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3greenrizla's

fluffyorganic1 wrote: »

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Let me know what ye think


Given

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Schwarzer

Baines

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Hangelaand

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Cahill

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Toure

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Carragher

Ireland

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Davies

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N'zogbia

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Gerrard

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Modric

Agbonlahor----Jerome

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Doyle

Would really love some feedback

the players in bold are not playing in GW 2.... Sorry....

My team =

Sorensen

O'Shea
Cole A
Carragher
Terry (C)

Mascherano
Kuyt
Lampard
Carrick

Sinclair
Beattie

__________


Kirkland

Foley
Jerome
Larsson

- I think that is a decent team for the first 3 weeks and I still have £5m in the bank - Opinions Please.

Liam O

Hull are raking in the players, one or two could be worth a flutter...especially Altidore. He's looked very good whenever I've seen him.

gaillimhabu

My current team taking week 2 a bit into account
(Arsenal, Everton, WH, Bolton, Man City, Villa) not playing

Sorensen

O'Shea Insua Warnock

Gerrard Lampard Arshavin Muamba Larsson

Torres Ebanks-Blake

Subs: Hart Eckersley Figueroa Jerome

What do ye think?
Will O'shea play? Not so sure about Jerome as a 3rd striker but only had 4.5 left.
Can't decide if I should replace Larsson with Jiminez or McSheffrey or someone else
Torres could also be replaced along with Jerome and get cheaper strikers.

Dubliner28

Davies of Bolton would be a good striker IMO- Near the top on points last season.
Midfield is very strong - Defence is weak -.
Big points scored for midfielders and defenders - Thats were its won

Sherifu

gaillimhabu wrote: »

My current team taking week 2 a bit into account
(Arsenal, Everton, WH, Bolton, Man City, Villa) not playing

Sorensen

O'Shea Insua Warnock

Gerrard Lampard Arshavin Muamba Larsson

Torres Ebanks-Blake

Subs: Hart Eckersley Figueroa Jerome

What do ye think?
Will O'shea play? Not so sure about Jerome as a 3rd striker but only had 4.5 left.
Can't decide if I should replace Larsson with Jiminez or McSheffrey or someone else
Torres could also be replaced along with Jerome and get cheaper strikers.

Have a very similar team to this at the moment but i'm thinking the defence & subs bench is too weak.

gaillimhabu

Subs bench probably is but I don't think the defence is too bad.
Insua is the cheaper of the liverpool defence but he'll play all games with aurelio out and should get clean sheets.
I picked Warnock as he might get played in midfield so there is a chance of a few assists.
O'sheas will be a good buy if he plays. I might change him yet

slingerz

The thing with game week 2 is do you leave the players out until after gameweek 2, use your wildcard and introduce the players you really want or change them all around each week?

I've gone for

Given - Hart

Espinoza - Anton Ferdinand - Rio Ferdinand - Evra - Cole

Lucas - Lampard - Malbranque - Valencia - Larsson

Rodriguez - Ebanks Blake - Torres

I think that team is pretty much game week 2 proof. Might bring in a keeper to replace Given for the first 2 weeks.

After that its wildcard time.

5.5 4
Given - Hart
6.5 5.5 4 4.5 6
Evra - Davies - Espinoza - Anton Ferdinand - Skrtel
6.5 12.5 5 7.5 11
Dempsey - Gerrard - Larsson - Modric - Arshavin
11.5 5.5 4.5
Torres - Ebanks Blake - Rodriguez

alibabba

whats people's thoughts on Denilson for arsenal ?
do you think he will be on form this season ?

gucci

Currently sitting on:

Foster
Belletti - Hagaland - Faye Ab (stoke)
Gerrard - Lampard - Kuyt - Murphy - Neville
Crouch - C Cole

Bench: Sorenson - Ebanks Blake - Bramble - Dawson

Any ideas or help? Im not so sure about Crouchy to be honest!

Think il sit with Lampard and Gerard til after week 2 til everything settles down, then i will switch in Torres or Arshavin for one of them to free up a bit of cash to bulk up elsewhere.

Necronomicon

Belletti is a risk, especially when you only have two other defenders. Ivanovic started for Chelsea on Sunday, Bosingwa came on in the second half. I think Crouch will do well at Spurs but for FF purposes you might be looking at rotation with Keane, Pavlychenko and Defoe there as well.

Fanfan

Really cant make up my mind on my team....I need your help!

Mid) D. Kuyt
Mid) D. Fletcher
For) S. Ebanks-Blake
For) C. Cole

OR

Mid) A. Valenica
Mid) L. Lucas
For) Eduardo
For) J. Beattie

Which would score me more points!?

Sherifu

Fanfan wrote: »

Really cant make up my mind on my team....I need your help!

Mid) D. Kuyt
Mid) D. Fletcher
For) S. Ebanks-Blake
For) C. Cole

OR

Mid) A. Valenica
Mid) L. Lucas
For) Eduardo
For) J. Beattie

Which would score me more points!?

My money is on the first group. Cole & Kuyt are great points getters.

token56

The team I considering starting with:

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Given

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Evra----A Cole

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Hangeland

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Carragher----
----Lampard(C)----Gerrard----Larsson----Valencia

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Ebanks Blake

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Cole

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Subs: Sorensen, Zayette, Muamba, Cousin

Should be ok for the second game week, and may bring in Arshavin around game week 4 or so. I think its pretty hard to not have a Chelsea defender considering they have had 20+ clean sheets for the past 5 seasons and I think A Cole is the best value for money at the moment, Zhirkov could come good should he start regularly though.

I am not sure about Valencia but with Utds first few fixtures, if he does start which I think he will, he should bag a few goals. Forward line is still a bit weak, but all my subs should start which is helpful.

Any thoughts anyone?

gucci

Necronomicon wrote: »

Belletti is a risk, especially when you only have two other defenders. Ivanovic started for Chelsea on Sunday, Bosingwa came on in the second half. I think Crouch will do well at Spurs but for FF purposes you might be looking at rotation with Keane, Pavlychenko and Defoe there as well.

Not sure i can stretch as far as Boswinga....budget is limited. I might bring in Upson and that could give me a bit more budget to use elsewhere. I'd like a chelsea defender for picking up points consistently.

3greenrizla's

slingerz wrote: »

The thing with game week 2 is do you leave the players out until after gameweek 2, use your wildcard and introduce the players you really want or change them all around each week?

Note the Rule change =

wrote:

If you don't use your free transfer then you'll be able to make an additional free transfer the following gameweek. These saved transfers don't accumulate and can only be used the following gameweek. .

the Team I have gone for hopefully is fairly decent for GW 1 & 2 then bring in 2 new players together (probably Baines and Arshavin) and not take any point deduction.

I intend to hang on to my wildcard for as long as I can and ideally use it when a few teams are playing twice in the same GW.

My Team =

Sorensen

O'Shea - Cole A - Carragher - Terry (C)

Mascherano* - Kuyt - Lampard - Carrick

Sinclair** - Beattie
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Kirkland - Foley - Jerome - Larsson***

£5m in the bank.

Opinions Please.
*Should I go for Lucas?
**Will Sinclair start?
***is my subs bench too weak?

TripleAce

Draft of my team, mainly based on GW 1&2 but also thinking about week 3,4 & 5....

I deliberately kept 5M in the bank that will give me good flexibility in the transfer markets from GW 2 - comments are appreciated

1: Foster

2: Distin
3: Terry
4: O'Shea
5: Faye Ab

6: Lampard (C)
7: Lucas
8: Jimenez

9: Rooney
10: Ebanks-Blake
11: Torres


12: Sorensen
13: Jarvis
14: Ricketts
15: McSheffrey

machiavellianme

3greenrizla's wrote: »

My Team =

Sorensen

O'Shea - Cole A - Carragher - Terry (C)

Mascherano* - Kuyt - Lampard - Carrick

Sinclair** - Beattie
__________

Kirkland - Foley - Jerome - Larsson***

£5m in the bank.

Opinions Please.
*Should I go for Lucas?
**Will Sinclair start?
***is my subs bench too weak?

*Should I go for Lucas? Definately. He's more likely to score a goal or assist than Masch and you dont get points for tackles made so you've nothing to lose.

Bubs101

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

They are at home and normally at home they are very good defensively but this situation is a bit different. Going into this game they have no Dawson, no King, no Woodgate and no Bale and they will also be handing Bassong an immediate debut. All of this to deal with against the team who were top scorers in the league last season!

I wouldn't go near Spurs defenders myself but each to their own.

Spurs away is one of the hardest fixtures not involving a top 4 team and Harry Spurs are a different class. Don't think it'll be impossible.

Here's my final team anyway

Hart/Sorenson (swapping based on who's at home)

Da Silva - J.T. - Distin

Modric - Kranjcar - Park - Carrick

Anelka - Drogba(c) - Berba

subs: Figueroa, Melchiot and N'Zogbia (all coming in for the Wolves tie in GW 2)

Eventually Berba, Carrick and Park will be eased out for Arshavin, Eduardo (Bent if there be no cash) and Walcott

gaillimhabu

Lee Cattermole has gone from Wigan to Sunderland. Prob no biggie as only 6.1% currently have him picked

jesus_thats_gre

Apparently King is going to be fit for the match this weekend - so it will be Bassong and King in the middle apparently.

Have gone with a renegade team. Really wish I could stop changing the team:

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Gomes

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Beye

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Bassong

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Hughes

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Arshavin

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Fletcher

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Gerrard

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Lucas

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Lampard

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Torres

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Ebanks-Blake

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Subs: Sorenson, Carr, Zayete and Jerome.


An torn between that team and the following:

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Gomes

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A. Cole

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Evra

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Insua

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Hughes
Arshavin

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Gerrard

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Fletcher

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Lampard

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Beattie

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Ebanks-Blake

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Subs: Sorenson, Faye, Muamba and Jerome.




Any opinions?

Necronomicon

Was Bassong's suspension overturned? When I was looking at bringing him in he was listed as suspended.

jesus_thats_gre

Necronomicon wrote: »

Was Bassong's suspension overturned? When I was looking at bringing him in he was listed as suspended.

Apparently they have gotten around it due to the fact that he got the suspension while playing for Newcastle and the fact that Newcastle have played a game already this season.

jesus_thats_gre

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Apparently King is going to be fit for the match this weekend - so it will be Bassong and King in the middle apparently.

Have gone with a renegade team. Really wish I could stop changing the team:

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Gomes

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Beye

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Bassong

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Hughes

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Arshavin

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Fletcher

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Gerrard

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Lucas

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Lampard

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Torres

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Ebanks-Blake

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Subs: Sorenson, Carr, Zayete and Jerome.


An torn between that team and the following:

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Gomes

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A. Cole

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Evra

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Insua

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Hughes
Arshavin

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Gerrard

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Fletcher

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Lampard

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Beattie

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Ebanks-Blake

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Subs: Sorenson, Faye, Muamba and Jerome.




Any opinions?

Feck them, settled on this:

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Gomes

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A. Cole

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Evra

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Insua

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Hughes
Arshavin

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Gerrard

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Fletcher

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Lucas

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Lampard

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Beattie

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Necronomicon

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Apparently they have gotten around it due to the fact that he got the suspension while playing for Newcastle and the fact that Newcastle have played a game already this season.

Sneaky.

I'm settled on my first XI, but it's my bench that I'm tinkering with the most right now. There are actually a pretty good range of players at 5.0. At the moment I've got Lucas and Larsson, but I've been looking Jimenez and Cattermole too. Jimenez is an unknown quantity so I think I'll leave him out until we see the first couple of games, but I think Cattermole could be decent for Sunderland. Not overly creative but I reckon he'll be good for bonus points.

Bounty Hunter

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Really wish I could stop changing the team:

tell me about it!

after noticing the fact that Arsenal, Everton, WH, Bolton, Man City & Villa are all not playing in Wk2 and that if you havent made a sub the previous week you can make 2 changes without being penalised ive changed my line up once more to a side which includes players from none of the teams missing wk2


.............................Cech

...........Warnock...Hangeland...Evra

...........Carrick...Cattermole...Essien
Gerrard........................................Lampard(c)
...............Bent..........Ebanks-Blake

Subs: Hart, Bassong, A.Ferdinand, Zamora

Eire-Dearg

Fair play to those who managed Lampard, Gerrard and Arshavin in one team.

My team is strong all round - therefore can only manage one.

jArgHA

Does anyone know what Ben Foster's chances are of playing this weekend (after being withdrawn from English squad) ?

Bubs101

Just a word on those unsure of Lampard or Gerrard. I avoided Lamps because he has to fit into a completely new tactic and with two up front he won't be given as much license to shoot whereas it's same old same old for Steven

Axwell

Bubs101 wrote: »

Just a word on those unsure of Lampard or Gerrard. I avoided Lamps because he has to fit into a completely new tactic and with two up front he won't be given as much license to shoot whereas it's same old same old for Steven

Lampard is fitting in to a 442 diamond where he will have as much if not a more attacking role as he had...should work out fine for him to be honest. As for Stevie G he is going to playing up front instead of as a midfielder so if anyones playing new tactics its him..but with him down as a midfielder and likely to score plenty of goals and assists from the strikers positions..thats the reason to choose him.

Eire-Dearg

As for Stevie G he is going to playing up front instead of as a midfielder so if anyones playing new tactics its him.

He's not exactly fitting into new tactics - he's been in that position for quite a while now.

Axwell

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

He's not exactly fitting into new tactics - he's been in that position for quite a while now.

Not really, he was playing as an attacking midfielder most of last season sitting behind Torres, thats when they were both fit which wasnt often either. He will now be playing in a full strikers role along side Torres with Lucas taking over as the current attacking midfielder in pre season.

Either way I dont see Lampard having many problems in his role either, he will have as many attacking chances as before and still take the penalities. Id just see Gerrard scoring more goals and getting more assists off Torres.

Eire-Dearg

Axwell wrote: »

Not really, he was playing as an attacking midfielder most of last season sitting behind Torres, thats when they were both fit which wasnt often either. He will now be playing in a full strikers role along side Torres with Lucas taking over as the current attacking midfielder in pre season.

Can't see Lucas taking over the attacking midfield role as you put it - he'll play alongside Masch but just slightly above where Alonso played, around the centre circle. Expect Gerrard to more or less roam free in his position with Torres the main front man. Lucas in an attacking midfield role would put extra weight on Masch to hold the fort - especially against Spurs with players like Jenas and Modric.

Bubs101

Axwell wrote: »

Lampard is fitting in to a 442 diamond where he will have as much if not a more attacking role as he had...should work out fine for him to be honest. As for Stevie G he is going to playing up front instead of as a midfielder so if anyones playing new tactics its him..but with him down as a midfielder and likely to score plenty of goals and assists from the strikers positions..thats the reason to choose him.

Did you see the match on Sunday. He was much. His job won't be shoot form anywhere once the ball bounces of Drogba, his job will be pass to Anelka. Much different and far less attacking opportunities from the number 10 position. Wait and see how he adapts. Stevie isn't playing anything radically new either

Axwell

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Can't see Lucas taking over the attacking midfield role as you put it - he'll play alongside Masch but just slightly above where Alonso played, around the centre circle.

In preseason he has been playing an attacking role and scoring and Rafa has called them their best player in the pre season because of it, also they didnt buy Aquilani to have him sitting around the centre circle, once hes fit he will get the starting position from Lucas and be very much an attacking player feeding Gerrard and Torres.

Either way roll on Sat and the start of the season..its been too long without good football and fantasy football!!:D

darkskol

Thoughts please?

Schwarzer

Evra..Hangeland..Carragher..O'Shea

Gerrard..Barry(or Cahill still undecided)..Young..Neville..Murphy

Torres

Subs:
Sorenson (GK)
Zayatte (D)
Cressell (ST)
Jerome (ST)

Axwell

With the fixtures the way they are for week 2 your team will stuggle to field a full 11 for that week as it is, or definitely one that has players that will get points. Take alook at the fixtures and consider a shuffle here and there.

Vampireskiss

Thought on this please

foster

evans
hangeland
carregher
davis
bassong

lampard
gerard
arshavin
larsson

cole

Kev_ps3

Surprised more people dont have Anelka in their team, Chelase have some easy games at the start and I can see him poaching a few..

darkskol

So if it was a choice between Cahill or Barry who would you choose?

Vampireskiss

Vampireskiss wrote: »

Thought on this please

foster

evans
hangeland
carregher
davis
bassong

lampard
gerard
arshavin
larsson

cole

Im not sure which to go for the team in the quote or the following

sorenson

lescott
vidic
carregher
hangeland

ireland
barry
arshavin
arteta
modric

cole

Not considering GW 2 and the injuries currently which of these teams would be best over the whole season

Kev_ps3

Vampireskiss wrote: »

Thought on this please

foster

evans
hangeland
carregher
davis
bassong

lampard
gerard
arshavin
larsson

cole

Not bad but I would get rid of one of those defenders and have a stronger front 2. Alot of those players wont be playing in week 2 so you'll be in trouble.

Kev_ps3

darkskol wrote: »

So if it was a choice between Cahill or Barry who would you choose?

If I had to pick then Cahill.

PH4T

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

tell me about it!

after noticing the fact that Arsenal, Everton, WH, Bolton, Man City & Villa are all not playing in Wk2 and that if you havent made a sub the previous week you can make 2 changes without being penalised ive changed my line up once more to a side which includes players from none of the teams missing wk2


.............................Cech

...........Warnock...Hangeland...Evra

...........Carrick...Cattermole...Essien
Gerrard........................................Lampard(c)
...............Bent..........Ebanks-Blake

Subs: Hart, Bassong, A.Ferdinand, Zamora

Umm Warnock and Hangeland both miss GW2...

Third_Echelon

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

tell me about it!

after noticing the fact that Arsenal, Everton, WH, Bolton, Man City & Villa are all not playing in Wk2 and that if you havent made a sub the previous week you can make 2 changes without being penalised ive changed my line up once more to a side which includes players from none of the teams missing wk2


.............................Cech

...........Warnock...Hangeland...Evra

...........Carrick...Cattermole...Essien
Gerrard........................................Lampard(c)
...............Bent..........Ebanks-Blake

Subs: Hart, Bassong, A.Ferdinand, Zamora

I don't see where the points will come from in that team.

Why 3 defensive style midfield players? They will get you no points whatsoever.

PH4T

Third_Echelon wrote: »

I don't see where the points will come from in that team.

Why 3 defensive style midfield players? They will get you no points whatsoever.

Essien will get plenty of points. 144 in 06/07 and 121 in 07/08. Injured most of last season.

bantee

Thoughts on this team please?
I reckon I'll pick up points in midfield but depends on if they all play weekly.

Given
Sagna Lescott Evra
Noble A Young Modric Valencia
Rooney(c) Defoe Ebankes-Blake

Subs: Fulop Cattermole Distin Eckersly

Jugs82

bantee wrote: »

Thoughts on this team please?
I reckon I'll pick up points in midfield but depends on if they all play weekly.

Given
Sagna Lescott Evra
Noble A Young Modric Valencia
Rooney(c) Defoe Ebankes-Blake

Subs: Fulop Cattermole Distin Eckersly

Alot of players missing for GW2 - Given, Sagna, Lescott, Noble & Young.

Valencia is tempting but I think the Unt midfield will be greatly affected (Fantasy Football wise) by rotation, so Im staying away for now.

Also, Id look at bringing in Lampard or Gerrard in Midfield

bantee

Jugs82 wrote: »

Alot of players missing for GW2 - Given, Sagna, Lescott, Noble & Young.

Valencia is tempting but I think the Unt midfield will be greatly affected (Fantasy Football wise) by rotation, so Im staying away for now.

Also, Id look at bringing in Lampard or Gerrard in Midfield

My thinking was that I'd take the hit in GW2 and my 4 subs should fill the gaps.
Going by pre-season I can see Valencia getting a lot more 1st team football but only time will tell.
I won't include Gerrard or any Liverpool players out of principal, may be a stupid move but I think Rooney and Defoe might make up for these lost points?

Sherifu

Will probably tinker with it again before Saturday.

Eire-Dearg

Good team.