GW28 Match Day Thread.....

roryc

keane2097 wrote: »

Any major reasoning behind the Samba love?

I have £5m to spend on a defender. IMO he's the best option:

• He's playing in GW 29, and has a good fixture at home to Sunderland. If they hold them scoreless he will have a chance of picking up BP's.
• QPR are in a survival dogfight and will be relishing it after their victory last week. They have been tightening up at the back and it was only a keepers error last week that cost them a clean sheet.
• He'll play every game barring injury.
• Massive goal threat - I would put him in the top 10 defenders in this category. Definitely the best at this price. He was very unlucky not to have scored yet, has had at least two cleared of the line iirc.

He could easily return a lot of 1's and 2's but I think he has the ability to get both clean sheets and bonus points, not to mention the goal threat. He gets up for corners, like Vidic, Vermaelen etc. Eventually you expect them to goals.

Alfred Borden

There still conceding though and 2 points every week from him aint great! In his last three games, he has a total of only 2 points!

FutureGuy

Raf32 wrote: »

There still conceding though and 2 points every week from him aint great! In his last three games, he has a total of only 2 points!

Selective stats, he had a clean sheet in the game before that.

Alfred Borden

FutureGuy wrote: »

Selective stats, he had a clean sheet in the game before that.

8 points in 4 games averaging two at game, no reason to be getting excited about.

Swiper the fox

Raf32 wrote: »

8 points in 4 games averaging two at game, no reason to be getting excited about.

You're looking for a row, fair enough, who do you suggest as an alternative? You'd want to have a word with your English teacher by the way.:o

roryc

Raf32 wrote: »

There still conceding though and 2 points every week from him aint great! In his last three games, he has a total of only 2 points!

Misuse of stats is a terrible affliction

3 of last 4 home games QPR have kept clean sheets. Their last 4 home games by the way were United, City, Spurs and Norwich. And this is directly after beating Chelsea 1-0, away.

They've had one bad game recently, against Swansea. Their home record has been incredible for a team at the bottom of the table. Had Cesar not made a balls of it against Sunderland, Samba would have picked up another clean sheet and his value would have risen the other night, not dropped.

He's good value for his clean sheet potential alone. The goal threat is a valuable added bonus.

Alfred Borden

Swiper the fox wrote: »

You're looking for a row, fair enough, who do you suggest as an alternative? You'd want to have a word with your English teacher by the way.:o

Your very petty. Any of the Swansea defenders, Dawson, Santon.

Alfred Borden

Jamie Carragher too, clean sheets in his last two games and a very favourable run in.

Swiper the fox

Raf32 wrote: »

Your very petty. Any of the Swansea defenders, Dawson, Santon.

Well we're only offering advice, you can take it or leave it but you can't just view potential future returns on selective stats from the last few weeks, Samba is a better bet than any of the ones you mentioned in my opinion.

thunderdog

roryc wrote: »

Yeah I really think this is Samba's time to shine. Carragher's the same price but I fancy Samba to outscore him.

I was going to get Samba in for O'Brien but now that I see that you're doing that transfer I might do otherwise

Ah no, your luck seems to be improving. I'll be firmly joining the Samba bandwagon

FutureGuy

I'm definately not going to waste my time trying to convice people to get Samba. You either see his potential as a FPL player or not.

The 4-1 vs Swansea was put firmly on Cesars shoulders. He was struggling with a groin injury and should never have started the game.

Raf, it's interesting that you are highlighting Santon as an alternative to Samba...have you looked at Newcastle's defense recently? They are atrocious. They are also missing their goalkeeper for the next 4 weeks.

The less people hat get Samba the better it is for me. I have him for 3 weeks in anticipation for this run. I was hoping he might get a cheeky goal to get him up to 5.2ish by now but it didn't happen.

Sunderland at home is a good potential for a clean sheet, providing they can handle Sessegnon on the wing.

FutureGuy

Raf32 wrote: »

Jamie Carragher too, clean sheets in his last two games and a very favourable run in.

Gareth Bale is going to tear him a new arsehole next gameweek if he plays centrally. If Carragher doesn't get at least booked, I'd be stunned.

roryc

Raf32 wrote: »

Your very petty. Any of the Swansea defenders, Dawson, Santon.

You've picked a side and seem unwilling to budge, it would seem you are the one being petty. Also you just used Carragher and Santon to back up your argument.

As FG said, either you see Samba's potential or don't.

Alfred Borden

I suppose we will see after next game week.

keane2097

Cheers folks, he wasn't someone I had been looking at before but ye've pretty much convinced me to go that way with Stoke (Wilson) underperforming over a decent sample and Spurs (Dawson) with poor fixtures to come.

I still think it would be better to ship Mata if there was any decent alternative but as there isn't it's a moot point.

roryc

Raf32 wrote: »

I suppose we will see after next game week.

Yes lets base all our analysis on the result of one game.

Alfred Borden

roryc wrote: »

Yes lets base all our analysis on the result of one game.

We are talking about GW29?

Alfred Borden

roryc wrote: »

You've picked a side and seem unwilling to budge, it would seem you are the one being petty. Also you just used Carragher and Santon to back up your argument.

As FG said, either you see Samba's potential or don't.

Im saying it was petty to correct my grammar, not petty for having his opinion on Samba. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, some are high on Samba and with the fixtures remaining looks an ok option, I just feel there are better options out there, you rate Samba as a good signing, I rate Carragher.

Swiper the fox

Raf32 wrote: »

Im saying it was petty to correct my grammar, not petty for having his opinion on Samba. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, some are high on Samba and with the fixtures remaining looks an ok option, I just feel there are better options out there, you rate Samba as a good signing, I rate Carragher.

Fair point, apologies for the grammar comment.

SlickRic

Samba, IMO, especially at 4.9, is a complete no-brainer for the next 3 weeks at least.

QPR are desperate for points, the fixtures are nice, and Samba's a beast in the opposition box.

if having him doesn't work out, i'd actually put that more down to luck than good judgment tbh.

i expect at least one clean sheet, and he's due a goal really.

Iused2likebusts

If both carragher and samba play the final ten games id expect carragher to get a few more clean sheets than samba.Liverpool are a better team and qpr will have to go looking for goals which should leave them exposed more at the back then up to now. Carragher will not score samba may get some attacking points but when he played for allardyce at blackburn set pieces would have been worked on more than qpr id imagine. All in all id see carragher samba dawson all with the same points potential.

SlickRic

Skrtel will be back for those championing Jamie Carragher, and at the very least, they'll split game time.

Iused2likebusts

Im not championing carra I have him already and will bring in samba this week.Tbh I think theres nothing between them.Skrtel got a fair bit of the blame for the oldham defeat carragher has come in and done well and rodgers has bigged him up although he does that with everyone

Lemlin

I was thinking about Samba but the bandwagon defenders on here generally perform poorly when brought in by the masses E.g Baines, Luiz, Enrique.

km79

Aguero not starting ....

iMuse

Hart, Zabaleta (C), Kolo Toure, Nastasic, Clichy, Garcia, Milner, Rodwell, Silva, Tevez, Yaya Toure

Padkir

km79 wrote: »

Aguero not starting ....

Oh that's gonna sicken a lot of people...:p

I was kinda worried, I got rid of him and Ramirez for Cazorla and Lambert and neither did anything. Ramirez had already scored so if Aguero does anything it'll hurt but this is promising!

Sneaky goal for Clichy would be lovely!

Jax Teller

km79 wrote: »

Aguero not starting ....

Not in squad has a Knee Injury

extra gravy

Had Aguero captain with Rooney vice. Phew!

prettyboy81

extra gravy wrote: »

Had Aguero captain with Rooney vice. Phew!

Jammy Boll&x ha, good VC call!

OneColdHand

This week is a disaster.

I had to decide between getting rid of Fellaini for Sissoko, or Aguero for Suarez. Went with getting rid of Fellaini. It was probably the right decision on paper, but one of those decisions that just hasn't worked out. Has cost me 27 points (more if I had decided to captain Suarez).

SlickRic

fúck you Sergio.

Harte now comes in for him.

meh.

will end on 63 for the week.

hoping Villa score and/or Zab gets sent off.

q2ice

Tevez hat trick tonight to make it three hat tricks for the gameweek (of which I had none)

roryc

Zabaleta 15 pointer please.

Rayne Wooney

*reads no Aguero posts

CURSE YOU MANCINI!!




*logs into FF









Suarez VC.

Devia

0-0 draw surely not too much to ask.

SlickRic

fúck you Tevez on the line.

OneColdHand

Devia wrote: »

0-0 draw surely not too much to ask.

As a Villa fan, and a Clichy owner, I'd happily take that!

Swiper the fox

Shít, I was putting the kids to bed and just turned the telly on now to see Dzeko getting ready to come on. Aguero was my captain so I was bricking it but it's not so bad. Bale is vc but Dawson comes in with only 2 points. Not sure whether I'm happy or not, I fancied Sergio to do something tonight. Suppose all I can do is hope for villa to score.

Lemlin

Zabaleta hits the post. Fook it.

SlickRic

thank Christ.

Zab hits the post.

Devia

Zab almost scored there

FutureGuy

Zabaleta off post.

Dream dashed.

roryc

That was the 15 pointer right there

q2ice

good man tevez. Another couple now please...

6 points secured for Clichy, hooray. Game over.

Lemlin

Would Zabaleta nab a bonus point? He played well I thought.

Fannyhead

Surely Tevez will get all 3 bps?

km79

Lemlin wrote: »

Would Zabaleta nab a bonus point? He played well I thought.

Clean sheet and shot tipped onto post. 1 BP I'd say

bohsman

Captain Bale, Walcott and Tevez, this GW recovered after the Suarez disaster.