January wildcard

8-10

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Mannone in goal anyway unless the Julio Cesar rumours have more truth in them. After that I don't know yet really. Right now my defence looks like it would be Kos, Coleman, Mickey T, Ward and ___.

I'm toying with Baines in for a few weeks as a safe place to help fund Aguero. I've only started to think really though but that's as far as I'm at so far.

Gonna be so many identikit teams for the rest of the year!

Mr.Prodston

8-10 wrote: »

Gonna be so many identikit teams for the rest of the year!

I'd like to think I'll be trying something a little different. My midfield won't have Hazard or Yaya. I'm not sold on Aguero unless he really carrys on from where he left off, just nice to have the option. Mickey Turner will be owned by pretty much myself :pac: If I go for Ozil/Gerrard/Couts or even Erikson they're not fully mainstream.

It'll be inevitable that they're be a convergence in teams but I'll try and have a few differentials anyway.

Lemlin

One thing to remember folks for your wildcards, the Carling Cup final occurs in GW28.

Now, hopefully City and United make the final so just that game is off (United and City are due to play that weekend in the league quite handily) but other ties at jeopardy are:

Sunderland vs West Brom
West Ham vs Everton.

8-10

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I'd like to think I'll be trying something a little different. My midfield won't have Hazard or Yaya. I'm not sold on Aguero unless he really carrys on from where he left off, just nice to have the option. Mickey Turner will be owned by pretty much myself :pac: If I go for Ozil/Gerrard/Couts or even Erikson they're not fully mainstream.

It'll be inevitable that they're be a convergence in teams but I'll try and have a few differentials anyway.

Kind of depends on whether you're playing catch up or not. Last year I was leading the leagues I wanted to in January so wildcard allowed me to keep as generic as possible with the usual 5 mids and RVP captain every week, whereas others needed to be more creative to try and get points from differentials.

This year I'm doing more catch-up so a few differentials will be needed. Baines instead of Coleman the obvious one (still anti-Coleman!) but maybe RVP or somebody instead of Aguero depending on how both do after injury

Bleating Lamb

frimpong wrote: »

Is anyone considering getting a Southampton defender back in? Their tough run is pretty much over now. In the next 10 weeks they only have two games against teams in the top half. At this stage they would be a decent differential.

Think that's a good idea.....is their any indication of when Boruc is back,?

Bleating Lamb

Appreciate advice on simple ?....during wildcard month.... Can you 'toy' around with your team by activating wildcard and then picking possible teams......and then cancel transfers as it asks you to 'confirm' wildcard or are you locked into using it during that GW if ya start to mess with your team?

Hope that makes sense

G1032

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Appreciate advice on simple ?....during wildcard month.... Can you 'toy' around with your team by activating wildcard and then picking possible teams......and then cancel transfers as it asks you to 'confirm' wildcard or are you locked into using it during that GW if ya start to mess with your team?

Hope that makes sense

You're locked into the GW that you activate it in but you can make unlimited transfers in that GW.

Say Player A costs 5m, so you get him in. Within 2 days he increases to 5.2m. You can sell him then for a 0.1 profit and buy someone else. So you've had player A in your team during WC week but never intended keeping him. He was purely there to make profit.

CSF

Don't transfer players out though (that have gone up in value since you signed them) if you're going to want them back for GW 21 though. You'll lose out on precious .1s

Steven81

Yes but if you bought a player and then transfer him out seeing what team you can make and activate wildcard and then want to get him back later this week you will be paying full price for him so keep what players you want to keep that you have made money on

Bleating Lamb

Thanks....thought that was the case alright..think I will keep WC till last GW

Here's my current team.....did v poorly during Sept/Oct as hadn't Ramsey and Yaya....doing ok now.
Krul / Mc Gregor
J Evans Nathan Baker Coleman Dawson G Cameron
Yaya Toure Barkley Sterling Oscar Cabaye
Remy Suarez Rooney

Team V- 105.1m. In the bank -1.3m

So have a bit of money for WC
Thinking of dumping Remy for Adebayor as FT for this GW
Or should I improve one of Defenders.
Advice always welcome......am a rookie!

FutureGuy

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Just activated my wildcard to try sort my team out, where do people see the most potential for price rises over then next week??

Ouch dude. Most of the players that are going to rise by 0.2 have already risen by 0.1

Go to http://totalfpl.com/pricechanges and sort by "Change Today". You can see how is getting most attention.

PARlance

It's way way down the list of my possible teams but there are a lot of players/combos to watch over the next few gameweeks, and this one of them.

Haven't really put much thought in defence/keepers, but here's a team with RVP, Aguero and a Liverpool striker... (I've tried putting a team in with Suarez and it destroys the rest of the team, you could flip that around and say that putting RVP in destroys it tbf)

Plenty of differentials!!!
Thanks to this forum, this team is now seen as too much of a gamble for me, but I'd have been all over it a few months ago

moreau

have also wildcarded

Excited about new arrivals Eriksen+Rodriguez

The value on these guys is just so good IMO

Form, value, and this is a great week to bring them in fixture wise.

when Kun returns (with a demonstration of form), will downgrade my 5 mil def (currently Evans) to a cheapie and upgrade Roo

Didn't have big 3 earlier and no plans for future either such is the range of options in mid

PARlance

moreau wrote: »

have also wildcarded

Excited about new arrivals Eriksen+Rodriguez

The value on these guys is just so good IMO

Form, value, and this is a great week to bring them in fixture wise.

when Kun returns (with a demonstration of form), will downgrade my 5 mil def (currently Evans) to a cheapie and upgrade Roo

Didn't have big 3 earlier and no plans for future either such is the range of options in mid

Only the 2 transfers?
Would you have not considered taking a 4 point hit this GW and stored the WC?

moreau

PARlance wrote: »

Only the 2 transfers?
Would you have not considered taking a 4 point hit this GW and stored the WC?

Ah no apologies, I made a number of other transfers, including Mig to Mannone. I also had a few injuries+non starters on bench.

I would not have been able to bring in Erikson+Rod otherwise without -8.

Could have kept WC, but not bothered:

Obviously will be looking at Silva, Ramsey, Kun, Ozil. But these guys could be brought in fairly easy with direct transfer if I feel the need. Also a bit cautious about injured players immediately returning to form.

My front 7

Haz Toure Wally Erikson
Suarez Roo JRod

Iused2likebusts

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Just activated my wildcard to try sort my team out, where do people see the most potential for price rises over then next week??

kos, mert and eriksen but as futureguy mentioned you have probably missed the boat on making profit apart from potentially those 3.

Iused2likebusts

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I put the fixtures into a table there to make it easier to read, it's a nice breakdown and something I have my eye on myself:

GW Sunderland Cardiff Hull
21 Fulham (away) West Ham (home) Chelsea (home)
22 Southampton (home) Man City (away) Norwich (away)
23 Stoke (home) Man United (away) Crystal Palace (away)
24 Newcastle (away) Norwich (home) Tottenham (home)
25 Hull City (home) Swansea (away) Sunderland (away)
26 Man City (away) Aston Villa (home) Southampton (home)
27 Arsenal (away) Hull City (home) Cardiff (away)
28 West Brom (home) Tottenham (away) Newcastle (home)
29 Liverpool (away) Fulham (home) West Ham (away)
30 Crystal Palace (home) Everton (away) Man City (home)
31 Norwich (away) Liverpool (home) West Brom (home)
32 West Ham (home) West Brom (away) Stoke (away)
33 Tottenham (away) Crystal Palace (home) Swansea (home)
34 Everton (home) Southampton (away) Man United (away)
35 Chelsea (away) Stoke (home) Arsenal (home)
36 Cardiff (home) Sunderland (away) Fulham (away)
37 Man United (away) Newcastle (away) Aston Villa (away)
38 Swansea (home) Chelsea (home) Everton (home)

looking at those hull home fixtures I'm not as interested in chester and mcgregor as I was.

Alfred Borden

going to play it the week after next, what does everyone think? would be going 3-4-3 formation.

PARlance

Raf32 wrote: »

going to play it the week after next, what does everyone think? would be going 3-4-3 formation.

I think the Filter on the right hand side says it all...

It's ballsy, but is it really needed?

Alfred Borden

PARlance wrote: »

I think the Filter on the right hand side says it all...

It's ballsy, but is it really needed?

No probably not i have a pretty decent team and really dont want to lose Coleman but think I would have multiple captain choices every week and a lot of goals

manual_man

PARlance wrote: »

I think the Filter on the right hand side says it all...

It's ballsy, but is it really needed?

lol yes it is a pretty pants defense, I know defenders score the least position-wise, but I think that's taking it a bit 'too' far, e.g. Coleman is pretty much tied with 3rd highest scoring midfielder

Me myself all i'm gonna say is i'm not gonna use my wc this week, but prob the week after - Rooney Suarez Aguero strikeforce is the plan, the rest I won't give away

manual_man

Raf32 wrote: »

No probably not i have a pretty decent team and really dont want to lose Coleman but think I would have multiple captain choices every week and a lot of goals

Would it not make sense just to have Rooney instead on RVP and that way you cold keep Coleman and possibly even upgrade another defender too

Alfred Borden

manual_man wrote: »

Would it not make sense just to have Rooney instead on RVP and that way you cold keep Coleman and possibly even upgrade another defender too

i think your right actuall, rooney for RVP allows me to keep Coleman and have another further 0.3 to work on the backline, thank you!

manual_man

Raf32 wrote: »

i think your right actuall, rooney for RVP allows me to keep Coleman and have another further 0.3 to work on the backline, thank you!

Np mate

Swiper the fox

Raf32, that defence is shocking. most of those guys are only playing because somebody else is injured, Chester is good for his position but Hulls home fixtures are tough, I can't see the point of a never playing midfielder to save .1 or.2m.
Van Persie is killing you, it seems obvious to me.

Alfred Borden

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Raf32, that defence is shocking. most of those guys are only playing because somebody else is injured, Chester is good for his position but Hulls home fixtures are tough, I can't see the point of a never playing midfielder to save .1 or.2m.
Van Persie is killing you, it seems obvious to me.

ya your right, going to change it over to Rooney and keep coleman, hopefully get a few price rises on top of the 0.3 in the bank and get another decent defender to go with him and Wilson or Chester.

the incredible pudding

Activated the at the start of the week despite not really needing to. Figured the few extra .1s might help get a better team or something and allow myself to prepare to get a few players cheaper.

Pretty happy with the team,
Turner could be switched to someone else, vlaar and williamson spring to mind.

SpaceCowb0y

FutureGuy wrote: »

Ouch dude. Most of the players that are going to rise by 0.2 have already risen by 0.1

Go to http://totalfpl.com/pricechanges and sort by "Change Today". You can see how is getting most attention.

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

kos, mert and eriksen but as futureguy mentioned you have probably missed the boat on making profit apart from potentially those 3.

Fuck... as i said in another thrad i was away for two weeks over the xmas run of games and it has ruined me! Only got a chance to make one transfer over 4 game weeks and that was bringing Howard in who ednded up not playing the following week

Came home to a team riddled with injuries and missed out on any of the cash prizes i my main money league. Only good thing is the scores are reset from now till the end of the season in that league so thought id use the WC to sort my team out to get off to a good start! was up at nearly 110m before i left and after wildcarding my new team is worth just over 106.5 thats a lot of money to lose over the space of four GWs i missed!

PARlance

Raf32 wrote: »

ya your right, going to change it over to Rooney and keep coleman, hopefully get a few price rises on top of the 0.3 in the bank and get another decent defender to go with him and Wilson or Chester.

I'd nearly say you should go lower than Rooney.

Someone like J Rod up front and you've can upgrade to a better keeper and 3 solid defenders.

Even with what you're gaining from Rooney, I think you'd lose it in the long run with having 3 weaker than average defenders/keeper.

Steven81

When Sturridge and Aguero and RVP if he is back firing are all back then the forward lines are going to look good, all teams are too similar now, rotation will take place especially before the CL games for those left.

Personally cant wait for the S and S partnership to be back

Alfred Borden

PARlance wrote: »

I'd nearly say you should go lower than Rooney.

Someone like J Rod up front and you've can upgrade to a better keeper and 3 solid defenders.

Even with what you're gaining from Rooney, I think you'd lose it in the long run with having 3 weaker than average defenders/keeper.

I think your right, i was thinking Adebayor, would give me :

I've forgotten this....

Can you play a wildcard on a Monday and constantly change your team all week long up til 11.30 of the next GW starting?

Or once you've played your wildcard, is that it?

PARlance

Raf32 wrote: »

I think your right, i was thinking Adebayor, would give me :

I'd be a lot happy that those 4 changes at the back would yield more than RVP over Ade.

Personally, I think the only way RVP gets into my team (with Aguero) is if it's at the cost of Suarez to Sturridge.
Sturridge will dovetail with Suarez and will affect his return imo.
RVP would have to be on fire though.
For the the 7 games Sturridge and Suarez played together, it was Suarez 73 -Sturridge 48... (Sturridge has about 90 mins less gametime over those games so I would say it's about a 3 point a game difference.

If Jan is a disaster, I may be forced into a gamble like that, but it doesn't sit well.

Swiper the fox

Raf32 wrote: »

ya your right, going to change it over to Rooney and keep coleman, hopefully get a few price rises on top of the 0.3 in the bank and get another decent defender to go with him and Wilson or Chester.

I'd reconsider Wilson also tbh, Huth is back in training it seems and Wilson didn't do anything earlier in the year to suggest he'll regain his midfield place.

KevIRL

Deleted User wrote: »

I've forgotten this....

Can you play a wildcard on a Monday and constantly change your team all week long up til 11.30 of the next GW starting?

Or once you've played your wildcard, is that it?

You are free to make as many transfers as you like from when you activate the WC until the transfer window closes

jamesbere

I'm looking at a kolorov, sagna, Coleman defence with 2 others not sure who yet

Iused2likebusts

looking at something a bit different
Marshall mannone
baines nastasic evans kos williamson
ozil walcott silva hazard jedinak
suarez ade jay rod
Its more of a 4 week team as I'll be looking to get aguero in come gw 25. With baines and ozil being downgraded and jay rod or ade being upgraded. Hope to be able to carry a transfer to allow me to do it for a 4 pt hit.
Will play 3 4 3 and the odd week possibly 4 4 2.

Lemlin

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

looking at something a bit different
Marshall mannone
baines nastasic evans kos williamson
ozil walcott silva hazard jedinak
suarez ade jay rod
Its more of a 4 week team as I'll be looking to get aguero in come gw 25. With baines and ozil being downgraded and jay rod or ade being upgraded. Hope to be able to carry a transfer to allow me to do it for a 4 pt hit.
Will play 3 4 3 and the odd week possibly 4 4 2.

You definitely decided against Rooney? I'm not sure Ozil is worth it tbh. I'd be going for Yaya above him I think.

He just doesn't seem to want to stop scoring.

Iused2likebusts

Lemlin wrote: »

You definitely decided against Rooney? I'm not sure Ozil is worth it tbh. I'd be going for Yaya above him I think.

He just doesn't seem to want to stop scoring.

Yaya is a machine that just doesnt seem to stop, I just cant bring myself to sign him for 10 million.
Im definetely done with rooney even though if fit he should get a decent haul next week.He isnt in my long term plans and I feel i can use my aguero money in better ways over the next 4 weeks. Ive looked at the next 4 weeks and see myself doing ade (c) at home to palace and then suarez at home to villa and everton, then walcott home to palace. Ozil is a 4 wk signing villa fulham southampton palace against yaya's newcastle cardiff spurs chelsea.
My problems this year come down to no coleman, no arsenal defender, no yaya, no ramsey. Im offsetting this in a different way baines over coleman, silva over yaya, kosceilny in and ozil and walcott.

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Yaya is a machine that just doesnt seem to stop, I just cant bring myself to sign him for 10 million.

Decided last week I won't be signing him no matter what. Picking up bad habits off yous stubborn fckers round here maybe, but he's pisšed me off at this stage with his stupid scoring. That deflected effort on New Years was the last straw!

Hup silva.

iroced

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I put the fixtures into a table there to make it easier to read, it's a nice breakdown and something I have my eye on myself:

GW Sunderland Cardiff Hull
21 Fulham (away) West Ham (home) Chelsea (home)
22 Southampton (home) Man City (away) Norwich (away)
23 Stoke (home) Man United (away) Crystal Palace (away)
24 Newcastle (away) Norwich (home) Tottenham (home)
25 Hull City (home) Swansea (away) Sunderland (away)
26 Man City (away) Aston Villa (home) Southampton (home)
27 Arsenal (away) Hull City (home) Cardiff (away)
28 West Brom (home) Tottenham (away) Newcastle (home)
29 Liverpool (away) Fulham (home) West Ham (away)
30 Crystal Palace (home) Everton (away) Man City (home)
31 Norwich (away) Liverpool (home) West Brom (home)
32 West Ham (home) West Brom (away) Stoke (away)
33 Tottenham (away) Crystal Palace (home) Swansea (home)
34 Everton (home) Southampton (away) Man United (away)
35 Chelsea (away) Stoke (home) Arsenal (home)
36 Cardiff (home) Sunderland (away) Fulham (away)
37 Man United (away) Newcastle (away) Aston Villa (away)
38 Swansea (home) Chelsea (home) Everton (home)

looking at those hull home fixtures I'm not as interested in chester and mcgregor as I was.

Yeah but Hull are well organised defensively. Although they have not yet kept a CS away, if they keep this defensive strength they have potential to keep a couple of CS out of the 6 away games I highlighted in green.
Their home fixtures are much tougher right but they may get 1 or 2 CS out of the 3 games I bolded.
In the end Chester is only there as your 4th/5th def and for his low price. But I guess the main info from this table is that doubling Chester up with McGregor might not be a great idea.

Then, you have the Mannone-Marshall combination... It looks almost too good to be true as people already mentionned (=> e.g. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88267444&postcount=214 and http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88275782&postcount=239) and as this table dramatically demonstrates (fixtures in red). I mean you'd only have trouble for GWs 31, 34 and 37. GW 31 you can have Mannone away to Norwich. So trouble really begins GW34. Plenty of time and potential/probable shifts in forms to get another keeper in for the last 4-5 GWs.

Just to add the final nail on the coffin, Westwood may be out for the season => Westwood needs shoulder surgery. GP: "I can't see him playing much this season." so Mannone position looks secure.

8-10

iroced wrote: »

Just to add the final nail on the coffin, Westwood may be out for the season => Westwood needs shoulder surgery. GP: "I can't see him playing much this season." so Mannone position looks secure.

Does that not mean that they'll nearly certainly sign Cesar or another keeper in Jan?

iroced

8-10 wrote: »

Does that not mean that they'll nearly certainly sign Cesar or another keeper in Jan?

Ah ! Sh*te :mad: ! Completely forgot about that... Hmm... I presume you're right. THat would throw a huuuge spanner in the works though...

Found that article about Poyet reconsidering Cesar move after Mannone impressive shows. Don't think the Daily Mail can be trusted though...

KevIRL

Cesar makes his first appearance since April today for QPR v Everton FWIW

Bleating Lamb

Man City draw in cup means another game and more injuries possibly.

dahat

Latest draft...

Still undecided regarding Ade,J Rod,Erickson, Cabaye or Lallana, which combo to go with.

My defence problem is Terry or two Arsenal defenders.

roryc

What trio would people go for from the below? Assuming the 3rd player in each is your 5th choice mid who will rarely play.

Mertesacker, Cabaye, Colback
Sagna, Eriksen, Mutch

SantryRed

roryc wrote: »

What trio would people go for from the below? Assuming the 3rd player in each is your 5th choice mid who will rarely play.

Mertesacker, Cabaye, Colback
Sagna, Eriksen, Mutch

Koscielny, Eriksen, Colback and use the additional funds else where. No point in having a 4.5m midfielder if he's not gonna play much. Koscielny will be more likely to pick up BP than Sagna and I don't see the value in spending nearly a million more to bring in Mert.

roryc

SantryRed wrote: »

Koscielny, Eriksen, Colback and use the additional funds else where. No point in having a 4.5m midfielder if he's not gonna play much. Koscielny will be more likely to pick up BP than Sagna and I don't see the value in spending nearly a million more to bring in Mert.

Mert is already in my team for £5.9m and he's a big goal/BP threat so I would prefer to keep him. I have Sagna too (bought for £5.4m) and think he's more of an attacking threat than Kos. My issue is I would prefer to have Eriksen over Cabaye based on recent form. I've never really been a fan of Cabaye but needed someone for Ramsey and he looked the best option. I wouldn't mind getting Ramsey back either but at £7.2m he's also out of my budget as I'm only getting £6.9 for Cabaye. The only place I can see myself getting the cash needed is either get rid of Mert instead of Sagna, or possible bring in JRod instead of Adebayor.

Lemlin

dahat wrote: »

Latest draft...

Still undecided regarding Ade,J Rod,Erickson, Cabaye or Lallana, which combo to go with.

My defence problem is Terry or two Arsenal defenders.

I see you're going for Marshall/Mannone now. I really think it makes more sense given the fixtures. But for that factor, McGregor would be better.

I've the same conundrum re the players you listed in midfield/attack. My own thinking is Lallana as 4th mid and Ade as 3rd striker.