Game week 23 match day thread

SlickRic

Up from 21k to 7k yesterday.

Nobody playing today and went down to 14k.

Happy with my team though, and probably won't need a transfer this coming week.

Can't complain.

El festino

Finished on 82. Happy with that.

Slight regret about taking Kane out but brought in Defoe for him so not too bad.

Took a punt on Di Maria but really not sure if he's a keeper. Any thoughts? Didn't see the united game..

alchemist33

Went from 12k to 8k with 79 with my WC team. Highs and lows everywhere -- bringing Rooney in was madness, Bertrand unlucky; Bellerin, PVA and Cazorla runaway successes. But Rooney gets a one week reprieve because of Bertrand. Time to bring in a Chelsea defender for their near-guaranteed 6+ points against Villa.

Paully D

Down from ~300 overall to ~650 overall with 63 points. Fine, but 4 weeks of red arrows in a row now.

SlickRic

Just checked a rival in my league. I was worried as they had brought in Cazorla.

They only got 64 points, but for some reason had dropped way back.

Checked their transfers.

10 made, 36 points in hits.

Forgot to hit the WC button.

Ouch.

OneColdHand

Most disappointing week this season. 50 points, sees me drop down to 1.6k. My team was in decent shape, but played the WC this week. Probably worse off now. I don't think I made any awful decisions, but unfortunately none of them worked out. It was just one of those weeks where nothing worked out - everyone has one at least once a season, and I suppose this was my week. Up until the Southampton game there was a chance my week would be salvaged, but the whole Bertrand situation pretty much encapsulated my week!

Oh well - I still feel my team is in good shape, and there will be no agonising over transfers this week - Bertrand out!

Iused2likebusts

Down to 2.2k from 999 yesterday the arsenal game was a nightmare for me. Should be able to bank my transfer this week.

Sooner or Later

68 points

Up 21k to 90k

Mr.Prodston

69

Rose about 1.5k overall to 12k. A good week and a welcome green arrow. Need to continue my recovery and push back up the rankings!

Up into 8k, but more importantly between 20 - 40 points I gained / extended lead by on rivals.

FutureGuy

A gameweek rank of 15k brings me from 30k to 13k. Great week all round.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

71 brings me to 12k overall. Happy enough. Worries for next week include getting Sturridge in. Might hold tight and bank the transfer. In other news I'm watching match of the day now and by jesus villa are awful.

seklly

Stopped 3 weeks of red arrows with 83 points giving me a green arrow and bringing me back up to 162nd in the world, will celebrate with a cup of tea watching the super bowl!

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Down to 2.2k from 999 yesterday the arsenal game was a nightmare for me. Should be able to bank my transfer this week.

Can't believe I ended the week ahead of ya.

I'm fighting hard to win that captain jonah title back from you. Thank fffff for Aguero.

wonski

I never complain about 70 points (no hits) but I actually dropped 34 places from 2896 to 2930 in OR:mad:

Won FSA2 h2h by 1 point, though:D

Few question marks over my players but happy with my progress so far.

Ziegler1988

seklly wrote: »

Stopped 3 weeks of red arrows with 83 points giving me a green arrow and bringing me back up to 162nd in the world, will celebrate with a cup of tea watching the super bowl!

My reign was brief again but I shall be back

Ziegler1988

FHFC wrote: »

Can't believe I ended the week ahead of ya.

I'm fighting hard to win that captain jonah title back from you. Thank fffff for Aguero.

Cue the inevitable two pointer against Hull :pac:. I liked the Pelle punt; Swansea were very negative sadly.

internet_user

71 so can't really complain although all my front 7 scored points except pelle my captain..two defeats in the boards champions cup is disappointing but everyone loves an underdog

iroced

91 pts sees me rise 26k to 20k. Highest rank of the season. Also highest GW rank of the season (12,991).

And all that with 4 pts from my regular defence (Foster ; Terry, Berty, Jones). Berty & Jones should have kept their CS so could have been 14-17 pts better. Fortunately PvA whom I started ahead of Sanchez (and a potential 5th bigger gun mid) came to the rescue . Best second fiddle ever .

WC worked great but a few things are bothering me now.

1. I know it's only 1 game (though there's been the Cup one too) but I may have been carried away by Pulis aura. No saves from Foster is worrying. My original Panti plan is laughing at me now.
2. Berty 3-games ban considering the cash he's using is annoying to say the least.
3. Jones has 2 GWs to prove me he's not a Baines/Zab fecker.
4. ADM has to do better...
5. Baird...

And there's the temptations...

1. Bellerin. But who to ditch out of Sanchez, Cazorla & Giroud?
2. Sturridge back in business.
3. Sterling immediately proving how benefitial Sturridge is to his FPL returns.
4. Silva proving me he deserved better than to be cashed in for ADM (especially considering his great Christmas contribution to my team).

Nib

66(-4) sees me down 500 overall to 1.4k. 6 points from my keeper and three defenders killed me. Giroud (c) saved me so can't complain.

KevIRL

Scooped 2 monthly prizes in cash leagues for January. Not a fan of monthly prizes in general, but nice to win all the same. Through to round 7 of the FPL cup too means this gw can go down in the success column.

patmac

48 points down 8k to 16k, still onwards and upwards I will see if I can clawback some points this week with the wildcard I should have played last week.

Iused2likebusts

FHFC wrote: »

Can't believe I ended the week ahead of ya.

I'm fighting hard to win that captain jonah title back from you. Thank fffff for Aguero.

Ye bad week for both of us. My capt got 5 pts this wk so that is a huge success the way things had being going for me on that front.

Decoda

Wildcard team with a score of 103. Captained Carzola after juggling it with Giroud for a couple of hours. Moved up 40,000 places from 55,000 to 16,000 and after 4 years playing FF finally had a top 1000 weekly place (930). Clawed back a lot of the ground that I had been losing over the past month.

DC

Necronomicon

80 sees me back into the top 10k (just, 9.8k) up from 15k.

I played my WC on Saturday morning before the deadline - the team I would have played got 64 (-4), so a 20-point swing and I'm happy with the shape the team is in.

AdMMM

Happy enough with a 63 considering I slept in past the deadline. However it wasn't disastrous because I was going to transfer out Costa for Aguero which would have meant I wouldn't have started PvA. Panti sitting on the bench was a disaster though

Nevertheless, a green arrow is a green arrow and a rise from 83k to 76k isn't to be laughed at. My goal was a Top 100k finish this season anyway so I think I'm definitely on course.

I've taken a -4 this week, so will probably lose yet another game in the FPL Champions Cup, but this should see me kick on long-term!

FrClintPower

74 points sees me move up from 16k overall to about 12.5k.

Very satisfying GW for me, after the last GW's 35 point horror show. A couple of decisions went right for me - Haz (c) was pretty good, got in Walcott as a one week replacement for Boyd before using the wildcard to cover for Sanchez. Obviously, with hindsight, Kane (c) and getting in Cazorla would have been better, but still.

So pretty well-placed to use the WC this week, I've got in Bellerin, Cazorla and Walters to see can I get a couple of 0.1ms out of them, might end up hanging on to one or two of them for the minute anyway. Also seriously considering going for some Liverpool coverage, both in defence and attack. Sturridge looked great on Saturday.

SantryRed

Unbelievable. 69 actually has me drop back from 2.4k to 2.5k after such a promising Saturday. Cannot be more pissed at Ryan Bertrand though. 10 point swing in 5 minutes.

8-10

SantryRed wrote: »

Cannot be more pissed at Ryan Bertrand though. 10 point swing in 5 minutes.

You can't blame him for the goal! Cracker

Chesty08

SantryRed wrote: »

Unbelievable. 69 actually has me drop back from 2.4k to 2.5k after such a promising Saturday. Cannot be more pissed at Ryan Bertrand though. 10 point swing in 5 minutes.

Similar score (72) and dropped back 35 places to 910 OR.

Not too shocked tbh! Cost myself about 10 points with silly 1 week punts!

Scorpion Sting

I finished on 78 points for the gameweek, very happy with that. Gameweek rank of 105k. My 3rd straight green arrow saw me rise from 3k to 2.2k and I also won all my H2Hs which I didn't expect would happen. I've been pretty consistent over the last 14 gameweeks ; I was in 2,400th place in GW10 and am now in 2,200th place with almost two-thirds of the season gone.

FHFC

@ PaullyD

Meant to ask you, how did Johnson look at the weekend. I didn't even get to see the highlights yet, but was it a promising 2 pointer or a depressing pointer?

I see he had a thumb op, but is expected to be back for the weekend.

Paully D

FHFC wrote: »

@ PaullyD

Meant to ask you, how did Johnson look at the weekend. I didn't even get to see the highlights yet, but was it a promising 2 pointer or a depressing pointer?

I see he had a thumb op, but is expected to be back for the weekend.

Sorry mate, literally just saw your PM and the above post now.

Johnson was an annoying one. I don't think any Sunderland fan was expecting Poyet to deviate from the 3-5-2 that was created with the intention of supplying Defoe with more service after just one week, and Johnson was supposed to be central to that. However, I've come to the clear conclusion now that Poyet talks absolute bollocks to the press (he did the same thing ahead of the Fulham game when he spoke about making lots of changes which made me more aware) and won't believe anything he says in interviews/conferences anymore.

He actually played well throughout, especially when he made a lovely run with the ball to assist the assist on the first goal. But the thing is, in that wide position Johnson seems to be the type of player who usually goes on 3-4 week bursts, usually around the turn of the year each season, and then does very little in terms of FPL contributions for ~ 10 weeks. We may have missed that particular boat but I'll be holding him for another couple of gameweeks anyway, mainly just because I want to bank the transfer. I'd replace him if that's the question you're asking, providing you have another target in mind and/or spare transfer. :pac: It was a nice gamble if he had been playing centrally in the 3-5-2, but we know what we're going to get out of him in FPL when he's out wide.

FHFC

Paully D wrote: »

Sorry mate, literally just saw your PM and the above post now.

Johnson was an annoying one. I don't think any Sunderland fan was expecting Poyet to deviate from the 3-5-2 that was created with the intention of supplying Defoe with more service after just one week, and Johnson was supposed to be central to that. However, I've come to the clear conclusion now that Poyet talks absolute bollocks to the press (he did the same thing ahead of the Fulham game when he spoke about making lots of changes which made me more aware) and won't believe anything he says in interviews/conferences anymore.

He actually played well throughout, especially when he made a lovely run with the ball to assist the assist on the first goal. But the thing is, in that wide position Johnson seems to be the type of player who usually goes on 3-4 week bursts, usually around the turn of the year each season, and then does very little in terms of FPL contributions for ~ 10 weeks. We may have missed that particular boat but I'll be holding him for another couple of gameweeks anyway, mainly just because I want to bank the transfer. I'd replace him if that's the question you're asking, providing you have another target in mind and/or spare transfer. :pac: It was a nice gamble if he had been playing centrally in the 3-5-2, but we know what we're going to get out of him in FPL when he's out wide.

Cheers, hoped you'd have a better view of where he was positionally, hard to tell from motd but it did seem he was wide most of the time, although in commentary they said he was "revelling in the free role".

Budget is only the 6m to keep cash for Sturridge so I dunno if anybody is worth changing him for in that price range...Puncheon, Walters, Moses....nobody jumping out at me.

Him being doubtful is more of my worry, but I'd also come to the conclusion Poyet is full of sht, given the change in prognosis over the week. I suspect he'll play.