FSA Premier League Thread

Lemlin

iroced wrote: »

Just realised that with the other results I should actually move up 1 position in the rankings despite my loss. Every little helps (salvage a crap GW) ...

The same happened me. I moved from 8th to 7th

Swiper the fox

just saw I've had 7 wins in a row here and you'd have to go back to week 9 to see me lose by more than one point:P

Of course I'm playing forum heavyweight and champion trash talker Lemlin in week 23 so I suppose I'll be brought down a peg that week at least;)

Lemlin

Swiper the fox wrote: »

just saw I've had 7 wins in a row here and you'd have to go back to week 9 to see me lose by more than one point:P

Of course I'm playing forum heavyweight and champion trash talker Lemlin in week 23 so I suppose I'll be brought down a peg that week at least;)

I'd imagine you're saving your wildcard just for that game. Good to see the pressure is already weighing on you that much that you've been checking when the tie is!

Swiper the fox

Lemlin wrote: »

I'd imagine you're saving your wildcard just for that game. Good to see the pressure is already weighing on you that much that you've been checking when the tie is!

I've just had a revelation, that probably is the week I'll use the wildcard:p
Perhaps I have a chance of the three points after all.;)

In all seriousness there's been a big shift in the last few weeks and I've been the beneficiary, most of the top teams have had losing records over Christmas and I can now legitimately begin to dream, a bit like Liverpool last year except Hutton and Wisdom are my Suarez and Sturridge.

Sooner or Later

I'm not sure if we are still sledging our opponents or going to be polite again so
in order to cover all bases I would like to put out the following delete-as-appropriate statement:

My opponent for Gameweek 21 is Thunderdog. In Gameweek 2 he had a (well deserved/jammy) 2 point win against me. I look forward to (reversing that result/getting sweet revenge) this week. Obviously I have (great/no) respect for my (illustrious/incompetent) opponent and his (deep technical/complete lack of) footballing knowledge. His team plays an (expansive/aimless) style of football that is popular with all the (informed/clueless) pundits and I have told the lads that I (would enjoy/wouldn't be caught dead) playing in a style similar to theirs. I look forward to a (closely fought/completely one sided) contest where (the better/ my) team wins.

thunderdog

Sooner or Later wrote: »

I'm not sure if we are still sledging our opponents or going to be polite again so
in order to cover all bases I would like to put out the following delete-as-appropriate statement:

My opponent for Gameweek 21 is Thunderdog. In Gameweek 2 he had a (well deserved/jammy) 2 point win against me. I look forward to (reversing that result/getting sweet revenge) this week. Obviously I have (great/no) respect for my (illustrious/incompetent) opponent and his (deep technical/complete lack of) footballing knowledge. His team plays an (expansive/aimless) style of football that is popular with all the (informed/clueless) pundits and I have told the lads that I (would enjoy/wouldn't be caught dead) playing in a style similar to theirs. I look forward to a (closely fought/completely one sided) contest where (the better/ my) team wins.

Sitting on the fence there I see

iroced

Facing Gillespie this week. A game for playing the top or regressing into midtable territory.

Pretty similar teams and same captain.

It's down to my Hart vs his Heaton
..................... Naylor ..... Clyne
..................... Kane ....... Rooney
and ............... Terry ....... Azpi

Don't feel too confident especially the Hart vs Heaton which could do big damage for me...

Swiper the fox

The bottlers(iago??) have wildcarded and doubled up on Villa defence today, I've left Hutton on my bench so I'm seriously hoping for a Leicester goal. He has Hazard captain and I have Costa, overall our teams are very different.

Boots234

It's all down to what Eriksen gets in my game against Lemlin at the moment. I am 5 points ahead and we have similar teams but Eriksen is the difference from the players that we have left!

Lemlin

Boots234 wrote: »

It's all down to what Eriksen gets in my game against Lemlin at the moment. I am 5 points ahead and we have similar teams but Eriksen is the difference from the players that we have left!

What about bonus points?

Swiper the fox

Boots234 wrote: »

It's all down to what Eriksen gets in my game against Lemlin at the moment. I am 5 points ahead and we have similar teams but Eriksen is the difference from the players that we have left!

Lemlin, the Leeds United of our little league, sits on his easy chair with his pipe and slippers every evening listening to Glory days by Bruce Springsteen with a lump in his throat. Yesterdays man:(:pac:

Lemlin

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Lemlin, the Leeds United of our little league, sits on his easy chair with his pipe and slippers every evening listening to Glory days by Bruce Springsteen with a lump in his throat. Yesterdays man:(:pac:

You must be Brendan Rodgers so. He showed last season that anyone can have one jammy year!

Boots234

Lemlin wrote: »

What about bonus points?

At the moment we'll both be getting points for Wisdom, Costa and Austin

Swiper the fox

Lemlin wrote: »

You must be Brendan Rodgers so. He showed last season that anyone can have one jammy year!

That brought a wide smile to my little face I have to say.

Iago

Swiper the fox wrote: »

The bottlers(iago??) have wildcarded and doubled up on Villa defence today, I've left Hutton on my bench so I'm seriously hoping for a Leicester goal. He has Hazard captain and I have Costa, overall our teams are very different.

Drop that brown envelope around whenever suits

FHFC

Snuck to another win vs jeju. Anything from Eriksen there and I was beat. Close one, 2 pts I think.

CSF

I've managed to win against Harry Styles to put a 6 point gap between myself and the relegation zone at last. Relying on Swiper the Fox to pick up the victory for the win to actually move me up a place though.

Swiper the fox

Iago wrote: »

Drop that brown envelope around whenever suits

This is far from over, you need 10 points from DiMaria for a draw.:(
Bloody Harry Kane, if your gonna score at least make sure Spurs get something from it.

Iused2likebusts

Zarquon has a 2 pt lead it's his ddg against my Jones and adm.

thunderdog

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Zarquon has a 2 pt lead it's his ddg against my Jones and adm.

0-0 would do it for you tomorrow just about (assuming no yellows or bonus that is!)

zarquon

thunderdog wrote: »

0-0 would do it for you tomorrow just about (assuming no yellows or bonus that is!)

Assuming there are no save points!

iroced

iroced wrote: »

Facing Gillespie this week. A game for playing the top or regressing into midtable territory.

Pretty similar teams and same captain.

It's down to my Hart vs his Heaton
..................... Naylor ..... Clyne
..................... Kane ....... Rooney
and ............... Terry ....... Azpi

Don't feel too confident especially the Hart vs Heaton which could do big damage for me...

I'm leading 55-41. So need Rooney & Clyne not to score more than 13 pts altogether.

Iused2likebusts

zarquon wrote: »

Assuming there are no save points!

He is some man for the save pts only sold him this morning in wildcard.

Iused2likebusts

Swiper the fox wrote: »

This is far from over, you need 10 points from DiMaria for a draw.:(
Bloody Harry Kane, if your gonna score at least make sure Spurs get something from it.

We have the exact same overall pts total again. I'm going to knock you off your perch in this next week though ☺

Lemlin

Lost my tie this week by two points. Think that's now my fourth or fifth loss in a row. Need to nip it in the bud or I'll be dragged into a relegation battle.

Think I need a red card or an og or missed peno (!) for di maria to win my tie. Not looking likely.

Scratch that, didn't realise Idontknowwhatimdoing took an 8 point hit. A quiet game for di maria is needed for me.

Sooner or Later

Currently leading thunderdog 51 - 38 (or at least I will be when Guzan comes off the bench - shakes fist at Courtois )

We both have Sanchez so it is down to his Man U trio of Jones, ADM and Rooney staying quiet

Swiper the fox

Swiper the fox wrote: »

This is far from over, you need 10 points from DiMaria for a draw.:(
Bloody Harry Kane, if your gonna score at least make sure Spurs get something from it.

Bloody hell lads, that's 8 in a row. I'll have this wrapped up by April fools day;)
Mr busts is next up for the chopping block I believe.

Iused2likebusts

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Zarquon has a 2 pt lead it's his ddg against my Jones and adm.

Draw

iroced

iroced wrote: »

I'm leading 55-41. So need Rooney & Clyne not to score more than 13 pts altogether.

Won it 74-68. I almost feel crap though... since the 6 pts diff comes from my Terry and his sneaky unexpected BP vs his Azpi injury 1 pointer. Not the way I like to win.

I guess that averages out some close defeats I previously got. I'm on a great run though (not as mindblowing as Swiper's one) but still 6 wins out of my last 7 games made me go from the relegation zone biting my arse to my hands almost touching the stars .

Sooner or Later

Sooner or Later wrote: »

Currently leading thunderdog 51 - 38 (or at least I will be when Guzan comes off the bench - shakes fist at Courtois )

We both have Sanchez so it is down to his Man U trio of Jones, ADM and Rooney staying quiet

Thank you Southampton

I think I jump four places with that win

thunderdog

Sooner or Later wrote: »

Thank you Southampton

I think I jump four places with that win

Yeah my Man U trio were very underwhelming today!

FHFC

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Bloody hell lads, that's 8 in a row. I'll have this wrapped up by April fools day;)
Mr busts is next up for the chopping block I believe.

I believe I'll be up to second. Coming for you Gus, watch your back!

Iused2likebusts

FHFC wrote: »

I believe I'll be up to second. Coming for you Gus, watch your back!

I have this FHFC do your stuff this week and you will close the gap by 3 pts.

Up to eighth with two wins in a row, 12 points off the relegation spots.

Swiper the fox

Feckit lads ye're really spoiling my fun here, is nobody interested in this anymore:(
busts is the latest to fall at my sword (unless foster scores at least 15 points on Monday):P

Iused2likebusts

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Feckit lads ye're really spoiling my fun here, is nobody interested in this anymore:(
busts is the latest to fall at my sword (unless foster scores at least 15 points on Monday):P

Just logged on now wasnt expecting you to captain costa. My captain nightmare continues.

Swiper the fox

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Just logged on now wasnt expecting you to captain costa. My captain nightmare continues.

Well a Spurs fan never expects anybody on his team to score on any given week so even though I got Kane in this week he wasn't ever getting the armband. I couldn't believe you didn't make a transfer, I thought you had two free but I assume you were actually coming out of a wildcard.

iroced

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Feckit lads ye're really spoiling my fun here, is nobody interested in this anymore:(
busts is the latest to fall at my sword (unless foster scores at least 15 points on Monday):P

You seem to be getting a lot of your captain picks right. Maybe you should come to the captain threads more often to enlighten (all of) us ...

Iused2likebusts

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Well a Spurs fan never expects anybody on his team to score on any given week so even though I got Kane in this week he wasn't ever getting the armband. I couldn't believe you didn't make a transfer, I thought you had two free but I assume you were actually coming out of a wildcard.

TBH I was quite lucky as my transfer was going to be costa to aguero and make him captain but I decided to wait till after Chelsea game next week. I wasn't happy captaining Kane either but he was the best of a bad bunch for me this week the only other option I considered was ings.

Lemlin

I should finally end my losing streak this week. Not sure of the exact specifics but Nevercaptainckeverley needs about 20 points from Baines + Aguero to my Wisdom.

Swiper the fox

iroced wrote: »

You seem to be getting a lot of your captain picks right. Maybe you should come to the captain threads more often to enlighten (all of) us ...

Nah, actually on another thread yesterday I was showing one of the lowest scores out of anyone here for captain picks (244 before today). Last week I had Costa and it worked out over Hazard, this week he has trumped Kane so happy days.

CSF

Another win here I'd say unless Aguero outdoes Costa's exploits today.

Boots234

CSF wrote: »

Another win here I'd say unless Aguero outdoes Costa's exploits today.

35 points in it, fairly confident that you have it wrapped up!

CSF

Boots234 wrote: »

35 points in it, fairly confident that you have it wrapped up!

Would think so, but worth pointing out that Costa was 32 points today as captain alone.

Sooner or Later

Another defeat.

10 points behind Gillespie Road with essentially the same four players left (my Foster v his Wisdom being the only difference)

Lowest score of the 20 teams in the league

That wildcard went well:o:rolleyes:

Looking like a defeat for me unless downing gets minus points

iroced

Looks like I'm gonna lose to bottom of the table WCer "Leeds the way"... unless Hart & Zab outscore Aguero by 4 pts. Just can't see it happening and am actually more terrified of all the harm Aguero could do me tomorrow ...

Iago

Another defeat, this time to Erzgebirge Scrooge who had the foresight to play Jenkinson & Downing and Captain Andy Carroll this week.

Leaves me only 3 points off relegation, I need to get a shift on or it'll be a very uncomfortable end of season

Lemlin

Opponent needs 21 from Baines + whatever Wisdom scores.

I think the three points are safe.