I am taking the game abit more seriously this season and have decided to start a thread to hopefully get some advice, feedback and ideas.

All opinions, criticism, ideas are welcome and much appreciated.



Plans for GW 17



Silva Drenthe (to fund Ba Rooney for GW18)

Reasoning:
Drenthe is Everton's best attacking player at the moment. Everton have some nice fixtures coming up including DGW20.
I need funds to bring in Rooney for GW18 and beyond and I do not want to touch RVP @ 12.5 (13.2) or ADE @ 8.5 (9.1)
I think Rooney will outscore Silva over the next few weeks. He is also a better captain choice (IMO)
If worst comes to worst the Jan WC isn't so far away

Let me start by saying that I completely understand your desire to bring in Rooney, but is this the best way to do it?

Only five teams have scored fewer goals than Everton. Maybe Drenthe will be the spark they need to start scoring, but maybe not. In addition, two of their next three games are away.

Getting rid of Silva means doubling up on Man Utd while having no coverage of the most prolific team in the league. Maybe its not the worst idea, but have you considered options of paying for Rooney without getting rid of Silva?

Since you're planning to double up on Man Utd, what about Nani for Valencia this week? Valencia is showing good form, and it would bring another 2.3 into your bank (which would actually be enough to get Rooney for Ade with no points hits).

If you must keep Ade, you could fund Ba to Rooney with Larsson, who will be facing Everton & Man City away in weeks 18 & 19, for the 4 point hit.

Then after two weeks of making no transfers, bring in Drenthe (and possibly Ade) for the double.

Thanks for the insight Cinci.

My origional plan A was:
For GW 17: Silva Drenthe
For GW 18: Ba Rooney
For GW 19: Sorenson 4.5-5 GK
For GW 20: Nani VDV
No Silva but it gives me Nani & Rooney for the good ManU fixtures.
Drenthe, Jags, Bale, VDV & Ade for DGW20.
Then wildcard gameweek 23 and bring Silva back in, Possibly Nani too


What im thinking now, plan B:
For GW 17: Bale Gower (take the 0.3 profit and miss bales price drop tonight)
For GW 18: Ba Rooney
For GW 19: Larsson Drenthe
For GW 20: R.Taylor Walker OR Sorenson Friedel (If Sorenson loses his place)

I keep Silva & Nani. I have Nani & Rooney for ManU good fixtures.
Drenthe, Jags, Ade & Walker/Friedel for DGW20 --- no bale/vdv


A or B?

I rate Silva so far above every other midfielder in the game right now that any plan that gets rid of him is one I can't back. So B.

Plan B it is

Will do it after 7.30pm but before 11.59pm....... so that Bale scores me points against Chelsea and I also miss his price-fall


Team for GW 17

Armband on Ba vs a weakened WBA

67 Pre-Boni, with Bale & Ade to play, yipeee!

Ba Rooney tonight

A good score for gw17.. 85 points in total.
Hopefully another good score for gw18 with 8 players at home

Team for GW18:



Decided to put the armband on RVP, good choice?
Hopeful that Taylor plays, if not Gower comes in... but Gower has only played 45 mins the last 2 games..... Anybody know why?

Jagielka VS R.Taylor: Who would you go for?

Just made the same decision myself (went for Taylor thinking he might feel he has something to prove after losing his spot to Santon).

Very nice team, wouldn't change anything...

Thanks Ironfist



Thats a good point, he will probably put in a performance. Plus the return of Tiote makes me more confident in Newcastle CS's.

R.Taylor is also more likely to score/assist too... is he on some set-peices?


Didn't notice this earlier:
Bolton have only scored 10 goals in 8 games at home..... 5 of them came in 1 game (Stoke) which if you take out it becomes 5 goals in 7 games

R.Taylor plays ... Jagielka first sub.... They will probably both end up playing anyway

My best return so far with 9 points, what was I thinking!!

Well last week was a horror show!!
Ended up doing Bale > Gower & Ba > Rooney

Bale has a great week, Ba gets a goal..
Between Rooney, Nani & Evans I got 4 points from a 5-0 win

Scored a poor 38 points and fell from 530 down to 1,109

Realising my mistake I have had to lose Silva and bring Bale back in for 8.9 (sold him for 8.6). Silva has been the sacrifice as I think Bale will outscore him the next few GW's. I will be bringing Silva back in with the Jan WC.

Could be an early wildcard as my team doesn't look to healthy at the moment with N.Taylor & Evans possibly out this week. Sorensen is a slight risk and could cause me trouble if he loses his place. Also Pilkington and Gower haven't been getting much gametime and Larsson has a few tough fixtures coming up.

Team for GW19



Armband on Rooney: 10 goals in 2 games for ManUtd and with Blackburns injuries I can see another big scoreline on the way. Valencia will be putting the chances on a plate for him.

Dont see a crisis. Good United offencive coverage for what i fear will be a demolition.

Just keep WC for later in the season. Get Bae in next week and you good to go

Little late with my update.
Had a poor GW19. Scored 30 points and dropped to 1,849 overall. Made the wrong captaincy choice and didn't get many points from my midfield or defence.

My team looks okay for GW20 & GW21
Considering using the WC for GW22 if Rooney & Nani don't perform against Newcastle and Bolton


Team for GW20

The team looks good, though I wonder why you ignored Adebayor for the captaincy choices... ?

I think Bale has a higher points ceiling than Ade. So over 2 games I had to side with him.

Don't know why I put Walker as Vice though, honest mistake

Thinking of a Walkover against your mini-league opponents?

Along those lines

I'll have to keep a closer eye on the V-Captains I choose, ended up on Nani last week who scored 1 point

I need some advice from you almighty FISO'ers this week.

On paper my team going into GW21 looks pretty strong. However when you put it under the microscope it soom becomes another story. I have 1 free transfer but only 0.6 in the bank to improve the team.

This is the team at the moment:



These are my concerns:

Sorensen/Ruddy: Not the most solid of goalkeeper pairings, Stoke are good at home and will be okay in some away games, but when a fixture like LIV(A) comes along I just have to suck it up as Norwich are ruddy useless at keeping clean sheets

Jagielka: Went off injured last night. Although I don't know how serious it is yet he has a tough away game and hasn't fetched many points since coming into my team. Probable 2.... possible 0 ......which would mean N.Taylor ARS(H) coming in...

Larsson: Yellow flagged. Really tough away game to Chelsea. Probable 2 points.... possibly 0.... which would then mean Pilkington WBA(A) coming in.... and he doesn't always play.....

Nani & Rooney: Fixture looks good on paper but so did Blackburn & Wigan. Rooney looked awful against Newcastle and Nani didn't do too much either. It seems Valencia is getting all the points at the moment and the money I have invested in them isn't bringing back the points I should be getting... I could have Silva + Aguero who are playing Wigan

In short, I am relying heavily on Tottenham and my defence.

With those points in mind I have drawn up an idea of what my team could look like with a wildcard, this is what I came up with...




It basically boils down to:

Kompany, Valencia, Silva & Dempsey SUBS: Morison, Senderos, N.Taylor

VS

Jagielka, Walker, Nani & Rooney SUBS: N.Taylor, Pilkington, Gower


Brought Kompany in to beef up the defence. Feel that the team has enough captain choices and firepower to get goals/assists and for 6.6 I get a defender who I can play every week with no worries.

Valencia means I still have United coverage but at the cheaper option of 8.0 which means it won't hurt so much if United continue these poor performances.

Silva and Dempsey are in great form. Silva is a season stayer, I downgraded him to bring Rooney in for the Wigan and Blackburn games... It is time for him to come back. Dempsey scores well every season and Fulham have a good run of fixtures on the way.

I think the bench is alot more dependable. Morison is a great VFM when I looked into it. It means I can have a stronger midfield and I still have RVP & Ade. Senderos & N.Taylor can rotate with the other defenders and get a few CS. Mignolet is first choice at Sunderland who look a different side under MON. For 4.3 is worth having to rotate with Sorensen.

Also 0.3 spare in the bank


Should I keep my current team or use my wildcard?
What say YOU?

I personally don't think you need to wild card if you don't want. You currently only have one yellow (although Jag may go yellow, or even Red), but you've almost certainly gone into gameweeks before like this.

Larrson may look like your weakeness right now, but Chelsea are struggling and after that match, Sunderland have a very nice 4 match run (Arsenal tend to get scored on away). If you're concerened only about the Chelsea match, I'd stick rather than twist on Larrson.

You might have trouble getting a keeper clean sheet, but again, this is not enough reason to wild card.

and fwiw (and having not read anything today), Jag tried to stay on the field after his injury yesterday and even made a key clearance AFTER he was hurt (albeit a header), so I wouldn't be surprised to see him back relatively soon.

It's not going to make or break your season either way if you choose to wild card this week or hold off until later in the month. Unless injuries force my hand, I'd like to wait just to see what happens in the transfer market (isn't a Bolton defender going to Man Utd?).

btw - even though I was an early bandwagon fan of Morison, I'm rating Helguson higher going forward, due exclusively to upcoming fixtures. Through GW31, even some of their most difficult matches are home, while most of their away fixtures are very favorable.

Ahh he does have some favourable fixtures.

See he missed a few games at the start too, actually has better Point Per Minute than Morison too... Maybe I'll go for him instead

First off, you've got into the top couple of K of FPL before the rmt so you're obviously doing something right Above all, trust your own judgement.

I'd not WC yet looking at that. I wouldn't worry about RVP rested, with Chamakh & Gervinho away at the ANC theres no one else to play. I might worry about him getting injured though...... I'm giving MU players one more chance, they're having a blip and the cup game gives another look at them before having to make a desicion.

If you can hold off until GW21 then you'll know which game will be getting rearranged for the CC Final. Theres always a chance rearranged games can be brought forward as well as postponed. You'll also have more FA cup games out of the way for more injury news and possible signings.



Apparently QPR will be attemptng to get into the market heavily (4 players at least) and with the arrival of Macheda there may be even more competition to come for Helguson.


I much prefer the second team there if you do go with the WC but the other option I'd consider is finding 0.5m from dempsey/valencia/an other to go with Yakubu rather than Morison.

Cheers for that, helpful posts all round

Going to save my wildcard... see what happens in the FA Cup and see what transfers are made.

Got 0.6 in the bank...... thinking Jagielka Bosingwa for my transfer this week.... Any opinions?

Jagielka ???

I was thinking with Ivanovic red flagged for a hamstring injury Bos would be a starter. It is also probably only for 1 week as I will most likely play my wildcard for GW22

Depends when you're WCing...
If just for 1 GW then get a Spurs defender... if for 2 GWs then a WBA defender (McAuley)... if 3 GWs... Evans, BAE or OShea.

they're as good as choice as any for one week but I'd be thinking spurs also. Chelsea have kept 3 CS all season & if Cahill arrives Bos may not even play as Ivanovic likely to move to RB (imo)

Will only be for 1 week... slight chance it could be 2 weeks

I can't do a spurs player as I have Walker, Bale, Ade

How about Agger? STO(H) is his fixture