Fantasy premier league Thread

p.pete

I'm looking at bringing in a West Ham striker this week as they've a run of reasonably easy games in the next 3 game weeks and then an "extra" match against United. So looking at Harewood or Ashton but not sure which yet.

Any suggestions as to which is more likely to get more time on the pitch or grab more goals? From the last 3 games both have gained similar points and similar time on the pitch, though Ashton is yet to play a full 90 minutes...

Lemlin

p.pete wrote:

I'm looking at bringing in a West Ham striker this week as they've a run of reasonably easy games in the next 3 game weeks and then an "extra" match against United. So looking at Harewood or Ashton but not sure which yet.

Any suggestions as to which is more likely to get more time on the pitch or grab more goals? From the last 3 games both have gained similar points and similar time on the pitch, though Ashton is yet to play a full 90 minutes...

I'd go with Ashton.

wardie

Lampard, pederson & Barton all out !!!! Tempted to get in gerrard for lampard.

shepthedog

wardie wrote:

Lampard, pederson & Barton all out !!!! Tempted to get in gerrard for lampard.

Yep sames problems here, Lampard, Pedersen out and have to get new striker.

Anyone else pondering doing the crazy and selling Henry to reshuffle their team?

Thinking Gerrard, Mido, Yakubu

shepthedog

wardie wrote:

Lampard, pederson & Barton all out !!!! Tempted to get in gerrard for lampard.

Yep sames problems here, Lampard, Pedersen out and have to get new striker.

Anyone else pondering doing the crazy and selling Henry to reshuffle their team?

Thinking Gerrard, Mido, Yakubu

besty

shepthedog wrote:

Yep sames problems here, Lampard, Pedersen out and have to get new striker.

Anyone else pondering doing the crazy and selling Henry to reshuffle their team?

Thinking Gerrard, Mido, Yakubu

Got rid of henry there. Rooney in. Steven Davis out. Joe Cole into midfield. Thats no lampard and henry in my team!

Lemlin

besty wrote:

Got rid of henry there. Rooney in. Steven Davis out. Joe Cole into midfield. Thats no lampard and henry in my team!

Rooney hasn't been doing great of late. Hasn't scored too many recently. Playing more in a deeper midfield role than up front.

besty

Lemlin wrote:

Rooney hasn't been doing great of late. Hasn't scored too many recently. Playing more in a deeper midfield role than up front.

I still think he is liable to pull his weight and chip in with plenty assists and the like. He is overdue an explosive performance or 2 so I feel his inclusion is worthwhile

Ruskie4Rent

I made Lampard as my captain :mad: I forgot he wouldn't be playing.

Rabies

Ruskie4Rent wrote:

I made Lampard as my captain :mad: I forgot he wouldn't be playing.

I didn't know he wouldn't be playing.
Grand total of 27pts. Terrible week. Worst yet.
I'm in 36th place on All Boards.ie, doing better than expected

shepthedog

Brought in Ronaldo for MGP and Mido for Fowler, Happy Days.. 33 Points from 2 transfers... 68 points overall..

Lex Luthor

Well anybody who had Gerrard did well out if him this weekend even though he conceeded 2 goals he got 3pts for an assist to Henry's 2nd goal

wardie

He got the assist for Garcia's goal as he had the shot Lehman saved.

gimmick

I took Richard Dune out, and put in Zat Knight as its a double game week for Fulham. Dunne scored for man City . Had a good enough week still though

besty

Stelios and Rooney you beauties.
Still, had Ruud as captain and he didn't start - disaster.

6ix

Had a good week with Rooney, Stelios and D Bent all doing the business.. Can only imagine what might have been though -- I sold Jenas and Gallas in the last week and had filan on the bench (8points).

You can never win

county

53 points this week,one of the best weeks i`ve had,totally out of the running though

ronbyrne2005

got 95 this week deciding on a new striker, its between ashton bellamy beattie harewood mido keane with bellamy and harewood my favorites, am 50 points ahead of my mates in a private league and will win some good cash if i stay ahead.

ronbyrne2005

might even buy camara of wigan as he should come good now he's back playing regular.

Firewalkwithme

What's up with the way the bonus points are awarded?

I've seen games where a player gets 3 bonus points for a game where he barely gets a kick of the ball for the whole match and then happens to fluke a goal near the end.

This week Wayne Rooney scored both goals against Newcastle and also played a pretty good game. How many bonus points does he get? NONE!

What the hell is going on?

ronbyrne2005

why would anyone with any sense buy rooney anyway??
you can get the same points per game with a far cheaper player like harewood mido camara etc.people tend to put emotion over reason when picking their teams."i think rooneys great and will pay over 11million for him even though thats crap value"
anyway fergie has said he is gonna rest rooney over next few weeks so he's not burned out by start of next season with all the games including world cup etc.

Lemlin

Anyone know when Wesley Brown will be back? By next weekend?

evilhomer

Lemlin, even if Wes Brown is fit for next weekend it is far from certain he will even start. I'm sure Ferguson is thinking of giving Vidic a run in the side.

http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php

Says he is due back the 26th but I would not be too hopeful, knowing Wes Browns previous injury history.

Oh and for me, pretty poor week, all the managers resting players for the FA cup messed me up. Gallas getting sent off didn't help either!

county

35 points this week,poor to say the least

gimmick

63 this week. Putting Bellamy as captain was inspired.

Got 75 the week before. Im on a roll at the mo! By my standrads that is

Lemlin

evilhomer wrote:

Lemlin, even if Wes Brown is fit for next weekend it is far from certain he will even start. I'm sure Ferguson is thinking of giving Vidic a run in the side.

http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php

Says he is due back the 26th but I would not be too hopeful, knowing Wes Browns previous injury history.

Oh and for me, pretty poor week, all the managers resting players for the FA cup messed me up. Gallas getting sent off didn't help either!

Brown will want a good run to try and force his way into the England World Cup setup though so I can't see Fergie dropping him at the moment. Vidic still has to learn English too AFAIK.

Ferguson will want to put out his strongest team at the moment with Chelsea slipping up too.

besty

Right, just made wholesale changes.

Joe Cole out - Ronaldo in
Vassell out - Samaras in
Alonso out - Gerrard in
Van Nistelrooy - D. Bent

Hopefully these changes can see me home. I'm regretting the Van Nistelrooy one though as I think he will play against Birmingham and bag a few. Still, with him not being an automatic starter anymore, he is too much money tied up.

wardie

Sorry to say but samaras is out for 4 weeks with ligament damage.

besty

wardie wrote:

Sorry to say but samaras is out for 4 weeks with ligament damage.

Nightmare. Had Bent/Rooney up front today.
Damn you Gerrard and your red card

besty

That Rooney/Ronaldo goal there padded out my points a bit.

Lex Luthor

besty wrote:

That Rooney/Ronaldo goal there padded out my points a bit.

What Ronaldo Goal?

andrewie

Ronaldo assisted rooney's goal.

evilhomer

Damn you Gerrard and Damn that stupid ref for calling off the Pompey match! That pitch was good enough to play on.
Only have Mido and Saha to play again this week.

Lex Luthor

ronbyrne2005 wrote:

anyway fergie has said he is gonna rest rooney over next few weeks so he's not burned out by start of next season with all the games including world cup etc.

Versus

Lemlin wrote:

Ferguson will want to put out his strongest team at the moment with Chelsea slipping up too.

I have Rooney so does anybody think he is worth keeping for the next few weeks?

shepthedog

Rooney is playing v well at the moment BUT Fergie has hinted her will recall Ruud for West Ham game..

Looks like Rooney will be rested for WC but maybe not until Chelsea have title wrapped up totally.

Lex Luthor

At 6.7m I think Fabregas is the next acquisition to my team with Solano making way and freeing up 0.5m

Pighead

Absolutely scandalous decision by the powers that be not to give giggs an assist for the free kick he hammered home against birmingham. There was Pighead doing whoops of joy thinking giggsy had bagged him a brace. "Hate to tell you buddy but that free kick was an og by Maik Taylor" Rats I cried but at least i have the assist.
Checked my points yesterday and giggsy is credited with 1 goal and 0 assists. I've said it before but fcuk it i'm gonna say it again SCANDALOUS!

Lex Luthor

Pighead wrote:

Absolutely scandalous decision by the powers that be not to give giggs an assist for the free kick he hammered home against birmingham. There was Pighead doing whoops of joy thinking giggsy had bagged him a brace. "Hate to tell you buddy but that free kick was an og by Maik Taylor" Rats I cried but at least i have the assist.
Checked my points yesterday and giggsy is credited with 1 goal and 0 assists. I've said it before but fcuk it i'm gonna say it again SCANDALOUS!

Has to get the assist for that....SURELY....how else did the ball hit off the Taylors head????

I'm hoping Ronaldo gets 2 tonight....I need to pick up some serious points in the next 2 weeks or could face an embarressing situation in work handing out more winnings to my enemies. 100pts to claw back in 8 weeks...possible.

shepthedog

Want Ronaldo to do the business tonight.. 55 points so far and counting ..Its been a good month for me..

Lex Luthor

Got 77pts for last week. Only disappointment was Ronaldo didn't score at least one goal in the 2 games.
Gonna stick with him however...just sold Solano for Fabregas and made Stelios capt for the week.
I'm 93pts from the top of our league in work and the leader has panicked and made 4 subs for this weekend, so thats another 12pts I've clawed back.

Hoping Ronaldo & Joe Cole can score at the weekend but their teams only draw.

PHB

I just toook a huge decesion.
Took out Lampard, as I should have done yonks ago, and put in Henry. I betcha Lampard will return to form for the rest of the season now

evilhomer

I got rid of Lampard last week too, bought stelios. Will have to get Henry in this week.

Lemlin

PHB wrote:

I just toook a huge decesion.
Took out Lampard, as I should have done yonks ago, and put in Henry. I betcha Lampard will return to form for the rest of the season now

I got rid of Lampard ages ago. Can't even remember the last time had had a decent week. Brought in Gerrard who's two million or so cheaper and has been outscoring him for ages.

How anyone hasn't had Henry up to now is beyond me, he regularly gets you near 30 points if you have him as captain. He's got me 20 so far this week and I'd say he'll get another 4 at least from bonus points.

PHB

I didn't Henry because he is just so damm expensive. I've had Ruud in there all season, and it's been annoying for me over the last couple of weeks.

Now I've got quite a formidable points line up which I think will see out the season for me.

Friedal

Ferdinand - King - Perry

Ronaldo - Ireland - Solano - S. Reid

Keane - Van Nist - Henry

Yep, its nearly all going into the attack force

Lemlin

PHB wrote:

I didn't Henry because he is just so damm expensive. I've had Ruud in there all season, and it's been annoying for me over the last couple of weeks.

Now I've got quite a formidable points line up which I think will see out the season for me.

Friedal

Ferdinand - King - Perry

Ronaldo - Ireland - Solano - S. Reid

Keane - Van Nist - Henry

Yep, its nearly all going into the attack force

What position are you in at the moment? I was thinking about bringing in Keane but I can't bring myself to get rid of Bellamy. Both are in great form at the moment.

Triton

Is Arsenal's game against Portsmouth going to be next Wednesday night or when?

wardie

If Arsenal get through tomorrow might then yes it is on next week. If Arsenal get knocked out then it will be on the start of May.

PHB

I'm currently in 15th, I had a slow start unfortunately

county

PHB wrote:

I'm currently in 15th, I had a slow start unfortunately

you dog,i am 274th,theres always next season i suppose

Lemlin

wardie wrote:

If Arsenal get through tomorrow might then yes it is on next week. If Arsenal get knocked out then it will be on the start of May.

You must of slipped alot Wardie. Weeks ago you were well ahead of me but last time I checked the gap was only 3 points.