General FPL Chat 2017/18

SteelyDanJalapeno

Morzadec wrote: »

Abraham is definitely superb value. He's likely to be at he centre of most Swansea goals. Swansea are fairly rubbish but if they score it will likely be scoredor set up by him.

Have my eye on him to, would be a serious fund enabler.

Yep, thinking he's my haz enabler for chelseas good run

Degag

How long does it generally take for the game to update these days? It used to only take around 15 mins a couple of years ago but with the increase in players....

Islander13

Around 45 mins these days

km79

@DeanJonesBR: Think it's time up for Bilic. Hearing David Moyes will head to West Ham for the rest of the season, Phil Neville to be part of backroom team


The good lord !

AdpRo

Duffy has 4 clean sheets in the last 6 weeks, he's been on my bench for them all, subbed on once. I'm going to play him from now on so you can be sure they will concede every week!

Wilberto

AdpRo wrote: »

Duffy has 4 clean sheets in the last 6 weeks, he's been on my bench for them all, subbed on once. I'm going to play him from now on so you can be sure they will concede every week!

Same with Dunk, but at least he's been in my team for all of them except this week!


I'm amazed he dropped by .1 at all though as he did nothing to warrant being sold. My guess is that people dumped him to hop on the Hegazi train.

Makes no odds to me though as I have no intention of getting rid! :pac:

Bleating Lamb

Morzadec wrote: »

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Would people start De Gea v Chelsea or Elliot v Bournemouth this weekend?


Thanks for any thoughts.

siblers wrote: »

Mourinho will park the bus, having said that, Utd's record at Stamford Bridge is pretty awful so I dunno, I had DDG and Elliot and I'm not sure who to go with

First thought is Eliot. Newcastle at home very solid and coming up against Bournemouth who are not really in much form going forward.

United playing arguably their 2nd or 3rd hardest fixture of the campaign. Yes, Mourinho will park the bus, but he can't stop goals every single time. They got a little lucky against Liverpool and I feel Chelsea are a bit more clinical / savvy than Liverpool when it comes to breaking down a defensive side. Reverse fixture last year ended 4-0 to Chelsea.

Odds say 6/4 clean sheet Eliot, 9/4 De Gea.

United definitely have the potential for a clean sheet, don't get me wrong. But I think Newcastle are the more likely.

If United do keep a cleany you could be looking at an 8 or 9 pointer for De Gea, whereas Eliot will most likely be a 6 or 7 pointer. ~M~ight sway you towards De Gea.

But Eliot is the % choice imo

Elliot and injury time concession!....if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.....and Cook😀

Bleating Lamb

Morzadec wrote: »

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Would people start De Gea v Chelsea or Elliot v Bournemouth this weekend?


Thanks for any thoughts.

siblers wrote: »

Mourinho will park the bus, having said that, Utd's record at Stamford Bridge is pretty awful so I dunno, I had DDG and Elliot and I'm not sure who to go with

First thought is Eliot. Newcastle at home very solid and coming up against Bournemouth who are not really in much form going forward.

United playing arguably their 2nd or 3rd hardest fixture of the campaign. Yes, Mourinho will park the bus, but he can't stop goals every single time. They got a little lucky against Liverpool and I feel Chelsea are a bit more clinical / savvy than Liverpool when it comes to breaking down a defensive side. Reverse fixture last year ended 4-0 to Chelsea.

Odds say 6/4 clean sheet Eliot, 9/4 De Gea.

United definitely have the potential for a clean sheet, don't get me wrong. But I think Newcastle are the more likely.

If United do keep a cleany you could be looking at an 8 or 9 pointer for De Gea, whereas Eliot will most likely be a 6 or 7 pointer. ~M~ight sway you towards De Gea.

But Eliot is the % choice imo

Elliot and injury time concession!....if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.....and Cook😀

Bleating Lamb

Morzadec wrote: »

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Would people start De Gea v Chelsea or Elliot v Bournemouth this weekend?


Thanks for any thoughts.

siblers wrote: »

Mourinho will park the bus, having said that, Utd's record at Stamford Bridge is pretty awful so I dunno, I had DDG and Elliot and I'm not sure who to go with

First thought is Eliot. Newcastle at home very solid and coming up against Bournemouth who are not really in much form going forward.

United playing arguably their 2nd or 3rd hardest fixture of the campaign. Yes, Mourinho will park the bus, but he can't stop goals every single time. They got a little lucky against Liverpool and I feel Chelsea are a bit more clinical / savvy than Liverpool when it comes to breaking down a defensive side. Reverse fixture last year ended 4-0 to Chelsea.

Odds say 6/4 clean sheet Eliot, 9/4 De Gea.

United definitely have the potential for a clean sheet, don't get me wrong. But I think Newcastle are the more likely.

If United do keep a cleany you could be looking at an 8 or 9 pointer for De Gea, whereas Eliot will most likely be a 6 or 7 pointer. ~M~ight sway you towards De Gea.

But Eliot is the % choice imo

Elliot and injury time concession!....if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.....and Cook😀

Bleating Lamb

Morzadec wrote: »

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Would people start De Gea v Chelsea or Elliot v Bournemouth this weekend?


Thanks for any thoughts.

siblers wrote: »

Mourinho will park the bus, having said that, Utd's record at Stamford Bridge is pretty awful so I dunno, I had DDG and Elliot and I'm not sure who to go with

First thought is Eliot. Newcastle at home very solid and coming up against Bournemouth who are not really in much form going forward.

United playing arguably their 2nd or 3rd hardest fixture of the campaign. Yes, Mourinho will park the bus, but he can't stop goals every single time. They got a little lucky against Liverpool and I feel Chelsea are a bit more clinical / savvy than Liverpool when it comes to breaking down a defensive side. Reverse fixture last year ended 4-0 to Chelsea.

Odds say 6/4 clean sheet Eliot, 9/4 De Gea.

United definitely have the potential for a clean sheet, don't get me wrong. But I think Newcastle are the more likely.

If United do keep a cleany you could be looking at an 8 or 9 pointer for De Gea, whereas Eliot will most likely be a 6 or 7 pointer. ~M~ight sway you towards De Gea.

But Eliot is the % choice imo

Elliot and injury time concession!....if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.....and Cook:)

Hogey007

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Elliot and injury time concession!....if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.....and Cook��

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Elliot and injury time concession!....if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.....and Cook😀

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Elliot and injury time concession!....if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.....and Cook😀

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Elliot and injury time concession!....if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.....and Cook:)

4 goals conceded in injury time....ouch

gormdubhgorm

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Elliot and injury time concession!....if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.....and Cook��

I was confident of a newcastle clean sheet as well started yedlin and elliott and I banched daniels....
it looked like Yeldin and Elliott would have got two bonus points each as well

Paully D

My captaincy choices this season:

GW1: Lukaku - 13 (26)
GW2: Lukaku - 6 (12)
GW3: Kane - 2 (4)
GW4: Sanchez - 2 (4)
GW5: Kane - 2 (4)
GW6: Sanchez - 5 (10)
GW7: Kane - 13 (26)
GW8: Kane - 2 (4)
GW9: Sterling - 0 - Morata in with 1 (2)
GW10: Salah - 4 (8)
GW11: Kane - 2 (4)

Utterly pathetic really. Only 2 hauls (GW's 1 and 7) I can be happy with there from 11 weeks. 4 captaincy blanks in 5 from Kane alone.

Getting the captaincy right is so important but 2 from 11 is beyond poor.

How's everyone else doing?

The real mccoy 91

Paully D wrote: »

My captaincy choices this season:

GW1: Lukaku - 13 (26)
GW2: Lukaku - 6 (12)
GW3: Kane - 2 (4)
GW4: Sanchez - 2 (4)
GW5: Kane - 2 (4)
GW6: Sanchez - 5 (10)
GW7: Kane - 13 (26)
GW8: Kane - 2 (4)
GW9: Sterling - 0 - Morata in with 1 (2)
GW10: Salah - 4 (8)
GW11: Kane - 2 (4)

Utterly pathetic really. Only 2 hauls (GW's 1 and 7) I can be happy with there from 11 weeks. 4 captaincy blanks in 5 from Kane alone.

Getting the captaincy right is so important but 2 from 11 is beyond poor.

How's everyone else doing?

GW1: Jesus - 1 (2)
GW2: Mane - 8 (16)
GW3: Kane - 2 (4)
GW4: Sanchez - 1 (2)
GW5: Kane - 2 (4)
GW6: Kolasinac - 6 (12)
GW7: lukaku - 6 (12)
GW8: Kane - 2 (4)
GW9: Lukaku - 5 (10)
GW10: Sanchez - 2 (4)
GW11: Kane - 2 (4)

Shocking altogether

manual_man

The real mccoy 91 wrote: »

GW1: Jesus - 1 (2)
GW2: Mane - 8 (16)
GW3: Kane - 2 (4)
GW4: Sanchez - 1 (2)
GW5: Kane - 2 (4)
GW6: Kolasinac - 6 (12)
GW7: lukaku - 6 (12)
GW8: Kane - 2 (4)
GW9: Lukaku - 5 (10)
GW10: Sanchez - 2 (4)
GW11: Kane - 2 (4)

Shocking altogether

Astonishing that you got no returns from 4x Kane and 2x Sanchez captaincies

alchemist33

Is it my imagination or is this a very low scoring season so far?

Wilberto

Era, my guess is that everyone who had Kane had him captained this week.

I mean, even though I had a feeling that Palace could fustrate them today, I still captained him! :pac:

km79

Wilberto wrote: »

Era, my guess is that everyone who had Kane had him captained this week.

I mean, even though I had a feeling that Palace could fustrate them today, I still captained him! :pac:

Same
I felt I’d rather be the wrong end of a captain blank than a non captain haul

Shanotheslayer

Wilberto wrote: »

Era, my guess is that everyone who had Kane had him captained this week.

I mean, even though I had a feeling that Palace could fustrate them today, I still captained him! :pac:

I had Kane and Captained Atsu

PARlance

Wilberto wrote: »

Era, my guess is that everyone who had Kane had him captained this week.

I mean, even though I had a feeling that Palace could fustrate them today, I still captained him! :pac:

Have Kane but went with my gut and gave it to Kun. As I said in the Captaincy thread, having Aguero as a differential captain is never the worst of positions to be in.

PARlance

GW1: Lukaku - 13 (26)
GW2: Lukaku - 6 (12)
GW3: Kane - 2 (4)
GW4: Lukaku - 6 (12)
GW5: Kane - 2 (4)
GW6: Aguero - 11 (22)
GW7: Kane - 13 (26)
GW8: Kane - 2 (4)
GW9: Kane - 16 (32)
GW10: Lacazette - 2 (4)
GW11: Aguero - 8 (16)

Only slightly annoyed with the Lacazette captaincy in GW10 but it wasn't punished as there were fails all around. He scored in GW 9 & 11 so not the worst of calls.

Don't really mind the Kane blanks as he was so highly captained those weeks iirc and have been on him for his big hauls.

Captaincy is normally an area were I fail massively but have decided to play it safer this year.

Ace2007

GW1: Lukaku - 13 (26)
GW2: Lukaku - 6 (12)
GW3: Lukaku - 0 (0)
GW4: Kane- 13 (26)
GW5: Kane - 2 (4)
GW6: Aguero - 11 (22)
GW7: Lukaku- 6 (12)
GW8: Jesus- 13 (26)
GW9: Jesus- 1 (2)
GW10: Sanchez- 2 (4)
GW11: Firmino- 2 (4)

I think I've done alright with captain choices so far- last 3 have been let downs though.

Big Borg

Are the boards f**ked up again?

Trimm Trabb

How would you rank these 3 options; Alonso, Zaha, Richardilson?

Can only afford 2 but all 3 have excellent fixtures on the horizion.

COH

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

How would you rank these 3 options; Alonso, Zaha, Richardilson?

Can only afford 2 but all 3 have excellent fixtures on the horizion.

Id have Zaha/Richarlison

km79

COH wrote: »

Id have Zaha/Richarlison

Same
Not sure why anyone would consider spending 7ml on Alonso over azpi at this point either

km79

km79 wrote: »

Same
Not sure why anyone would consider spending 7ml on Alonso over azpi at this point either

Well I’ve been carrying him since WC and have lost 0.2m but I kinda have to keep him now for this good run of fixtures.

Although im concerned about behind the scenes talk with Conte.

Are strong arguments against Abraham being the safest and best cheap 3rd striker option in a 3-5-2 ?

With the busy schedule now I think it’s important to have a strong bench.

shineon23

Deleted User wrote: »

Are strong arguments against Abraham being the safest and best cheap 3rd striker option in a 3-5-2 ?

With the busy schedule now I think it’s important to have a strong bench.

Well I've gone with Rooney as punt in this role and it has backfired spectacularly so far.
Think I have to stick with him given his fixtures.

Abraham seems to be involved in everything Swansea do, but when Bony returns will that continue would be my concern, and he does play for Swansea.

Glenn Murray seems to have the ability to get goals from nothing, he's in very good form, proven scorer for lower profile clubs in the league, Brighton have 3 tricky fixtures coming up in the next 6 games, but only really Chelsea (twice) of the 'top clubs' in the next run of games up to Gameweek 29 at the beginning of March. So he could be a select and forget option.

I might be clouded by his last 3 games, but I may have talked myself into buying Big Glenn in a few weeks time myself :D

shineon23

shineon23 wrote: »

Well I've gone with Rooney as punt in this role and it has backfired spectacularly so far.
Think I have to stick with him given his fixtures.

Abraham seems to be involved in everything Swansea do, but when Bony returns will that continue would be my concern, and he does play for Swansea.

Glenn Murray seems to have the ability to get goals from nothing, he's in very good form, proven scorer for lower profile clubs in the league, Brighton have 3 tricky fixtures coming up in the next 6 games, but only really Chelsea (twice) of the 'top clubs' in the next run of games up to Gameweek 29 at the beginning of March. So he could be a select and forget option.

I might be clouded by his last 3 games, but I may have talked myself into buying Big Glenn in a few weeks time myself :D

Yeah. It’s hard to combine the safe and best. I wonder how safe Murray will be over the next few weeks with Hemed available again.

I got the feeling that Bony might start with Abraham rather than instead of him.

Depoitre might be the other safe choice.