General FPL Chat 2018/19

FutureGuy

165. Bunch of fcuking amateurs.

McBain11

Lads, am I going mad or if you were admin on a league from the past season, I thought that automatically opens up again does it not? So it saves the admin the bother of sending codes to the same guys from last season

Mr. Guappa

McBain11 wrote: »

Lads, am I going mad or if you were admin on a league from the past season, I thought that automatically opens up again does it not? So it saves the admin the bother of sending codes to the same guys from last season

You have to re-activate the league. Anyone who was in it last year will be automatically added again once they sign up.

DJIMI TRARORE

Dont know if this is new or not,but ur team must be 2 weeks old and not using a chip to win a weekly prize,might stop all those Egyptian teams setting up every week and doing ME out off a prize

ScummyMan

Gah, got caught by surprise with this. 31456, embarrassing performance on my behalf

Rikand

An All England World Cup 15

Might be a bit light in midfield but otherwise pretty decent

CSF

The short gap between the finish of the World Cup and the start of the Premier League will make this difficult. Had Lovren and De Bruyne in early drafts of my team, but that draws its own worries.

stephenl15

39,417. Late to the party. Can't wait to get home to have a proper look

jimmii

Already over 40k!

jimmii

KevIRL wrote: »

Draft is back. Would have preferred if they brought ultimate back.

Fingers crossed they bring it back at some point! I guess draft is less demanding on resources compared to ufpl which seemed to be part of the issue they had with it.

KevIRL

Up for giving draft another go, but ideally in a league of 6 players. No more than 8 anyway.

Benimar

Rikand wrote: »

An All England World Cup 15

Might be a bit light in midfield but otherwise pretty decent

Hopefully they all have a nice rest after Saturday so they are fit for the start of the season for you :pac:

Caught on the hop with it opening early. ID 47,810. Lowest in ages, hope my OR doesn’t follow suit!!

Shedite27

Yeah this can wait till the World Cup is over

2nd Row Donkey

I love the way it says "Please note some shirt designs are 'mere placeholders'

This pleases me.

Shanotheslayer

ScummyMan wrote: »

Gah, got caught by surprise with this. 31456, embarrassing performance on my behalf

You used to be cool

km79

Great news guys
Ben foster has signed for Watford so he can disappoint us all season long again

In what voodoo actually be good news though Harry Maguire is being strongly linked with spurs . That would please me

ScummyMan

£4.0 defenders, our favourite subject

Name|Team| League Appearances 17/18
Jack Simpson|Bournmouth|1
Markus Suttner|Brighton|13(1)
Ezequiel Schelotto|Brighton|14(4)
Matthew Connolly|Cardiff|4
Lee Peltier|Cardiff|27(3)
Ashley Jazz Richards (lol)|Cardiff|5(1)
Greg Halford|Cardiff|2(10)
Martin Kelly|Crystal Palace|12(3)
Aaron Wan-Bissaka|Crystal Palace|7
Scott Malone|Huddersfield|12(10)
Yohan Benalouane|Leceister|1
Chancel Mbemba|Newcastle|7(2)
Sam McQueen|Southampton|1(6)
Jan Bednarek|Southampton|5
Ryan Bennett|Wolves|27(2)
Danny Batth|Wolves|15(1)
Roderick Miranda|Wolves|16(1)


Some interesting options there. The two that jump out immediately are Peltier from Cardiff and Bennett from Wolves. Bennett in particular is highly rated from Wolves fans from what I've heard.

km79

km79 wrote: »

Great news guys
Ben foster has signed for Watford so he can disappoint us all season long again

In what voodoo actually be good news though Harry Maguire is being strongly linked with spurs . That would please me

Oh god no
Foster rotates well with Fabianski
No no no I will not do it

Paully D

CSF wrote: »

The short gap between the finish of the World Cup and the start of the Premier League will make this difficult. Had Lovren and De Bruyne in early drafts of my team, but that draws its own worries.

Agreed.

It's going to be hard to negotiate the rest that the likes of Kane, Firmino and other heavy-hitters may get.

An early wildcard may be essential?

One strategy might just be to go with (almost) guaranteed starters and then wildcarding at the first international break?

Scorpion Sting

km79 wrote: »

Oh god no
Foster rotates well with Fabianski
No no no I will not do it

Begovic is a better partner for Fabianski I think.

Mr.Prodston

Ryan Bennett, is the bast@rd who stole Mickey Turner's place in the Norwich team.

Would that cloud my judgment on him that he was an accident waiting to happen in terms of yellow cards and own goals?

Remains to be seen :pac:

km79

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

Begovic is a better partner for Fabianski I think.

Yeah he was the one that jumped out from a quick look at first 6 fixture rotations too

ScummyMan

De Gea is a massive 6m. That utd defence is going to be a nightmare to get coverage of

Mr. Guappa

My plan as it stands is to have just the one solid sub, a 4.5 DEF, then have a 4.0 DEF and a 4.5 FOR. May chicken out of that as time moves on and I'm unsure of starting XI's etc. But I've come to the conclusion that there's no need for having a bench full of starters, especially at the expense of weakening your starting XI.

Scorpion Sting

ScummyMan wrote: »

De Gea is a massive 6m. That utd defence is going to be a nightmare to get coverage of

Can't fathom how Valencia is 6.5m when you can get Azpi for the same price.

ScummyMan

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

Can't fathom how Valencia is 6.5m when you can get Azpi for the same price.

Yeah. Haven't United signed a new RB too so he's not even a guaranteed starter.

Scorpion Sting

ScummyMan wrote: »

Yeah. Haven't United signed a new RB too so he's not even a guaranteed starter.

Yeah, 19-year-old Diogo Dalot. I'd say Valencia will start the vast majority of games this season though as Dalot gets used to life in England.

Wilberto

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

My plan as it stands is to have just the one solid sub, a 4.5 DEF, then have a 4.0 DEF and a 4.5 FOR. May chicken out of that as time moves on and I'm unsure of starting XI's etc. But I've come to the conclusion that there's no need for having a bench full of starters, especially at the expense of weakening your starting XI.

I've inadvertently gone with the same "strategy".




:pac:

km79

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

My plan as it stands is to have just the one solid sub, a 4.5 DEF, then have a 4.0 DEF and a 4.5 FOR. May chicken out of that as time moves on and I'm unsure of starting XI's etc. But I've come to the conclusion that there's no need for having a bench full of starters, especially at the expense of weakening your starting XI.

I'm aiming to have 15 starters
Bench boost within 3 weeks and then wildcard
Did that 2 years ago and worked well

Held BB for dgw last season and when I take into account points hits I'd say I broke even at the very best
I will hold fh this year though
Got lucky the week I played it last year but need to hold it for the skinny week this time

Shanotheslayer

ScummyMan wrote: »

De Gea is a massive 6m. That utd defence is going to be a nightmare to get coverage of

Jones 5.5 if he's fit?