reading that yesterday I took him out for Yoshi.

alchemist33

hefferboi wrote: »

This is the first year I've taken this proper serious.

GK: DDG (Elliot)

DF: Bailly, Yoshida, Alexander-Arnold (Mbemba, long)

MF: KDB, Salah, Fabregas, Carroll (Ritchie)

FW: Lukaku, Jesus, Batshuayi

I've no budget left over. Questions are;
1: I'm fluttering between Jesus and Lacazette. I can't for the life of me pick which one, can someone make a decision for me??
2: Fabregas or Willian??
3: do I start Carroll or Ritchie?

1 Jesus
2 I have Willian but that's only me. It's a toss-up
3. This week, Ritchie