General FPL Chat 2014/15 MOD WARNING POST 1839

Dice75 wrote: »

http://fantasyyirma.com/2014/11/04/27-signs-that-youre-addicted-to-fantasy-football/

Brilliant...

I love no 6.

6. Stewart Downing’s Good Form Has Got You Questioning Everything You Thought You Knew About Football

iroced wrote: »

@PARlance: I think you got me plain wrong here. I was not having any dig at all at the guy. I just commented on the facts and took his misfortune as a shining example for what I believe is a way too risky and heartbreaking approach to play this game.
And I know for sure how he must feel. I've been playing the game this way for long (my first 2 seasons I'd say) and as I'm repeating everywhere on this forum (:pac:) I'm now convinced this approach is not worth it. You lose more than you gain over a full season.
I mean rotating keepers is fine. Rotating cheap defenders is fine. Rotating mid-priced def why not? But rotating keepers, mid-priced def and midfielders is too much IMO. Too many selection headaches and too much bound to tears.



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If only Al Pacino could talk to my team like that every week :pac:...

Sorry iroced, wasn't meant to be a dig at you, as I knew you weren't having a dig at him... Shall I keep digging

Just seen a few posts of teams that had GW disasters of late and they don't sit right with me... But don't mind me, I'm just sh1tting it as my good run is due to end and it could be me being the subject

But getting back to the "risk" he's taking.
I really don't think that team is a risky team.
He has Baines, that's standard enough, he also has a 2nd expensive defender that isn't as standard... currently... but I could see that changing, the lidl defence is a fairly recent template.
We all know that defence is usually the last place we usually look to when making a transfer. Personally I don't mind Terry in there, Jose usually gets his team in good shape at the back and we all may be looking for cover there soon.
At worst I would say that he has taken a little longer to adjust rather than saying it's a risk.

Having Downing and Brunt is certainly not something I would do, but again, I don't think it's a risk. The rotation of those players didn't work this week but they cost the same as Siggy & Boyd and that didn't work this week either.
It's not a headache I would want but it's far from a risk imo.
If people are prepared to rotate goalkeepers, and that's commonly accepted as a standard move, then I don't really see how this situation is much different.

I completely agree with you on the heartbreaking element of it though!
I couldn't be putting myself through that.

FHFC wrote: »

#28 You know Stoke's preseason friendly schedule.

#29 The League Cup isn't a small meaningless competition anymore

or more importantly, that

#30 Us United fans still have an interest in the Champions League

#32. You know far better PL players than your domestic league (Ligue 1) ones.

I mean I know the Burnley backline, who knows the Evian Thonon Gaillard one :pac:?

Swiper the fox wrote: »

You get really annoyed with "Pottechino" for not resting the best players in the Europa league, despite you being a Spurs fan and that competition being a genuine chance for them to qualify for the champions league

Amen brother.

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Not sure whether to laugh or cry at No. 7!

All too familiar and has me questioning my morals most weekends

Thats why I much prefer not having strong feelings for any Premier club when playing this game.....

Shedite27 wrote: »

I actually find there's a correlation between who someone supports and how they're doing. I'm a west ham fan, had Sakho ahead of the curve this year.

Last year I fell well behind my Liverpool-supporting friends (Mignolet/Sterling?Suarez), while way ahead of my United-supporting friends (Mata/RVP).

This season the Liverpool-supporters are sticking with Lovren/Sterling too long and are falling back, while my private league is being led by a Arsenal fan who has captained Ramsey and then Sanchez for their big hauls.

Mostly the players that fall into this analysisare those that wouldn't have been super likely to do well in the game anyway, good players are willing to take the glasses off.

I do agree though that you'd have an insight into someone like Sakho from watching him more, and you might get in there earlier, but the reverse should not apply in terms of having a team full of West Ham players who aren't doing the biz.

#33: You wake up one morning and discover you now support Norwich :pac:

I loved the Steven Fletcher one.

FHFC wrote: »

I didn't. Had the fecker for first three gws. :mad:

I played him over Siggy first match

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

For those without sanchez Ill leave this here.
These are his stats so far this season
Premier league 9 games 7 goals 2 assists 12 BPS
the 3 games he blanked in were everton away when he only played the first half, spurs at home when he only came on for the last 28 mins and chelsea away when they struggled in a 2 0 defeat.
Champions league 6 games 3 goals 1 assist.
He blanked away to dortmund in a 2 0 loss and besiktas 0 0 draw and anderlecht away.
To sum up he is a massive goal threat as he has shown throughout his career and is basically getting attacking returns in every game bar some of the tougher games Chelsea and dortmund away and a couple of games at the start when he was getting limited gametime due to his extended world cup.

He cost me a goalkeeper after Mannone being dropped so hopefully he delivers enough to cover for no keeper this gw.

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

For those without sanchez Ill leave this here.
These are his stats so far this season
Premier league 9 games 7 goals 2 assists 12 BPS
the 3 games he blanked in were everton away when he only played the first half, spurs at home when he only came on for the last 28 mins and chelsea away when they struggled in a 2 0 defeat.
Champions league 6 games 3 goals 1 assist.
He blanked away to dortmund in a 2 0 loss and besiktas 0 0 draw and anderlecht away.
To sum up he is a massive goal threat as he has shown throughout his career and is basically getting attacking returns in every game bar some of the tougher games Chelsea and dortmund away and a couple of games at the start when he was getting limited gametime due to his extended world cup.

So he's scored V Palace, Burnley, Hull, Leicester and Sunderland (and Man City)
Didn't score V Spurs, Everton, Chelsea

The City goal aside, he's only scored against teams in the bottom 7.

Between now and January, he plays 10 games, 5 of which are against the top 7.

Don't get me wrong, I still think it's a no-brainer, just trying to give some food for thought.

He's 10.7 now, bout the same as Yaya peaked at last year. and I had Yaya for most of last season. My conundrum is whether to ditch ADM or Cesc

He did score in big games in Spain though, notably en El Clasico. So there's no reasons he would not in big EPL games.

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Who is Arsenal's penalty taker in Arteta's absence. Acording to FFS it's Giroud and then Ozilbut I can't see Ozil ever getting one again.
Sanchez would seem the obvious choice but then again Arteta wouldn't particularly jump out at you if you knew nothing.

Maybe Ramsey

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Who is Arsenal's penalty taker in Arteta's absence. Acording to FFS it's Giroud and then Ozilbut I can't see Ozil ever getting one again.
Sanchez would seem the obvious choice but then again Arteta wouldn't particularly jump out at you if you knew nothing.

Walcott if he's on the pitch. Otherwise, I would hope it would be Sanchez since I don't think I trust Welbeck to take it.

iroced wrote: »

He did score in big games in Spain though, notably en El Clasico. So there's no reasons he would not in big EPL games.

That opener on the last day decider in La Liga