Boards.ie Fantasy Football 2009/2010 (MOD NOTE - POST #2151)

Glico Man · 22-07-2009 2:28am

Changed mine for the umpteenth time

Green

Hangeland
Carragher
Baines
A. Cole

Gerrard
D. Murphy
P. Neville
Modric
Milner

Torres

Subs:
Sorensen
Ebanks-Blake
Figueroa
Cresswell

Jayob10 · 22-07-2009 2:33am

aaronh007 wrote: »

Changed mine for the umpteenth time

Green

Hangeland
Carragher
Baines
A. Cole

Gerrard
D. Murphy
P. Neville
Modric
Milner

Torres

Subs:
Sorensen
Ebanks-Blake
Figueroa
Cresswell

not bad, but scale down in defence and upgade on Neville in midfield. He wont score points for ya.

Modric could flourish this season too.

Glico Man · 22-07-2009 3:06am

Jayob10 wrote: »

not bad, but scale down in defence and upgade on Neville in midfield. He wont score points for ya.

Modric could flourish this season too.

Neville scored 140 points last season, and for £5 million, he isn't a bad choice.

Axwell · 22-07-2009 3:10am

aaronh007 wrote: »

Neville scored 140 points last season, and for £5 million, he isn't a bad choice.

Neville was down as a defender last season but played midfiled for everton therefore getting clean sheet points and assists..hes down as a midfielder this season and wont score anything near those points.

Glico Man · 22-07-2009 3:18am

Ah, I see. Same kinda situation with Zhirkov at Chelski then..

Anyways, swapped out:

Carra for Upson,
A. Cole for Corluka (spurs might actually be decent this year round)
Neville for A. Young

SRFC90 · 22-07-2009 6:17am

Opinions on this team please

Cech

Vidic

Hangeland

Carragher

Lampard---Malbraque--Alonso--Murphy

A.Johnson ---- Torres(C) --- K. Doyle

Subs: Ashbee, Faye A, Bramble

thewools · 22-07-2009 8:26am

SRFC90 wrote: »

Opinions on this team please
Cech

Vidic
Hangeland
Carragher

Lampard---Malbraque--Alonso--Murphy

A.Johnson ---- Torres(C) --- K. Doyle

Subs: Ashbee, Faye A, Bramble

Its a solid team.

Personally I wouldnt spend so much on a keeper like Cech when a 4.0mill keeper may score better.

Defenders - Your starting 3 are first choice starters and Vidic knows where the goals are when he up for corners etc. Always reckoned Carra is a bit overpriced however. Maybe a more attacking player could do better job - Lescott / A.Cole / Evra???

Midfield - Alonso is cheap but as a defensive mid he wont score too heavily. Murphy had a great season last year and hits the penalties. Malbranque is an attacking player and knows where the goals are.

Strikers - Johnson? I would prob replace him with someone like Cole / Crouch (if moves club). Doyle is good value. Torres however isnt - 11.5 for a player who only scored 135 points last year? I would rather recycle those points and replace someone in midfiled with Arshavin / Gerrard / Kuyt...

Lemlin · 22-07-2009 8:28am

I think Rooney is better value than Torres. He's .5 of a million cheaper and he should flourish this season with Ronaldo gone.

Kevin Doyle could miss the start of the season. He had a hernia op and is out until October apparently. I wasn't sure whether to go for him or Ebanks Blake but its definitely Ebanks Blake now.

My team now is:

Given

Warnock
Anton Ferdinand
Woodgate

Arshavin
Lampard
Gerrard
Malbranque
Jimenez

Rooney
Ebanks Blake

Hart, Zayatte and two other subs not worth even mentioning.

I had got Jasskelainen (4.5) in goals to save 1.0 mil and some better subs but decided to just go for it and have Zayate as my only decent sub.

I think Given (5.5) will score well because he's scored well consistenty with a Newcastle defence in front of him so he should be a revelation with the City defence in front of him.

I'm planning to swap Jimenez out too. Anyone know a decent mid for 5 mil?

How much is Barry Ferguson? It'll be interesting to see how he does.

Last year I went for a defence from the top four and it didn't work out so I'm going for high scoring mids and a high scoring striker this season.

As someone above said, the defenders from the lower teams usually pick up a few points and Warnock often plays in midfield for Blackburn. Redknapp tightened up Spurs as well and Bruce and Allardyce will be tightening up Blackburn and Sunderland.

eirebhoy · 22-07-2009 11:39am

thewools wrote: »

Strikers - Johnson? I would prob replace him with someone like Cole / Crouch (if moves club). Doyle is good value. Torres however isnt - 11.5 for a player who only scored 135 points last year? I would rather recycle those points and replace someone in midfiled with Arshavin / Gerrard / Kuyt...

Torres has the best points per game out of all the strikers. 5.6.

thewools · 22-07-2009 11:55am

eirebhoy wrote: »

Torres has the best points per game out of all the strikers. 5.6.

True, shows how many games he missed last year then.

BaZmO* · 22-07-2009 12:26pm

I like the new additions to the Fantasy Bi-Polar League

8-10 · 22-07-2009 1:25pm

Lemlin wrote: »

I'm planning to swap Jimenez out too. Anyone know a decent mid for 5 mil?

How much is Barry Ferguson? It'll be interesting to see how he does.

Ferguson is 5mil alright, I'd go for Seb Larsson though at the same price. Should be a regular starter and scores goals.

Glico Man · 22-07-2009 3:22pm

And I've changed mine again....

Green

G. Johnson
Carragher
Upson
Corluka
Woodgate

Gerrard
D. Murphy
Modric
Lampard

C. Cole

Subs:
Sorensen
Ebanks-Blake
Mendy
Vokes

I'm going by the fact defenders score better than strikers, but I will more than likely change my team in a few hours anyways

Morzadec · 22-07-2009 3:50pm

8-10 wrote: »

I'd go for Seb Larsson though at the same price. Should be a regular starter and scores goals.

Great shout. If you want a very cheap mid Larsson's your man. He should be involved in anything good Birmingham do. He's a freekick specialist as well. Could see him getting 4-5 goals and maybe 6-8 assists, plus the odd bonus, and he should also play 90 minutes. For .5 more than the cheapest midfield options this is very good value

1mcampo1 · 22-07-2009 4:25pm

Why are people picking their teams looking at the fixture list? If a few teams dont play in the second fixture, they will have to have a double gameweek in the future

jimbling · 22-07-2009 4:44pm

1mcampo1 wrote: »

Why are people picking their teams looking at the fixture list? If a few teams dont play in the second fixture, they will have to have a double gameweek in the future

because you can make transfers throughout the year

1mcampo1 · 22-07-2009 4:52pm

but ya can only make one free transfer a week, or does the new rule mean if ya dont use the free transfer, it carries over to the next week?

Morzadec · 22-07-2009 5:05pm

1mcampo1 wrote: »

but ya can only make one free transfer a week, or does the new rule mean if ya dont use the free transfer, it carries over to the next week?

Yes that is what the new rule means.

But it dosn't continue accumalating. You'll never have more than 2 free transfers (apart from when you use your wildcard of course)

1mcampo1 · 22-07-2009 5:13pm

Morzadec wrote: »

Yes that is what the new rule means.

But it dosn't continue accumalating. You'll never have more than 2 free transfers (apart from when you use your wildcard of course)

Thanks. Didn't know if they did or not

WIZE · 22-07-2009 5:38pm

BVB to be champions this season . No holding back .

Do we get to win anything from boards

thewools · 22-07-2009 5:46pm

BVB wrote: »

BVB to be champions this season . No holding back .

Do we get to win anything from boards

ADMIRATION???

WIZE · 22-07-2009 5:52pm

Would it be a good idea if I got a :

Boards.ie Fantasy Premier league Champion 09/10

t- shirt made up for the winner

Mezcita · 22-07-2009 10:27pm

Lemlin wrote: »

I think Given (5.5) will score well because he's scored well consistenty with a Newcastle defence in front of him so he should be a revelation with the City defence in front of him.

Doubt it. City have the same dodgy defence as last season.

Dont Ban Me · 23-07-2009 2:38am

I'm just wondering with Zhirkov in as a "left back" whats going to happen with C**tly C**t (A.Cole) ? Or is he good enough to keep J.Cole out?

slingerz · 23-07-2009 9:58am

Dont Ban Me wrote: »

I'm just wondering with Zhirkov in as a "left back" whats going to happen with C**tly C**t (A.Cole) ? Or is he good enough to keep J.Cole out?

Zhirkov will be on the wing I'd see either Malouda or Joe Cole being squeezed. It certainly wont be the new man being squeezed

Axwell · 23-07-2009 11:59am

Joe Cole is still out injured and only back in training so he wont be playing at the start of the season anyways

Sherifu · 23-07-2009 12:38pm

First incarnation...

Schwarzer

-Yobo--Skrtel---Hughes--O'Shea-

-Lampard--Mikel--Ireland--Reid-

----Torres (C)

Fuller----

Subs;
Sorensen
Dunne
Parker
Zamora

8-10 · 23-07-2009 12:41pm

Sherifu wrote: »

First incarnation...
Schwarzer

-Yobo--Skrtel---Hughes--O'Shea-

-Lampard--Mikel--Ireland--Reid-

----Torres (C)
Fuller----

Subs;
Sorensen
Dunne
Parker
Zamora

I have Skrtel too, I hope he's gonna start the season though, went home today...think it was a hamstring injury.

redzerdrog · 23-07-2009 1:06pm

ok here we go, 1st time playing so go easy:D

this is my 1st draft not entirely happy and it is harder than it looked to pick a team.

given

johnson

woodgate

onuoha

warnock

arshavin

gerrard

malbranque

n'zogbia

torres(C)

Jo

hart, ebanks-blake, fahey, foley

eoin99 · 23-07-2009 1:18pm

My 2nd draft goes like this:

Sorensen

--Zhirkov

Figeroa

Hangeland---

--Arshavin

Gerrard

Lampard(C)

Muamba--

Ebanks Blake

Rooney

McFadden

Subs:
Hart
Mendy
Berra
Dawson

Any opinions? Planning on having Hart as the no.1 keeper, but since they are up against Utd in week1 he's on the bench, which doesn't look very strong!

8-10 · 23-07-2009 1:25pm

OK:

Almunia

O'Shea

Dunne

Skrtel

Bridge

Arshavin

Cahill

Alonso

Essien

Torres

Owen

With: Sorenson, Figueroa, Larsson and Jerome on the bench.

If Alonso goes I'll put Fellaini in his place. Also probably going to put Distin in for Dunne if he moves to Villa.

Also what do you reckon, Cahill or Arteta? Same price.

thewools · 23-07-2009 1:34pm

8-10 wrote: »

OK:
Almunia

O'Shea
Dunne
Skrtel
Bridge

Arshavin
Cahill
Alonso
Essien
Torres
Owen

With: Sorenson, Figueroa, Larsson and Jerome on the bench.

If Alonso goes I'll put Fellaini in his place. Also probably going to put Distin in for Dunne if he moves to Villa.

Also what do you reckon, Cahill or Arteta? Same price.

Arteta... he hits the penalties, free kicks and corners. So your guaranteed a few goals and assists. Good for bonus points too.

Cahill is a goal machine when on form though, but Arteta the better fantasy choice!!

Stacksey · 23-07-2009 1:53pm

Sherifu wrote: »

First incarnation...
Schwarzer

-Yobo--Skrtel---Hughes--O'Shea-

-Lampard--Mikel--Ireland--Reid-

----Torres (C)
Fuller----

Subs;
Sorensen
Dunne
Parker
Zamora

**** TEAM

carlop · 23-07-2009 2:01pm

Sherifu wrote: »

First incarnation...
Schwarzer

-Yobo--Skrtel---Hughes--O'Shea-

-Lampard--Mikel--Ireland--Reid-

----Torres (C)
Fuller----

Subs;
Sorensen
Dunne
Parker
Zamora

I actually think this is a decent team but I'd get rid of Mikel and get cheaper subs. You could save yourself at least 3 million if you get subs from the cheapest price bracket like Foley at Wolves or Muamba at Bolton.

eirebhoy · 23-07-2009 2:04pm

Arteta is expected to miss the first couple of games.

Gear9992 · 23-07-2009 2:35pm

I'm thinking of buying Gareth Barry for 8 mill,
will he get a leading role this season or will he be rotated with somebody else?

Also, Doyle or Blakes who do you lot think will do better?

eirebhoy · 23-07-2009 2:37pm

Barry is pretty much guaranteed a start imo. Only Michael Johnson the only other player to do his role.

WIZE · 23-07-2009 5:49pm

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My team line up . maybe 1 or 2 changes

Morzadec · 23-07-2009 6:36pm

BVB wrote: »

My team line up . maybe 1 or 2 changes

Can't see gibson getting a game, you'd be better off putting in someone who will play 90 minutes

token56 · 23-07-2009 8:52pm

Another Line Up I'm looking at

Given

----Evra

Carragher

Hangleland

Distin

----Lampard(C)----Gerrard

Arshavin----Larsson----

Cole

Ebanks Balke

Subs:
Sorensen
Muamba
Zayatte
Rodriguez

Any opinions,
its hard to fit Lamps, Gerrard and Asrhavin in the same team and still have some sort of balance to it but I think its decent enough.

Mr.Nice Guy · 23-07-2009 8:58pm

token56 wrote: »

Another Line Up I'm looking at
Given
----Evra
Carragher
Hangleland
Distin
----Lampard(C)----Gerrard
Arshavin----Larsson----
Cole
Ebanks Balke

Subs:
Sorensen
Muamba
Zayatte
Rodriguez

Any opinions,
its hard to fit Lamps, Gerrard and Asrhavin in the same team and still have some sort of balance to it but I think its decent enough.

Looks very nice. One of the better ones I've seen. :cool:

token56 · 23-07-2009 9:03pm

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Looks very nice. One of the better ones I've seen. :cool:

Cheers, my only problem at the moment is that I dont think its possible to find a forward worth 4.5 who will start regularly to have on the bench, but i guess thats the price you have to pay.

Morzadec · 23-07-2009 9:53pm

token56 wrote: »

Another Line Up I'm looking at
Given
----Evra
Carragher
Hangleland
Distin
----Lampard(C)----Gerrard
Arshavin----Larsson----
Cole
Ebanks Balke

Subs:
Sorensen
Muamba
Zayatte
Rodriguez

Any opinions,
its hard to fit Lamps, Gerrard and Asrhavin in the same team and still have some sort of balance to it but I think its decent enough.

I like it a lot. For now, 2 scoring subs will probably do you as well.

Bobalicious93 · 23-07-2009 10:01pm

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

Just joined, here's my team, Superbatov FC:
Given
---Ilunga----Hangeland---Vermaelen--Evra---
---Valencia---Ireland(C)---Gerrard---Kightly--
Doyle
Owen

Subs:
Gomes
Corluka
Palacios
Fletcher (Burnley)

The irony being I couldn't actually afford Berbatov :pac:

I've fairly dramatically changed my team around, and it now looks like this:

Given

---Baines

Hangeland

Vermaelen----Zhirkov---

Valencia

Ireland

Fellaini

Rooney(C)

Doyle

Eduardo

Subs:
Gomes
Berra
Cattermole
Palacios

Opinions?

Mr.Nice Guy · 23-07-2009 10:41pm

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

I've fairly dramatically changed my team around, and it now looks like this:
Given
---Baines
Hangeland
Vermaelen----Zhirkov---
Valencia
Ireland
Fellaini
Rooney(C)
Doyle
Eduardo

Subs:
Gomes
Berra
Cattermole
Palacios

Opinions?

One thing that stands out for me is that you've gone for a few card-happy individuals.

Cattermole got 12 yellow cards (2 red) last season as did Fellaini, Rooney got 9 yellow cards, Ireland got 8 yellow cards, Valencia got 5 yellow cards.

By my calculations if you'd had just these 5 players last season you would have lost 52 points. That's quite a lot.

Personally I'm going to go with Ireland like yourself despite the card risk but I'm going to try and avoid other card-happy players. I'd suggest going for too many committed players could be very dangerous.

Edit: I just spotted you went for Palacios as well and he also picked up 12 yellow cards!

carlop · 23-07-2009 11:59pm

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

I've fairly dramatically changed my team around, and it now looks like this:
Given
---Baines
Hangeland
Vermaelen----Zhirkov---
Valencia
Ireland
Fellaini
Rooney(C)
Doyle
Eduardo

Subs:
Gomes
Berra
Cattermole
Palacios

Opinions?

No offence but I hate it.

You don't have Gerrard, Lampard or Arshavin who are all going to score big.

Valencia and Eduardo are not guaranteed to be regular starters, at least not right away.

Fellaini is one of those players who is better than is reflected in his score. A lot of his best work isn't recognised by the FF points system.

Zhirkov could be a brilliant player to have, but I'm personally going to wait and see how regularly he plays, as Malouda was doing well at the end of last season.

Given is obviously class, but I have doubts over City's defence.

I also think your bench is a bit too strong. At the start of the season, your starting XI should all be playing as you shouldn't have anyone who is injured in your team. Take Gomes out and bring in a 4m goalkeeper, and do the same with the midfielders. You could save a couple of million and improve one of your starting players.

At the start, all I want from my subs is that they play, nothing more. I'll be going an all Burnley/Birmingham/Wolves bench I think, along with Sorensen who I think everyone should have.

Just my advice, I'm by no means an expert.

Average-Ro · 24-07-2009 1:04am

What do people think of Rosicky? Worth a go?

ZiMZuM · 24-07-2009 1:32am

My team..

Given
Carragher...A Cole...Vidic
Neville...Ireland...Fellaini...Kuyt
Keane(c)...Doyle...Torres
:pac:

Sherifu · 24-07-2009 9:17am

Stacksey wrote: »

**** TEAM

I value such great insight. Honestly.

jimbling · 24-07-2009 11:31am

Right, trying to get my team together.

Currently:

Cech

Zhirkov

Vidic

Johnson

Larsson---Lampard(c)---Arteta---Young---N'Zogbia

Cole

Ebanks-Bblake

Subs: Myhill, A Ferdinand, Zayatte, Zamora

I'm chopping and changing constantly.... and have a few questions.

Firstly, what do ye think? :pac:

I have decided to take the risk on Zhirkov for now. If it looks like he's not going to start I'll switch him out.

Vidic vs Ferdinand. Is he worth the extra 1m? He obviously had a great season last year, and Ferdinand had a poor one. But the 2 years before that were the opposite. Can Ferdinand pull it back?

I think Johnson will do very well so am definitely keeping him in the team. And lamps is def my captain, at least for the first 4/6 weeks.

Other than that I'm open for options.

What are the "best buys" for this year? What are the "bargain buys" for this year?
What have I missed? I'd like to have Anelka up front, but can't find the 3.5m without getting subs that will be pure useless.

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