Game week 5 Match day Thread.

Should have scored

FHFC wrote: »

I really don't agree. We're doing this long enough to know that the extraordinary low returns from the big hitters is variance. Its at odds with the odds so to speak and if we keep backing the guy who's 2/1 to score over the guy who is 8/1 we will come good.

Are we really going to propose that because of the statistical variance to date we are going to decide everything we know is suddenly wrong and that captaining a defender is suddenly the way to go!? Kolarov with his attacking threat and bonuses in a performing defence has probably forced himself into Baines / Ivan punt territory for an odd captaincy but captaining defenders is not a good idea folks. Its just not.

Aguero came back from an international break trip to Beijing and Hong Kong last year to stick a heap of goals past Spurs. Suarez landed back very late fron Uruguay the season before and ripped it up in the following game. Sanchez was extremely unlucky not to have 2 goals at least yesterday.

My point was and is that Kompany (who most of us as "serious" players wouldnt even consider owning over Kolarov) was the highest captain in the top 1k just shows further tht the top 1k is a weird place right now and composed of rookie or "casual" managers. I'd wager some of them haven't changed their captain or possibly their team since gw1.

Captaining Kompany over Sanchez or Aguero was not a considered act of genuis. It was dumb luck that would fail 9 times out of 10.

You missed my point. I responded to the part I bolded in your previous post "you really have to laugh" (at (C)ing Kompany).

I would almost never captain a def myself (I think I actually never did). Because I trust mids & forwards to get me more points. Because statistically speaking, it's a gamble I'm not inclined to take (if Aguero had scored 3 yesterday the non Aguero captainers would have lost a lot more points on most players than the opposite scenario that actually happened).

But, you can't just wipe out the current short-term context and mock people not playing like we do here. Particulalry that we're not talking about captaining a one-week wonder. Kompany is the safest City def. I guess casuals don't know that Kolarov is nailed now because of Clichy injury. He's the second highest scorer in the game right now. On the other hand, Aguero only scored once. You mentioned him & Suarez getting great FPL returns after a late comeback from international duty. I'd like to see the stats about these late comebacks over a 20+ games, not 2. Then, Silva was injured, KDB not guaranteed to start and any casuals prob didn't know about him at all. So the 2 big hitters options were Yaya & Sanchez.

I know I'm just being an extreme devil's advocate here and again I personally would never captain Kompany but I don't think he's the kind of captain we're entitled to laugh at for the current GW .

Dont think there is any value in the spurs team. Defoe is worth a third striker spot but he is very frustrating, missed a couple of solid chances already

I've got a feeling in my waters that Harry Kane is going to explode in a big way one of these games. Maybe the Europa League will even help things.

I have nothing whatsoever to base this on though

O'Shea on my bench so fully expecting a cleanie and bonus points. Bright side would be that it might stave off a price drop.

Kane is absolutely brutal

MarkSRFC21 wrote: »

Kane is absolutely brutal

Yeah, don't even get me started on those Aguero and Sanchez lads.

Eriksen is a huge loss to Tottenham, they don't look anyway effective going forward.

MarkSRFC21 wrote: »

Kane is absolutely brutal

Having a horrendous game/start to the season, no doubt about that.

Hows Toivonen looked lads? I'm assuming quite uninspiring given how little's been posted about the game.

Just spotted that haha. It's a killer being in work constantly refreshing flashscore.

But should be home for most of Leicester v Villa so looking forward to a field day from Huth :P

A frustrating FF season and ive found the majority of matches extremely boring so far this season

Lamela assist

Spurs goal scored by not Kane

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