General Chat 2020/21

Irishphotodesk

Muahahaha wrote: »

I signed up to that and gave it a try but it is very clunky and it didnt even recognise Zaha or Wilfred Zaha. It started sending me daily emails last night to tell me there is no new injury news so I closed it down just there, have enough spam as it is without that.

Is there anything better out there for tracking injuries of your players, ideally something that is linked to your team week to week on FPL. Would prefer not to be having to Google the Leicester Mercury or whatever local newspaper everytime a player is out.

Best way is to watch or read the manager talks on a fri/sat morning, and learn to read between the lines of what the manager is saying, sometimes it’s about learning which managers have tendencies to tell porkies.

Hint, the bald ones tend to be the frauds

Irishphotodesk

Random thought.... if palace played Newcastle last week (with one confirmed case removed from squad - zaha) .... yet several days later, much of the Newcastle squad test positive.

My theory is that someone else or multiple people in palace are asymptomatic or ignoring symptoms - which could mean that we could have further cases identified in the palace squad this weekend, they have been very solid in keeping information in-house, of course, it’s also possible zaha has returned he was the only person positive at palace.

It’s also possible that some players returning from international duty brought it into the Newcastle squad and it spread through the squad and zaha’s positive is not related to Newcastle squad infection.

This weekend will possibly see many more infections due to returning after international duty, clubs are containing information of positive results quite well.

siblers

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

Random thought.... if palace played Newcastle last week (with one confirmed case removed from squad - zaha) .... yet several days later, much of the Newcastle squad test positive.

My theory is that someone else or multiple people in palace are asymptomatic or ignoring symptoms - which could mean that we could have further cases identified in the palace squad this weekend, they have been very solid in keeping information in-house, of course, it’s also possible zaha has returned he was the only person positive at palace.

It’s also possible that some players returning from international duty brought it into the Newcastle squad and it spread through the squad and zaha’s positive is not related to Newcastle squad infection.

This weekend will possibly see many more infections due to returning after international duty, clubs are containing information of positive results quite well.

Newcastle had 5 cases going into to that match so there was possibly more players/staff with Covid but could have had false negatives.

Irishphotodesk

Another musing, is the testing by the premierleague every week.....I find it strange that the number tested changes, if there are the same clubs playing week in, week out surely the number of people tested (players and staff) would be similar every week....or are they only testing randomly?

https://www.premierleague.com/news/1670563

Iused2likebusts

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

Random thought.... if palace played Newcastle last week (with one confirmed case removed from squad - zaha) .... yet several days later, much of the Newcastle squad test positive.

My theory is that someone else or multiple people in palace are asymptomatic or ignoring symptoms - which could mean that we could have further cases identified in the palace squad this weekend, they have been very solid in keeping information in-house, of course, it’s also possible zaha has returned he was the only person positive at palace.

It’s also possible that some players returning from international duty brought it into the Newcastle squad and it spread through the squad and zaha’s positive is not related to Newcastle squad infection.

This weekend will possibly see many more infections due to returning after international duty, clubs are containing information of positive results quite well.

It's supposedly highly unlikely to pass the virus while playing a football match due to it being outdoors and players arent in close contact long enough for it to transmit. The newcastle outbreak is more than likely down to them not being as careful as they should in some off the pitch settings.

2nd Row Donkey

Matinez
Kilman
Robertson
Lewis
Grealish
Kane
Jimenez

Think I'll go with the olde 2-3-1 formation.

#everythingisfine

siblers

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Matinez
Kilman
Robertson
Lewis
Grealish
Kane
Jimenez

Think I'll go with the olde 2-3-1 formation.

#everythingisfine

You going to free hit?

Shanotheslayer

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Matinez
Kilman
Robertson
Lewis
Grealish
Kane
Jimenez

Think I'll go with the olde 2-3-1 formation.

#everythingisfine

You in the LMS? :pac:

Chesty08

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

Random thought.... if palace played Newcastle last week (with one confirmed case removed from squad - zaha) .... yet several days later, much of the Newcastle squad test positive.

My theory is that someone else or multiple people in palace are asymptomatic or ignoring symptoms - which could mean that we could have further cases identified in the palace squad this weekend, they have been very solid in keeping information in-house, of course, it’s also possible zaha has returned he was the only person positive at palace.

It’s also possible that some players returning from international duty brought it into the Newcastle squad and it spread through the squad and zaha’s positive is not related to Newcastle squad infection.

This weekend will possibly see many more infections due to returning after international duty, clubs are containing information of positive results quite well.

Didn’t Newcastle have a few positives cases a few weeks back around league cup time?

They also had some before the Palace game.

Looks like they haven’t really got rid of it.

Wouldn’t say it’s anything to do with Palace

Irishphotodesk

Chesty08 wrote: »

Didn’t Newcastle have a few positives cases a few weeks back around league cup time?

They also had some before the Palace game.

Looks like they haven’t really got rid of it.

Wouldn’t say it’s anything to do with Palace

yeah, siblers mentioned above they had 5 cases prior to the Palace game.

Shanotheslayer

Carlo says Nkounkou " will have time in the next game"

Whatever that means in regards starting or bench

JPA

Irishphotodesk wrote: »

Random thought.... if palace played Newcastle last week (with one confirmed case removed from squad - zaha) .... yet several days later, much of the Newcastle squad test positive.

My theory is that someone else or multiple people in palace are asymptomatic or ignoring symptoms - which could mean that we could have further cases identified in the palace squad this weekend, they have been very solid in keeping information in-house, of course, it’s also possible zaha has returned he was the only person positive at palace.

It’s also possible that some players returning from international duty brought it into the Newcastle squad and it spread through the squad and zaha’s positive is not related to Newcastle squad infection.

This weekend will possibly see many more infections due to returning after international duty, clubs are containing information of positive results quite well.

Aren't all players tested 2 or 3 times a week?

Irishphotodesk

JPA wrote: »

Aren't all players tested 2 or 3 times a week?

can't say how often they are tested but there are numbers for the amount of tests done on players and staff - not sure if it includes multiple testing of the same person or not.

https://www.premierleague.com/news/1814863

Chuck Noland

Start 3 from

James (Lee H) KWP (Bha A) Justin (Shu A) Lamptey (Sou H)


Rest is

Johnstone
Def def def
Jota Bruno KDB Ziyech
Adams Kane Ricky

Chesty08

Chuck Noland wrote: »

Start 3 from

James (Lee H) KWP (Bha A) Justin (Shu A) Lamptey (Sou H)


Rest is

Johnstone
Def def def
Jota Bruno KDB Ziyech
Adams Kane Ricky

Bench Justin

manual_man

Chances of Cancelo starting?

Muahahaha

Whats typically the best strategy for a double gameweek, to use your free hit chip or your triple captain. Half thinking of triple captaining KdB for this GW v Fulham

How Soon Is Now

What would be the better option one man short or -4 bringing in a defender around the 4.7 mark?

Atm im thinking of going with ten men because I don't see too many cheap defenders getting over 4 points this week.

ThunbergsAreGo

Any Martinez owners just rolling with no keeper this week??

He will have two DGW upcoming

manual_man

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

Any Martinez owners just rolling with no keeper this week??

He will have two DGW upcoming

No but I've kept him and brought in Johnstone for this week. After this week they don't actually rotate too badly.

shineon23

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

Any Martinez owners just rolling with no keeper this week??

He will have two DGW upcoming

Was thinking about moving Steer on for a theoritical '-2'
Try combat against future Covid cancellations.

By having 2 playing keepers.

My thought at the start of the season was having 2 keepers form the 1 club was a bad idea as if 1 got Covid, both could get ruled out.
But never thought about the team they'd be playing being the cause of me having no GK.

Been looking at premium keeper options: Mendy or Ederson.

Ederson already has 1 DGW upcoming, and a serious run of games.

Which leads me to realise I'd then never play Martinez, and that 0.6 could be better spent elsewhere.

Easy to get in Super Matty Targett for the doubles at 4.5 currently.

Chesty08

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

Any Martinez owners just rolling with no keeper this week??

He will have two DGW upcoming

No, I’ve shipped him for Ryan

dahat

Just spotted KM79 in the I'm a Celebrity 2020 thread.

Folk are never the same after they leave the forum.

siblers

dahat wrote: »

Just spotted KM79 in the I'm a Celebrity 2020 thread.

Folk are never the same after they leave the forum.

It's always slightly weird seeing posters in other forums/threads.

jaykay74

Trying to figure out Bamford v walker Peters v lamptey v Taylor for starting spots tomorrow. 3 from 4 will play for me. They'll all end up playing if Kane misses out anyway.

Shanotheslayer

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-fotL3XtVo&feature=youtu.be

The first 8Mins is an Intro/Fixtures.
8-19mins is the talk of 1-5
19 onwards is our discussion of differentials.

For those that don't wish to view, as always I'll post

#1 KDB
#2 Sterling
#3 Salah
#4 Werner
#5 Mahrez

Appreciate any feedback, we felt we defintely went over on the time, probably discussing the fixtures we can tidy up about 4-5 mins.

I’ll start off by saying that when I look for feedback, for things I’ve done, I always ask for negative feedback only. That just makes sense to me.

I think you have 3 sections. The fixtures. The captains. The differentials.

These need to be introduced clearly. I was listening to your comments on the fixtures for a few minutes before I realised what was going on.

So ‘this weeks fixtures starting with blah v blah’
Next ‘now we have the top 5 captain picks in reverse order’

With giving a top 5 I think the differentials should be 1 each. It could be a weekly thing as to who’s differential pick has done best.

I know it’s hard but I think it’s best to cut back on the sarcasm. It will fly over heads. Just call stuff for what it is.

I hate YouTube because I can’t leave the app to knock about and do other stuff on my phone. So I can’t even look at my team when I’m listening to it.

Think that’s all.

On the whole it is good.

Edit - you mentioned boards too. Thought we were keeping this a safe place from internet people ?

ThunbergsAreGo

Chesty08 wrote: »

No, I’ve shipped him for Ryan

Id would move to McCarthy, but oddly just unenthusiastic about it.

Don't want to be moving back so might just take the 10 players

ThunbergsAreGo

jaykay74 wrote: »

Trying to figure out Bamford v walker Peters v lamptey v Taylor for a starting spot tomorrow. 3 from 4 will play for me. They'll all end up playing if Kane misses out anyway.

Look at you with your subsitutes......

Tough call, Lamptey I think, just as I think Southampton are more likely to CS

jaykay74

ThunbergsAreGo wrote:

Look at you with your subsitutes......

Well, its max one sub all going well