General Fantasy Football Chat

You watch, you'll get your team nicely set up to make the most of that gameweek then half of them will appear doubtful. I've already got two injured players I wanted to use for those games - Vorm (Swansea) and Kelly (Fulham). I'm hoping they'll recover in time.

That's annoying, they've given us no time really to plan ahead on this one.

Strongly thinking of swapping BAE for Skrtel. Spurs have United (A), Everton (H) and Chelsea (A) over their next three fixtures, AND they have no match in GW 29.

I'll only get 5.6 for BAE but Skrtel always gets forward for corners, think he's worth the extra cash.

Chances are any fixtures postponed for gw29 will be held midweek of the same week, it wont change anything, its just a matter of the clubs sorting it out between themselves, and maybe the tv guys, we've already seen a couple of clubs change it to midweek, i expect the others to follow, the Tottenham and Chelsea games will probably be rescheduled last, since they both have FA cup replays to worry about in the meanwhile. Panic transferring might just come back to bite you in the ass. That said, i suggest you all transfer Kompany out and replace him with Emerson Boyce :cool:

I made a horrible mistake this week..... that mistake was leaving Ryan Shotton 3rd on my bench. He had been annoying me for the past few weeks, usually coming in as a sub for a 1-pointer when he comes on for a few minutes at the end of each game. I was gonna drop him this week but I needed my transfer so I put him 3rd sub instead. What a huge mistake. The only reason he had been on my team in the first place was because he was down as a defender for a pretty decent defensive side (Stoke for those who don't know) and he plays out of position on the wing. He got my 10 points this week, 10 points which I didn't receive, as I watched my first 2 subs come on for Richards and Rooney with a grand total of 3 points!


So anyway, I've been doing research after last weekends game and it seems Shotton could well start for Stoke from now on as it seems Pennant is being dropped. Pulis said after the game that he has "big plans" for Shotton. At 4.0, a defender for Stoke, playing on the wing with plenty of ability and a great attacking mind. If he gets a starting place from now on he will be huge. Keep an eye out lads, something to ponder if you need a decent 4 mil option.

Source: http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Stoke-City-Shotton-s-wide-boy-defender-says-boss/story-15342281-detail/story.html

really hard decision this week, mclean sess or sig on the bench? leaning towards mclean because i have sunderland cover with sess and i can see sig getting at least an assist at wigan! althought the last 2 times i took sess over mclean he outscored sess :L

Benching McClean over Siggurdson this week

Just fancy Siggurdsson to do more than McClean

I own a small "Party Planning & Events Management" business, and I've run things for bars doing similar games and such in the past... so I can tell you these things can be great for getting arses in seats.

I'd advertise early, get the majority signed up pre-season, and build the hype over GW1&2, then close it at 11:30am as GW3 begins. Or, to keep it simple, just keep it open until the transfer window closes on Sept 1st... which is around GW3 anyway.

Since the goal is to advertise the bar, there's no point in shutting it off as soon as GW1 starts... give it time to build interest, and have signs up for all those who show up to watch the games, since they're going to be your best bet for spreading the word. You'll know yourself. It might take off great and give you enough in 3 weeks, or it could take 6-7... just take it as it comes, don't burden yourself with a definite closing date at the start.

The simplest way to verify the winner is to have them collect their winnings at the pub and access their account in front of you. Which brings me onto what I think would be the best way to advertise the pub; A round of free drinks (or whatever you deem an acceptable prize) for the monthly high scorers and things like that will get punters into the pub. The players aren't likely to show up alone, so you're getting more people into the pub who may not otherwise use it. One free drink for 5 people can suddenly turn into 25 more drinks that they pay for.

And it's probably best to stagger the overall winnings, for the top 3-5, and not just top spot.

Just throwing the codes up on the internet is fine, but you have to consider how useless it is to be advertising to someone who's never going to visit your bar, whether it's because of their location, or whatever. So while I think that yes, you should leave it open to anyone, you should also push the whole "come to the bar to collect your winnings" thing.

If you're not happy with that, maybe give out the main prizes at the end of the season via cheque, but I'd strongly recommend having monthly prizes as things they have to pick up. Prize-money is fine, but a round of drinks thrown in too is almost a necessity if you're going to sell your bar to them.

If it's the kind of bar with regular clientèle, having a score-board up with all the regulars highlighted would add to the banter.

I think this is a great idea, and there are literally tons of things you can do to get the bar in people's heads.

Does the pub show Premiership football?

If so, and if done right, this could be a real winner

First of all, forget putting the code up on the net. Get people to come into the pub. Have an entry form: Name, Email, Team name. As far as i know you can invite people to the league via email. Otherwise you'll have every Tom Dick and Harry entering who'll never go near the pub. You don't want that.

The more people you get into the pub the better. Advertise it. In the pub window, even on the radio. I suggest a €5000 euro prize fund. Bear with me.

€2500 overall winner
€1000 overall second
€500 overall third
€100 bar tab for monthly winners (x10)

There's many ways you can make the money back. Print off flyers to give to people entering. You'll also have their email addresses. You can have a 'Football happy hour', during Premiership matches, €3 a pint for the first hour or something. Every month you can have a Fantasy Football Night, kick it off with a televised match, later you can announce the monthly winner, the 'top of the table standings', you can have promotions and spot prizes as well if you like. Over the course of the season i'd say you could earn the pub a mint. It's all about getting punters into the pub. Just some ideas

Liverpool Qpr is on the wednesday now so could be vital.

Gw looking like:


Aston Villa v Bolton
Blackburn v Sunderland
Fulham v Swansea
Man City v Chelsea
Newcastle v Norwich
QPR v Liverpool
Wigan v West Brom
Wolves v Man Utd

I would say city chelsea game be cancelled if chelsea win their replay.

Not sure that was the best idea... I can see that some threads are repetitive but surely the point of the new forum was to be able to segregate different topics for discussion?

This will just be a repeat of the thread in the soccer forum.

roryc wrote: »

Not sure that was the best idea... I can see that some threads are repetitive but surely the point of the new forum was to be able to segregate different conversations?

This will just be a repeat of the thread in the soccer forum.

I agree, the whole point of this sub forum was to be able to navigate it easy and view the topics you wished to discuss, now we are back to everything muddled in together, we could of just stayed in the soccer forum where the traffic was already there.

There were only 4 or 5 new threads a week surely this isnt too much? think ill stick to fiso for the foreseeable future until a proper structure is shaped here.