GW 17 - Matchday Thread 🎅

Grealish off, Foden on, let's hope that Foden can show Grealish how to score

Cancelo on for the cameo FS

It was destined to happen Shaw points stay on bench Grrrrr

Haaland should have got his hat trick there

Hate this game. Captain Bruno was outstanding last night but no rewards and KDB the same tonight. Yet no rewards. Cancelo comes and they concede.

And of course all my rivals captained Haaland and also got 9 points for Kepa. Eurgh.

To be fair captaining anyone but Haaland is asking for trouble, especially city playing a very open Leeds team, if anything your lucky that Haaland only has 2 goals - he could have had 4. I also didn't think Bruno was that good last night?

89 points. If I hadn’t tinkered in Stephen’s morning it would have been 108.

Captaining Bruno is absolutely suicide over haaland 99 times in 100. Poor decision.

Despite my stupidity of picking James and Wilson, looks like I'll end up on 92...should see me break inside the magic 2M OR barrier 🙄

103 points in total this round and I'm currently ranked 653 overall. James was my only disappointment.

I'm doing so well so far that I'm caught in two minds going forward between wanting to (i) Differentiate and go with Salah as captain choice to try and break in to top 100 or (ii) protect my current position by sticking with Haaland as captain choice.

78. Not happy with that at all. The differentials are killing me.Frustrating game if were honest. I'll triple cap Haaland for evertons visit to the eithad this weekend.

yes and no, I would hazard a guess that Haaland has been auto captain for the last 12 games maybe when he's been fit? So if someone has a big lead, is that because of their skills of picking players, you can get lucky of course, but if it's not your captain, it's probably going to be no more than 12 points. Now if someone is 50 points ahead of you already, that's about 3 points each GW - there is still plenty of time for you to turn that around as big a gap as that may seem. If you get to 5 weeks out and your still chasing that far behind - sure gamble of a different captain, but otherwise try picking players that you think will be better than what your opponent has.

Flip argument could be it's harder to run away from people without a captain either.

101 with my rashford captain gamble paying off bigtime, it's actually boring everyone picking haaland week after week i do it myself 99% of the time

Id nearly guarantee 99% of managers will skipper Erling again Everton. Would you TC him? That could be huge this season if its gotten right. The lad could hit 4 or 5 again Everton.

I don't play the Draft game seriously - first time this year for the craic, but it's the one game where I can see issues arising - if you have Haaland - your probably going to win if you have a half decent team, as everyone else is playing catch up by about 10 points on average each week.

Would be interesting to hear from those that have Haaland in the draft are they miles ahead of others?

I wouldn't be selling salah personally i have both, but yes i was brave one week but going haaland against everton, i feel like i got away with murder with rash last week. The only other ever nailed on captain like this i can remember was Henry and that's going way back, then maybe lampard or salah for a season

Yea I know that, just thought with Haaland getting almost 10 points per game - that's a lot for others to be making up, but it's good that's not the case.

KDH goal

Pool defence a shambles again

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