Rate my Team Thread 2017/2018

CSF · 29-07-2017 07:13PM

normanoffside wrote: »

No because he won't start the first game(s). You can buy him back in if and when he starts or shows form.

My Second draft team now is:

Foster (Elliott)
Trippier, Lindelof, Hegazi (Mee, Yedelin)
Willian, KDB, Ozil, Walters (Carroll)
Kane, Lukaku, Austin

Hegazi, Mee and Yedlin will rotate as will to a lesser extent Foster and Elliott and Walters and Carroll. Will look to bring Chicharito in for Austin after West Ham get over their opening fixtures.

Thoughts appreciated!

Is Ozil not very expensive based on last years returns? If Austin starts he's a steal at that price but I can't convince myself that he will.

Cartman78 · 29-07-2017 07:25PM

Draft #34,788

Getting closer now I think....this is the first draft I've been happy with for more that 3 minutes.

- Salah scored again today...could be playing OOP by the sounds of it
- Fabregas can be swapped with Willian if needs be
- Have tried multiple ways into the Southampton defence...too many unknowns imho so Forster seems like the safest option.
- No Kane is a calculated risk...have Alli as Spurs cover and he can swap with Eriksen pending form and fitness.
- Kept faith with Jesus...earlier drafts had KDB but the City midfield is volatile...will be interesting to see what the regular line up is.
- Not expecting a whole lot from the bench..J-Rod probably the only viable option

Forster Elliot

Bailly Trippier Monreal Ake Long

Salah Zaha Fabregas Alli Carroll

Lukaku Jesus J-Rod

normanoffside · 29-07-2017 07:31PM

CSF wrote: »

Is Ozil not very expensive based on last years returns? If Austin starts he's a steal at that price but I can't convince myself that he will.

I am hoping he will step up in Sanchez' absence. Might switch him out closer to the season starting though!
Austin will be moving aside for Chicharito once their fixtures improve.

matthew the statue · 30-07-2017 12:40AM

martin101 wrote: »

I had loftus cheek also but was worried with the amount of ownership that he could drop to 4.3 in no time if he doesn't play much. Also I'd try to get a spurs mid or Kane in there. That's just me though

Not many better options in midfield for 4.5 to be fair, I think Kane will start the season slowly.

SlickRic · 30-07-2017 09:13AM

I think my second proper draft. For the first time, I'm seriously considering 433.

Forster Elliot
Alonso Bailly Trippier Hegazi Long
Fabregas Alli KDB RLC Carroll
Jesus Lukaku Austin

km79 · 30-07-2017 10:10AM

A bit more tinkering around the edges
Hope to rotate hegazi and mee
If it looks like hegazi won't start then I'll just switch to a 4.5 from a diff team
West brom have nice fixtures but they had them last year and still managed to concede damn near every game at that time

I'm considering going double city attack and no Spurs too ........

De Gea Elliot
Yoshida (Cedric ) trippier hegazi mee long
Fabregas kdb Pogba zaha caroll
Lukaku Austin Kane or aguero plus 1ml

spock. · 30-07-2017 10:53AM

Forster
Trippier Danilo Hegazi
KDB Mane Salah Ritchie Ince
Lukaku Jesus
(Elliot - Mee Quaner Mariappa)

Obviously taking big risks in defence but hoping to get a few weeks out of Danilo and Hegazi.
Hegazi rotating with Mee.
I rate Ritchie highly and he's on all set pieces for a team with good fixtures.
Ince could become Chadli but I've been impressed with him in pre season and am willing to punt on him.

COH · 30-07-2017 01:25PM

Foster
Trippier/Lindelof/Cedric
Richie/Alli/Pogba/Willlian
Lukaku/Benteke/Kane

[Elliot - Carrol - Mee - Humemeier]

Looks a bit templatey perhaps... but probably wildcard early enough this year as the better picks emerge.

Richie > whatever midpriced mid starts well and Benteke > someone like Chicarito are easy hit-free moves to make and will facilitate a midfield upgrade (Willian > Pedro or Pogba > ~9.0) if required before the WC.

Tylerdurex · 30-07-2017 04:25PM

Opinion

Foster

Trippier
Lindelof
Alonso
Danillo

De brune
Salah
Alli
Lotus cheek

Lukaku
Jesus

The obvious weakness is loftus cheek but I have Tom Carroll to rotate with him

I went without Kane to get better balance for now . A risk I know

I'm counting on Alonso and Danillo being like midfielders

My sub keeper is Newcastles Elliott . He's the only 4.0 keeper that might play

My other subs are Fletcher and Rangel who are just bench fodder

What you think folks ?

2nd Row Donkey · 30-07-2017 05:22PM

Tylerdurex wrote:

What you think folks ?

Good. But you have 3 players in your starting XI that are new to the Epl, might be risky albeit they are all doing exceptionally well in preseason.

Aside from that, is your user name based on Tyler Durden?

wrestlemaniac · 30-07-2017 05:24PM

Think I'm pretty set with the core of this team

De Gea Elliot

Alonso Trippier Pied Mee Dunk

KDB Willian Tadic Walters Fraser

Lukaku Kane J-Rod

Going to swap between 3-4-3 and 3-5-2.

GK: de Gea for united cover, Elliot a solid cheapie.

Def: Alonso and Trippier are good going forward and Spurs/Chelsea fairly measly in conceding. Will have Pied while Cedric is getting up to speed. Have Mee and Dunk as Burnley and Brighton should be solid at home.

Mid: KDB is city attacking cover. Willian to start while Haz is out. Tadic has favourable fixtures and at 6.5 is good value. Walters and Fraser fixtures rotate nicely.

Fed: Lukaku and Kane are must haves since everybody will have have them. J-Rod looking good in pre season and there until the little peas fixtures are more appealing.

Will prob wildcard early as usual

CSF · 30-07-2017 05:37PM

Don't see you getting long out of Pied. How far behind do you expect Cedric is?

shineon23 · 30-07-2017 05:40PM

Take 2:

DDG-(Elliot)

Yoshida-Trippier-Danilo-(Naughton-Long)

KDB-Walcott-Walters-JWP-(Carroll)

Kane-Lukaku-Austin

2.5 ITB

Happy with most of that apart from the uncertainty of Walcott and JWP minutes and no Chelsea Attacking cover. But I can't resist a Theo punt. :pac:

Can turn either Theo/JWP into a Chelsea or United midfielder,
Or sell Lukaku for Morata.

Possibly change Naughton to a 4.0 Def as he'll likely never play for me. That'd give me 3.0 ITB.

Will be wildcarding in the first 10 Gameweeks, so Sanchez will be making an appearance then.
Milner will probably be the only Pool player I'll be considering for a while.

shineon23 · 30-07-2017 05:44PM

CSF wrote: »

Don't see you getting long out of Pied. How far behind do you expect Cedric is?

Same. That'll be a wasted transfer- Changing Pied to Cedric. Where there are other 5.0 Southampton options from the start.

Southampton have 2 more friendlies before GW 1 so it'll be a worth keeping an eye on their line-ups, to see if Cedric gets some minutes.

mectavba · 30-07-2017 05:50PM

shineon23 wrote: »

Take 2:

DDG-(Elliot)

Yoshida-Trippier-Danilo-(Naughton-Long)

KDB-Walcott-Walters-JWP-(Carroll)

Kane-Lukaku-Austin

2.5 ITB

Happy with most of that apart from the uncertainty of Walcott and JWP minutes and no Chelsea Attacking cover. But I can't resist a Theo punt. :pac:

Can turn either Theo/JWP into a Chelsea or United midfielder,
Or sell Lukaku for Morata.

Possibly change Naughton to a 4.0 Def as he'll likely never play for me. That'd give me 3.0 ITB.

Will be wildcarding in the first 10 Gameweeks, so Sanchez will be making an appearance then.
Milner will probably be the only Pool player I'll be considering for a while.

Why start with 2.5 ITB? I would use it to upgrade one or both of Walters/JWP

CSF · 30-07-2017 06:02PM

mectavba wrote: »

Why start with 2.5 ITB? I would use it to upgrade one or both of Walters/JWP

Yeah it is hard to see where you're getting the benefit of that money in the bank.

wrestlemaniac · 30-07-2017 06:04PM

CSF wrote: »

Don't see you getting long out of Pied. How far behind do you expect Cedric is?

Don't think he'll start off the season anyway and even if he is back for gw2 I could put in mee. From gw3 dunk has a nice run of games so pied can sit on the bench instead of using a transfer on him

wrestlemaniac · 30-07-2017 06:06PM

shineon23 wrote: »

Take 2:

DDG-(Elliot)

Yoshida-Trippier-Danilo-(Naughton-Long)

KDB-Walcott-Walters-JWP-(Carroll)

Kane-Lukaku-Austin

2.5 ITB

Happy with most of that apart from the uncertainty of Walcott and JWP minutes and no Chelsea Attacking cover. But I can't resist a Theo punt. :pac:

Can turn either Theo/JWP into a Chelsea or United midfielder,
Or sell Lukaku for Morata.

Possibly change Naughton to a 4.0 Def as he'll likely never play for me. That'd give me 3.0 ITB.

Will be wildcarding in the first 10 Gameweeks, so Sanchez will be making an appearance then.
Milner will probably be the only Pool player I'll be considering for a while.

JWP to Willian or Fab, since you have Austin for Soton coverage?

martin101 · 30-07-2017 07:12PM

Any thoughts on this lot

Foster fabianski
Yoshida Alonso trippier dunk long
Kdb Zaha willian Phillips Carroll
Lukaku Kane Austin

Thanks

wrestlemaniac · 30-07-2017 07:27PM

martin101 wrote: »

Any thoughts on this lot

Foster fabianski
Yoshida Alonso trippier dunk long
Kdb Zaha willian Phillips Carroll
Lukaku Kane Austin

Thanks

Looks fairly good. I've gone Tadic+ J-rod instead of your Phillips+ Austin

You could downgrade fabianski and use the .5 to upgrade Long to a defender with more chance of mins

martin101 · 30-07-2017 07:45PM

wrestlemaniac wrote: »

Looks fairly good. I've gone Tadic+ J-rod instead of your Phillips+ Austin

You could downgrade fabianski and use the .5 to upgrade Long to a defender with more chance of mins

Thanks for the feedback. I'm thinking of maybe fabianski to Elliott and then the long upgrade. Your tadic and j rod looks a good combo too.

CSF · 30-07-2017 07:58PM

wrestlemaniac wrote: »

CSF wrote: »

Don't see you getting long out of Pied. How far behind do you expect Cedric is?

Don't think he'll start off the season anyway and even if he is back for gw2 I could put in mee. From gw3 dunk has a nice run of games so pied can sit on the bench instead of using a transfer on him

Would it not be better to use the money for someone you're not committing to keep on the bench most of the time though?

manual_man · 30-07-2017 08:09PM

Getting closer

Hennessy Elliott
Trippier Yoshida Dunk Lascelles Long
KDB Coutinho Salah Zaha Carroll
Lukaku Jesus Austin

2nd Row Donkey · 30-07-2017 08:20PM

Any non Liverpool supporters putting Salah in their draft?

I'm determined to start GW1 with a solid, reliable, proven FF players this season. No punts but Salah is really temping me.

wrestlemaniac · 30-07-2017 08:26PM

CSF wrote: »

Would it not be better to use the money for someone you're not committing to keep on the bench most of the time though?

Well he's in because of Soton nice early fixtures but I've got Mee and Dunk in case Cedric does play sooner.

Nobody else at 4.5 jumping out at me, so think Pied is a justified early gamble.

Who do you think is a 4.5 banker with a nice early run of fixtures?

wrestlemaniac · 30-07-2017 08:34PM

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Any non Liverpool supporters putting Salah in their draft?

I'm determined to start GW1 with a solid, reliable, proven FF players this season. No punts but Salah is really temping me.

Has looked good in pre season and may hit the ground running with 2 nice gws to start but next 2 after are tough.
Would you have him ahead of a Chelsea or man city mid?

caviardreams · 30-07-2017 08:35PM

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Any non Liverpool supporters putting Salah in their draft?

I'm determined to start GW1 with a solid, reliable, proven FF players this season. No punts but Salah is really temping me.

Me - had Mane planned until I saw Salah in preseason. 0.5 cheaper too so going to take a chance I think as Mane may not be as sharp for the first match or two after his injury either.

2nd Row Donkey · 30-07-2017 08:48PM

wrestlemaniac wrote:

Has looked good in pre season and may hit the ground running with 2 nice gws to start but next 2 after are tough. Would you have him ahead of a Chelsea or man city mid?

Have Fabregas for Chelsea cover but no city MF. I do have Aguero though...

caviardreams wrote:

Me - had Mane planned until I saw Salah in preseason. 0.5 cheaper too so going to take a chance I think as Mane may not be as sharp for the first match or two after his injury either.

Ideally I want Liverpool attacking cover but cannot afford Mane or Coutinho, Lallana seems to likely to be rotated.

wrestlemaniac · 30-07-2017 09:04PM

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Have Fabregas for Chelsea cover but no city MF. I do have Aguero though...

Ideally I want Liverpool attacking cover but cannot afford Mane or Coutinho, Lallana seems to likely to be rotated.

Coutinho is same price as Salah at 9

2nd Row Donkey · 30-07-2017 09:07PM

wrestlemaniac wrote:

Coutinho is same price as Salah at 9

.. I'll just go wash this egg off my face soooooOO ..

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