General FPL Chat 2018/19

Father Hernandez

My thoughts currently on a Friday evening a week out...

km79

can someone link cartman's spreadsheet please
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Who_8_Paul?

Father Hernandez wrote: »

My thoughts currently on a Friday evening a week out...

Cool, I thought I was only one in here on this medication. You know it effects 75% of men at some stage.

Cartman78

km79 wrote: »

can someone link cartman's spreadsheet please
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On phone so can't link but it's in post number 38 of this thread.

I'm hoping FPL can fill the void of Mayo's demise this summer ;-)

MagicIRL

Is David Luiz expected to start for Chelsea? Love him in FF, the mad headcase.

extra gravy

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1025421920362287109?s=19

Wonder what this means for Mee/Tarkowski...

eh i dunno

extra gravy wrote: »

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1025421920362287109?s=19

Wonder what this means for Mee/Tarkowski...

Rotation unfortunately

km79

MagicIRL wrote: »

Is David Luiz expected to start for Chelsea? Love him in FF, the mad headcase.

Looking more and more like it

caviardreams

km79 wrote: »

Looking more and more like it

Courtois potentially leaving is the only think putting me off Luiz - will chelsea be as tight at the back?

km79

caviardreams wrote: »

Courtois potentially leaving is the only think putting me off Luiz - will chelsea be as tight at the back?

I was putting him in partly for his attacking threat.......then I looked at his history . 1 goal 1 assist along with 6 yellows in title winning season!!!! I thought he had more attacking threat than that. I had just put him in my team too but now it is a wait and see.
Sure I'll just stick PVA back in for the night

km79

LOL look at PVAs past seasons stats. As many goals as clean sheets most years. Fk it I will stick with him. If Wan Bisaka eends up nailing down a starting berth all the better I will take the price rises which will set off PVAs inevitable price drops!

km79

Mark Hughes has said Cedric is currently suffering a "stomach bug" and has been told to stay where he is and should return early next week. #saintsfc

https://t.co/O3x9e28GBp

Iused2likebusts

Morzadec wrote: »

BB GW1 I think is still a risk as we can't be sure on lineups and we have a lot of unknowns in general.

The idea of using before DGW I understand, but I'm thinking soon after an early-ish WC might be the best time.

I usually end up WCing around GW7 or so. I don't have any set plan and I'll hang on as long as I reasonably can, but usually around this time you have a lot more known quantities in terms of things like:

- Who are the must-have premium attackers?
- Which smaller teams are showing they can keep clean sheets?
- Who is / isn't a rotation risk?
- Is team X predominantly an attacking team or a defensive team?

I then fully intend to go with 15 regulars for my WC. Happy to have a non-playing GK starting off, but I do think a well-rounded squad for WC can save a lot of headaches.

Then hopefully there's a week soon after where my bench have reasonable fixtures (or I have a genuine selection dilemma) and everyone is fit.

BB GW1 just seems an unnecessary risk and big commitment. You're committing to an early-WC, and while I'm a fan of an early WC in general, I do think it's worth giving your team the chance not to use it until later on (i.e. back your starting team to potentially still be strong 5 GWs in after a few FTs).

WC is gold dust so throwing it away after one GW is a poor strategy imo, just to try to make something decent out of BB.

I agree a WC is gold dust but the masses generally play it around a dgw and then totally compromise it by focusing on BB.
This year I think it makes a lot of sense to plan an early WC due to the returning players from the world cup.
The advantages of an early BB are due to doubts over Kane, lukaku, aguero all starting the season, aubemyang (poor fixtures). Its fairly easy to build a well balanced strong BB team due to the fact we can probably get away without starting with a premium forward. Its the only time you can wildcard in a BB team gw 1 knowing that you have a wildcard to readjust your team to a more normal structure.
Obviously you need to be clever with your picks and go with near certainties to start and I wouldn't be advocating playing the wildcard till atleast after gw 3.

Iused2likebusts

eh i dunno wrote: »

Rotation unfortunately

Dyche doesn't do rotation especially with his back four . Mee has refused to sign a new contract it wouldn't surprise me if he is sold.

km79

I currently have gudmonson and Cairney as my 4th and 5th mids and Charlie Austin as my 3rd striker
I’m giving serious consideration to downgrading gudmonson to another 5ml mid (ralls or Neves) and rotating the pair of them
Can then upgrade Austin if I want to Josh King to another sicknote in Chris Wood
It would also leave me with 5ml to sort my 5ml defender issue by buying a 5.5ml defender !!!!
I would then have my most expensive defence ever with a 6ml two 5.5 , 4.5 and 4.0
I could also of course go with 6 ml 5.5 5.0 & two 4.5 leaving me with a full 15 starters .............If wan bissaka starts last friendly that will help make mey mind up but also leave me with double palace defecnce more than likely !

km79

km79 wrote: »

LOL look at PVAs past seasons stats. As many goals as clean sheets most years. Fk it I will stick with him. If Wan Bisaka eends up nailing down a starting berth all the better I will take the price rises which will set off PVAs inevitable price drops!

Going against all my own advice and I’m splashing the cash in defence.

I’ve got Mendy and Robertson locked in and I won’t be changing but the final spot is between PVA and Bellerin.

Initially had PVA but currently have Bellerin. This is a real coin toss and I’ve no idea which way it’ll go.

Shanotheslayer

PVA over Bellerin. Imo. Bellerin is dire. I had him in a draft last season for the year and just no..

Shanotheslayer

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

PVA over Bellerin. Imo. Bellerin is dire. I had him in a draft last season for the year and just no..

Harsh on Bellerin.

I went in to last season raving about him and remember having him as first defender on teamsheet.

He didn’t do as well as I expected but was still the 8th highest scoring defender and looks like he missed about 3-4 games and was playing in an arsenal team managed by Wenger.

I think he has a higher ceiling than PVA, this season, but PVA is more fun to own.

If Pep is going to play 3-5-2 this season then I don’t think it automatically mean Aguero and Jesus up top.

More likely to still be just one of them.

sheroman01

Totally didn't notice Southampton signing Gunn for 13.5m. Does he start right away for them? Would be harsh on McCarthy. With the Cedric news, it'd be nice to have a Soton keeper at 4.5m. Anyone know the story over their number one?

sheroman01

caviardreams wrote: »

Courtois potentially leaving is the only think putting me off Luiz - will chelsea be as tight at the back?

No idea but Willy at 5m would nice.

Iused2likebusts

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If Pep is going to play 3-5-2 this season then I don’t think it automatically mean Aguero and Jesus up top.

More likely to still be just one of them.

I agree . The likes of sterling will be upfront maybe even sane and mahrez at times.

Green&Red

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Dyche doesn't do rotation especially with his back four . Mee has refused to sign a new contract it wouldn't surprise me if he is sold.

I don't think Burnley will be a great asset at the start of the season, the uefa cup will take its toll

Shame Hart wasn’t already listed although unlikely he would have been 4.0m.

manual_man

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Shame Hart wasn’t already listed although unlikely he would have been 4.0m.

A good (priced) Hart these days is hard to find

The real mccoy 91

Green&Red wrote: »

I don't think Burnley will be a great asset at the start of the season, the uefa cup will take its toll

I thought that too originally but will the competitive football stand them in better shape for the start? Their first 6 look ok

manual_man

https://twitter.com/OfficialFPL/status/1025664600564486144?s=20

km79

Cardiff scored 21 goals from set pieces
That's incredible !
Centre halves Morrison got 7 bamba 4
I'm currently reading Four Four Two season preview which is always helpful for the promoted clubs

manual_man

The real mccoy 91 wrote: »

I thought that too originally but will the competitive football stand them in better shape for the start? Their first 6 look ok

It's not the competitiveness as much as the short turnaround between games (Thurs evening to Sun afternoon)

callaway92

Kevin Mirallas gone to Fiorentina