Rate My Team thread

Fizman wrote: »

Anyone??

And any update on Walcott?

MagicIRL wrote: »

Might be forced into an early Wildcard. Lugano/Rat are not starting for unknown reasons, and Arsenal are just annoying me. Walcott seems to be second fiddle to Giroud for the goalscoring, and not a single cleansheet from last seasons best defence.

Paully D wrote: »

Okay lads, just considering what way to go with my wildcard after gameweek three. So far, I've come up with the below, and would really appreciate any opinions you may have, as I do need a bit of help:



So I'd be going with a 4-3-3 every week of:

Mignolet

Zabaleta Vidic Mertersacker Ivanovic

Hazard Silva Walcott

Bent Soldado Sturridge

Subs: Ward-Prowse, Thomas, Chester

I like the thoughts of going with 4 top defenders given how these bonus points seem to be dished out. Clean sheets and a very good pass completion rate seem to equal bonus points for defenders. Even better if they can chip in at the attacking side of the field (Zabaleta and Ivanovic). My goalkeeper and back four play in teams that should all end up at the top end of the table for clean sheets come the end of the season.

Hazard, Silva and Walcott gives me attacking coverage from three of the top teams in the league and all three should end up with a high points total.

Soldado is non-negotiable for me, he has to be in. A great striker who is almost guaranteed 90 minutes every week in a team that creates chances. Bent is the best cheap option in the game and proved today what he can do, even in a brief cameo. Sturridge is off to a flyer, no fitness worries, and again he'll play every week. I'd probably prefer to have a real big hitter in here instead of Sturridge (Rooney/Suarez depending on the transfer window, or Aguero depending on playing time) but at least I won't be sweating come 2:00pm every Saturday wondering if my three strikers will play, and going with so many big hitters in defence and midfield, I really can't afford it.

Subs: Ward-Prowse has played 90 minutes for two weeks in a row and racked up a decent score. Thomas will be given an attacking role in the Palace team as soon as he returns from injury and may even drop in price by next week which would help me with funds. Hull are equipped to keep clean sheets relative to other teams down there in the table so at £4.0m Chester is the best lowest price defensive option, IMO.

I have been stung a bit over the first couple of weeks taking a chance on players who didn't start, so with the above team I didn't want that to be a problem and I think I've more or less succeeded. Bent is the riskiest but I do think he will be first choice by gameweek four.

I have £0.2m in the bank to cope with price changes between now and after gameweek three and if it has to be done I can transfer Ivanovic to Terry to free up another £0.5m.

So, what do you think of the above team and what would you do differently?

Thanks all