Boards.ie Fantasy Football 2009/2010 (MOD NOTE - POST #2151)

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Schwarzer

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Evra - Rio - Woodgate - Alex - A.Cole
Lampard - Gerrard - Murphy - Modric

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Ebanks-Blake

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Sorensen, Muamba, Jerome, Daryl Murphy

Staying away from Arsenal, Everton, West Ham & the others who are not playing the 2nd week. Plan at moment is getting in Carlton Cole in week 3.

tribulus wrote: »

A quick one - Crouch or Carlton Cole? Forget about the 0.5M difference in price for now.

For me C.Cole at 7.0 and Evra at 6.5 are the 2 stand-out underpriced players, as guaranteed starters. I'd probably have C.Cole in my team if he was 8.0 to be honest.

As for builttospills comments about Zhirkov, we'll have to wait and see what happens. But how can you be so sure he won't play? Are you Carlo Ancellotti?* There is a lot to suggest he will start for Chelsea. The charity shield should give us some clues, and I would sense that if he doesn't start in it a lot of people will take him out.

But if he does become a regular starter (and the fact they shelled out £18m for him, and the fact Malouda isn't exactly a world beater, and the fact he is Russian so Roman will want to see him play suggests he quite probably will be a regular), then you're talking about getting a Chelsea winger in your side for 7.5m. Which is fantastic value considering their opening fixtures. Add the this the fact he is classified as a defender and it almost looks like more of a risk to not have him in your team than to have him in. Seriously if Zhirkov starts, (which for the above reasons I suspect he probably will) and plays in any way well, you could be looking at a monster points haul for only 7.5.

Did the expert consider any of this before posting?

*By the way I take all of this back, if builttospill is in fact Carlo Ancellotti.

Average-Ro wrote: »

I've changed it again, but I think it's stronger now, more depth to the squad. Any opinions?

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Schwarzer

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Evra

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Warnock

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Baines

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Cahill

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-Gerrard

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Arshavin

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N'Zogbia

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Taylor

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Pienaar-

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Johnson A

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SUBS:

Hart
Skrtel
Doyle
C. Cole

I do not like this team one bit apart from Stevie G and Arshavin :eek:

Average-Ro wrote: »

May I ask why?

sorry i dont mean to be rude mate. My method that has worked well for me is to spend heavily in midfield. I never spend more than 5 million on a defender.
Buy a defender from different clubs that will always start and pump money into serious scorers in midfield that is where the points are scored. To a lesser extent up front.

Rotate your defenders on the basis of easiness of game or likelihood to keep a clean sheet.
Mind you, you didnt spend alot on your defence but your midfield and strikeforce is lightweight.
Also start Carlton Cole instead of Andy Johnson.

Average-Ro wrote: »

I know you weren't trying to sound rude, I didn't mean to sound rude in either, ah the cruel circle continues...

Obviously this is just personal opinion, but I don't like spending a shed load of money on a small amount of players and rely on them to get points. Aside from Lampard, I can't really think of who will be another high scoring midfielder, any thoughts?

Gerrard and Arshavin will score regularly for midfielders in my opinion. Try and fit one more high priced midfielder like Kuyt. He'll always play and will score 10+ goals which for a midfielder will be vital points wise over the course of the season.
Then maybe look to some wildcard midfielders like Dempsey (well not really a wild card as he is prem proven) Eagles, Kightly and also Jimenez and Savio at West Ham who both kinda player between the lines in advanced roles.

Defenders, go for those that play regularly first and foremost and are either a) dominant in the air, or b)good going forward
Cahill and Warnock are good choices.

aaronh007 wrote: »

Changed mine for the umpteenth time

Green

Hangeland
Carragher
Baines
A. Cole

Gerrard
D. Murphy
P. Neville
Modric
Milner

Torres


Subs:
Sorensen
Ebanks-Blake
Figueroa
Cresswell

not bad, but scale down in defence and upgade on Neville in midfield. He wont score points for ya.

Modric could flourish this season too.

Opinions on this team please

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Cech

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Vidic

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Hangeland

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Carragher

Lampard---Malbraque--Alonso--Murphy

A.Johnson ---- Torres(C) --- K. Doyle


Subs: Ashbee, Faye A, Bramble

I think Rooney is better value than Torres. He's .5 of a million cheaper and he should flourish this season with Ronaldo gone.

Kevin Doyle could miss the start of the season. He had a hernia op and is out until October apparently. I wasn't sure whether to go for him or Ebanks Blake but its definitely Ebanks Blake now.

My team now is:

Given

Warnock
Anton Ferdinand
Woodgate

Arshavin
Lampard
Gerrard
Malbranque
Jimenez

Rooney
Ebanks Blake

Hart, Zayatte and two other subs not worth even mentioning.

I had got Jasskelainen (4.5) in goals to save 1.0 mil and some better subs but decided to just go for it and have Zayate as my only decent sub.

I think Given (5.5) will score well because he's scored well consistenty with a Newcastle defence in front of him so he should be a revelation with the City defence in front of him.

I'm planning to swap Jimenez out too. Anyone know a decent mid for 5 mil?

How much is Barry Ferguson? It'll be interesting to see how he does.

Last year I went for a defence from the top four and it didn't work out so I'm going for high scoring mids and a high scoring striker this season.

As someone above said, the defenders from the lower teams usually pick up a few points and Warnock often plays in midfield for Blackburn. Redknapp tightened up Spurs as well and Bruce and Allardyce will be tightening up Blackburn and Sunderland.

eirebhoy wrote: »

Torres has the best points per game out of all the strikers. 5.6.

True, shows how many games he missed last year then.

Lemlin wrote: »

I'm planning to swap Jimenez out too. Anyone know a decent mid for 5 mil?

How much is Barry Ferguson? It'll be interesting to see how he does.

Ferguson is 5mil alright, I'd go for Seb Larsson though at the same price. Should be a regular starter and scores goals.

8-10 wrote: »

I'd go for Seb Larsson though at the same price. Should be a regular starter and scores goals.

Great shout. If you want a very cheap mid Larsson's your man. He should be involved in anything good Birmingham do. He's a freekick specialist as well. Could see him getting 4-5 goals and maybe 6-8 assists, plus the odd bonus, and he should also play 90 minutes. For .5 more than the cheapest midfield options this is very good value

1mcampo1 wrote: »

Why are people picking their teams looking at the fixture list? If a few teams dont play in the second fixture, they will have to have a double gameweek in the future

because you can make transfers throughout the year

1mcampo1 wrote: »

but ya can only make one free transfer a week, or does the new rule mean if ya dont use the free transfer, it carries over to the next week?

Yes that is what the new rule means.

But it dosn't continue accumalating. You'll never have more than 2 free transfers (apart from when you use your wildcard of course)