General FPL Chat 2015/16

AidySevenfold

Mahrez on the bench, 9 points ahead with my opponent having Lukaku captain and Barkley to play, not too confident at all

PARlance

Mate of mine has had 171 benched points this season already. And he doesn't have Mahrez on the bench this week.

Anything to distract me from the game at hand.

Lights On

Just had a look at a fella in the top 5 in one of my leagues. Stopped playing after week two or three, has had Ozil captain ever since and been getting great scores all season without touching his team. Looks like he's logged back in this week and made a transfer. I think I might take the same approach next season :pac:

iroced

Lemlin wrote: »

City should be running away with the league with the team they have to be honest.

100% agree. I said it in a bit more details in another topic.

Lemlin wrote: »

I can't explain Chelsea's poor form but I still think Mourinho is one of the best managers in the world.

was.

His head exploded at Real Madrid. Too much arrogance and pretention. Too much power Perez gave to him (he even sacked the legendary Valdano to make it easier for José :rolleyes:). Too much playing Al Capone on the bench (was hilarious watching him on the bench, you felt the guy was more working his DeNiro imitations than anything else).

I'll be controversial and a bit off-topic but to me, Mourinho should have been sacked from football after the Anders Frisk "incident". We cannot be surprised by e.g. Costa constant disgraceful behaviour with a manager with such mentality. The best examples are actually the Real Madrid players. Do you remember how Mourinho turned e.g. Pepé, Marcelo & Ramos into blood-thirsty beasts? The difference in these players attitude under Ancelotti was just mindblowing :eek:. Class vs bitchiness. I certainly chose my side :cool:.

wardides

My bench boost failed miserably this week by the way. Unless McCarthy miraculously comes back into the fold tonight for Palace, it yielded an impressive 4 points. Largely frustrating as Kolarov could have scored, was close twice actually from what I've seen. Losing patience with Ayew at Swansea. Expensive enough too, just don't want to pull the trigger only for a new manager to arrive in and he starts scoring goals again.

CSF

wardides wrote: »

My bench boost failed miserably this week by the way. Unless McCarthy miraculously comes back into the fold tonight for Palace, it yielded an impressive 4 points. Largely frustrating as Kolarov could have scored, was close twice actually from what I've seen. Losing patience with Ayew at Swansea. Expensive enough too, just don't want to pull the trigger only for a new manager to arrive in and he starts scoring goals again.

Why did you play the bench boost when you weren't confident of playing a full 15? Seems an odd choice.

siblers

wardides wrote: »

My bench boost failed miserably this week by the way. Unless McCarthy miraculously comes back into the fold tonight for Palace, it yielded an impressive 4 points. Largely frustrating as Kolarov could have scored, was close twice actually from what I've seen. Losing patience with Ayew at Swansea. Expensive enough too, just don't want to pull the trigger only for a new manager to arrive in and he starts scoring goals again.

Who was your 4th sub?

the groutch

5 all-prem matches in the FA Cup 3rd round, not good for the DGW fans.

Norwich v Manchester City
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Leicester
Arsenal v Sunderland
Watford v Newcastle

KizzyMonster

the groutch wrote: »

5 all-prem matches in the FA Cup 3rd round, not good for the DGW fans.

Norwich v Manchester City
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Leicester
Arsenal v Sunderland
Watford v Newcastle

Why is this not good?

OneColdHand

KizzyMonster wrote: »

Why is this not good?

The more PL teams in the FA later stages, the more teams there will be in DGWs. That draw immediately mean 5 teams will be knocked out.

Ziegler1988

I would say that's around average, at least none of the big teams are facing each other

iroced

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

I would say that's around average, at least none of the big teams are facing each other

Erratum !!! Spurs vs future PL champion .

Ziegler1988

iroced wrote: »

Erratum !!! Spurs vs future PL champion .

I was counting Leicester as the big side

wardides

CSF wrote: »

Why did you play the bench boost when you weren't confident of playing a full 15? Seems an odd choice.

Because I felt fairly confident in City keeping a clean sheet & thought Ayew might produce more than he did. Felt it was the best opportunity to maximise my bench with the 14 players available as opposed to waiting until I had one extra player but could have felt less confidence in scoring points.

wardides

For example somebody said on here that we should take an average score of 4 points to player. Full bench would have given me 16 points. I felt Kolarov, Sagna & Ayew could have scored that between the 3 of them so felt it was good time to use it.

Also in a fairly pricey league with 10 mates where Christmas number 1 gets their buy in back. The extra 4 points I gained has put me now 5 points in the lead!

mcgettigan16

FA investigating Mahrez and Ashley Williams. Hopefully it comes to nothing.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11731/10093255/fa-asks-clubs-for-observations-on-clash-between-ashley-williams-and-riyad-mahrez

FHFC

mcgettigan16 wrote: »

FA investigating Mahrez and Ashley Williams. Hopefully it comes to nothing.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11731/10093255/fa-asks-clubs-for-observations-on-clash-between-ashley-williams-and-riyad-mahrez

Aha. Clearly they must now deduct the three goals from him and give him a retrospective red card, reflecting this in his fpl scoring. Anything less would be a travesty.

#justiceformahrezbenchers

ScummyMan

Varela starting for Man Utd tonight, that's something I'll be watching closely. A 4.2m Utd defender is the stuff dreams are made of!!

SantryRed

ScummyMan wrote: »

Varela starting for Man Utd tonight, that's something I'll be watching closely. A 4.2m Utd defender is the stuff dreams are made of!!

Not when he's the only fit defender they have :pac:

steve_r

Those cheap defenders though (Gomez, Taggert) are great for a while but can be hard to get rid of when they eventually get dropped.

From watching Utd last night, I'd be wary of that defence with Schweinsteiger out and Smalling potentially injured.

Necronomicon

steve_r wrote: »

From watching Utd last night, I'd be wary of that defence with Schweinsteiger out and Smalling potentially injured.

Not to mention Schneiderlin and now Darmian too by the looks of it. Goodness knows what the back four will look like versus Bournemouth.

ScummyMan

Necronomicon wrote: »

Not to mention Schneiderlin and now Darmian too by the looks of it. Goodness knows what the back four will look like versus Bournemouth.

Exactly. Especially with DDG, I'd still be confident that they'll pick up a clean sheet there.

extra gravy

Garry Monk sacked.

km79

ScummyMan wrote: »

Exactly. Especially with DDG, I'd still be confident that they'll pick up a clean sheet there.

I wouldn't
bournemouth have plenty of goals in them

DarraghF197

extra gravy wrote: »

Garry Monk sacked.

Monk gives Swansea their best ever Premier League finish one season and then gets sacked for having the club in the exact same situation they were in when he signed for them. What a joke. Williams isn't performing, their strikers are off form, Sigurdsson has been unlucky recently but hasn't really started the campaign. Solution: sack the manager.

Mr.Prodston

Hmm Ayew was in perilous danger of being transferred but I might keep him for the new manager bounce for better or worse.

Let's see how the week develops.

Invincible

extra gravy wrote: »

Garry Monk sacked.

Brendan Rogers Boomerang????

Ziegler1988

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20151209/wenger-on-the-win-giroud-and-belief?

on whether Giroud has taken a penalty before…
He was on the list to be No 1. Number two was Walcott and No 3 was Ramsey, so we respected the order. It is maybe easier to take a penalty when you have already scored, but he took it well. He practised in training and it showed.

Very interesting that Theo is on pens without Giroud. Ozil nowhere to be seen as expected after his misses

Shedite27

What's Arsenal's record on pens this season. Have Ozil and Carzola both missed? Anyone scored one so far (league)?

Scorpion Sting

Shedite27 wrote: »

What's Arsenal's record on pens this season. Have Ozil and Carzola both missed? Anyone scored one so far (league)?

They've had 1 penalty and Cazorla missed.

Ziegler1988

Shedite27 wrote: »

What's Arsenal's record on pens this season. Have Ozil and Carzola both missed? Anyone scored one so far (league)?

Ozil missed two in the Champions league in 2013/14 and doesn't want them anymore

dahat

Anyone else hoping for a good show from Hazard Monday night?

He has Twp home games after that, Watford and Sunderland, would love to get him in for those.

FHFC

dahat wrote: »

Anyone else hoping for a good show from Hazard Monday night

Em, just a bit yeah!

km79

dahat wrote: »

Anyone else hoping for a good show from Hazard Monday night?

He has Twp home games after that, Watford and Sunderland, would love to get him in for those.

oh nice .........may have my mata replacement if he goes well monday night
been a long time hazardless!

dahat

Been impressed by Hazard last twice i watched him play, very unlucky not to score in both.

I'm actually nearly convinced already and with Aguero on the back burner for now I'm pretty flush for a white guy........

2nd Row Donkey

This been flush business isn't all its cracked up to be. I have 16m to play with if I ditch Aguero.

But it's like been flush in the run up to xmas, you know you shouldn't spend it. You know you'll need it in January but then you convince yourself to spend it on something useless. I'm two taps away from buying BUIB ffs

Copper_pipe

This Fantasy Football fix app is very handy for updates

Nalz

When talking to a lad in the office who's colour blind and has big probs with shades of purple, I made the comment "you must hate Fiorentina so!"

The guy beside me in work who's 30 points ahead of me in FPL, asked both of us "Whats a Fiorentina?" :eek:

Sums up this season for me

MarkSRFC21

A lot of sources reporting mourinho has been sacked

COH

Jose sacked :eek:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34670192

FHFC

Confirmed.

Jose gone. Guardian reporting it.

Scorpion Sting

A bit surprised at that. I mean there's not much you can do with that Chelsea team at the moment. They're very unlikely to make top 4 and very unlikely to be relegated. Abramovich is not known for his patience though so it was always a possibility he'd be sacked.

Mike Ehrmantraut

Gonna be interesting to see if Chelsea players form will pick up in the next few weeks.
Hazard and a few others might come into play as options yet.

jimmii

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

A bit surprised at that. I mean there's not much you can do with that Chelsea team at the moment. They're very unlikely to make top 4 and very unlikely to be relegated. Abramovich is not known for his patience though so it was always a possibility he'd be sacked.

I guess his thinking is this season is a write off and it allows the incoming Manager a few months to get the players playing the way they want so they can hit the ground fast next season instead of trying to figure that all out then.

CSF

I feel better about my Hazard Azpi combo now

CSF

I feel better about my Hazard Azpi combo now

Potential Underachiever

CSF wrote: »

I feel better about my Hazard Azpi combo now

CSF wrote: »

I feel better about my Hazard Azpi combo now

How are you feeling now, a bit better?

jimmii

I feel better about my Hazard Azpi combo now.

Rikand

Pep in ?

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/35113830

Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola says he will give "clarity" on his future at the Bundesliga champions next week.

iroced

Rikand wrote: »

Pep in ?

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/35113830

Can't see him coming in Chelsea. There also were talks about him continuing for a longer time in Munich a couple of weeks ago.

But if he does come, then Azpi-Hazard-Pedro all in and 1 of the latter 2 captain most weeks !!!