Fuck me. Captain Kane.
Fuck me. Captain Kane.
In the devil may care excitement of the cricket, I've wildcarded.
not sure how wise it is, and it's pretty uneven, but i feel like sterling is gonna get enough points to justify it and i just felt like i'd regret sticking with zaha and sigurdsson
Don't fancy Pukki?
Pukki and Sterling were the only ones who scored more than 3 this week.
i mean watch him score 30 this season now, but gut instinct is that him and norwich generally will fade away quite quickly. was also keen to get abraham and mount in before they get too expensive as, injuries aside, i assume they'll play a lot this season. called it on the opening day - chelsea will play some good stuff and be very fun to watch whilst also finishing about 8th.
if my starters get injuries i'm a bit fucked, and i was unsure about barnes, but i'm very happy with the XI
obvious proviso that this is the only time i've actually paid attention to fantasy football after week one, so i'm almost seeing this season as a practise run.
Your squad looks very good.
I'm a twit
I made my friends draft league on Football Manager 2019: https://www.reddit.com/r/FantasyPL/c...ball/?sort=old
I'm a twit
I've also Wildcarded.
Somehow filling my team with Norwich, Crystal Palace and Sheffield United players seems like a good idea. It's a bit bizarre.
I kind of wish I could play with a 3-7-0 formation.
I triple captained Kane on the basis he'd score a thousand goals like Pukki did.
At least it was an improvement on Pogba's -3 last year.
Proper knee jerk.
So my free hit has left me with the following:
Heaton; Robertson, Wan-Bissaka, VVD; Sterling, De Bruyne, Mount, James; Aguero (C), Abraham, Pukki
Subs: Stekelenberg, Douglas Luiz, Rico, Kelly.
You're probably team of the week so far.
Kelly as third sub though
Horrible day so far. Only an Fraser assist. Wildcard has to be activated now.
Forgot Zinchenko clean sheet. Hallelujah
Last edited by Trancemeister; 31-08-2019 at 04:04 PM.
Brought Laporte in on my wild card as the ultimate safe set & forget pick. He got a yellow card and then went off with a serious looking injury, netting 0 points. What a joke.
Wildcarded too. My last great decision was bringing in Emerson for Kelly just for this week
I hate this game so much.
Wildcard activated now before prices start to flactulate.
I also wildcarded this week. 76 points and still got Digne, Maitland-Niles and Ceballos to play. Top of the league and here to stay.
Wildcarded before this game week, part of that was replacing Jimenez and c wilson with rashford and Ashley barnes ffs
Without me looking too hard, what's the wildcard business and why are a lot of you using them now?
I really need to make some big changes in mine. I'm absolutely seething that I took out Aguero and left in Kane. I assumed Aguero's tantrum coupled by Jesus's goal meant he would have spent a few games on the bench but alas, he starts, he scores and I'm left with John Merrick upfront.
My reasons for using the wildcard were very simple - I wanted to make lots of changes to my team. I had 3 or 4 players doing next to nothing and felt having two Liverpool defenders was no longer viable (I was actually wrong on this). Now I have a team with Aguero, Sterling, De Bruyne and Salah and hope to benefit hugely from this. Fingers crossed none of them get injured on international week!! I'm 8692 in the world and already had one disastrous week so things going well for the most part.
I used my wildcard but forgot to move my team about.
Tammy Abraham my second sub
Had Abraham last night then transfered him out because I just felt I need to have Sterling.
I'm done. Abraham hat-trick. Fuck this.
I need two of Walker, KDB, Cantwell, Pukki or Haller to sit.
Only the first two are at risk with Pep's rotation but I don't hold much hope.
De Bruyne benched. Another one I bought in.
Had a good week after the wildcard which is a first. Thought that City being shit would’ve made the week average at best, but it seems everyone else got burned by that too.
42 with Haller to play which isn't too bad (especially with Sterling and KDB doing nothing) but it's annoying seeing Abraham on the bench.
Why would you have him and not play him?
51 points with Digne and Adam Smith to play. Not too bad, I'm 750k at the moment which isn't a disaster but I feel I need to wildcard.
I started 442 with Digne, Walker, VvD and Zinchenko and the points haven't been coming in defence at all.
I need to move money from defence into midfield/attack and get in the cheaper players who look the part, Cabellos, Abraham, Tomori, Lundstram, Cantwell etc
Am trying to decide if it's worth getting Pepe. Arsenal have an amazing run and he should be locked in with Lacazatte out injured. Is he likely to be on penalties? I know he scores loads last season.
Aubameyang takes their penalties.
Shite week for me. Been overtaken in pretty much all of my leagues. Only have King left to play today.
Sterling captain did fuck all, and had Cantwell benched. Considering my wild card.
Forgot to take the captaincy off Puki. Happy days
Can confirm I'm -4 for next week. Abraham in. FML. Salah out to fund it Mane in.
Last edited by Trancemeister; 15-09-2019 at 11:02 AM.
46 with coleman, digne, callum wilson and haller to play, pretty good
Aubameyang only good thing I did with my wildcard.
High hopes for this week.
As part of a long, convoluted plan, I transferred Rashford out for Callum Wilson (gives me 0.7, next week cantwell out for a min value mope giving me 1.1, next week schmeichel for ederson to give me 2.1, then i use the funds to either bring Rashford back in for Ashley Barnes, or Richarlison in for Maddison and Jimenez in for Barnes the next week) and just hoped I wouldn't regret it.
Was sat having a shit listening to the dying embers of tonight's game on 5live, commentator said "30 seconds left for southampton to get something from this game", and I literally grinned to myself like a weirdo whilst thinking "wouldn't it be class if bournemouth hit them on the counter now and Callum Wilson scores". First time in my life I've been a bit spooked while wiping my arse for a reason other than a bit of blood on the paper.
My week started off with Diego Rico getting 5 points. Could have been more but I'll definitely settle for that.
Sterling benched.
I made 2 transfers this week (Van Dijk out for Tomori and Walker out for Digne) but I forgot to shift things around again.
Captain Sterling benched, Vice Captain Mount likely not playing, Daniel James could be out and Tammy Abraham still lounging on my bench.
Sterling left on the bench.
Lundstram clean sheet, assist and atm 3 bonus points. Nice.
I triple captained De Bruyne to get back in the game. Shame he missed that chance at the end. I’ll gave over 100 points once bonus pays out but only Salah/Abraham left.
Fuck, that's a bit good Waff. Went for safe choice Aguero.
I’m two points off having the Dream Team
The 55 highest points is after last night's games, and features 3 of each from Southampton and Bournemouth and triple captain James Ward-Prowse.