Fantasy Football 2012/13

Zzonked wrote:Best defender for £5.2m or less?

Ashley Williams.

If you're going Swansea, then it's Chico time

Why the Swansea backline? Surely they wont keep that many clean sheets this year.

They won't. I stick with Coloccini

Zzonked wrote:Why the Swansea backline? Surely they wont keep that many clean sheets this year.

Of their next 6 games 4 are at home and looking at the fixtures I'd imagine they'd be able to keep a couple of clean sheets in that run. By the time their run ends you could swap them out for another CB if you like. Them and Spurs have the best set of fixtures for a while so If I were picking players I'd make sure i had 1 or 2 from both. Which I do

Aye Suppose they do have some good fixtures.

United, Fulham, Spurs, Swansea and Everton have a good stretch of fixtures iirc.

Sounds like good advice. It's only for my bench though, so might be better just picking someone for the long run.

Not sure if I should use a wild card now because Chelsea's missed game fucks up everything.

Should have had 3 Arsenal defenders in my team.

Zzonked wrote:Why the Swansea backline? Surely they wont keep that many clean sheets this year.

I don't see why not, they got a fair amount last year.

used my wildcard because injuries to Aguero, Kaboul, and Rooney kinda messed up my equilibrium.

New squad for a while until I make some changes

GK-Fridel, Al Habsi

D- Ivanovic, Williams, Vidic, Coloccini, Assou-Ekotto

M- Hazard, Michu, Ben Afra, Yaya, Dyer

S- Defoe, Ba, Lukaku

I am very weak at striker right now but everywhere else I am pretty confident. Will probably make more moves once some players come back from injury and some players prices go down.

Mata or Yaya?

Yaya, Mata will be rested when Marin and Oscar are match fit. Well.. so RDM said anyway.

arsenalap11 wrote:Yaya, Mata will be rested when Marin and Oscar are match fit. Well.. so RDM said anyway.

I know but both WILL get points and I need to make room for Hazard. I don't want to take Pienaar out.

Ended up with 79pts this week but now I have to make loads of changes to get the chel$ki players out. Bates out. #pen4ken

Coloccini is only 5.0 really cheap.

That was to Zzonked

I'm using my wildcard

Is this a good team? Debating whether to use the wildcard...

I like it, not too sure on the defence though.

Remember Chelsea are missing a game this week, so it's better to try and avoid their players then transfer them in after. You get a free transfer per week (and you can retain one if you don't use it) so you might as well remove 2 of them and replace them after next week.

crump wrote:Is this a good team? Debating whether to use the wildcard...

Wouldn't have Ivanovic, could be replaced, Mertesacker, will be replaced, and both Fox and Clyne. Defence is bad imo.

2 GK's from the same side, I wouldn't ever do that, maybe it's a special Crump card. Midfields alright, upfront is alright.

I'd wait till friday anyway, Chelsea could sign a striker, doubt it though, and anything can happen.

What an amazing dream team you have there crump.
I bet everyone is looking at that going..isn't that my team?

Actually 2 goalkeepers from the same side makes a lot of sense. If the main one gets out, you're guaranteed to get the other one playing.

I'll get rid of Mertesacker, Ivanovic and Fox.

I'll probably wait till Friday tbf, that way I can compensate new transfers.

The two keeper are if Vorm got injured or suspended I can have the sub keeper playing, so I don't lose out on points.

Zzonked wrote:Actually 2 goalkeepers from the same side makes a lot of sense. If the main one gets out, you're guaranteed to get the other one playing.

I can tell why you'd do it, but if you pick 2 starting keepers then you can pick from fixtures. I'd rather do that then have 2 from the same side, but each to there own.

I'm hoping a good 9.0 striker comes available in the next week. Might go for Jelavic or Giroud but not sure.

arsenalap11 wrote:

Zzonked wrote:Actually 2 goalkeepers from the same side makes a lot of sense. If the main one gets out, you're guaranteed to get the other one playing.

I can tell why you'd do it, but if you pick 2 starting keepers then you can pick from fixtures. I'd rather do that then have 2 from the same side, but each to there own.

This. Rotating between Krul and Vorm last year worked a treat.

arsenalap11 wrote:I'm hoping a good 9.0 striker comes available in the next week. Might go for Jelavic or Giroud but not sure.

I've gone for Jela. Feel like he's going to score the majority of Everton goals this year.

Aye, i'm leaning towards it. I really like Mirallas but, it's a bit risky atm.


Going to swap in Jelavic on friday, unless another striker becomes available, and then on Saturday put in Hazard using my free transfer.

I have 0.7 left after all that though, so will either swap Britton for Routledge or just store it till I need it.

I'm a bit short upfront, but Everton and Fulham have some good fixtures coming up, so hopefully they'll go up in value and I can swap in another striker.

Ideally I wanted Adebayor for Jelavic, but i'm .4 short, could swap Zabeleta for Lescott though. Zzonked, who you recon will play more out of those two?