GW 18 match day thread

Ace2007 · 26-12-2014 08:34PM

jive wrote: »

I don't know what your team is but you are mental for dropping Sanchez, the highest scoring player in the game, at home to QPR

I gave the reasons above - last 6 games - 1 goal and 2 assists. Lots of talk about possibly being rested.

It's easy to say after the event that it was madness.

FutureGuy · 26-12-2014 08:34PM

Looking at minileagues, my stronger squad means I actually extend my lead by 5 points from second who has no one off the bench for Zabaleta. The chasing pack from 3rd-5th will make up about 25 points but that's about it.

manual_man · 26-12-2014 08:36PM

Captained Giroud. Siggy 1st sub. This game can be a balls

Cypher_sounds · 26-12-2014 08:37PM

Jaysus think ill end up on 116 points, so many bps to come my head hurts counting them up, savage week. Should move up a bit from my current position of 27k.

Swiper the fox · 26-12-2014 08:37PM

Ace2007 wrote: »

I gave the reasons above - last 6 games - 1 goal and 2 assists. Lots of talk about possibly being rested.

It's easy to say after the event that it was madness.

No excuses, sorry

FutureGuy · 26-12-2014 08:37PM

Ace2007 wrote: »

I gave the reasons above - last 6 games - 1 goal and 2 assists. Lots of talk about possibly being rested.

It's easy to say after the event that it was madness.

I completely understand your reasoning even if I don't necesarily agree with it. He could have come on for the last 15 and scored 1 point while other attackers could hve done well.

I mulled over it but Boyd vs Liverpool or Play 4 defenders was my other option.

G1032 · 26-12-2014 08:38PM

Bonus points for players most of us would be interested in....

Costa 3
Terry 2
Haz 1

Siggy 3

Rooney 3
RVP 2

Sterling 2

Kane 3
Eriksen 1

Silva 3
Toure 1

Sanchez 3
Austin 1

Lemlin · 26-12-2014 08:40PM

Rikand wrote: »

ah, so a thinly veiled attempt to laugh at those who benched a scoring expensive player. dead sound of ya

It's a comment on tactics in the game.

I was pointing out that I have a proven strategy which I stick to. 8 attacking players doesn't work for me.

Just like I always prefer 3-4-3 to 3-5-2.

FutureGuy · 26-12-2014 08:40PM

Ace2007 wrote: »

Silva, Yaya, Sterling, Fab, Giroud, Austin and Kane.

I bought Sterling as i felt he was getting closer to scoring and they were up against Burnley, therefore he had to play, - other than him your not dropping any of the other 3 - silva/toure/Fab

Up front - Kane, Austin and Giroud have been in great form.

Prior to today, Sanches had 1 goal and 2 assists in 6 games and there was talk he was going to be rested.

Actually after reading who else you had, I'd have probably benched him too.

Necronomicon · 26-12-2014 08:41PM

Rikand wrote: »

ah, so a thinly veiled attempt to laugh at those who benched a scoring expensive player. dead sound of ya

Eh, I think you're imagining things there. I think his original point was that if you have a strong attacking front 8 you're asking for heartache. A lot of people would have benched Austin based on fixtures if they had five strong midfielders.

Rikand · 26-12-2014 08:41PM

Lemlin wrote: »

I was pointing out that I have a proven strategy which I stick to. 8 attacking players doesn't work for me.

Just like I always prefer 3-4-3 to 3-5-2.

nevermind me. Disappointed at the day and blackburn losing to Bolton just caps off the miserableness

alchemist33 · 26-12-2014 08:42PM

92 if baps stay as they are. Only downside was bringi g in Downing for Siggy, but that may work in the long run. Gone from 24k to an estimated 11k, my highest in three years.

iroced · 26-12-2014 08:42PM

Cypher_sounds wrote: »

Jaysus think ill end up on 116 points, so many bps to come my head hurts counting them up, savage week. Should move up a bit from my current position of 27k.

Congrats! Would have broken the magical ton bar too if I had the time to sub in Siggy for Sakho... Ah well a great week anyway and a nice jump in the ranking expected too (was about 20k behind you).

IsMiseMyself · 26-12-2014 08:43PM

66(-4) all in. ****e, comparatively. Bony captain and two 0s in defense were a kick. FFFix is saying I'll drop to 50k. A drop of 25k, but to be honest I thought it would be worse. Third place in my league cracked 100 points with 102, which is pretty damn impressive. Bit scared for Sunday now too!

Rikand · 26-12-2014 08:44PM

Necronomicon wrote: »

Eh, I think you're imagining things there. I think his original point was that if you have a strong attacking front 8 you're asking for heartache. A lot of people would have benched Austin based on fixtures if they had five strong midfielders.

Yep, I jumped the gun and regretted the post 2 minutes after posting it.

Never post angry is what they say isn't it

Lemlin · 26-12-2014 08:44PM

70 with bps to come. I don't know if I'll rise or fall with that. Every one of my front seven scored bar my captain Bony!

eh i dunno · 26-12-2014 08:46PM

82 inc bps..happy enough and should see green arrows

Steven81 · 26-12-2014 08:47PM

72 with bps to go, dont ask me why i let Downing start with Siggy on bench, oh well captained Sanchez so not too bad.

km79 · 26-12-2014 08:47PM

Chelsea game update
terry 3 Costa 2 Cahill 1

spock. · 26-12-2014 08:48PM

48 after baps.Going to absolutely plummet down the rankings.

jimmii · 26-12-2014 08:48PM

km79 wrote: »

Chelsea game update
terry 3 Costa 2 Cahill 1

Boo lost a few there now.

Steven81 · 26-12-2014 08:50PM

km79 wrote: »

Chelsea game update
terry 3 Costa 2 Cahill 1

Cahill is 2

iroced · 26-12-2014 08:51PM

Ace2007 wrote: »

Silva, Yaya, Sterling, Fab, Giroud, Austin and Kane.

I bought Sterling as i felt he was getting closer to scoring and they were up against Burnley, therefore he had to play, - other than him your not dropping any of the other 3 - silva/toure/Fab

Up front - Kane, Austin and Giroud have been in great form.

Prior to today, Sanches had 1 goal and 2 assists in 6 games and there was talk he was going to be rested.

It's not a dig at all but what happened to you today is the reason I generally follow a similar tactics than Lemlin. The most frustrating thing on Earth in this bloody game is have pts laughing at you on the bench (at least from my point of view).
While I'm saying that I'm actually gonna miss out on 10 extra pts from leaving Siggy on my bench instead of Sakho. Though my bad for not putting Siggy on when I made my transfer yesterday. Sakho was never supposed to play but at this time of year I can never concentrate enough on FPL and my habit of leaving things late burnt me today (again)

. Though I'm having a wonderful GW. But 10 pts is 10 pts, whether you score 30 or 100 is a different thing :P.

Cypher_sounds · 26-12-2014 08:51PM

iroced wrote: »

Congrats! Would have broken the magical ton bar too if I had the time to sub in Siggy for Sakho... Ah well a great week anyway and a nice jump in the ranking expected too (was about 20k behind you).

Cheers, im currently 126th in the boards.ie league should move into the top 100 after today

I had thought about transferring siggy out but decided to bank my transfer this week. Siggy is a seasons keeper this year it seems.

km79 · 26-12-2014 08:54PM

Steven81 wrote: »

Cahill is 2

terry 47
costa 42
Cahill 30
hazard 29
that means
3
2
1
0

Rikand · 26-12-2014 08:55PM

I'm minus 22 points for the game week with the two transfers I've made.

Probably would have captained Sanchez, so add another 12 to that ?

minus 34 overall

Gonna finish on 57, whereas I should have finished on 91 if I never made a transfer.

what a great game

FutureGuy · 26-12-2014 08:55PM

FFF have me dropping from 7k to 17k. I'll take that and run for the fcuking hills.

CSF · 26-12-2014 08:56PM

jebforever wrote: »

Hazard is in the squad it seems so that's good.

https://twitter.com/chelseafc/status/548438581963161600

This may have been brought up somewhere else in the 45 pages of this thread , but Jesus Christ look at Terry's reaction to yer man compared to the rest of them.

After a 14 point haul, do I really care though...

Shedite27 · 26-12-2014 08:58PM

km79 wrote: »

Chelsea game update
terry 3 Costa 2 Cahill 1

Back to back 15 pointers for JT

Iused2likebusts · 26-12-2014 08:58PM

Lemlin wrote: »

It's a comment on tactics in the game.

I was pointing out that I have a proven strategy which I stick to. 8 attacking players doesn't work for me.

Just like I always prefer 3-4-3 to 3-5-2.

I prefer that in normal circumstances but at the minute money is no object and there is always rotation at this time of year and ill play wildcard early to go back to bench fodder so it suits me. Of course it didn't happen but let's say one of our front 7 didn't play today eg sanchez I'd be getting austin's 7 and you would be getting Marneys 2. It's swings and roundabouts and who knows what next gw will bring. Arsenal going down to 10 today alters the game and ings hits the post it's small margins.

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