General FPL Chat 2018/19

FutureGuy · 05-07-2018 6:01pm

165. Bunch of fcuking amateurs.

McBain11 · 05-07-2018 6:05pm

Lads, am I going mad or if you were admin on a league from the past season, I thought that automatically opens up again does it not? So it saves the admin the bother of sending codes to the same guys from last season

Mr. Guappa · 05-07-2018 6:14pm

McBain11 wrote: »

Lads, am I going mad or if you were admin on a league from the past season, I thought that automatically opens up again does it not? So it saves the admin the bother of sending codes to the same guys from last season

You have to re-activate the league. Anyone who was in it last year will be automatically added again once they sign up.

DJIMI TRARORE · 05-07-2018 6:16pm

Dont know if this is new or not,but ur team must be 2 weeks old and not using a chip to win a weekly prize,might stop all those Egyptian teams setting up every week and doing ME out off a prize

ScummyMan · 05-07-2018 6:18pm

Gah, got caught by surprise with this. 31456, embarrassing performance on my behalf

Rikand · 05-07-2018 6:57pm

An All England World Cup 15

Might be a bit light in midfield but otherwise pretty decent

CSF · 05-07-2018 6:57pm

The short gap between the finish of the World Cup and the start of the Premier League will make this difficult. Had Lovren and De Bruyne in early drafts of my team, but that draws its own worries.

stephenl15 · 05-07-2018 7:06pm

39,417. Late to the party. Can't wait to get home to have a proper look

jimmii · 05-07-2018 7:11pm

Already over 40k!

jimmii · 05-07-2018 7:12pm

KevIRL wrote: »

Draft is back. Would have preferred if they brought ultimate back.

Fingers crossed they bring it back at some point! I guess draft is less demanding on resources compared to ufpl which seemed to be part of the issue they had with it.

KevIRL · 05-07-2018 7:29pm

Up for giving draft another go, but ideally in a league of 6 players. No more than 8 anyway.

Benimar · 05-07-2018 8:08pm

Rikand wrote: »

An All England World Cup 15

Might be a bit light in midfield but otherwise pretty decent

Hopefully they all have a nice rest after Saturday so they are fit for the start of the season for you :pac:

Caught on the hop with it opening early. ID 47,810. Lowest in ages, hope my OR doesn’t follow suit!!

Shedite27 · 05-07-2018 8:53pm

Yeah this can wait till the World Cup is over

2nd Row Donkey · 06-07-2018 6:41am

I love the way it says "Please note some shirt designs are 'mere placeholders'

This pleases me.

Shanotheslayer · 06-07-2018 7:38am

ScummyMan wrote: »

Gah, got caught by surprise with this. 31456, embarrassing performance on my behalf

You used to be cool

km79 · 06-07-2018 9:24am

Great news guys
Ben foster has signed for Watford so he can disappoint us all season long again

In what voodoo actually be good news though Harry Maguire is being strongly linked with spurs . That would please me

ScummyMan · 06-07-2018 9:35am

km79 · 06-07-2018 10:08am

km79 wrote: »

Great news guys
Ben foster has signed for Watford so he can disappoint us all season long again

In what voodoo actually be good news though Harry Maguire is being strongly linked with spurs . That would please me

Oh god no
Foster rotates well with Fabianski
No no no I will not do it

Paully D · 06-07-2018 10:20am

CSF wrote: »

The short gap between the finish of the World Cup and the start of the Premier League will make this difficult. Had Lovren and De Bruyne in early drafts of my team, but that draws its own worries.

Agreed.

It's going to be hard to negotiate the rest that the likes of Kane, Firmino and other heavy-hitters may get.

An early wildcard may be essential?

One strategy might just be to go with (almost) guaranteed starters and then wildcarding at the first international break?

Scorpion Sting · 06-07-2018 10:23am

km79 wrote: »

Oh god no
Foster rotates well with Fabianski
No no no I will not do it

Begovic is a better partner for Fabianski I think.

Mr.Prodston · 06-07-2018 10:24am

Ryan Bennett, is the bast@rd who stole Mickey Turner's place in the Norwich team.

Would that cloud my judgment on him that he was an accident waiting to happen in terms of yellow cards and own goals?

Remains to be seen :pac:

km79 · 06-07-2018 10:28am

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

Begovic is a better partner for Fabianski I think.

Yeah he was the one that jumped out from a quick look at first 6 fixture rotations too

ScummyMan · 06-07-2018 10:38am

De Gea is a massive 6m. That utd defence is going to be a nightmare to get coverage of

Mr. Guappa · 06-07-2018 10:46am

My plan as it stands is to have just the one solid sub, a 4.5 DEF, then have a 4.0 DEF and a 4.5 FOR. May chicken out of that as time moves on and I'm unsure of starting XI's etc. But I've come to the conclusion that there's no need for having a bench full of starters, especially at the expense of weakening your starting XI.

Scorpion Sting · 06-07-2018 10:47am

ScummyMan wrote: »

De Gea is a massive 6m. That utd defence is going to be a nightmare to get coverage of

Can't fathom how Valencia is 6.5m when you can get Azpi for the same price.

ScummyMan · 06-07-2018 10:51am

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

Can't fathom how Valencia is 6.5m when you can get Azpi for the same price.

Yeah. Haven't United signed a new RB too so he's not even a guaranteed starter.

Scorpion Sting · 06-07-2018 10:57am

ScummyMan wrote: »

Yeah. Haven't United signed a new RB too so he's not even a guaranteed starter.

Yeah, 19-year-old Diogo Dalot. I'd say Valencia will start the vast majority of games this season though as Dalot gets used to life in England.

Wilberto · 06-07-2018 11:18am

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

My plan as it stands is to have just the one solid sub, a 4.5 DEF, then have a 4.0 DEF and a 4.5 FOR. May chicken out of that as time moves on and I'm unsure of starting XI's etc. But I've come to the conclusion that there's no need for having a bench full of starters, especially at the expense of weakening your starting XI.

I've inadvertently gone with the same "strategy".

:pac:

km79 · 06-07-2018 11:24am

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

My plan as it stands is to have just the one solid sub, a 4.5 DEF, then have a 4.0 DEF and a 4.5 FOR. May chicken out of that as time moves on and I'm unsure of starting XI's etc. But I've come to the conclusion that there's no need for having a bench full of starters, especially at the expense of weakening your starting XI.

I'm aiming to have 15 starters
Bench boost within 3 weeks and then wildcard
Did that 2 years ago and worked well

Held BB for dgw last season and when I take into account points hits I'd say I broke even at the very best
I will hold fh this year though
Got lucky the week I played it last year but need to hold it for the skinny week this time

Shanotheslayer · 06-07-2018 11:27am

ScummyMan wrote: »

De Gea is a massive 6m. That utd defence is going to be a nightmare to get coverage of

Jones 5.5 if he's fit?

km79 · 06-07-2018 11:38am

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Jones 5.5 if he's fit?

Even though he eventually served me well for s period last year the problem is
“If he’s fit “
He won’t be for half the season
Bailly is now fit
Lindelof having a good WC and a year settled
Smalling seems to have impressed Jose
And alderweireld or another CB will sign

Don’t think jones will be an option

Scorpion Sting · 06-07-2018 11:41am

Jones could be sold when a new CB is signed.

MagicIRL · 06-07-2018 11:44am

Frightening prices for attacking options.

Mr. Guappa · 06-07-2018 12:38pm

km79 wrote: »

I'm aiming to have 15 starters
Bench boost within 3 weeks and then wildcard
Did that 2 years ago and worked well

Held BB for dgw last season and when I take into account points hits I'd say I broke even at the very best
I will hold fh this year though
Got lucky the week I played it last year but need to hold it for the skinny week this time

Yeah I'm not sold on a DGW BB anymore. It ends up taking too much focus and funds trying to shoehorn in out of form players from poor teams. Don't know about an early BB, mainly because it's gonna be difficult to nail 15 guaranteed starters from the off.

km79 · 06-07-2018 12:42pm

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

Yeah I'm not sold on a DGW BB anymore. It ends up taking too much focus and funds trying to shoehorn in out of form players from poor teams. Don't know about an early BB, mainly because it's gonna be difficult to nail 15 guaranteed starters from the off.

I only did it that year as I ended up with the 15 starters
So will wait a week or 2 and see how I’m fixed

In fact I think I may even have done it gw5/6 after my first WC the year before taht too
Last season was my first and last year holding B.B. for the DGW

F1ngers · 06-07-2018 1:38pm

Friday night deadline for GW1 - let's not speak of this again.

PARlance · 06-07-2018 2:13pm

F1ngers wrote: »

Friday night deadline for GW1 - let's not speak of this again.

In joke? It says it's Saturday 2pm on the site.

GW2's deadline currently says 2pm on Saturday too, there's an early game on before that.

Scorpion Sting · 06-07-2018 2:26pm

F1ngers wrote: »

Friday night deadline for GW1 - let's not speak of this again.

Yeah that was a given seeing as the transfer window closes on the Thursday.

F1ngers · 06-07-2018 2:55pm

PARlance wrote: »

In joke? It says it's Saturday 2pm on the site.

GW2's deadline currently says 2pm on Saturday too, there's an early game on before that.

Utd v Leicester on friday night.
Must have updated the site, 7pm on the 10th is the GW deadline.

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

Yeah that was a given seeing as the transfer window closes on the Thursday.

Transfer window has nothing to do with the GW deadline.
Or am I missing something?

Scorpion Sting · 06-07-2018 3:12pm

F1ngers wrote: »

Utd v Leicester on friday night.
Must have updated the site, 7pm on the 10th is the GW deadline.

Transfer window has nothing to do with the GW deadline.
Or am I missing something?

This year the window closes before the season starts so it closing on Thursday meant it was certain that there would be a Friday start.

ScummyMan · 06-07-2018 3:18pm

That's gonna be a fkin hectic Friday, trying to fit all the potential movers from deadline day the day before into your team

km79 · 06-07-2018 3:35pm

ScummyMan wrote: »

That's gonna be a fkin hectic Friday, trying to fit all the potential movers from deadline day the day before into your team

Even more hectic for the teams that sign them with games 48 hours later !
Very early WC likely for me

Green&Red · 06-07-2018 4:03pm

Naby Keita is very attractive at 7.5m, no world cup, Salah coming back from injury, the Ox out, Firmino going deep in the world cup

06-07-2018 4:08pm

Already a couple of juicy dilemmas popping up:

Kane + Sané
Lukaku + De Bruyne?

Wilberto · 06-07-2018 4:10pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Already a couple of juicy dilemmas popping up:

Kane + Sanr
Lukaku + De Bruyne?

Kane and Sane. With no World Cup for Sane, and England going in deep into the competition, Sane should be the preferred option over Sterling.

But then again.....Pep.

km79 · 06-07-2018 7:39pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Already a couple of juicy dilemmas popping up:

Kane + Sané
Lukaku + De Bruyne?

Kdb Goal lukaku Assist
Sane not even in squad

ScummyMan · 06-07-2018 8:00pm

Lukaku is a god damn beast. If he brings this form to the PL he could be amazing value

callaway92 · 06-07-2018 8:05pm

ScummyMan wrote: »

Lukaku is a god damn beast. If he brings this form to the PL he could be amazing value

Too hot and cold

hufpc8w3adnk65 · 07-07-2018 9:20am

If we’re going Fabianksi on goal would it not make sense to go McCarthy SOU as they rotate well?

km79 · 07-07-2018 9:50am

MrMac84 wrote: »

If we’re going Fabianksi on goal would it not make sense to go McCarthy SOU as they rotate well?

Good shout
Anything is better than foster

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