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Menas

OneColdHand wrote: »

Looks like the whole year inn still has to pick a mid 2

Not sure what is happening with him. He should have been picking early yesterday afternoon, was online last night but still no pick.
He has until friday I suppose. Picking the 40th best midfielder may take some thinking!

Swiper the fox

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Not sure what is happening with him. He should have been picking early yesterday afternoon, was online last night but still no pick.
He has until friday I suppose. Picking the 40th best midfielder may take some thinking!

Still some good picks left, I had a difficult job picking number 38

Swiper the fox

I've sent Lucas Hood a PM and he seems to be online so hopefully the wait won't be too long. Someone can remind the whole year inn and we'll be game ball

Lucas Hood

Swiper the fox wrote: »

I've sent Lucas Hood a PM and he seems to be online so hopefully the wait won't be too long. Someone can remind the whole year inn and we'll be game ball

Whats the rush?

Swiper the fox

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Whats the rush?

Fair enough Lucas, you take your sweet time.

OneColdHand

OneColdHand wrote: »

Ended up with:

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Forster

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----Cahill---Vlaar
Mirallas

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Coutinho

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Sturridge


Not too confident about finishing too highly in the table based on that team!!

Team updated for the next 2/3 weeks:

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Forster

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----Cahill---Vlaar
Mirallas

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Coutinho

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Sturridge

Really not looking good now!

Menas

Moving league tables to this thread, more apt!

Copper Pipe and Spacecowb0y take the early lead in our FPL draft. Indeed all of the top three were aided by big scores from their Spanish contingents.

Down at the bottom, Mr P is propping up the table, but could he be the Man United of this draft comp..or the QPR? Only time will tell.

A total of 27 players (out of 120) scored 0 or -1 this week....that first transfer window seems a long way off!

Player Goalkeeper Defender 1 Defender 2 Midfielder 1 Midfielder 2 Forward Wk4 Total
1 Copper Pipe Krul Williams O'Shea Di María Mutch Pellè 29 29
2 Spacecowb0y Adrián Baines Kaboul Fábregas Routledge Weimann 29 29
3 Lucas Hood Fabianski Debuchy Jagielka Mata Shelvey Dzeko 27 27
4 RoryC Heaton Zabaleta Fonte Eriksen Noble Balotelli 27 27
5 Iused2likebusts Begovic Azpilicueta Mangala Walcott Oscar Diego Costa 25 25
6 Manual man Speroni Moreno Bardsley Lallana Mané Adebayor 24 24
7 Trigger Happy McGregor Kompany Rojo Özil McGeady Rooney 24 24
8 Swiper the Fox De Gea Koscielny Skrtel Nasri Johnson Lukaku 22 22
9 F1ngers Courtois Clyne Wilson Schneiderlin Cabella Falcao 21 21
10 Shano88 Green Coleman Kolarov Sánchez Henderson Diouf 20 20
11 Slingerz Guzan Lovren Trippier Sterling Pienaar Rivière 18 18
12 One Cold hand Forster Cahill Vlaar Mirallas Coutinho Sturridge 18 18
13 PARlance Howard Jones Filipe Luis Sigurdsson Chadli Jovetic 17 17
14 Bezuaua Foster Ivanovic Davies Tadic Dyer Agüero 15 15
15 The whole year inn Hart Demichelis Distin Gerrard Ki Sung-Yueng Welbeck 15 15
16 Dahat Mignolet Vertonghen Pieters Silva Puncheon Remy 12 12
17 Nuts 102 Szczesny Janmaat Reid Yaya Touré Matic Bony 9 9
18 $hifty Mannone Shawcross Shaw Ramsey Nolan Benteke 9 9
19 CSF Schmeichel Terry Evans Lamela Cazorla Van Persie 8 8
20 Mr Prodson Lloris Mertesacker Rangel Hazard Schürrle Eto'o 5 5

Menas

Dear Patrons,

Copper pipe has once again topped our weekly scoring and himself and Roryc have opened up a bit of a slight lead on the chasing pack.
Mr Prodson has hauled himself off the foot of the table to a respectable 13th. Dahat is currently propping the rest of us up.

No fewer than 26 players came in with a 0 or less....special mention to Nuts 102 who got a -2 for Bony.
The average weekly score this week was a mere 15 points....not sure what that tells us though!

Manual man and PARlance will be hoping for better returns after a shocking 6 points apiece this week.

Until next week folks!

Player Goalkeeper Defender 1 Defender 2 Midfielder 1 Midfielder 2 Forward Wk5 Total
1 Copper Pipe Krul Williams O'Shea Di María Mutch Pellè 28 57
2 RoryC Heaton Zabaleta Fonte Eriksen Noble Balotelli 26 53
3 Spacecowb0y Adrián Baines Kaboul Fábregas Routledge Weimann 19 48
4 Trigger Happy McGregor Kompany Rojo Özil McGeady Rooney 21 45
5 F1ngers Courtois Clyne Wilson Schneiderlin Cabella Falcao 20 41
6 Slingerz Guzan Lovren Trippier Sterling Pienaar Rivière 22 40
7 Swiper the Fox De Gea Koscielny Skrtel Nasri Johnson Lukaku 18 40
8 Lucas Hood Fabianski Debuchy Jagielka Mata Shelvey Dzeko 9 36
9 The whole year inn Hart Demichelis Distin Gerrard Ki Sung-Yueng Welbeck 19 34
10 Iused2likebusts Begovic Azpilicueta Mangala Walcott Oscar Diego Costa 7 32
11 Shano88 Green Coleman Kolarov Sánchez Henderson Diouf 10 30
12 Manual man Speroni Moreno Bardsley Lallana Mané Adebayor 6 30
13 Mr Prodson Lloris Mertesacker Rangel Hazard Schürrle Eto'o 25 30
14 Bezuaua Foster Ivanovic Davies Tadic Dyer Agüero 13 28
15 One Cold hand Forster Cahill Vlaar Mirallas Coutinho Sturridge 9 27
16 Nuts 102 Szczesny Janmaat Reid Yaya Touré Matic Bony 15 24
17 PARlance Howard Jones Filipe Luis Sigurdsson Chadli Jovetic 6 23
18 CSF Schmeichel Terry Evans Lamela Cazorla Van Persie 15 23
19 $hifty Mannone Shawcross Shaw Ramsey Nolan Benteke 12 21
20 Dahat Mignolet Vertonghen Pieters Silva Puncheon Remy 7 19

Iused2likebusts

bad week but mangala started if i can get walcott back in a few weeks things will be looking up.

OneColdHand

Trigger Happy wrote: »

The average weekly score this week was a mere 15 points....not sure what that tells us though!

A guy in my private league had 16 points from his whole team, so 15 points is probably not a terrible average!

Mr.Prodston

Hazard and Shurrle combined just as I'd hoped and my North London pair at the back grabbed 2 clean sheets. We're back baby. Positive signs that Eto'o started too and Rangel was 10 minutes from a cleanie. A much better effort than the paltry 5 I got last week anyway

dahat

No comment.

dahat

dahat wrote: »

No comment.

What he said.

Lucas Hood

Goals for jagielka & Dzeko already for me

Iused2likebusts

Goal for oscar and an og from mangela for me

Iused2likebusts

Costa Azpilicueta and oscar Chelsea boys doing the business today.

Menas

Interim update! LucasHood has wiped the floor with us all this week so far. He got 33 points.
But Copperpipe and Iusedtolikbusts have 24 points and joint second highest scorers.
Copperpipe now has a 10 point lead at the top.
$hifty is holding his own at the bottom!

dahat

dahat wrote: »

No comment.

And I repeat previous statement

Copper_pipe

Pellè is keeping me ticking over!

I need bentekkers back from injury pronto.

OneColdHand

Deleted User wrote: »

I need bentekkers back from injury pronto.

Ditto, for me, need Sturridge back!

manual_man

Speroni my unhung hero so far! But think I may have done good business with Lallana and Mane. Was impressed with both of them at the weekend expecting good things

Menas

Dear Patrons,
Copper Pipe has opened up a 12 point gap on the rest of the field. But are there signs that his team is fading? He was outscored by Lucas Hood, Iused2likebusts and Bezuaua this week.
Slingerz gets the Weekly wooden spoon with an impresively low 7 points. And Nuts 102 and One Cold Hand are the Burnley and Newcastle of our league. Suspensions and injuries and lack of form to blame for that. Alan Pardew would be proud of your excuses gents.
The average score this week was just over 17 points. If you got less than that then be worried. No fewer than 25 of our players scored 0 or less. Special mention to Iusedtolikebusts who managed 31 points this week despite Mangala's -2 points.


Player Goalkeeper Defender 1 Defender 2 Midfielder 1 Midfielder 2 Forward Wk6 Total
1 Copper Pipe Krul Williams O'Shea Di María Mutch Pellè 26 83
2 RoryC Heaton Zabaleta Fonte Eriksen Noble Balotelli 18 71
3 Lucas Hood Fabianski Debuchy Jagielka Mata Shelvey Dzeko 33 69
4 F1ngers Courtois Clyne Wilson Schneiderlin Cabella Falcao 23 64
5 Iused2likebusts Begovic Azpilicueta Mangala Walcott Oscar Diego Costa 31 63
6 Spacecowb0y Adrián Baines Kaboul Fábregas Routledge Weimann 11 59
7 Trigger Happy McGregor Kompany Rojo Özil McGeady Rooney 11 56
8 Bezuaua Foster Ivanovic Davies Tadic Dyer Agüero 28 56
9 Swiper the Fox De Gea Koscielny Skrtel Nasri Johnson Lukaku 12 52
10 Manual man Speroni Moreno Bardsley Lallana Mané Adebayor 22 52
11 The whole year inn Hart Demichelis Distin Gerrard Ki Sung-Yueng Welbeck 15 49
12 Slingerz Guzan Lovren Trippier Sterling Pienaar Rivière 7 47
13 CSF Schmeichel Terry Evans Lamela Cazorla Van Persie 21 44
14 Mr Prodson Lloris Mertesacker Rangel Hazard Schürrle Eto'o 13 43
15 Dahat Mignolet Vertonghen Pieters Silva Puncheon Remy 20 39
16 Shano88 Green Coleman Kolarov Sánchez Henderson Diouf 8 38
17 $hifty Mannone Shawcross Shaw Ramsey Nolan Benteke 17 38
18 PARlance Howard Jones Filipe Luis Sigurdsson Chadli Jovetic 14 37
19 One Cold hand Forster Cahill Vlaar Mirallas Coutinho Sturridge 9 36
20 Nuts 102 Szczesny Janmaat Reid Yaya Touré Matic Bony 12 36

OneColdHand

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Alan Pardew would be proud of your excuses gents.

The dog ate my tactics.

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Dear Patrons,
It looks like the points feed has been updated early this week....but if you notice any errors please advise!

Copper Pipe's lead has been narrowed down to 11 points, could this be the chink of light the rest of us need? He was outscored this week by most of the chasing pack.
$hifty gets the Weekly wooden spoon with a solid 8 points. He is now within a point of One Cold Hand who apparently has adapted a Paulo Di Canio style of managing his team.
Spacecowboy on the otherhand is this weeks top scorer and has launched a title bid. Is he the man united or the man city of this league?
The average score this week was the same as last week, just over 17 points. If you got less than that then be worried. No fewer than 27 of our players scored 0 or less. The transfer window cant come fast enough.

Player Goalkeeper Defender 1 Defender 2 Midfielder 1 Midfielder 2 Forward Wk7 Total
1 Copper Pipe Krul Williams O'Shea Di María Mutch Pellè 21 104
2 RoryC Heaton Zabaleta Fonte Eriksen Noble Balotelli 22 93
3 Spacecowb0y Adrián Baines Kaboul Fábregas Routledge Weimann 31 90
4 Iused2likebusts Begovic Azpilicueta Mangala Walcott Oscar Diego Costa 22 85
5 Bezuaua Foster Ivanovic Davies Tadic Dyer Agüero 26 82
6 Lucas Hood Fabianski Debuchy Jagielka Mata Shelvey Dzeko 10 79
7 F1ngers Courtois Clyne Wilson Schneiderlin Cabella Falcao 13 77
8 Trigger Happy McGregor Kompany Rojo Özil McGeady Rooney 14 70
9 Manual man Speroni Moreno Bardsley Lallana Mané Adebayor 16 68
10 Mr Prodson Lloris Mertesacker Rangel Hazard Schürrle Eto'o 23 66
11 Nuts 102 Szczesny Janmaat Reid Yaya Touré Matic Bony 29 65
12 Swiper the Fox De Gea Koscielny Skrtel Nasri Johnson Lukaku 12 64
13 The whole year inn Hart Demichelis Distin Gerrard Ki Sung-Yueng Welbeck 11 60
14 Slingerz Guzan Lovren Trippier Sterling Pienaar Rivière 12 59
15 Shano88 Green Coleman Kolarov Sánchez Henderson Diouf 21 59
16 CSF Schmeichel Terry Evans Lamela Cazorla Van Persie 12 56
17 Dahat Mignolet Vertonghen Pieters Silva Puncheon Remy 14 53
18 PARlance Howard Jones Filipe Luis Sigurdsson Chadli Jovetic 16 53
19 $hifty Mannone Shawcross Shaw Ramsey Nolan Benteke 8 46
20 One Cold hand Forster Cahill Vlaar Mirallas Coutinho Sturridge 9 45

Iused2likebusts

Theo due back soon be afraid be very afraid.☺

OneColdHand

I'm still in the top 20 globally!

Shaw starts for utd then goes off injured. Benteke is nowhere to be seen, and ramsey's fall from grace has been well documented.

I fear I may be propping up the table for quite some time.

OneColdHand

Deleted User wrote: »

Shaw starts for utd then goes off injured. Benteke is nowhere to be seen, and ramsey's fall from grace has been well documented.

I fear I may be propping up the table for quite some time.

Not if my Vlaar-Coutinho-Mirallas-Sturridge cocktail of non-starters has anything to do with it!

PARlance

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Shaw starts for utd then goes off injured. Benteke is nowhere to be seen, and ramsey's fall from grace has been well documented.

I fear I may be propping up the table for quite some time.

Benteke is back... I'm eyeing up your spot.

Copper_pipe

Do I get points for O shea's goal last night




















I joke

Iused2likebusts

Our first transfer window is the next international window I think. How do we go about this.

OneColdHand

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Our first transfer window is the next international window I think. How do we go about this.

Suggestion: we get 2 transfers each. A random draw is made, same as during the draft, so first out gets 1st and last transfer, and so on. Would that work?

Can't think of a fair way to have just 1 transfer each.

Mr.Prodston

I'd suggest that whoever had 20th pick for a certain position had first choice for a sub and work things down that way. Most people would probably be happy with their picks and seems the fairest way of doing things?

SpaceCowb0y

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I'd suggest that whoever had 20th pick for a certain position had first choice for a sub and work things down that way. Most people would probably be happy with their picks and seems the fairest way of doing things?

Sounds like a fair option

Menas

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I'd suggest that whoever had 20th pick for a certain position had first choice for a sub and work things down that way. Most people would probably be happy with their picks and seems the fairest way of doing things?

I am liking this too. We declare the order and the time of transfer window in advance and give everyone..say 2 hours during daytime..to make their picks.
You can transfer in any player who is not in someone else's team.

If anyone has any other proposals please post here....but lets keep it relatively easy to admin and avoid any loopholes that are open to abuse!

manual_man

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I am liking this too. We declare the order and the time of transfer window in advance and give everyone..say 2 hours during daytime..to make their picks.
You can transfer in any player who is not in someone else's team.

If anyone has any other proposals please post here....but lets keep it relatively easy to admin and avoid any loopholes that are open to abuse!

Sounds fair. But is it actual SUBS we're gettin in, or is it just transfer out one of our picks for a still-available player?

Iused2likebusts

How many changes are we going to be allowed to make?

Menas

Spent 16 hours on airplanes yesterday and some of that time thinking about how to do this transfer window.

So here it is.
1) Transfer window opens 10th November, at about 9am, just after I post the Wk11 league table.
2) Order of picking will start with team in 20th position in the league goes first. Every players gets max two transfers.
3) When your turn to transfer comes you can choose to transfer out any 2 players in your team. You must replace your transferred out players with any player who is available. Managers can transfer out 2 or just 1 or can choose to 'pass'.
5) Once the last manager (ie whoever is 1st in the league table) has made his transfers then the window closes. The transfer window will reopen again just after the GW24 league table is published, approx 9 feb.
6) To keep this moving along when your turn to transfer comes you have 2 hours to make your transfers. The clock only ticks from 9am to 9pm.
7) To avoid the messing we had last time around, if you miss your turn then tough.
8) If you know that you will not be available to make your pick then pm your picks to someone who can make your transfers on your behalf.

Iused2likebusts

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Spent 16 hours on airplanes yesterday and some of that time thinking about how to do this transfer window.

So here it is.
1) Transfer window opens 4 November, at about 9am, just after I post the Wk10 league table.
2) Order of picking will start with team in 20th position in the league goes first. Every players gets max two transfers.
3) When your turn to transfer comes you can choose to transfer out any 2 players in your team. You must replace your transferred out players with any player who is available. Managers can transfer out 2 or just 1 or can choose to 'pass'.
5) Once the last manager (ie whoever is 1st in the league table) has made his transfers then the window closes. The transfer window will reopen again just after the GW24 league table is published, approx 9 feb.
6) To keep this moving along when your turn to transfer comes you have 2 hours to make your transfers. The clock only ticks from 9am to 9pm.
7) To avoid the messing we had last time around, if you miss your turn then tough.
8) If you know that you will not be available to make your pick then pm your picks to someone who can make your transfers on your behalf.

Sounds good to me any chance of doing it a week later will help break the boredom of the international break.

Menas

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Sounds good to me any chance of doing it a week later will help break the boredom of the international break.

Sorry, yes...post corrected above.

Menas

For the day that is in it....henceforth called 'Benuaua day'.
Take a bow young man...39 points prebonus.

Player Goalkeeper Defender 1 Defender 2 Midfielder 1 Midfielder 2 Forward Wk8 Total
1 Bezuaua Foster Ivanovic Davies Tadic Dyer Agüero 39 121
2 Copper Pipe Krul Williams O'Shea Di María Mutch Pellè 12 116
3 Spacecowb0y Adrián Baines Kaboul Fábregas Routledge Weimann 21 111
4 RoryC Heaton Zabaleta Fonte Eriksen Noble Balotelli 16 109
5 Iused2likebusts Begovic Azpilicueta Mangala Walcott Oscar Diego Costa 8 93
6 Lucas Hood Fabianski Debuchy Jagielka Mata Shelvey Dzeko 12 91
7 F1ngers Courtois Clyne Wilson Schneiderlin Cabella Falcao 14 91
8 Mr Prodson Lloris Mertesacker Rangel Hazard Schürrle Eto'o 15 81
9 Shano88 Green Coleman Kolarov Sánchez Henderson Diouf 22 81
10 The whole year inn Hart Demichelis Distin Gerrard Ki Sung-Yueng Welbeck 17 77
11 Manual man Speroni Moreno Bardsley Lallana Mané Adebayor 7 75
12 Trigger Happy McGregor Kompany Rojo Özil McGeady Rooney 2 72
13 Nuts 102 Szczesny Janmaat Reid Yaya Touré Matic Bony 6 71
14 Swiper the Fox De Gea Koscielny Skrtel Nasri Johnson Lukaku 7 71
15 Slingerz Guzan Lovren Trippier Sterling Pienaar Rivière 4 63
16 PARlance Howard Jones Filipe Luis Sigurdsson Chadli Jovetic 10 63
17 CSF Schmeichel Terry Evans Lamela Cazorla Van Persie 5 61
18 Dahat Mignolet Vertonghen Pieters Silva Puncheon Remy 7 60
19 One Cold hand Forster Cahill Vlaar Mirallas Coutinho Sturridge 9 54
20 $hifty Mannone Shawcross Shaw Ramsey Nolan Benteke 3 49

OneColdHand

It's Coutinho time baby! The comeback is on....

PARlance

Phil Jones is back should be an easy 9 or so points tonight.

A slow start but things starting to look up!

Mr.Prodston

PARlance wrote: »

Phil Jones is back should be an easy 9 or so points tonight.

A slow start but things starting to look up!

Lloris's penalty save is the highlight of my week!

PARlance

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Lloris's penalty save is the highlight of my week!

And his bonus point? Not too often a keeper concedes 4 and gets a bonus

Iused2likebusts

Not a great week for my risky team no mangela or Walcott or costa and Azpilicueta sent off. Oscar my saving grace.

SpaceCowb0y

There is no explanation for how my team of misfits are doing so well! ...but i like it!

Menas

Dear Patrons,
Copper Pipe has been caught. Repeat. Copper Pipe has been caught. Bezuaua has joined him at the top with an impresive record breaking 47 points this week.
Speaking of record breaking weeks, your honorable host has scored 2 points this week and takes the wooden spoon prize for most pathetic weekly score. Can anyone ever get lower than that?
Last weeks wooden spoon holder, $hifty has taken over bottom place...One Cold hand leapfrogging him. Dahat, CSF, PARlance are now firmly within his sights.
The average score this week was the same as the last 2 weeks, just over 17 points.
And same as last week, 27 of our players scored 0 or less. The transfer window is just around the corner.

Player Goalkeeper Defender 1 Defender 2 Midfielder 1 Midfielder 2 Forward Wk8 Total
1 Bezuaua Foster Ivanovic Davies Tadic Dyer Agüero 47 129
2 Copper Pipe Krul Williams O'Shea Di María Mutch Pellè 25 129
3 Spacecowb0y Adrián Baines Kaboul Fábregas Routledge Weimann 28 118
4 RoryC Heaton Zabaleta Fonte Eriksen Noble Balotelli 20 113
5 Iused2likebusts Begovic Azpilicueta Mangala Walcott Oscar Diego Costa 14 99
6 Lucas Hood Fabianski Debuchy Jagielka Mata Shelvey Dzeko 17 96
7 F1ngers Courtois Clyne Wilson Schneiderlin Cabella Falcao 18 95
8 Shano88 Green Coleman Kolarov Sánchez Henderson Diouf 29 88
9 The whole year inn Hart Demichelis Distin Gerrard Ki Sung-Yueng Welbeck 26 86
10 Mr Prodson Lloris Mertesacker Rangel Hazard Schürrle Eto'o 19 85
11 Nuts 102 Szczesny Janmaat Reid Yaya Touré Matic Bony 18 83
12 Manual man Speroni Moreno Bardsley Lallana Mané Adebayor 11 79
13 Trigger Happy McGregor Kompany Rojo Özil McGeady Rooney 2 72
14 Swiper the Fox De Gea Koscielny Skrtel Nasri Johnson Lukaku 8 72
15 Slingerz Guzan Lovren Trippier Sterling Pienaar Rivière 12 71
16 PARlance Howard Jones Filipe Luis Sigurdsson Chadli Jovetic 13 66
17 CSF Schmeichel Terry Evans Lamela Cazorla Van Persie 9 65
18 Dahat Mignolet Vertonghen Pieters Silva Puncheon Remy 11 64
19 One Cold hand Forster Cahill Vlaar Mirallas Coutinho Sturridge 14 59
20 $hifty Mannone Shawcross Shaw Ramsey Nolan Benteke 5 51

PARlance

One positive from that early game, Jovetic should start a few more games instead of Dzecko.