Rate My Team thread

toc2012

my selection for tomorrow

Krul
Cole.A(v), Kompany, Walker
Allen, Wright-Phillips, Kagawa, Hazard
Pogrebnyak, Torres(c), Van Persie

bench

Cerny, McCarthy.J, Barnett, Clyne

carlcon

OK, I'm going to bed with this team. 3m in the bank.

Bale likely to come in for Mata, and I'll have to figure out who to replace Cole with. Have enough put by to bring in RVP, Rooney, or Aguero if Torres is back to his old ways too.

No doubt I'll wake up in the morning in a cold sweat and cut half the team. Maybe I'll get lucky and the site will be down.

Schwarzer

Cole / Zabaleta / Rafael

Kagawa / Mata / Larsson / Noble

Torres (C) / Tevez / Graham

Subs: Begovic / Pienaar / Fabio / McCartney

toc2012

carlcon wrote: »

OK, I'm going to bed with this team. 3m in the bank.

Bale likely to come in for Mata, and I'll have to figure out who to replace Cole with. Have enough put by to bring in RVP, Rooney, or Aguero if Torres is back to his old ways too.

No doubt I'll wake up in the morning in a cold sweat and cut half the team. Maybe I'll get lucky and the site will be down.

Schwarzer

Cole / Zabaleta / Rafael

Kagawa / Mata / Larsson / Noble

Torres (C) / Tevez / Graham

Subs: Begovic / Pienaar / Fabio / McCartney

Swap McCartney for Barnett (norwich) at least he has a hope of playing and if you get stuck a some chance of getting points

and swap Larsson for Allen (liverpool) he's going to play week in week out alongside Gerrard, expect big points from him this season, and 1 mil cheaper

toc2012

Scrappylad wrote: »

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Just after my 10th re-jig any thoughts?

only 2 defenders there??? cole and clyne, shawcross is a butcher and fabio was so poor in fergies eyes he didnt even replace him, mccartney wont feature often

carlcon

Only 3 outfield players played more games for WH than McCartney last season. What makes you think he won't get game time?

Also, Allen will be lined up beside Lucas, not Gerrard. Gerrard is likely to be given the freedom of attack while Allen plays deeper with Lucas. Can't see him outscoring Larsson, who takes practically all of Sunderland's set-pieces.

thunderdog

carlcon wrote: »

Keep it. Looks like a good team, and at this hour any changes you make will probably haunt you for the first half of the season.

Great going to wake up at 11.31 tomorrow and let the day unfold

toc2012

carlcon wrote: »

Only 3 outfield players played more games for WH than McCartney last season. What makes you think he won't get game time?

Also, Allen will be lined up beside Lucas, not Gerrard. Gerrard is likely to be given the freedom of attack while Allen plays deeper with Lucas. Can't see him outscoring Larsson, who takes practically all of Sunderland's set-pieces.

James Collins, Joey O'brien and i think Jordan Spence is ready for the big time,

unless liverpool play 4-3-1-2 which they wont, more than likely 2-4-1-2-1. he'll prob play as the 1 behind borini and gerrard with saurez up front, or 2-3-2-2-1 or here with gerrard / lucas / cole

shadowcomplex

carlcon wrote: »

OK, I'm going to bed with this team. 3m in the bank.

Bale likely to come in for Mata, and I'll have to figure out who to replace Cole with. Have enough put by to bring in RVP, Rooney, or Aguero if Torres is back to his old ways too.

No doubt I'll wake up in the morning in a cold sweat and cut half the team. Maybe I'll get lucky and the site will be down.

Schwarzer

Cole / Zabaleta / Rafael

Kagawa / Mata / Larsson / Noble

Torres (C) / Tevez / Graham

Subs: Begovic / Pienaar / Fabio / McCartney

I don't think rafael will start for united

batistuta9

Copper_pipe

shadowcomplex wrote: »

carlcon wrote: »

OK, I'm going to bed with this team. 3m in the bank.

Bale likely to come in for Mata, and I'll have to figure out who to replace Cole with. Have enough put by to bring in RVP, Rooney, or Aguero if Torres is back to his old ways too.

No doubt I'll wake up in the morning in a cold sweat and cut half the team. Maybe I'll get lucky and the site will be down.

Schwarzer

Cole / Zabaleta / Rafael

Kagawa / Mata / Larsson / Noble

Torres (C) / Tevez / Graham

Subs: Begovic / Pienaar / Fabio / McCartney

I don't think rafael will start for united

I'm pretty sure he will, All our other defenders are injured

davemckenna25

Lads, I have a decision wrecking my head....

Nolan - westham
or
N'Zogbia - villa.

Would greatly appreciate opinions.

Thanks.

SmallBalls

davemckenna25 wrote: »

Lads, I have a decision wrecking my head....

Nolan - westham
or
N'Zogbia - villa.

Would greatly appreciate opinions.

Thanks.

I'd take a punt on N'Zogbia.

bennyx_o

Been playing round with my team all morning, as happy as I've been with it now. Still have 1m in the bank. Brough Torres in for Teves, not sure what role he will play for City, but he could be a good buy if he plays regularly. Still have 1m in the bank



Any suggestions on improvements?

davemckenna25

bennyx_o wrote: »

Been playing round with my team all morning, as happy as I've been with it now. Still have 1m in the bank. Brough Torres in for Teves, not sure what role he will play for City, but he could be a good buy if he plays regularly. Still have 1m in the bank



Any suggestions on improvements?

Taking a big risk tying up so much in Nani and kawaga when they aren't nailed on starteds. be very surprised to see both of them starting.

bennyx_o

I've just been thinking that and the site wont let me log in to change!

Jax Teller

Ended up with this

Federici
Zabaleta Ivanovic Jenkinson
Mata Bale Toure Pienaar
Tevez Torres Pogrebynak
Subs
Jääskeläinen Noble Fabio Clyne

Happy enough with it .
3 million in the bank

bensboys

Here we go
Federeci
Vidic a Cole zabaleta
Silva bale hazard noble
Tores c. Tevez pog

Subs. Fabio clyne whitehead
.5 in the bank

Any last minute advice!

thegreengoblin

bensboys wrote: »

Here we go
Federeci
Vidic a Cole zabaleta
Silva bale hazard noble
Tores c. Tevez pog

Subs. Fabio clyne whitehead
.5 in the bank

Any last minute advice!

Yep. Leave your team alone! It looks very good.

swoody

Green
Gunter / Demel / Fabio
Cazorla / Yaya / Hazard / Kagawa
Rooney / Torres / Tevez

Begovic / Kacaniklic / Tierney / Clyne

marvin_spazz

thegreengoblin wrote: »

Yep. Leave your team alone! It looks very good.

we all believe in a team of gary breens a team of gary breens a team of gary breens.

Fizman

Game on!



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redzerdrog

I am contemplating using my wildcard. I have used it early in all the last 3 years so that doesnt bother me. I am just sick that 2 players I had in my team and took out scored very well today. petric and michu

In
rafael
gibbs
michu
petric

out
johnson
dawson
nzogbia
pogrebnyak

leaves me with 1.5 to upgrade noble to nolan if i want or yaya (depending on position) to anyone apart from silva

what you guys think?

Jimmy Iovine

redzerdrog wrote: »

I am contemplating using my wildcard. I have used it early in all the last 3 years so that doesnt bother me. I am just sick that 2 players I had in my team and took out scored very well today. petric and michu

In
rafael
gibbs
michu
petric

out
johnson
dawson
nzogbia
pogrebnyak

leaves me with 1.5 to upgrade noble to nolan if i want or yaya (depending on position) to anyone apart from silva

what you guys think?

Take a deep breath and step away from the computer for a few minutes to cool down.

A lot of people play the wildcard in GW 3 to great effect. It'd be a waste to play it after the first day though.

If you really want to play it then do, but I think you're making a rash decision based on a few freak results today. Johnson and Dawson weren't great picks to start off with and The Pog's use is pretty much non-existent after this weeks fixtures.

Pick one or two and replace them over the next 2 weeks. If things are really bad in 3/4 weeks then you should look at using the wildcard. It'd be a complete waste to use it after the first week though. You'll be regretting it big time later on in the season.

As for having Pteric and Michu in your team, well it happens to all of us. I left Sigurdsson on the bench for 3 weeks in a row last year and he scored 2 goals in each game. I captained him for the 4th game and he came off after 68 minutes.

When it comes off it's great. When it doesn't it's horrific.

Paully D

Just messing around here seeing what sort of team I can come up with by using my wildcard:

Jasskelainen / Begovic (perfect rotation for the season)

Lescott / Rafael / Cuellar / Demel / £4.0m defender

Bale or Hazard / Cazorla / Pienaar / Michu / £4.5m midfielder

Aguero / Van Persie / Graham

Strongly thinking about going against virtually every bit of advice I give myself and to others and using my wildcard to get the above in before price rises because I think there's a few in there that will rise very quickly and that team costs exactly £100m. If even one player rises by £0.1m I won't be able to do it. It's the definition of knee jerk of course but if it works it could be superb :pac:

What do you lads think?

Lemlin

Paully D wrote: »

Just messing around here seeing what sort of team I can come up with by using my wildcard:

Jasskelainen / Begovic (perfect rotation for the season)

Lescott / Rafael / Cuellar / Demel / £4.0m defender

Bale or Hazard / Cazorla / Pienaar / Michu / £4.5m midfielder

Aguero / Van Persie / Graham

Strongly thinking about going against virtually every bit of advice I give myself and to others and using my wildcard to get the above in before price rises because I think there's a few in there that will rise very quickly and that team costs exactly £100m. If even one player rises by £0.1m I won't be able to do it. It's the definition of knee jerk of course but if it works it could be superb :pac:

What do you lads think?

I wouldn't do it. Rafael isn't guaranteed a game and you are doubling up on West Ham.

Paully D

Lemlin wrote: »

I wouldn't do it. Rafael isn't guaranteed a game and you are doubling up on West Ham.

Aye, I doubt I will now. Rush of blood to the head really and my eyes lit up when I seen the strikeforce I could get :pac:

shadowcomplex

i played the wildcard

Paully D

More than likely going to go into week 2 with the following line up (thankfully I took a step back and didn't play my wildcard as suggested earlier):

Mignolet

Rafael / Zabaleta / Cole

Bale / Mata / Pienaar / McClean

Tevez / Van Persie (C) / Graham

Subs: Federici / Puncheon / Demel / Nelson

Free transfer would be Torres -> Van Persie. Obviously I'll wait until after the United game tomorrow night to make that change as RvP may get injured etc. Manchester City have a tough game away to Liverpool but I'd still fancy Zabaleta to have more of a chance of keeping a clean sheet than Demel away to Swansea and I'd rather have Tevez playing than Puncheon, that's why I've gone with who I have. The others are pretty much self explanatory.

Happy with that to be honest. Shouldn't be too hard to beat my week 1 total anyway :pac:

irish son

irish son wrote: »

Jaaskelainen/Mignolet

Fabio/Rafael/A.Cole/Kompany/Harte

Mata/Toure/Cazorla/Fellaini/Britton

Tevez/Pogrebnyak/Torres(C)

Thats my team at the moment with Mignolet,Fabio and Britton on the bench for GW1. I feel like Felliani may play more advanced more often this year with Cahill gone so thats why Ive gone with him.

Any thoughts???

Of course I had to go and switch Fellaini out at the last minute, I'm pretty sure he will get 3 bonus points aswell At least I had money on him for first goalscorer though

manster

Decided on advice and not to go with Wildcard.

Got rid of Aguero for Tevez and Allen for Dyer. -4 points altogether

de Gea
Rafael / Harte / Cuellar / Cole A
Larsson / Walters / Dyer / Mata
Tevez / Torres
Subs: Podolski / Noble / Demel

Opinions?

skippy15

manster wrote: »

Decided on advice and not to go with Wildcard.

Got rid of Aguero for Tevez and Allen for Dyer. -4 points altogether


Opinions?

Aguero to tevez ye seems common move all around-

But no sense in taking a 4 point hit, to get in Dyer as didn't even need money and Dyer will not score big most weeks. Should just left on bench this week even-

blatantrereg

My team is I dont watch soccer. It has 47 points with five to play again and two points to come from subs:

Cech (v)
(Schwarzer)

Harte
Baines
Cole A (c)
Evra
(Lescott)

N'Zogbia
Dempsey
Hazard
Guthrie
(Obertan)

Dong-Won Ji
Van Persie
(Smith)

Rayne Wooney

MY subs are Jaaskelainen, Stevens(Villa), McCarthy, Clyne(Southampton).. I have 4 million to strengthen this any suggestions on who to bring in?

Jimmy Iovine

blatantrereg wrote: »

My team is I dont watch soccer. It has 47 points with five to play again and two points to come from subs:

Cech (v)
(Schwarzer)

Harte
Baines
Cole A (c)
Evra
(Lescott)

N'Zogbia
Dempsey
Hazard
Guthrie
(Obertan)

Dong-Won Ji
Van Persie
(Smith)

You have way, way, way too much invested in your defence in my opinion. 43 million by my calculation. As a result the rest of your team is suffering.

Obertan and Guthrie aren't great options. You could upgrade them to better players. They're both bargain basement players who will get you 1/2 points every week but no more.

At the moment Dempsey isn't a great option to have either. He refuses to play for Fulham but he still hasn't sealed his move to Liverpool. Hazard is a good one though.

Van Persie is a good enough option but you'd save yourself 4 million downgrading to Tevez. That'd sort out the rest of your forward line which I'm sorry to say is very poor. Dong and Smith will struggle to score 4 goals between them all season.

If you're willing to play on with so many expensive defenders in your team then best of luck to you. If you're not then I'd consider using the wildcard and posting on here to check that your players are the right ones.

Of course feel free to ignore all of my suggestions. You did score more than me this week but I wouldn't be confident of that team in the long run.

blatantrereg

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

You have way, way, way too much invested in your defence in my opinion. 43 million by my calculation. As a result the rest of your team is suffering.

Obertan and Guthrie aren't great options. You could upgrade them to better players. They're both bargain basement players who will get you 1/2 points every week but no more.

At the moment Dempsey isn't a great option to have either. He refuses to play for Fulham but he still hasn't sealed his move to Liverpool. Hazard is a good one though.

Van Persie is a good enough option but you'd save yourself 4 million downgrading to Tevez. That'd sort out the rest of your forward line which I'm sorry to say is very poor. Dong and Smith will struggle to score 4 goals between them all season.

If you're willing to play on with so many expensive defenders in your team then best of luck to you. If you're not then I'd consider using the wildcard and posting on here to check that your players are the right ones.

Of course feel free to ignore all of my suggestions. You did score more than me this week but I wouldn't be confident of that team in the long run.

Thanks for the info regarding Dempsey. I wasn't aware of any of that, and was surprised to see he hadn't played. I'll probably move him.

The heavy investment in defence is by design. Defenders tend to give the most bang for the buck in the game imo. I used a similar approach the last time I actively played the game in 09/10. I finished then with 2164 in total, which I was happy with. I agree that there are maybe one or two too many bargain bin players in that line-up right now though.

I've been considering trasferring RVP alright since he moved to Man U. There's an element of uncertainty about whether he'll do so well there as he did with Arsenal. Would have transferred him already, only I made the team before that happened, and only looked back after the start. I think it's a good idea to have one or two of the highest scoring players, even if they are expensive - just for the captaincy bonus.

Is Tevez a safe bet then? I would have thought he's not guaranteed to be a regular starter. He hasn't always been, and there are a lot of strong options in Man City.

Jimmy Iovine

blatantrereg wrote: »

Thanks for the info regarding Dempsey. I wasn't aware of any of that, and was surprised to see he hadn't played. I'll probably move him.

The heavy investment in defence is by design. Defenders tend to give the most bang for the buck in the game imo. I used a similar approach the last time I actively played the game in 09/10. I finished then with 2164 in total, which I was happy with. I agree that there are maybe one or two too many bargain bin players in that line-up right now though.

I've been considering trasferring RVP alright since he moved to Man U. There's an element of uncertainty about whether he'll do so well there as he did with Arsenal. Would have transferred him already, only I made the team before that happened, and only looked back after the start. I think it's a good idea to have one or two of the highest scoring players, even if they are expensive - just for the captaincy bonus.

Is Tevez a safe bet then? I would have thought he's not guaranteed to be a regular starter. He hasn't always been, and there are a lot of strong options in Man City.

I see. Best of luck with that tactic. Wouldn't be the way I'd do it but if you stick with it it could well pay off.

Personally, I think Tevez is a safe enough bet. You can never be too sure but Aguero got injured at the weekend. I'm not sure how long he'll be out for or if he'll be out at all but Tevez is the main man at the moment. He has started their last two games and scored in both. He's dirt cheap in comparison to others and he is a real threat.

razor425

blatantrereg wrote: »

Thanks for the info regarding Dempsey. I wasn't aware of any of that, and was surprised to see he hadn't played. I'll probably move him.

The heavy investment in defence is by design. Defenders tend to give the most bang for the buck in the game imo. I used a similar approach the last time I actively played the game in 09/10. I finished then with 2164 in total, which I was happy with. I agree that there are maybe one or two too many bargain bin players in that line-up right now though.

I've been considering trasferring RVP alright since he moved to Man U. There's an element of uncertainty about whether he'll do so well there as he did with Arsenal. Would have transferred him already, only I made the team before that happened, and only looked back after the start. I think it's a good idea to have one or two of the highest scoring players, even if they are expensive - just for the captaincy bonus.

Is Tevez a safe bet then? I would have thought he's not guaranteed to be a regular starter. He hasn't always been, and there are a lot of strong options in Man City.

I wouldn't read too much into your 09/10 score as iirc that was a very high scoring year. 2164 that year would probably have at best got you into the top 200,000. Scores for the last 2 years have been a bit lower and that score in either of the last 2 years would have seen you up near the top 10,000. These lower scores were probably because many followed your defenders done well last year situation and that just hasn't happened the last 2 seasons.

Jimmy Iovine

razor425 wrote: »

I wouldn't read too much into your 09/10 score as iirc that was a very high scoring year. 2164 that year would probably have at best got you into the top 200,000. Scores for the last 2 years have been a bit lower and that score in either of the last 2 years would have seen you up near the top 10,000. These lower scores were probably because many followed your defenders done well last year situation and that just hasn't happened the last 2 seasons.

Yea I had 2,269 and only finished 30,000th. That wouldn't have been too far off the top last year. Can't compare different years at all really.

razor425

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Yea I had 2,269 and only finished 30,000th. That wouldn't have been too far off the top last year. Can't compare different years at all really.

Similarly, I had 2,339 that year and only scraped into the top 10,000, I think that score would probably have won it or come very close either of the following 2 years.

blatantrereg

razor425 wrote: »

I wouldn't read too much into your 09/10 score as iirc that was a very high scoring year. 2164 that year would probably have at best got you into the top 200,000. Scores for the last 2 years have been a bit lower and that score in either of the last 2 years would have seen you up near the top 10,000. These lower scores were probably because many followed your defenders done well last year situation and that just hasn't happened the last 2 seasons.

113,255th. Wasn't trying to make it sound better than it was - I think it was around the 95th percentile, so it was a pretty good score, just not anything extraordinary.

Investing in defenders would have paid off in 08/09 as well I remember. Can't really comment on 10/11 or 11/12 though - but I'll stick with that approach for the moment and see how it plays out.

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Personally, I think Tevez is a safe enough bet. You can never be too sure but Aguero got injured at the weekend. I'm not sure how long he'll be out for or if he'll be out at all but Tevez is the main man at the moment. He has started their last two games and scored in both. He's dirt cheap in comparison to others and he is a real threat.

Cool thanks for the info.

OneColdHand

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

MY subs are Jaaskelainen, Stevens(Villa), McCarthy, Clyne(Southampton).. I have 4 million to strengthen this any suggestions on who to bring in?

I presume you don't want to just pump all 4million into one of your subs, but rather slightly upgrade one or two of them?

I would switch Stevens for Clark (also Villa). Not sure how much Stevens is, but I'll assume 4.0m. Clark is only 4.5, and is a guaranteed started while Dunne is out. Villa have a decent run too.

John83

Opinions on my team please:

De Gea
Harte - Lescott - Cole
Ireland - VDV - Hazard - Allen
Torres - Pog - Aguero

Subs:
Jaaskelainen - Kacaniklic - Kelly - McCartney

Not a great first week with Kananiklic scoring 8 points. Also missed out on the Aguero/Tevez price rise/fall. I usually use these early weeks to monitor what's going on and take advantage of price fluctuations but the Aguero injury has messed it up. I would have brought in Tevez but now I'm thinking of RVP or Ade. Not that gone on Spurs players with AVB in charge though. can't call what he'll do.

A_Sober_Paddy

Aguero Value dropped before end of game week...what a load of sh!T

andy125

Any opinions with this suggested wildcarding,



I have 3 Chelsea and 2 Reading players to get rid of.

blatantrereg

andy125 wrote: »

Any opinions with this suggested wildcarding,



I have 3 Chelsea and 2 Reading players to get rid of.

Might be better to keep one or two Chelsea players and just have them on the bench the week they dont play.

Also you could wait until next week to use the wildcard, so you can see more of how they are performing, and reduce the chance of buying a player who gets injured before he plays.

Paully D

Week 2 line-up, any thoughts?

Mignolet

Zabaleta / Cole / Rafael

Bale (VC) / Mata / McClean / Pienaar

Tevez / Graham / Van Persie (C)

Subs: Federici / Puncheon / Demel / Nelson

Lemlin

Paully D wrote: »

Week 2 line-up, any thoughts?

Mignolet

Zabaleta / Cole / Rafael

Bale (VC) / Mata / McClean / Pienaar

Tevez / Graham / Van Persie (C)

Subs: Federici / Puncheon / Demel / Nelson

I don't think Rafael will start for United. Will Demel play for West Ham?

John83

John83 wrote: »

Opinions on my team please:

De Gea
Harte - Lescott - Cole
Ireland - VDV - Hazard - Allen
Torres - Pog - Aguero

Subs:
Jaaskelainen - Kacaniklic - Kelly - McCartney

I'm in a spot of further bother now with the Aguero injury. Had planned on getting rid of Cole and Pog before GW3 with my FT's. With Aguero out injured it means that as it stands I'll only have 10 starters that week. without taking a points hit.

So I'm thinking of leaving Aguero on the bench and going with my original plan and hope that by the marvels of modern science that Aguero gets back early. I have 3m to spare in the bank as well.

Any opinions?

uRbaN

Lemlin wrote: »

I don't think Rafael will start for United. Will Demel play for West Ham?

What is the story with Rafael. Apologies if this has been covered already, unable to find anything to date in the forum.

I thought he would have been a shoe in with the defender situation?

darego

Van Persie + kagawa or Rooney + Hazard for the rest of the season? hard one to call obviously since it's so early

not convinced by kagawa yet but if i want van persie i can't afford hazard