Boards.ie Premier League Fantasy Football 08/09

One Cold Hand

This tie was 4 all last year so a repeat would be nice! Laursen got 2 last year iirc

Mr. Incognito

Ronaldo back on Wednesday- if the bugger scores watch the wildcards fly.

Down to 8th in Boards league from second, defenders let me down but Young, Bent and Laursen all to play tonight so I'll be climbing again.

genericgoon

SetantaL wrote: »

Ronaldo back on Wednesday- if the bugger scores watch the wildcards fly.

Down to 8th in Boards league from second, defenders let me down but Young, Bent and Laursen all to play tonight so I'll be climbing again.

I already have to money for him. Going to bring him in after Chelsea and I will then have a midfield of Ronaldo, Young, Deco & Arteta.

Mr. Incognito

That's pretty savage.

What's the rest of the team like.

I'll wait and see how ronnie plays on wednesday before making the choice to bring him in this week or not, one thing is certain though he IS coming in. I hate him but he's a points magnet.

genericgoon

SetantaL wrote: »

That's pretty savage.

What's the rest of the team like.

I'll wait and see how ronnie plays on wednesday before making the choice to bring him in this week or not, one thing is certain though he IS coming in. I hate him but he's a points magnet.

Rest of the team would be Defense of Howard, Evra, Laursen, O'Brien and Hangelaand and a strikeforce of Defoe and Zaki. With a few cheap subs who'll probably get changed around depending on who getting a run during the season.

KevIRL

wrong thread

Juan Pablo

Wildcard used to accomodate Ronaldo and Fabregas. 14 changes in total!

1: Hart
2: Bosingwa
3: Clichy
4: Cole A
5: Skrtel
6: Ronaldo
7: Fabregas (C)
8: Alonso
9: Berbatov
10: Cole C
11: Zaki
12: Schwarzer
13: Hamann
14: Marney
15: Brown W

Happy enough with that, one worry would be Utd vs Chelsea this weekend could stifle the points for half my team, but I figured changes had to be made now beofre the likes of Fabregas, Ronaldo, Berbatov etc went up in value. As you can see with Didi Hamann and Dean Marney I was scraping the barrell at the end!

Mr.Nice Guy

Aaaarrrggghhh! Why did Ramos bench Bentley for the first-half? :mad: Wasted my damn captaincy.

Thankfully Ashley Young eased things a bit for me.

I'm going to get rid of Bentley me thinks. He's been a dud and I don't see him improving any time soon.

OPENROAD

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Thankfully Ashley Young eased things a bit for me.

Except he picked up a stupid booking at the end :mad:

kronsington

why wasn't carew awarded the assist for the first goal? the replay clearly shows he was the lasat player to touch the ball before it reached reo-coker

menoscemo

kronsington wrote: »

why wasn't carew awarded the assist for the first goal? the replay clearly shows he was the lasat player to touch the ball before it reached reo-coker

he has been now

KevIRL

bonus points

laursen 3
A young 2
another villa player 1

61 points in total for me this week

Dave!

boooooo......... no clean sheet......

I'm getting rid of L Young :mad: Having 3 Villa players is just silly...

bUILDERtHEbOB

menoscemo wrote: »

he has been now

Delighted.

kmart6

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I'm going to get rid of Bentley me thinks. He's been a dud and I don't see him improving any time soon.

Got rid of him this week and got Arteta in instead and it was definatly a good decision!

kronsington

feckin leagues still aren't updated

Mr.Nice Guy

kmart6 wrote: »

Got rid of him this week and got Arteta in instead and it was definatly a good decision!

Very good decision as Arteta has gone up a bit in value and I couldn't get him! I was able to get Wright-Phillips in though so I'm happy enough with that swap.

Xavi6

53 points is not a bad return considering my first 5 players got 12 points.

Charlie

46 points will do for this week, considering that on Sat evening, I knew that I would be fielding 8 players max, with Jonas, Beye, Torres, Dossena, and Geovanni all injured or benched. Arteta as Cpt. really got me out of a jam, and I am sitting well in most of my leagues.

Usually I make my transfers friday-ish, but I pulled the trigger tonight as I reckon certain valuations are going north fairly soon this week. On paper, next weekend's fixtures should allow my team to make a good fist of it.

I would love if people start creaming their budget on the Greasy One this week, only for him to come off the bench in the 80th min.

Mr. Incognito

On Saturday I was sitting on 19 points and had dropped from 2nd in Boards way down to 36th.

Cue Arteta as Captain, Bent and Young scoring and Lauresen picking up three bonus points and I'm back up to third, second actually seeing as we have a new entry to the charts in second.

I'm planning on wholescale changes, though it's going to break my heart to bring Ronaldo in, I'll wait and see how he plays on Wednesday though. He's been out a while with a foot injury so his fitness level could be quite low.

Is Agbonlahor injured?

eirebhoy

Do we get our 3 points back from Terry's sending off?

Smegball

eirebhoy wrote: »

Do we get our 3 points back from Terry's sending off?

Don't think so

jesus_thats_gre

Smegball wrote: »

Don't think so

Thats bent!!

Sherifu

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Thats bent!!

Indeed it is

jesus_thats_gre

Lost 6 or 7 points due to bookings and Terry's red

Smegball

Did anybody have Terry and Vidic in defence?

Sherifu

Smegball wrote: »

Did anybody have Terry and Vidic in defence?

/raises hand

Disastrous week.

I had a sorry looking bench with Vidic, Terry & Ballack. I've got Terry back now anyway.

Loco

used my wildcard. had a decent week but only due to Adebayor.

cech
ball-evra-boswinga-cliche
ronaldo fabregas delap diarra hamman
zaki adebayor davies

already regretting ball & davies decisions!!

Mr. Incognito

Bit too early for Ronny, Ferguson was interviewed yesterday and says he only expects him to come in from the bench against Chelsea.

Loco

Had to, too many underperformers so wildcard had to come out.

Still, he has in the past made more impact in 10 mins than most players could do in a few weeks!

Smegball

Loco wrote: »

used my wildcard. had a decent week but only due to Adebayor.

cech
ball-evra-boswinga-cliche
ronaldo fabregas delap diarra hamman
zaki adebayor davies

already regretting ball & davies decisions!!

Don't worry, you can keep changing your Wildcard now until the next deadline which is Saturday morning No need for those regrets now!

Edit: Sorry I got a bit confused, :pac: ignore my post then haha

eirebhoy

I wasn't doing too bad (54 points on last matchday) but I've used my wildcard and gone midfield crazy.

Hart

N'Zogbia
L Young
Melchiot

Lampard
J.Cole
Ronaldo
Fabregas
S.Reid

Zaki
Alves

subs:
Schmeichel
Paintsil
Barnett
Harewood

Smegball

eirebhoy wrote: »

I wasn't doing too bad (54 points on last matchday) but I've used my wildcard and gone midfield crazy.

Hart

N'Zogbia
L Young
Melchiot

Lampard
J.Cole
Ronaldo
Fabregas
S.Reid

Zaki
Alves

subs:
Schmeichel
Paintsil
Barnett
Harewood

That's a crazy midfield alright! The strikeforce will bag some good points aswell though Not sure about the defence but.

eirebhoy

Smegball wrote: »

That's a crazy midfield alright! The strikeforce will bag some good points aswell though Not sure about the defence but.

I'm happy with Hart and Young as they'll be good defensively. Newcastle might concede a few but N'Zogbia should get a few goals and assists since he's an attacking midfielder.

I don't think it'll be long before Zaki's form drops though.

jesus_thats_gre

Accidently used my wildcard on a single sub last week so decided to go nuts in order to take advantage of it. Ended up with the following:

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Reina

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Carra

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Laursen

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Clichy

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Wright Philips

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Arteta(c)

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Denilson

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Young

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Zaki

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Yakubu

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Ashton

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Subs: Gordon, Carvalho, A. Cole and Giovani

Just gotta toy with the idea of whether to play A. Cole and Carvalho against United or not..

ibh

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Accidently used my wildcard on a single sub last week so decided to go nuts in order to take advantage of it. Ended up with the following:

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Reina

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Carra

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Laursen

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Clichy

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Wright Philips

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Arteta(c)

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Denilson

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Young

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Zaki

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Yakubu

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Ashton

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Subs: Gordon, Carvalho, A. Cole and Giovani

Just gotta toy with the idea of whether to play A. Cole and Carvalho against United or not..

having Carvalho and Ashley C on the bench means an awful lot of money sitting on the bench every week. I would sell 1 of them and upgrade Denilson or Ashton cause he's always injured.

jesus_thats_gre

ibh wrote: »

having Carvalho and Ashley C on the bench means an awful lot of money sitting on the bench every week. I would sell 1 of them and upgrade Denilson or Ashton cause he's always injured.

They are only on the bench at the moment as they are playing United this weekend.

I am 50:50 as to whether Chelsea will keep a clean sheet this weekend and end up with just appearence points whereas the other defenders are far more likely to to get more than just appearence points. Also, the midfielders and strikers are playing against lesser opposition so it is also more likely that they will get more than just appearence points.

kmart6

What would people think of.....

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James

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Gallas---Distin---Carragher

Cesc---Arteta---Ronaldo---Delap

Van Persie----Defoe

Subs:Schwarzer,Barnett,Paintstil,Marney,Folan!!!

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Wild card week obviously:D

Edit: Screw it....did it...but replaced Distin with Johnson!

Im_No_Superman

Think Im going to hold off on my wild card till next weekend then bring in Ronaldo and make a couple of other minor changes.

Handsome Bob

Anyone considering making a Liverpool defender their Captain?

Dingatron

Nah but I'd hope that they would keep a clean sheet. Half thinking of Gerard as captain. With him and Torres back I'd expect a few goals and assists between them at the weekend.

Handsome Bob

Dingatron wrote: »

Nah but I'd hope that they would keep a clean sheet. Half thinking of Gerard as captain. With him and Torres back I'd expect a few goals and assists between them at the weekend.

I somehow messed up my team and shuffled it enough(I've used my wildcard too) to the extent that I would have to take a large hit to bring Gerrard or Torres in. I've got Reina and Carragher and I'm tempted to gamble on a clean sheet.

bobbyg

kmart6 wrote: »

What would people think of.....

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James

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Gallas---Distin---Carragher

Cesc---Arteta---Ronaldo---Delap

Van Persie----Defoe

Subs:Schwarzer,Barnett,Paintstil,Marney,Folan!!!

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Wild card week obviously:D

Edit: Screw it....did it...but replaced Distin with Johnson!

Looks like a decent team except you only have 10 players and 5 subs??

joe123

Think il hold off on using my wildcard till after the chelsea game for ronaldo.

Whats a better combination Having Reina as a permanent keeper and Schwarzer or having two rotated keepers depending on the game they have with Green and Hart?

kmart6

Well have you seen the subs?!....lol

I'll prob throw one of the defenders in depending on fixtures!

Loco

how would you rate this line up for the weekend?
cant see it being bumper points with man utd playin chelsea.

cech
ball boswinga evra cliche figueroa
reo-coker ronaldo fabregas
zaki adebayor

subs:
davies hamman delap

reo-coker just scored for villa in the uefa cup, and most of the others in my selection seem on form too, bar fabregas and ronaldo. hope i used the wildcard effectively!

jesus_thats_gre

Doh, gotta get rid of Ashton now

jesus_thats_gre

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Doh, gotta get rid of Ashton now

Is he injured?

jesus_thats_gre

Out for 4 weeks apparently?!?