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judas101

114 for me!

menoscemo

WTF??
I remember watching the match and thinking that Santa Cruz got the header and secretly hoped they would give him the assist, but I think one of the Bolton defenders got a tackle in while Roberts was on his run through (even though it just knocked it back into his path). Do You reckon this is why he got it taken away?

The guys over in Fantasy football admin land must study loads of footage. I remember Almunia being awarded an extra point one week days after the matches had finished. Seems they had spotted an extra save brining him up from 2 saves to 3, giving him an extra point.

FutureGuy

Gah, had 101 until the assist was taken off Santa Cruz :rolleyes:

Trippie

I scored 97 this week but when it came to the cup I only got 93? any idea's why ?

One Cold Hand

You made 2 transfers. They count in the cup.

wardie

If you made 2 transfers for the week then the extra 4 comes of your weekly cup score.

It also comes off your overall score but you dont see it affecting the normal weekly score.

Trippie

cheers

kronsington

can someone pm me the code for the league, got people contacting me looking to join and i cant remember what it is , cheers, k

Vokes

It's on the first page of the thread.

One Cold Hand

kronsington wrote: »

can someone pm me the code for the league, got people contacting me looking to join and i cant remember what it is , cheers, k

You'd better not be on 3000 points.

Rudolph Claus

At the bottom of my fantasy league page it says the highest weekly points was 131,,,, can ye all see that too? But when i look at the team there are 4 man utd players in his team, how is this possible? He has Rooney / Tevez / Ronaldo and Ferdinand.

And no, im not looking at the * star highest point players team.

One Cold Hand

Nuttzy wrote: »

At the bottom of my fantasy league page it says the highest weekly points was 131,,,, can ye all see that too? But when i look at the team there are 4 man utd players in his team, how is this possible? He has Rooney / Tevez / Ronaldo and Ferdinand.

And no, im not looking at the * star highest point players team.

The guy has made 0 transfers, therefore he got Tevez before he moved from Wham. If he decides to make a transfer he will have to get rid of a Utd player. Good spotting by the way!

yayamark

got aboyt 70 points.

Does everbody who got 100 pts have ronaldo?

madds

98 points and had Ronaldo. Only player not to score was Alonso. Anyone know what the story is here? I thought that as soon as he got some level of fitness back he would stroll into the Pool team...

Anyway I've dumped him for Hleb.

Rudolph Claus

Is it worth buying Beletti? I had him before but sold him when he didnt play 2/3 games in a row for no apparent reason. Will he play every week, and Chelsea have signed a new defender now aswell that can play in any position in defense meaning Beletti could be left out now and then.

Is Brown or Ferdinand a better bet?
And whos a good sub midfielder, Laurson = Birmingham or Richardson = Sunderland?

sionnach

Nuttzy wrote: »

Is Brown or Ferdinand a better bet?
And whos a good sub midfielder, Laurson = Birmingham or Richardson = Sunderland?

If you can afford him, Ferdinand's a much better bet. As for sub midfielder, i'd go with RIchardson, he's done very well since he came back, his price is well below what it should be and only 2% of teams have him, lots of room for an increase in value. I'll be getting him myself next gameweek as an investment.

Rudolph Claus

I can afford Ferdinand but it`ll mean ill have to get rid of Santa Cruz for Berbatov instead of getting rid of Benjani, i had hoped to get rid of Benjani as Portsmouth are useless lately, letting in goals and not scoring.

sionnach

Nuttzy wrote: »

I can afford Ferdinand but it`ll mean ill have to get rid of Santa Cruz for Berbatov instead of getting rid of Benjani, i had hoped to get rid of Benjani as Portsmouth are useless lately, letting in goals and not scoring.

Might want to hold on to benjani for one more gameweek, portsmouth are playing bottom placed derby at home this week.

BaZmO*

I'm buying in Given. I reckon he'll score a few in his role as an Attacking Goalkeeper.

Sizzler

BaZmO* wrote: »

I'm buying in Given. I reckon he'll score a few in his role as an Attacking Goalkeeper.

LOL

I'm bringing in Phillippe Albert, he's always good for a header from a corner, I might even bring in Warren Barton for the odd assist from his old skool wing back position

BaZmO*

Bored in work and I was having a look at the Dream Team with consists of:

Green

Laursen
Ferdinand
Lescot

Ronaldo
Fabregas
Gerrard
Petrov
Bentley

Tevez
Adebayor

1274pts.

add 141pts. for Ronaldo if you kept him for Captain all the way through would've brought you up to 1415pts. and that score would've given you top score overall.

But the bizarre thing is, that team would've only cost you 83.5 at the start so it would've left you enough to buy the remaining subs. (Well not strictly true as the cheapest you could've gotten the remaining subs for is 16.5 but you get the gist)

GOD! I must be really bored!

gucci

BaZmO* wrote: »

I'm buying in Given. I reckon he'll score a few in his role as an Attacking Goalkeeper.

haha brilliant!! i dropped shorey for vidic for tomorrow to hopefully pick up a clean sheet, he'll probably nail me by chipping in with an assist!!

Xavi6

gucci wrote: »

haha brilliant!! i dropped shorey for vidic for tomorrow to hopefully pick up a clean sheet, he'll probably nail me by chipping in with an assist!!

Yeah I've the same problem. I haven't dropped Shorey yet this season and he's not let me down. 3 assists the other is unreal for a left back. However they are probably gonna get destroyed.....

Xavi6

Exciting times in the Fantasy Cup. He's 45-40 up. I thought I was f*cked as he has Benjani but he criminally doubted Ronny and didn't put him as captain so that last minute goal has caught me up.

He has three players left to play, I have four. We both have Lescott and Dunne so it's a shootout between Steven Taylor and Agbonlahor for me and Rob Green for him. I need goals for City!!

Unearthly

Fabregas is getting dumped

leninbenjamin

Unearthly wrote: »

Fabregas is getting dumped

i'm beginning to think similar. he hasn't regained his early form.

Benjani has made my week for me, i'm glad i forgot to transfer him out now. took him long enough to get back on the score sheet.

sionnach

sionnach wrote: »

Might want to hold on to benjani for one more gameweek, portsmouth are playing bottom placed derby at home this week.

I hope you took my advice!

JæKæ

I think I'll drop Cesc too, but not til after Newcastle home.

BaZmO*

Ah I dunno, I reckon he's worth keeping. Regardless of whether or not he scores gaols or gets assists he's generally good for bonus points. Plus, I've had him from the start so if I was to get rid of him I'd lose too much money and wouldn't be able to buy him back.

Rudolph Claus

sionnach wrote: »

I hope you took my advice!

Yeah, i took your advice, i knew he was playing Derby so wasnt gonna get rid of him this week. I swapped gerrard and pamarot for Ricchardson and Alex.
My strategy for the rest of the season is to use my 1 free transfer every week to buy a player from whatever team is playing Derby, defenders likely to score or whatever player i reckon is likely to score in that match.

What ye think? For example next week i might draft in Elano vs Derby.

Xavi6

Nuttzy wrote: »

Yeah, i took your advice, i knew he was playing Derby so wasnt gonna get rid of him this week. I swapped gerrard and pamarot for Ricchardson and Alex.
My strategy for the rest of the season is to use my 1 free transfer every week to buy a player from whatever team is playing Derby, defenders likely to score or whatever player i reckon is likely to score in that match.

What ye think? For example next week i might draft in Elano vs Derby.

City away to Derby? I bet we lose. If you're gonna draft anyone go for Petrov. he'll destroy their full back whereas Elano is likely to be double marked.

PHB

I think an alternation of strikers who are playing Derby is not the worst transfer policy in the world. Problem with Derby is though, the goals could literally come from anywhere.

Rudolph Claus

PHB wrote: »

I think an alternation of strikers who are playing Derby is not the worst transfer policy in the world. Problem with Derby is though, the goals could literally come from anywhere.

Exactly could be worth taking a gamble on the defender most likely to score or assist againt them on a particular week. Might take a gamble on Dunne next wk.

they`re playing Birmingham in 2 weeks, i see Jermone scored twice in the reverse fixture, hmmmmm, i might get him that week, or even Laursson, birmingham are doing well lately against tough teams too, so i reckon they`ll have fun with Derby.

gucci

leninbenjamin wrote: »

Benjani has made my week for me, I'm glad i forgot to transfer him out now. took him long enough to get back on the score sheet.

i thought he had gone to play in the African nations cup :mad::mad::mad::mad:
so i left him on the bench, however if Gareth barry doesn't play tonight (hes doubtful apparently)
considering my pathetic performance the last 2weeks i really need those 17 points (unless of course barry gets a hat trick tonight, that will be sufficient!)

Jonny Arson

38 points with two to play

hoping for something like a Mellberg hat-trick with clean sheet or a Torres double hat-trick to get me back into this

Im_No_Superman

Im 5 points down in the fantasy cup. We both have Laurson so it all boils down to Ashley Young for me versus Jamie Carragher for him. I think I could be in trouble! Come on Villa!!

~Rebel~

Im fecked for the cup as well tonight, not a hope in hell. I need Gerrard and Carra to get me a combined total of about 25...The feckers whole defense was unreal this week, he played 1-5-3-2 with all of his back 6 keeping clean sheets and 2 scoring!

MrPillowTalk

Im ahead 46 - 43 in the cup

I have Mellberg, Laursen and Agbonlahor.
He has Torres and Carragher.

Up the Villa!!

Xavi6

I'm five points down with Agbonlahor to go. He needs 6 points but at the mo he only has two. Looks like I'm on my way out.

Smegball

Gerrard is out, Ballack is in.

Juan Pablo

A wise move. Look at the amount of bonus points Ballack has amassed since returning. He'll be adding goals and assisits to that in the next few weeks, good value @ 8.3.

Lemlin

How come Ballack didn't start for Chelsea tonight? Is he injured?

BaZmO*

Lemlin wrote: »

How come Ballack didn't start for Chelsea tonight? Is he injured?

Huh?
What has last night's match got to do with the Fantasy Football? It was a Carling Cup match.

wardie

I assume he just wants to know if he'll be playing next week in the league

Lemlin

BaZmO* wrote: »

Huh?
What has last night's match got to do with the Fantasy Football? It was a Carling Cup match.

What has it got to do with Fantasy Football? Well it was an important game and they didn't bother starting him, if he wasn't injured that is. You go back to sleep though

JæKæ

Who to make captain? Fabregas vs. Newcastle, or Rooney or Ronaldo vs. Portsmouth?
Tough one.

menoscemo

Lemlin wrote: »

How come Ballack didn't start for Chelsea tonight? Is he injured?

ballack has a calf strain. Doubtful for FA cup this weekend, And I assume doubtful as well for the midweek game aswell.

I have ditched santa Cruz for Tevez. I am banking on him having hit and passed his peak already.

Smegball

Santa Cruz is next to leave for me aswell, Keane will be going in.

shepthedog

Cahill out, Suspended for this gameweek, and read today he is in the OZ squad for a world cup game on 6th Feb in Melbourne so doubt he will play on the 9th for everton..Bentley in..

Rudolph Claus

Anybody making Petrov captain seen as he`s playing derby? Worth a gamble, huh, im chancing it.