EPL Team of the 'Half-Season' (with a twist)

SlickRic

this is, i know, a bit of a trivial thread in a way, only 20 games in and all, but it's always interesting to see who people would pick if awards were dished out now.

as a bit of a twist, you're only allowed to pick one player from any one team, which shouldn't make teams weak, considering the whole league is so tightly bunched.

here's mine....

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Foster (Brum)

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Onouha (Sun)----Kompany (City)----Terry (Che)----Baines (Eve)

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Jones (B'burn)

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Adam (B'pool)

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Nani (Utd)

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VDV (Spurs)

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Nasri (Ars)

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Carroll (New)

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it's fúcking harder than it looks!

Le King

Reina (Liv)
Ivanovic (Che) Nelson (Bla) Kompany (Mnc) Baines (Eve)
Nani (Man) Nolan (New) Nasri (Ars) Bale (Spu)
Elmander (Bol) Welbeck (Sun)

Nasri out of his ideal position but I thought he filled in well for Fabregas. Either way I had to accommodate him.

That_Guy

Hart (City)

Onuoha (Sun)
Nelson (Blackburn)
Terry (Chelsea)
Enrique (New)

Thomas (WBA)
Van Der Vaart (Tot)
Parker (WH)
N'Zogbia (Wigan)

Berbatov (MU)
Jones (Stoke)

Mr. Guappa

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Cech CHE

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Onuoha SUN -- Vidic UTD -- Kompany CIT -- Baines EVE

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Parker WHU

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Adam BLP

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--- Nasri ARS

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v.d.Vaart TOT ---- Brunt WBA

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Carroll NEW

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whatawaster

Reina (Liverpool)

Onouha (Sunderland)
Kompany (Man City)
Alex (Chelsea)
Enrique (Newcastle)

Parker (West Ham)
Van der Vaart (Tottenham)

Nasri (Arsenal)
Nani (Man United)
N'Zogbia (Wigan)

Elmander (Bolton)

GavRedKing

Hart

Onouhua
Vidic
Terry
Baines

Nasri
Adam
Parker
Bale

Carroll
Elmander

SlickRic

i've got to say, although alternatives are always welcome, i'd struggle to take seriously any team that doesn't have at least 2 of Nasri, Nani and VDV, if not all 3.

and Kompany as well, i believe, is absolutely vital.

it's also funny to me that so many of us have ignored Tevez and Berbatov so far, the two top scorers in the league if i'm not mistaken.

titan18

Reina (Liv)

Onouha (Sun)
Kompany (Mnc)
Terry (Che)
Baines (Eve)

Nani (Mnu)
Van Der Vaart (Tot)
Nasri (Ars)
Brunt (Wba)

Elmander (Bol)
Carroll (New)

Frisbee

SlickRic wrote: »

it's also funny to me that so many of us have ignored Tevez and Berbatov so far, the two top scorers in the league if i'm not mistaken.

I was thiking that too, but then you'd have to leave out Kompany, who imo has been the best CB in the league alongside Vidic this year. You'd have to leave out Nani too, who has been brilliant.

Whereas there is plenty more good strikers this season whereas Nani/Nasri/VDV have been head and shoulders above everyone else.

premierstone

That_Guy wrote: »

Hart (City)

Onuoha (Sun)
Nelson (Blackburn)
Terry (Chelsea)
Enrique (New)

Thomas (WBA)
Van Der Vaart (Tot)
Parker (WH)
N'Zogbia (Wigan)

Berbatov (MU)
Jones (Stoke)

Your new years resolution should be to lay off the auld pipe my good man, either that or get sky sports for yourself!

SlickRic

Frisbee wrote: »

I was thiking that too, but then you'd have to leave out Kompany, who imo has been the best CB in the league alongside Vidic this year. You'd have to leave out Nani too, who has been brilliant.

Whereas there is plenty more good strikers this season whereas Nani/Nasri/VDV have been head and shoulders above everyone else.

true, and i did think that too.

it's still a little amusing to me.

maybe it is just more a sign of the lack of standout CBs, and how good Nani has been, rather than people omitting them due to forgetting them.

Mr. Guappa

SlickRic wrote: »

true, and i did think that too.

it's still a little amusing to me.

maybe it is just more a sign of the lack of standout CBs, and how good Nani has been, rather than people omitting them due to forgetting them.

There has been a lot of very good attacking midfielders, from Nani, Nasri, Bale and VDV to the lesser lights of Brunt, Adam and Etherington. Not too many CBs have really stood out so I put in Vidic, which meant I couldn't put in Nani but I felt this was ok since there was decent choices in his position.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Thought Terry was the best CB myself to date. Modric also deserves an honourable mention, he's been phenomenol this year, a few months ago Barca were reportedly interested in him and I've heard that he's the player AC Milan are most worried about.
Anyways, my team,

Foster

Onouha
Terry
Nelson
Baines

Nani
Adam
VDV
Nasri

Tevez
Carroll

iregk

I'm amazed how many have picked Terry. Having a stinker of a season and the biggest liability in the Chelsea defense.

GavRedKing

iregk wrote: »

I'm amazed how many have picked Terry. Having a stinker of a season and the biggest liability in the Chelsea defense.

This has been Terry's best start to a season in a long time, problem with Chelsea isnt Terry, its the fact Chelsea have not been able to pick a regualr back four, if you think Terry is the liabilty what do you make of P.Ferriera?

On topic, I picked Vidic over Nani as I wanted a good CB to partner Terry and since I had Hart on goal that couldnt be Kompany.

SlickRic

iregk wrote: »

I'm amazed how many have picked Terry. Having a stinker of a season and the biggest liability in the Chelsea defense.

IMO, he really isn't.

Ferreira is, by a fúcking mile.

it's not coincidence that Alex's injury has coincided with the defence becoming leaky. you can point to that meaning Alex was holding it toegther, and even carrying Terry, but Ferreira having to come in is the problem IMO.

Terry gets blamed for an awful lot because he's a dislikeable character, but he's been excellent on an individual level i've thought whenever i've seen him.

homerjay2005

SlickRic wrote: »

it's also funny to me that so many of us have ignored Tevez and Berbatov so far, the two top scorers in the league if i'm not mistaken.

nani is up for POTY so he has to be in there, hes been super and cannot be left out. bar one or 2 important/nice goals, tevez has not been anything special, he was poor in alot of games thus far.

Kiwi_knock

Foster (Birmingham)

Onouha (Sunderland)
Terry (Chelsea)
Kompany (Man City)
Baines (Everton)

Nani (Man Utd)
Van der Vaart (Spurs)
Adam (Blackpool)
Nasri (Arsenal)

Carroll (Newcastle)
Dempsey (Fulham)

G1032

That_Guy wrote: »

Hart (City)

Onuoha (Sun)
Nelson (Blackburn)
Terry (Chelsea)
Enrique (New)

Thomas (WBA)
Van Der Vaart (Tot)
Parker (WH)
N'Zogbia (Wigan)

Berbatov (MU)
Jones (Stoke)

I hope this is just a joke because if it isn't you've been watching a different premier league to me........

Anyway
Here's my team:

Foster (Bir)

Onuoha (Sun)
Terry (Chel)
Cahill (Bol)
Baines (Eve)

Parker (WH)
Nani (ManU)
Nasri (Ars)
VDV (Tot)

Carroll (New)
Tevez (City)

SlickRic

homerjay2005 wrote: »

nani is up for POTY so he has to be in there, hes been super and cannot be left out. bar one or 2 important/nice goals, tevez has not been anything special, he was poor in alot of games thus far.

i'm with you 100% on the first part man, it's just, on the face of it, and funny observation that the top scorers in the league don't make the vast majority of teams.

i think that's harsh on Tevez, but i suspect we'll have to agree to disagree. he's been excellent in the majority of games for City this year, and their one constant threat up front.

but Kompany has been that good, that i couldn't justify not putting him in as CB, otherwise Tevez would've been in, or de Jong at DM.

Warper

Hart has been the standout goalie for me. Baines has been the best left-back but I also wanna have Tim Cahill in my team but cant.

Hart, Baines, VDV, Nani, Carroll and Nasri should be in most teams as they have been excellent.

Jax Teller

Foster
Onuoha kompany Cahill baines
Nani Nasri Parker malouda
Vdv
Carroll
I like that team

WallyGUFC

In no particular specific position:

Al-Habsi

Hangeland
Elmohamady
Baines

VDV
Nasri
Nani
Adam

Tevez
Carroll
Elmander

Paully D

Here's my effort:

Robinson

Onouha Cahill Hangeland Baines

Nani Nasri Van Der Vaart Albrighton

Tevez Carroll

iregk

SlickRic wrote: »

Terry gets blamed for an awful lot because he's a dislikeable character, but he's been excellent on an individual level i've thought whenever i've seen him.

I'm a Chelsea fan so I have absolutely no dislike for Terry. I also agree with many saying Ferrer, he is shocking. That said JT hasn't started the season well at all and I've no idea what people are seeing in him this year. Playing alongside Alex and Brana this year both have constantly gotten dragged out of position to try and cover mistakes made by Terry.

My idea defensive pairing at present is Alex and Brana, when both are fit of course.

shano_88

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Robinson

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---Ivanovic---Cahill

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Dann--Baines----

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Cattermole

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Nasri

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VDV

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---Nani

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Silva--

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Carroll

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premierstone

Bloody harder than it sounds but here goes

Foster
Ivanovic
Hageland
Cahil
Baines
Nasri
Nani
Adam
Bale
Tevez
Carroll

That_Guy

FFS. Twice I've been slated in this thread for my choices. It's my fcuking opinion.

Never mind the team these players are with. Look at the individual performances from some of the players I've picked and then you'll see why I picked them.

FFS.

Boskowski

Well, these are the Fantasy Premier League top scorers according to your rules then...

I took the leading scorers from the top. If some club had players in more than one category I went again by top score. Say top goalie is Hart and top forward is Tevez. Hart has 103 points, Tevez has 114. So Tevez it is and the GK spot goes to the next in line. And so on.


GK: Foster

DEF: Hangeland, Elmohamady, Huth, Nelsen

MID: Nani, Cahill, Malouda, Van Der Vaart

FWD: Tevez, Carroll

iregk

That_Guy wrote: »

FFS. Twice I've been slated in this thread for my choices. It's my fcuking opinion.

Man up. You'll need to be made of a lot sterner stuff if you want to survive on this forum.

Dempsey

Reina

Vidic, Hangeland, Dann

Nasri, Van Der Vaart, Cahill, Brunt, Malouda

Carroll, Tevez

SlickRic

to those picking Reina...

i know it's easy, because no other Liverpool player has played remotely well, but Reina has been well below his best this season, and there are definitely at least 2 or 3 keepers ahead of him on form.

but i do understand picking him; it gets a club out the way for the purposes of the game.

That_Guy

iregk wrote: »

Man up. You'll need to be made of a lot sterner stuff if you want to survive on this forum.

I'm well aware as to how it works thanks.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

That_Guy wrote: »

FFS. Twice I've been slated in this thread for my choices. It's my fcuking opinion.

Never mind the team these players are with. Look at the individual performances from some of the players I've picked and then you'll see why I picked them.

FFS.

Fair enough it's your opinion but how on earth could you say that both N'Zogbia and Thomas have been better than Nasri?

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Cech

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Onuoha

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Cahill --Hangeland

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Baines--

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Parker

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Adam

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Nani

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VDV

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Nasri --

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Tevez

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Scuba Ste

GK: Robinson
DF: Cole Onuoha Kompany Baines
MD: Nani Parker Nasri Van der Vaart
FW: Elmander Carroll

Whoever reckons Tevez is poor this season obviously isn't watching City games. Immense player. But so is Kompany.

That_Guy

playa3 wrote: »

Fair enough it's your opinion but how on earth could you say that both N'Zogbia and Thomas have been better than Nasri?

I thought I had already used an Arsenal player to be honest. Yes Nasri has been good I don't deny it.

I'd stick him in there of course.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

That_Guy wrote: »

I thought I had already used an Arsenal player to be honest. Yes Nasri has been good I don't deny it.

I'd stick him in there of course.

Ah yeah. It is very confusing to keep track when making the team alright. The other arsenal player I thought you might have gone for was Sagna but Onuoha is a good shout too.

Mitch Connor

Foster

Baines
Cahill
Kompany
Onuoha


Parker
Adam

Nani
Nasri
Van der Vaart

Carroll
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Switched things around a good few times... wanted to pick Silva, but couldn't come up with a better defender (or comparable) to Kompany.

That_Guy

playa3 wrote: »

Ah yeah. It is very confusing to keep track when making the team alright. The other arsenal player I thought you might have gone for was Sagna but Onuoha is a good shout too.

Had a shaky start to the season did Onuoha. His goal against Chelsea and his general performance that day really gave him a boost of confidence.

token56

3-5-2 formation

Foster (BIR)
Onuoha (SUN) Terry (CHE) Baines (EVE)
Nani (MAN) Adam (BLP) VDV (TOT) Parker (WHM) Nasri (ARS)
Tevez (MCY) Carroll (NEW)

eagle eye

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Robinson
Onuoha

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Cahill

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Ivanovic

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Baines

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Meireles

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Ferguson
Nasri

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Van der Vaart

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Nani

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Tevez

FatherTed

Van Der Sar
Rafael-Ferdidand-Vidic-Evra
Park-Scholes-Carrick-Nani
Berbatov-Hernandez

efb

FatherTed wrote: »

Van Der Sar
Rafael-Ferdidand-Vidic-Evra
Park-Scholes-Carrick-Nani
Berbatov-Hernandez

Yawn...

fullstop

iregk wrote: »

I'm a Chelsea fan so I have absolutely no dislike for Terry. I also agree with many saying Ferrer, he is shocking.

Albert Ferrer left Chelsea years ago, give the man a break.

efb

I like this thread glad to see Jesus of Nasri making 99% of the teams.

I'll go home, think about it, and give my XI later

JPA

Foster

Baines
Kompany
Vidic
Onouha

Parker
Barton

Albrighton
Nasri
VDV

Tevez

That_Guy

Permission to change my striker to Leon Best...

Nalz

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Foster

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Bardsley

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Cahill

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Huth

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Baines

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Adam

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Nasri

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Nani

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Bale

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Drogba

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Tevez

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Jax Teller

Trilla wrote: »

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Van Der Saar

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Coleman

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Cahill

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Vidic

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Baines

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Adam

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Nasri

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Nani

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Van der Vaart

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Bale

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Tevez

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1 player only from any team

xw2lj9uspm1eyh

Foster (BIR)
Cole (CHE),Vidic (MAN U),G.Cahill (BOL),Onuoha (SUN)
N'Zogbia (WIG),VDV(TOT),T.Cahill(EVE),Nasri (ARS)
Tevez (MAN C),Carroll (NEW)

Tough one to think of,midfield wouldn't be very defensive minded and I think Onuoha is more of a center back but seen him play full back for City before.Should of included with team of the half season,manager of the half season my choice would been Ian Holloway .

DOC09UNAM

Damn you Slick, i'm going to spend the day in work tomorrow trying to conjure up a world class team now!

My bosses shant be happy.