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Lex Luthor

~Rebel~ wrote:

Ok, i've settled on 2 potential teams, but i have to choose between them so what do yee think?

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A)
Cech

Finnan
Carragher
Lescott
Geremi

Ronaldo
Reo-Coker
Fabregas
Bentley

Van Persie
Anelka

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or
Cech

Finnan
Carragher
Dunne/Distin
Geremi

Ronaldo
Barry
Fabregas
Bentley

Van Persie
Ashley Young

The ones in bold are the changes.

Team B, but change Young for ANother. I would prefer Barry to ReoCoker as he is a capt and pen taker

Peyton Manning

First team in bold, subs in italics.

Goalkeepers

Niemi (Fulham)
Kirkland (Wigan)

Defenders

Shorey (Reading)
Richards (Man City)
Distin (Portsmouth)
Boyce (Wigan)
Pearce (Fulham)

Midfielders

Petrov (Man City)
Ronaldo (Man Utd)
Malouda (Chelsea)
Bentley (Blackburn)
Teale (Derby)

Strikers
Rooney (Man Utd)
Drogba (Chelsea)
Zamora (West Ham)



Im confident

Third_Echelon

~Rebel~ wrote:

Ok, i've settled on 2 potential teams, but i have to choose between them so what do yee think?

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A)
Cech

Finnan
Carragher
Lescott
Geremi

Ronaldo
Reo-Coker
Fabregas
Bentley

Van Persie
Anelka

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or
Cech

Finnan
Carragher
Dunne/Distin
Geremi

Ronaldo
Barry
Fabregas
Bentley

Van Persie
Ashley Young

The ones in bold are the changes.

Lescott played every game for Everton last year. guaranteed points every game... unless he gets injured of course, but he's gonna be on the team sheet for sure..

Sizzler

Archimedes wrote:

First team in bold, subs in italics.

Goalkeepers

Niemi (Fulham)
Kirkland (Wigan)

Defenders

Shorey (Reading)
Richards (Man City)
Distin (Portsmouth)
Boyce (Wigan)
Pearce (Fulham)

Midfielders

Petrov (Man City)
Ronaldo (Man Utd)
Malouda (Chelsea)
Bentley (Blackburn)
Teale (Derby)

Strikers
Rooney (Man Utd)
Drogba (Chelsea)
Zamora (West Ham)



Im confident

Dont be too confident considering Drogba is injured for the next 3 weeks and Bellamy and Ashton are first choice for the 'ammers front line;)

dulpit

Right, eventually got access here...

All signed up, I'll show you my current team (liable to change)
(Starters in bold)


Goalies
Howard (Everton)
Niemi (Fulham)

Defenders
Lescott (Everton)
Carragher (Liverpool)
Dunne (Manchester City)
Ferdinand (Manchester United)
Ingimarsson (Reading)

Midfielders
Arteta (Everton)
Gamst Pederson (Blackburn)
Ronaldo (Manchester United)
Campo (Bolton)
Mokoena (Blackburn)

Strikers
Berbatov (Spurs)
Agbonlahor (Aston Villa)
Howard (Derby City)

Opinions?

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Just a heads up to those with Lita in their squad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/r/reading/6935892.stm

Out for a month.:)

Sizzler

I think the kitman is the only guy fully fit in the Chelsea squad at the moment

Vokes

Gah, i keep chopping and changing - cant leave it alone

Have now gone with Giggs - instinct tells me hes gonna bag a goal / assist or 2 against Reading (2nd season slump and all that).

Green_Martian

Green Martian Army has been entered to the lge.........:D

Attractive Nun

Can't stop changing things either, took the risk of dropping Ronaldo for Scholes and using excess points to upgrade my defence in the form of clean-sheet machines Ferdinand and Finnan. Reckon Scholes will grab a good few goals this season with Hargreaves and Carrick behind him, just hope he's not rested too often.

stooge

van persie or berbatov?

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Van Persie. He's almost certain to play every week and he has been in really good form in pre season.

Attractive Nun

stooge wrote:

van persie or berbatov?

Van Persie AND Berbatov

(of the two, however, I reckon Van Persie will have a stormer of a season)

Lex Luthor

Baines is now injured...anyone know for how long? BAH

MrPillowTalk

Anyone think Bale is worth a punt in defence?

One Cold Hand

yeah I have him in at the mo....

BaZmO*

MrPillowTalk wrote:

Anyone think Bale is worth a punt in defence?

He's injured at the moment

Sizzler

MrPillowTalk wrote:

Anyone think Bale is worth a punt in defence?

Defo !

I was pi**ed off to see hes injured ! I also had Lennon in and hes also injured !

Not a great start

MrPillowTalk

Sizzler wrote:

Defo !

I was pi**ed off to see hes injured ! I also had Lennon in and hes also injured !

Not a great start

Is Bale going to be taking the frees for Spurs this season, anyone seen them in preseason at all? He could get a nice few assists if he is as handy as his youtube clips make out, dont know if he is worth dropping Dunne for though.

Im_No_Superman

Any news on how long drogba is out for? Cant afford to have my two top strikers out (tevez and drogba!)

Lex Luthor

I've put in Ridgewell for Baines. I've had him for last 2 seasons and he's always done well for me. Pops up with the odd goal every few games aswell

PHB

How long is Given out for? He was gona be my super signing this year

Lex Luthor

PHB wrote:

How long is Given out for? He was gona be my super signing this year

Its calf or hamstring? isn't it?

with Given it could be a while. He seems to take an eternity to come back from injury

Sizzler

MrPillowTalk wrote:

Is Bale going to be taking the frees for Spurs this season, anyone seen them in preseason at all? He could get a nice few assists if he is as handy as his youtube clips make out, dont know if he is worth dropping Dunne for though.

You can be sure he will be taking any left sided corners / free kicks, Id say he might be back by the end of August, might be worth buying and keep him on the bench for the fortnight

iloveireland

kronsington wrote:

fantasy football begins again over on http://fantasy.premierleague.com/
on july 6th. im sure some people did it last season, its great fun and adds an extra dimension to the league.. anyway, ill set up the league on the 6th and anybody who wants to join pm me soon after that and ill send you the code.. ill be away on the 11th for 5 weeks so if someone could volunteer to take care of anything while im gone that would be great, thats why id like to sort a league asap.. only join if you are going to stay for the whole season, we dont really want people who wil drop out early on.. if it works we can keep this thread alive for it, or set another soon after, whatever. there's a forum over on the website which can be used also.. anyway, all interested please post and hopefully we'll get a good few involved..

p.s sorry if someone has posted something like this already

krons

Sorry man if you have already put it up but what is the league code?

Fuzzy_Dunlop

1997-1042 For Boards league

DSB

Been changing my team constantly. But think this will be my team to start the season

Tim Howard

Patrice Evra
Rio Ferdinand
Micah Richards

Gareth Barry
Frank Lampard
James Milner
Cristiano Ronaldo (c)

Gabriel Agbonlahor
John Carew
Andy Johnson

CantGetNoSleep

I'm in as Stan Staunton, gonna keep my team as a non Big Four team

Why's that? Cos i'm the gaffer

CantGetNoSleep

Do people reckon Kaboul will start for Spurs?

Carcharodon

Bit out of the loop of the moment but whats the story with Tevez, had him in my team but dropped him for berbatov, had to drop carragher for finnan so as to afford him - good move , am thinking Tevez wont start the first game...

Is Shay Given out for Saturday ?

Sizzler

CantGetNoSleep wrote:

Do people reckon Kaboul will start for Spurs?

Yes cos most of their back line is injured atm

Macca07

3-4-3

1: James PO

2: Finnan LI
3: Ferdinand MU
4: Lescott EV

5: Gilberto AR
6: Lampard CH
7: Bentley BR
8: Taylor PO

9: Berbatov TH (C)
10: McCarthy BR
11: Tevez WH

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12: Niemi FU
13: Baines EV
14: Pearson DC
15: Anderson SU



4-4-2

1: Howard EV

2: Lescott EV
3: Distin PO
4: Ferdinand MU
5: Finnan LI

6: Ronaldo MU
7: Bentley BR
8: Hargreaves MU
9: Taylor PO

10: Drogba (C) CH
11: McCarthy BR

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12: Ward SU
13: Forssell BC
14: Pearson DC
15: McShane SU

Vokes

The 1st one - Drogba is injured.

Bookmark this: http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php

Macca07

SofaKing wrote:

The 1st one - Drogba is injured.[\QUOTE]

Ok, forget about injuries and all that at the moment, which 15 players look better

Macca07

And another question, say I have 3 Man United players at the moment, and Carlos Tevez, when Tevez makes the switch to United, will I be able to keep him or will he be removed because I will have 4 Man United players

besty

You keep him as far as I know - happened to me with Carrick last year. But, when you go to make a new transfer, you have to get rid of one of the United players to bring it back to 3.

Macca07

besty wrote:

You keep him as far as I know - happened to me with Carrick last year. But, when you go to make a new transfer, you have to get rid of one of the United players to bring it back to 3.

That really sucks, I've had them in my team from the start

ronbyrne2005

worth noting that a high proportion of people will buy tevez as his move to united is inevitable and his price will rise after first week. If you have no money in the bank you may not be able to afford him in subsequent weeks. When do the price rises get added on? Could i buy another player now and transfer into tevez at his current price on sunday evening?

ronbyrne2005

Also which teams outside big four are gonna have tighest defences? Can pompey keep as many clean sheets again? They started leaking goals at end of last season. Blackburn and everton look like keeping a fair few clean sheets and Sunderland under keane may try to keep clean sheets and build on that. Cant see richard dunne scoring as much points this season with Sven dictating tactics etc and so many new players in team.

Vokes

Id say Sven's team will be better defensively than Pearce's last year. (Asumming they get in another CB).

Also im guessing Newcastle defence is gonna improve immensely. Geremi would be a good buy plus he takes corners and free kicks.

One Cold Hand

ronbyrne2005 wrote:

worth noting that a high proportion of people will buy tevez as his move to united is inevitable and his price will rise after first week. If you have no money in the bank you may not be able to afford him in subsequent weeks. When do the price rises get added on? Could i buy another player now and transfer into tevez at his current price on sunday evening?

It really depends on a lot of things. If he doesn't play not too many people are likely to get him. If the transfer somehow goes through and he plays and scores a hat-trick (it could happen!) the likely hood is a lot of people will get him in, so his price will rise.

eirebhoy

SofaKing wrote:

Id say Sven's team will be better defensively than Pearce's last year. (Asumming they get in another CB).

If it wasn't for City's defence last season they'd have been relegated. They'd be doing well to concede less this season after breaking up last seasons partnership.

Pompey are the team for defenders. They've the best defence outside the top 4.

PHB

I think Newcastle's defence could really come along next season.

Peyton Manning

Any good tips for a midfielder in the 6.0 - 6.5 bracket? I have Mascherano at the moment, but is he liable to get me many points, or even start for the pool? Other options include:

Speed
Campo
Hunt
Milner
Harper
Osman
Carsley
O'Neill
Reo-Coker

~Rebel~

Archimedes wrote:

Any good tips for a midfielder in the 6.0 - 6.5 bracket? I have Mascherano at the moment, but is he liable to get me many points, or even start for the pool? Other options include:

Speed
Campo
Hunt
Milner
Harper
Osman
Carsley
O'Neill
Reo-Coker

Id say Mascherano won't be starting every game anyway.

Of those id go with Hunt, Milner or Reo-Coker. Reo-Coker looks like the bargain of the game this year at 5.5. Apparantly been good in preseason. In a new team with the motivation of Martin O Neil i could see him returning to his form of old.

eirebhoy

I was hoping Maloney would be my hidden gem this season. The poor lad is terribly home sick though, ahh. Could be re-joining Celtic. If he does settle down and stays at Villa you'd have to have him in your FF team. He got 16 goals and 23 assists in 1 season for Celtic which according to FIFA golden boot rules equates to 10 goals and 15 assists in England.

One Cold Hand

Yeah he's a very attacking player so he'd be good value for a midfielder...

yayamark

just moved 2 injured players out mccullogh and drogba

brought in richardson (sun) and rooney. Not a bad swap i think?

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Anyone interested in joining the Off The Ball Newstalk Fantasy League?

I have the code.

eirebhoy

Yep, i'll have that code please.