Game week 5 Match day Thread.

ElTel wrote: »

Your less than 30pts. behind me after my first red arrow of the season.
Lost 100k but just inside top 200k.
Vardy Mahrez and Alderwereld will reverse that.

So its less than 30 now but its ok because you have loads of players to open it up again cheers!

Nib wrote: »

30 points is nothing, it's one good captain choice.

I obsess over OR, if that's good, mini leagues and head-to-heads tend to take care of themselves.

Sure tis early days but 30 points vs someone sensible can be tricky enough to make up as you're likely to have the same captain most weeks and are looking to bring in the same players. Plenty of time yet and I am more worried about those who are 100+ points ahead taking up the spaces I like to occupy! I'll get to them in the end though only a matter of time.

A note on Sanchez - I was left frustrated with him returning another 2/3 pts. However looking at MOTD tonight, he had a header that 9 times out of 10 would have been a goal, only for an outstanding save from Butland (seriously, watch the save, it was incredible!) and he also hit the post. So the points will come!

jimmii wrote: »

Crawled back in myself this week! Bang on 200 points now! 414k is my highest GW rank to date things have to get better surely!!

I'm on 199 points at 884k, best GW rank so far is 606k. It's just such a grind this year but I'll keep plugging away.

The bonehead moves that pay off for others are frustrating, but it's only ever this time of year I look at their teams.. give it another 10 GWs and these lads will be an afterthought. One lad in my league brought in Hoolahan (fair enough) and Targett (questionable at best with Bertrand due back). He then left Targett on the bench, but of course he's coming in for a defender who didn't play.

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

I'm on 199 points at 884k, best GW rank so far is 606k. It's just such a grind this year but I'll keep plugging away.

The bonehead moves that pay off for others are frustrating, but it's only ever this time of year I look at their teams.. give it another 10 GWs and these lads will be an afterthought. One lad in my league brought in Hoolahan (fair enough) and Targett (questionable at best with Bertrand due back). He then left Targett on the bench, but of course he's coming in for a defender who didn't play.

Its been painful so far alright! I tend not to worry about OR until November thats when it gets real!

jimmii wrote: »

Jaysus 30 is a lot at this stage. To be honest I don't really care about rank so much any more I just want to enjoy the game a bit more. I've been a rank zombie for the last few years and its more fun when its not something you worry about so much. I say that now knowing I expect the game to bring points to us sensible players maybe if I have a 7 fig rank in January I won't feel the same!

You know you will PLAYER

Stevecw wrote: »

Ranked in the top 17,000 now overall & into top 1000 in Ireland. Unlikely to keep this up, but haven't used a WildCard or any of the boosts yet. Defenders as captains seems to be the way to go so far.

Man City defenders you mean

sheroman01 wrote: »

A note on Sanchez - I was left frustrated with him returning another 2/3 pts. However looking at MOTD tonight, he had a header that 9 times out of 10 would have been a goal, only for an outstanding save from Butland (seriously, watch the save, it was incredible!) and he also hit the post. So the points will come!

Was at the game today, Sanchez is deffo back to his best/fully fit. was sharp, few slack passes but other than that he looks to be hitting form. Should have had at least 1 goal and could easily have notched an assist if he brushes up his passing.

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

I'm on 199 points at 884k, best GW rank so far is 606k. It's just such a grind this year but I'll keep plugging away.

The bonehead moves that pay off for others are frustrating, but it's only ever this time of year I look at their teams.. give it another 10 GWs and these lads will be an afterthought. One lad in my league brought in Hoolahan (fair enough) and Targett (questionable at best with Bertrand due back). He then left Targett on the bench, but of course he's coming in for a defender who didn't play.

Probably knew it would annoy you!

36 points with Mahrez left to go...not bad I guess. May be time to get rid of Azpilicueta. Thinking Bellerin or some premium defender.

MarkSRFC21 wrote: »

Get kolarov if you don't have him, otherwise I'd go for bellerin, nice little differential for me atm, and it's only a matter of time before someone starts getting on the end of all his good crosses

Have Kolarov Bellerin was on my list as well. Thinking of getting in some West Brom coverage too.

playing my 2 head to heads this week. I've 28 points.

One of them is 34-28. We both have Mahrez, and that his only player left. I have Payet and Huth remaining. Hoping I can finally win one in this league

The second H2H is 28-27 in my favour. We both have Mahrez and Payet. His differential to my Huth - is Micah Richards.

Gonna be a nervous afternoon for me ( I really need wins!)

FHFC wrote: »

Jesus.....

You said it man. Nobody f...s with the jesus!

33 with vardy chadli and jos to go.

FHFC wrote: »

The most popular captain in the top 1k was Kompany. You can only laugh.

I don't fully agree with you here. City are on 5 CS in a row! Have we ever seen such a thing?! Hart only has 8 "recorded" saves. So it looks like they don't give their opponents any chance.

Aguero was just back from a long travel. I heard on French radio that Lavezzi was back in Paris Friday at 5.30am, I'd guess it was the same for Aguero but people posted here he trained Friday. If at all true I'd call it nonsense from Pellegrini. Then Silva was injured. KDB was not guaranteed a start. So you/we were left with Yaya. And Sanchez. But I'd not laugh at captaining a City def looking at this season's goings.