Boards.ie Premier League Fantasy Football 08/09

SickBoy

Sherifu wrote: »

"Denilson will return to the Arsenal squad after a back injury for Wednesday's north London derby at home to Tottenham"

Might stick him in myself now, glad you asked

Making the squad doesn't get you any points in fantasy football

Mr.Nice Guy

I'm taking a bit of a gamble and sticking Defoe on the bench. I just don't see Pompey getting much joy up at Anfield.

Im_No_Superman

My God I spent so much time deliberating over my team today and Ive made changes, 8 points worth of changes so it could make or break me!

Out - Wright-Phillips, Rooney , Denilson.
In - Lampard, Berbatov, Geovanni

So the team for this gameweek is:

Reina
Kompany Young Clichy
Ireland Delap Lampard(C) Ronaldo
Berbatov Carew Zaki

Subs: Schwarzer, Figueroa, Melchiot, Geovanni

Kills me taking Rooney out but I just cant afford him if I want to have Lampard and Ronaldo in the same team. I think Chelsea are going to bring Hull down to earth with a bang tomorrow and I expect to see him get a couple of goals hence my decision to make him captain this week.

OPENROAD

Anyone think that Ronaldo will be rested or is it a given he will start.

tribulus

Ronaldo, Lampard or Zaki for Captain?

OPENROAD

tribulus wrote: »

Ronaldo, Lampard or Zaki for Captain?

I think I'm going to go for Ronaldo my only worry is that he will be rested. My other options are Lampard or Carew.

FutureGuy

================Van Der Sar===============


Bosingwa============Agger==========Figuerora


Delap===Ronaldo (c)===Ireland===Lampard===Arteta


=============Robinho=======Zaki===========



Subbed A. Traore out for Delap as I don't think Pompey will keep a clean sheet against Liverpool. Delap might be good for a few bonus points versus Sunderland. Arteta is at the last chance saloon.

token56

Have 3 chelsea players on my team now, Cech, Bosingwa and Deco so I really need them to hammer Hull. I also think Deco might have a big week so mad him my captain over Ronaldo and Adebayor. It might turn out to be a bold move or one that will bit me in my ass. I wait to see anxiously.

Sherifu

FutureGuy wrote: »

Arteta is at the last chance saloon.

Same as, even though I think i'll dump him anyway. Need to free up the cash.

Charlie

Nice little tally from the Toon with; Beye (7), Oba (6), and Spidey (2) netting me 15 pts. Would have been nice if they kept the clean sheet, but then thats Newcastle.

The mad bonus scoring is continuing tough, with Greening getting the 3. How the fcuk do they justify that!? There were about 5 Newcastle players who all could have staked a claim for the 3. I honestly didn't know Greening played tonight he was that anonymous.

Necronomicon

charlie mchugh wrote: »

The mad bonus scoring is continuing tough, with Greening getting the 3. How the fcuk do they justify that!? There were about 5 Newcastle players who all could have staked a claim for the 3. I honestly didn't know Greening played tonight he was that anonymous.

They really are crazy this season, there's no predicting them. No Everton players got points at the weekend despite a very good second half performance, and Ronaldo managed to get 1 bonus despite being very poor.

pwd

Wouldn't consider dropping arteta personally. He's got at least 5 points every game bar one when not facing a top-4 side. I have subs which I use for players facing big teams anyway.

Third_Echelon

pwd wrote: »

Wouldn't consider dropping arteta personally. He's got at least 5 points every game bar one when not facing a top-4 side. I have subs which I use for players facing big teams anyway.

Yeah.. as far as I know, he is the third highest midfielder points scorer

jimbling

damn.. I forgot about the monday game :mad:

The Gambler 101

cech

richards l.young figuero emerton

anderson fabregas ronaldo(c)

robinho defoe berbatov


had robinho as captain last week:), but changing to ronaldo. have my doubts about berbatov, can see him gettin dropped tonite. when is fabregas going hit form?

BaZmO*

pwd wrote: »

Wouldn't consider dropping arteta personally. He's got at least 5 points every game bar one when not facing a top-4 side. I have subs which I use for players facing big teams anyway.

But that's the problem, and it's something I'm guilty of myself, people tend to drop a player if they have 2 bad games. But if you look at the Dream Team so far this season which is....

Carson
Turner
Carragher
Bosingwa
Lampard
Ireland
Arteta
Wright-Phillips
Defoe
Adebayor
Zaki

...you'd be on a points total of 551 which doesn't include any extra points for the captain each week. And when you consider that the overall winner is on 567 pts. you'd be way out ahead if you stuck with the same team. I know it's easier said than done.

I think the key to it each year is to try to stick to a core team that most importantly gets their game each week and to try to get the form players in every now and then without going mental.

Now if only I could take my own advice.........

machiavellianme

Why did everyone sell Defoe last night?
He's top of the strikers table but he is decreasing in value for some bizarre reason? Is he injured or something?

SickBoy

machiavellianme wrote: »

Why did everyone sell Defoe last night?
He's top of the strikers table but he is decreasing in value for some bizarre reason? Is he injured or something?

Looks like people would rather sell him and bring in a replacement instead of sticking him on the subs bench..
I have him on the bench for tonight.

Charlie

machiavellianme wrote: »

Why did everyone sell Defoe last night?
He's top of the strikers table but he is decreasing in value for some bizarre reason? Is he injured or something?

Because of 'Arry, innit?

NabyLadistheman

SickBoy wrote: »

Looks like people would rather sell him and bring in a replacement instead of sticking him on the subs bench..
I have him on the bench for tonight.

+1

I hope it doesn't come back and bite me in the ass as I did the same thing with Zaki a couple of weeks ago and It killed me!

Warper

Right i have enough money for 2 of the following midfielders:

Arteta,J Cole,Deco,SWP

Which 2 would you choose - i dont want Deco and Cole together for obv reasons

I am leaning towards Arteta and Cole at least for the next couple of weeks. Any recommendations?

Sherifu

Warper wrote: »

Right i have enough money for 2 of the following midfielders:

Arteta,J Cole,Deco,SWP

Which 2 would you choose - i dont want Deco and Cole together for obv reasons

I am leaning towards Arteta and Cole at least for the next couple of weeks. Any recommendations?

Deco is still a bit of a risk but i'd go for him and SWP probably. (I have SWP and Arteta(thinking of selling) and I had Deco before he was injured)

Dave!

Bollix, forgot about this......... Damn mid-week games!!! :mad:

tribulus

Lot's of people with Rooney as captain are going to miss out on points.

machiavellianme

SickBoy wrote: »

Looks like people would rather sell him and bring in a replacement instead of sticking him on the subs bench..
I have him on the bench for tonight.

Looks like Adams also stuck him on the subs bench.

Im_No_Superman

tribulus wrote: »

Lot's of people with Rooney as captain are going to miss out on points.

Glad I subbed him out now!

Charlie

Close to making Wazza capt. thank god I lumped it on Berba. I would imagine Rooney will probably sill get a 15-20 min run out. Hopefully when West Ham have capitulated, and Utd. are in scoring mood.

JPA

Defoe and Agger benched. :mad:

Carew still benched as well. :mad::mad:

Frankie Lee

Lampard scored already, don't have him but have Myhill in goals as Gordon is still out:(

Handsome Bob

So much for my idea of taking Ronaldo out and putting in Gerrard and Torres.:pac:

BaZmO*

Oh ye gods, why do they make me so?!
Rooney on the feckin bench! :rolleyes: I have him as captain

machiavellianme

The gods have finally taken a shine to my team with Ronaldo (c) and Lampard both scoring

Handsome Bob

LZ5by5 wrote: »

So much for my idea of taking Ronaldo out and putting in Gerrard and Torres.:pac:

Ronaldo scores.

*blows my brains out*

Figuratively speaking of course.:pac:

machiavellianme

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Ronaldo scores.

*blows my brains out*

Figuratively speaking of course.:pac:

Make that Ronaldo x 2

tribulus

I reeaally should have left him as captain.

Handsome Bob

machiavellianme wrote: »

Make that Ronaldo x 2

I feel physically sick right now, I should have held my fire until after West Hame at home.:pac: But at least all my defenders are looking good right now.:pac:

Keith C

Just a quick one regarding my players values, some have decreased throughout but none have gone up
I bought ireland when he was 6.0 now at 6.4 but mine still shows 6.o
zaki 6.8 is now 7.1 but mine still 6.8

Anyone explain this?

Sherifu

So far so bad, Ade my captain is running around like a headless chicken

machiavellianme

Keith C wrote: »

Just a quick one regarding my players values, some have decreased throughout but none have gone up
I bought ireland when he was 6.0 now at 6.4 but mine still shows 6.o
zaki 6.8 is now 7.1 but mine still 6.8

Anyone explain this?

Go into the data view tab in the transfer window and look under the "S" column. Are the values correct there?

Sherifu

Ade scores, I take it all back

Sherifu

And now an assist

machiavellianme

LZ5by5 wrote: »

So much for my idea of taking Ronaldo out and putting in Gerrard and Torres.:pac:

At least Stevie got one.

eirebhoy

My best week so far. 62 points with bonus points still to be added. Should be hitting 70 at least with Ronaldo as my captain.

Too many players with crap totals again this week though. 6 of the 11 getting 2 or less.

Handsome Bob

machiavellianme wrote: »

At least Stevie got one.

It actually ended up quite well! 54 points plus Wheater to come in for Torres (clean sheet + assist) so that's another 9 points. Ending up with 63!:D

KeithMur

Let's hope they do right bonus points. Had Duff last night MOTD but no bonus points!!!

FutureGuy

I'm on 55 so far, and because VDS and Agger didn't play, Swarcher (6) and A. Traore (6) will bring me up to 67. Ronaldo (C) and Lampard should be good for bonus points so looking at mid-to-late 70's for the week.

Back on track. Kinda.

madds

70 pts with bonuses still to be given. Ronaldo (capt), Lampard, and Luke Young all contributing. Should see me move into the top 100.

wardie

76 for me with Ron as capt. He should get some bonus points along with VP.

Bloody bolton conceding in the last min cost me 4.

jesus_thats_gre

Refusing to put Ronaldo in..........

Sherifu

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Refusing to put Ronaldo in..........

You're not alone.