GW17 Captain?

callaway92

manual_man wrote: »

leaning towards Sanchez at the moment. Austin is tempting but you just know WBA are going to park the bus. Liverpool are a right mess at the moment and i really do fancy Sanchez to score

What'll actually happen is the total opposite to this I'd imagine.

Both teams will be thinking that 3 points is definitely up for grabs in this one, so there's no hope whatsoever for bus parking. I'd say it'll be packed full of goals.

greedygoblin

Rooney away to Villa

I'm leaning towards Eriksen as well. I've learnt my lesson from making some cheapies captain this season (Jelavic), so I won't risk it with Austin.

km79

greedygoblin wrote: »

I'm leaning towards Eriksen as well. I've learnt my lesson from making some cheapies captain this season (Jelavic), so I won't risk it with Austin.

eriksen and spurs are soooooooooo unreliable
I just can't bring myself to captain him

Iused2likebusts

Sterling home to Arsenal

km79 wrote: »

eriksen and spurs are soooooooooo unreliable
I just can't bring myself to captain him

The thing that's holding me back a bit on eriksen is the carling cup game wed and they have struggled at home all season. He is still my best option though currently which is worrying.

greedygoblin

Rooney away to Villa

Spurs are all over the place at the moment. But they are playing Burnley. At home. And Eriksen and Kane are their only "in-form" players. That's about the only argument I can make for Eriksen right now. :pac:

Which means I'll change my captaincy choice a million times before the weekend. I hate this game sometimes...

km79

greedygoblin wrote: »

Spurs are all over the place at the moment. But they are playing Burnley. At home. And Eriksen and Kane are their only "in-form" players. That's about the only argument I can make for Eriksen right now. :pac:

Which means I'll change my captaincy choice a million times before the weekend. I hate this game sometimes...

Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville pointed out last night that burnley have conceded one goal or less in NINE of their games so far......that would worry me !

SpaceCowb0y

Armband is on Charlie Austin at the moment after his weeks rest! Brought RVP in this week though and have Costa also so it could all change yet!

CSF

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Armband is on Charlie Austin at the moment after his weeks rest! Brought RVP in this week though and have Costa also so it could all change yet!

Me too on the Austin thing, but I've no certainty in the decision. Toure is the other one I'm strongly considering. Bony to an extent too.

SpaceCowb0y

CSF wrote: »

Me too on the Austin thing, but I've no certainty in the decision. Toure is the other one I'm strongly considering. Bony to an extent too.

Transferred Toure back out this week to afford RVP, City looked a bit sheepish without Aguero at the weekend! Saying that Lampard might be worth a punt

internet_user

I'm going off the idea of austin myself, might give it to Silva who I'm planning on bringing in

FHFC

Rooney away to Villa

If anyone had said on here three weeks ago (when I stupidly did captain him) that RVP would be one of the leaders in this week's captain poll they'd probably have been banned for trolling!!

Mr.Prodston

Rooney away to Villa

I haven't got a notion.

RVP, Austin, Bony, Sanchez and Hazard are all options.

If I sell Mirallas then his replacement should probably be an option too.

CSF

In a strange turn of events in my head, I think I'm now persevering with Costa. I dunno

FHFC

Rooney away to Villa

For the first time in a long time I'm pretty much certain of my transfer and my captain for this week.

Dimichelis in for Kompany and RVP (c)

Sanchez the only other temptation.

Wouldn't risk Eriksen, Costa has a way to go to earn it back too. Bony missing too many chances, although he could get a hat trick any week now.

I'm very firmly in no risky captains territory ranking wise.

spock.

Think I'll go with Hazard. His away record is poor but he's scored tonight and is hitting a good run of form.
And I love a Monday night captain

Dr. Bre

this feels stupid but the only reason I don't want to captain Yaya is cos I hate captaining a player in the sat morn games! ha

manual_man

Giroud away to Liverpool

CSF wrote: »

In a strange turn of events in my head, I think I'm now persevering with Costa. I dunno

funnily enough i'm leaning towards Costa as (C) this week now too

Mr.Prodston

Rooney away to Villa

Seeing as Hazard broke his away duck tonight I'm beginning to consider him more. Although Stoke could well do a job on him. In saying that Hazard could easily do a job on Bardsley too

Rikand

RVP awat to Villa

Dr. Bre wrote: »

this feels stupid but the only reason I don't want to captain Yaya is cos I hate captaining a player in the sat morn games! ha

didnt notice he was in the saturday morning game. This changes everything!

km79

Rikand wrote: »

didnt notice he was in the saturday morning game. This changes everything!

it sure does. I remember the early morning game aguero scored 4 and I did not have him city don't have a midweek game so early saturday morning makes no odds

Rikand

RVP awat to Villa

km79 wrote: »

it sure does. I remember the early morning game aguero scored 4 and I did not have him city don't have a midweek game so early saturday morning makes no odds

The last time I captained a city player for the early morning game was Aguero in Gameweek 9 and I promised myself I would never captain anyone ever again for the 12:45 game.

so I gotta find someone else to captain now

MarkSRFC21

Costa away to stoke

Giroud against that Liverpool defense is a tempting one.
Will probably bottle it and stick with Costa tho

CSF

manual_man wrote: »

funnily enough i'm leaning towards Costa as (C) this week now too

We're in this thing together, don't back out on me now

The Wild Bunch

Rooney away to Villa

Is Jovetic gonna be fit?

Hackers

Seriously considering Kane as captain but since I am inside the top 10K i will probably chicken out! Think I will go with Hazard again this week, will be nice to have a Monday night captain

TaytoCrisps

RVP awat to Villa

Hackers wrote: »

Seriously considering Kane as captain but since I am inside the top 10K i will probably chicken out! Think I will go with Hazard again this week, will be nice to have a Monday night captain

Hazard away from home never seems to do as well granted he scored away in the cup last night . I'm thinking Hazard , kane or Yaya . on Yaya for now but that will change .

Nalz

Rooney away to Villa

Lemlin wrote: »

Certain players have good records against certain teams so yes, I would bear it in mind. For example, Vidic always struggled against Torres (when he was good!).

I know what you're saying, I'm challenging it.

Take RVP for example, who seems to be hitting form.

He scored a hattrick the year they won the league. If he didn't score the previous 3 games before that, would that hypothetical poor form alter your decision making?

AdMMM

Giroud away to Liverpool

Currently have it on Bony but that was simply out of fear of me not getting the time to think about it properly thanks to Christmas Parties!

Rikand

RVP awat to Villa

Just switched captaincy to Austin

Come on King Charlie!

ShaneU

Giroud away to Liverpool

I'm going with Sanchez over Yaya, for Toure to score you need a penalty or a long range effort.

Tempted by Rooney but he was playing mostly at the half way line against liverpool

KrakityJones

Half thinking of going mad and throwing it on Downing for the differential, home against bottom dwellers leicester and he has been on form recently.

Arbitrary

RVP awat to Villa

KrakityJones wrote: »

Half thinking of going mad and throwing it on Downing for the differential, home against bottom dwellers leicester and he has been on form recently.

I have to drop someone from my team this GW and it's a bastard of a decision, right now I have Downing on the bench and here's why...

All Downing's goals were scored on the road this season. He's bagged a few assists at home but most of his points tally seems to come from away games. Small sample size but an interesting tidbit. I still haven't made up my mind on who to drop or who to Captain. I can't leave Austin on the bench this GW as he's a serious contender for the armband.

Dearg81

Carroll home to Leicester

Arbitrary wrote: »

I have to drop someone from my team this GW and it's a bastard of a decision, right now I have Downing on the bench and here's why...

All Downing's goals were scored on the road this season. He's bagged a few assists at home but most of his points tally seems to come from away games. Small sample size but an interesting tidbit. I still haven't made up my mind on who to drop or who to Captain. I can't leave Austin on the bench this GW as he's a serious contender for the armband.

I think you're reading way too much into that away stat and it's way too smalll a sample to be doing that. He's playing Leicester at home who are a poor side so I think you have to play him. Who are you playing ahead of him?

Arbitrary

RVP awat to Villa

Dearg81 wrote: »

I think you're reading way too much into that away stat and it's way too smalll a sample to be doing that. He's playing Leicester at home who are a poor side so I think you have to play him. Who are you playing ahead of him?

Yeah... I'm clutching at straws alright, but it was the only valid reason I could find to drop someone. Still, personally speaking I wouldn't captain Downing there's so many better options.

Don't want to derail the thread so I posted here.

manual_man

Giroud away to Liverpool

CSF wrote: »

We're in this thing together, don't back out on me now

Changed it over to him already

jimmii

RVP awat to Villa

Probably going to bring in Nasri or Silva this week but half tempted to bring in and captain Eriksen. What do people think about captaining him this week?

hufpc8w3adnk65

Carroll home to Leicester

jimmii wrote: »

Probably going to bring in Nasri or Silva this week but half tempted to bring in and captain Eriksen. What do people think about captaining him this week?

Risky move... I'd save things like that for the end of the season

extra gravy

RVP awat to Villa

You just know if you captain Eriksen, he'll get one of his two pointers...

crazy8

Pozo. Gamble gamble

Necronomicon

Very torn this week - has to be the most interesting GW for captain choice in a while.

Like a few others, I'm thinking of Yaya but I dislike having a 12:45 captain - though in saying that, captain Aguero versus Spurs earlier in the season worked brilliantly. Sergio he ain't, though.

I currently have it on Austin, but that's likely to change a dozen times before Saturday.

JR6

Giroud away to Liverpool

RVP or Sanchez

sanket

Bony or Austin

jimmii

RVP awat to Villa

MrMac84 wrote: »

Risky move... I'd save things like that for the end of the season

Really that big a punt? He's probably the best captain option this week outside of the Man City players he's 6/4 to score any time which is only a small bit bigger than Yaya and he is leading the poll. These weeks with no clear pick are always more interesting trying to find where the points are going to come from! Not convinced on Eriksen for this week but no convinced on anyone right now!

Karma25

Sanchez away to Liverpool

Taking a punt on Sterling there will be goals in that game and I think he will atone for his bad game against Utd. Hopefully Brendan keeps playing him up front.

Lemlin

Rooney away to Villa

Trilla wrote: »

I know what you're saying, I'm challenging it.

Take RVP for example, who seems to be hitting form.

He scored a hattrick the year they won the league. If he didn't score the previous 3 games before that, would that hypothetical poor form alter your decision making?

Oooh goody, I love a challenge :pac:

That hypothetical poor form against them would show up in his record. I didn't just ask how he performed in one game against them. I asked if anyone knew his record against them.

If he played four games and only scored once against them (even if it was three goals), then yes, I am less likely to captain Van Persie than if you have a player like say Aguero playing Spurs that weekend as he always scores a truckload against them. I'd rate 3 goals in 4 different games against someone over a hat trick in one game.

As I said, different players have good records against particular teams. It may be the way they play, it may be tactics, it may be the opponent's weaknesses, hell, it may even be positive visualisation because they've performed well against that team before, what it is I don't know but there's certainly plenty of evidence of it.

I read a lot of football books and you'll often hear players talk about their favourite opposition and games. Gary Neville vs Liverpool for example. Fergie actually used to tell him to calm it down. Roy Keane about Fergie saying the only team talk they needed vs Tottenham was "lads, its Spurs".

alchemist33

RVP awat to Villa

crazy8 wrote: »

Pozo. Gamble gamble

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Swiper the fox

Other

Just looked in this thread for the first time, can't believe that Yaya is leading the poll, surprised 21% of us even own him, never mind captaining him.

I'm thinking of giving it to Costa (partly because MNF is usually the only peaceful watching I ever get done), Austin is tempting but I'll probably stick with Costa. If I had either Rooney or RVP I'd probably give it to either.

FutureGuy

Yaya or Austin for me right now. Leaning slightly towards Austin. However, I could easily bring in RVP or Downing who are also super choices.

Will decide tomorrow night sometime.

Deco99

Rooney away to Villa

Silva anyone?

FHFC

Rooney away to Villa

Deco99 wrote: »

Silva anyone?

Don't know where he'll play, how fit he is or who will be up front to score chances created.

Could be great if he ends up being up front, but could be a disaster.

High risk.