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machiavellianme

Lampard possibly out due to illness

Boggles

I'm gona stick with Ronaldo as captain.

Lampard didn't train today, they have training again in the morning, stay tuned to sky sports news before the deadline.

Pighead

AAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH. Adebayor is on the fricking bench. AND I MADE HIM MY FRICKING CAPTAIN. Disaster for Pighead.

Xavi6

Pighead wrote: »

AAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH. Adebayor is on the fricking bench. AND I MADE HIM MY FRICKING CAPTAIN. Disaster for Pighead.

Ha ha unlucky! Arsene was on the blower to me earlier and broke the news so I flogged him for Defoe :cool:

Pighead

Xavi6 wrote: »

Ha ha unlucky! Arsene was on the blower to me earlier and broke the news so I flogged him for Defoe :cool:

Pighead will be on the blower later on to Arsene to break the news to him that he's a spanner.:mad:

Xavi6

And Defoe nets! Love it!

Grid.

All going wrong for Arsenal at the Reebok, 2-0 down and Diaby sent off!!
I'll lose a buncha points this round!! Come on Gooners show some grit FFS:mad:

Xavi6

And now Kenwyn Jones has bagged one. Come on!

Necronomicon

Get in there!

Broke my policy of not having 3 players from any one team when I brought Defoe in.

2 for him, penalty save for James and a clean sheet for Distin. 27 points between them before bonus!

Xavi6

Yes super effort from James and Defoe with two goals. Love it!

Vidic, Ronny and Tevez all start for United. Phew.

Im_No_Superman

David James with 12 points before any bonus points even handed out! What a performance!

Earthhorse

Xavi6 wrote: »

And now Kenwyn Jones has bagged one. Come on!

Every time I bench him. Every time.

Xavi6

Earthhorse wrote: »

Every time I bench him. Every time.

I benched him but Michael Johnson was sick so couldn't play. In comes Jones.

Earthhorse

That coulda happened for me had Abedayor stayed on the bench.

I skipped selling Jones for Defoe last week because he couldn't play and this week he's out of my price range.

Why do the gods of fantasy football mock me? Why?

Xavi6

And now skipper Ronny has a goal and an assist and Tevez has scored. Gonna be a super week!

Necronomicon

Necromomicon wrote: »

Get in there!

Broke my policy of not having 3 players from any one team when I brought Defoe in.

2 for him, penalty save for James and a clean sheet for Distin. 27 points between them before bonus!

And now a goal and an assist for captain Ronny and a goal for Tevez.

Best start to a gameweek ever!

Xavi6

I could hit the 100 at this rate! :eek:

kinaldo

I think I'm the only one in the top 10 without Ronaldo as captain. Need a colossal performance from Gerrard tomorrow.

genericgoon

All hail Ronaldo. Good performances for Fabrgas , Defoe and Shorey too.

75 with Wheater, Torres, Howard and Lescott to play.

Boggles

Can't see how people can have anyone else as captain other than Ronaldo, it's like free money.

63 points with 6 players to play.

Im_No_Superman

80 with four to play. A good Spurs and Everton win now tomorrow please.

~Marky~

I am on 75 at the moment but still have Gerrard and Keane to get a few more points for me hopefully

BaZmO*

Boggles wrote: »

Can't see how people can have anyone else as captain other than Ronaldo, it's like free money.

Indeed. I actually took it off him last week because I didn't think he'd get anything against Liverpool.....how wrong was I!!

So glad I gave it back to him this week. One of the lads that I'm competing with in a mini league got rid of him a couple of weeks ago...silly boy...not that I'm complaining though! And another one would be probably be in the top 100 overall if he had've stuck with him as captain over the Christmas. He missed out on so many points.

Think this year has to be one of the highest scoring years due to Ronaldo. So many people topping the 100 mark on a regular basis.

55 this week with 6 to play, not bad. Reid was a good buy, a goal and another 3 bonus points this week.

Earthhorse

Lescott, Downing, Huddlestone, Berbatov; transform! Rollout!

68 points so far.

The biggest mistake I made this year was not handing the captaincy to Ronaldo. I bought him early enough just stuck by Fabregras for too long.

Lex Luthor

Pighead wrote: »

Pighead will be on the blower later on to Arsene to break the news to him that he's a spanner.:mad:

mwuah ha ha ha ha

Mr_Roger_Bongos

Anyone see the lad with the highest score at the end of today? He's got 4 Utd players in the team!?!

besty

91 points with 4 to play. Not too shabby.

tetsujin1979

Mr_Roger_Bongos wrote: »

Anyone see the lad with the highest score at the end of today? He's got 4 Utd players in the team!?!

Look at his transfer history, he hasn't made any at all! He's had the same team all season. So he bought Tevez when he was still at West Ham, and had 3 United players in the team. Normally you would be forced to transfer out 1 player when you make a transfer, but he hasn't made any, so he hasn't been forced.

OPENROAD

Another good week of transfers for me.

Transfered out Santa Cruz and brought in Defoe.

Also out goes Diarra In comes Huddlestone.

80 points so far with Lescott,Huddlestone, Gerrard and Yakubu to play.

Xavi6

82 points with 6 to come from first sub Jones and Ballack, Carvalho and Lescott all to play today.

Jonny Arson

where the hell was Martin Petrov yesterday? :mad: he's already looking like my most useless signing of the season

im on 59 points with Jones to jump off the bench and Torres, Lampard, Neville and Pienaar to play. Lampard and Pienaar are doubts and if they dont play i will only have 10 points scoring players this week

tetsujin1979

Jonny Arson wrote: »

where the hell was Martin Petrov yesterday? :mad: he's already looking like my most useless signing of the season

im on 59 points with Jones to jump off the bench and Torres, Lampard, Neville and Pienaar to play. Lampard and Pienaar are doubts and if they dont play i will only have 10 points scoring players this week

Petrov has a slight knee injury.
Lampard out with a virus according to Setanta

Lex Luthor

even though I have JCole today, I want him to have a stinker

Xavi6

And Carvalho scores. What a weekend for me!

Nalz

Goin for a top 20 finish, i'll settle for that (currently joint 18th)

Xavi6 wrote: »

And Carvalho scores. What a weekend for me!

Its all about you!

Xavi6

Bloody sure it it. 105 points!

Nalz

Xavi6 wrote: »

Bloody sure it it. 105 points!

Well done good scoring! I was this close to changing my captain from Ronaldo to Torres. Thank God I didnt!

Xavi6

I couldn't change him as captain. It's guaranteed big points every week. I know everyone has him but if you take the gamble and he scores big like on Saturday then you'll slip way behind.

In the last three weeks I've brought in Carvalho, James and Defoe and it all paid off this week.

Im_No_Superman

A score of 87 and back in the top 30 (just) . Had a stinker of a day yesterday too with Lescott, Piener, Berbatov all scoring poorly.

Lemlin

I could of sworn they said that Torres got a yellow card on Sunday and gets a ban now because he has five cards. Did he get a ban? If so, why is he not down as missing this weekend's game? What game will he miss?

BaZmO*

Lemlin wrote: »

I could of sworn they said that Torres got a yellow card on Sunday and gets a ban now because he has five cards. Did he get a ban? If so, why is he not down as missing this weekend's game? What game will he miss?

He did get a yellow and it was his fifth but this late in the season it doesn't count. He'll just get an official warning from the FA. I think you need about 10 yellows this late in the season to get a match ban.

Lex Luthor

I'm up to the dizzy heights of 21 or 22nd place....

another 2 weeks like that and I have won my work league and collect all that dosh

Invincible

Who do you think will replace Vidic,as he'll missthe next couple of games with his injury? Will O'Shea prove his versatility or will Silvestre step in,now he's back from injury?

tetsujin1979

Invincible wrote: »

Who do you think will replace Vidic,as he'll missthe next couple of games with his injury? Will O'Shea prove his versatility or will Silvestre step in,now he's back from injury?

O'Shea is a midfielder in FF for some reason

Boggles

tetsujin1979 wrote: »

O'Shea is a midfielder in FF for some reason

O'Shea is quite simply the best footballer in the world, he can't be pigeon holed into a position.

I replaced Vidic with Evra, a few pounds cheaper too.

Necronomicon

Adebayor out, Yakubu in.

I agonised over this one because Ade scored against Liverpool midweek, but the thought of Everton at home to Derby was too tempting not to get the Yak in.

james123

Dilemma, who will start Rooney or Tevez or both ?

Mr. Incognito

Dilemma, who will start Rooney or Tevez or both ?

I would guess Tevez

james123

Lampard or j cole lads?

madds

Anyone think Rafa will risk playing Torres this weekend?