Fantasy Football Preview Week 15

Once again my team managed to do better than the average by a meager 3 points. This is not the form of a league winner and that folks is my aim. Taking part is for schmucks I want to win. 88 points off the top now. But Ireland beat England when we won the European Championships in 88, so that’s a good sign. We’re reaching that stage of the year where people start giving up cos their team isn’t doing that well, but you won’t see that happen here at Ronan HQ.

All the media attention seems to be on the lack of Scottish referees and El Classico on Monday (which I can’t wait for), but let’s not slip up by ignoring the fantasy football.

Vindication

Very little, I used a transfer to swap Nani for Malouda and the Portuguese man scored a whopping ONE POINT more than the Frenchie. So that counts as the minimum vindication possible. I was right to drop Alex too, good hunch following there

D’oh

Main one is putting Varney on the bench as my first sub. He got 9 points, which was better than EIGHT of my players who did play. Once again I had a sickening amount of players do get 2 points or less (6 of the buggers).

Hunch / Drama / Dramatic Narrative before Sky Have Spotted it

Everyone seems to be piling on the Rooney bandwagon. An expensive bandwagon, which I am saving up/trading around for so as not waste transfer points. I hope that he’ll huff and puff around Blackburn and show signs of form but not actually score many goals (or if he does hopefully off Nani crosses).

Okay everyone is going on about Bolton recently, so you might be inclined to be tired of those players already. But they do have 4 very winnable fixtures in the next 6 weeks. But even more so Man City have a great run of fixtures (They do play Everton mind, but they are impossible to put a finer on at moment). If Richards shakes his injury I reckon I’ll be signing him very soon

Also Chelsea, if you just believe the headlines, are about to get relegated. Which I feel is a bit much being made out just 3 losses, but after this gameweek they play Everton, Spurs, Man Utd & Arsenal in a row. Interestingly the match they have after that run is Bolton, who conceivably could be ahead of Chelsea at the time!

Pires, against Arsenal on his second game back in premiership. Will he give one of those performances that only experienced players can (the kind of performance that Arsenal team is so dearly missing?)

Transfers

I’m sick of Walcott so gonna get rid of him and bring in Lee from Bolton (it gives me a few more quid in the kitty). It gives the chance to swoop in for Rooney next week if needs be. Or start to overhaul my defence, which is what I am more likely to do.

Theory/Selection

I seem to have 8 players playing home games this week, might have an impact. I’ve dropped both by Chelsea players, mainly cos they are away to a confident Newcastle, but also I need to start making bigger decisions for my team to succeed since I have Nolan and Carroll on my team, if they perform they’d only take points off Cole and Alex anyway.

Going to keep Jbsiak;la4p0oarn in goal cos Bolton are at home to Blackpool, whereas Man City are away to Stoke.

I will start Van Der Varrt, even though he is 50/50 to play, so my 1^st choice sub will be Varney once again, so if he scores it rules out a clean sheet for Jesigbkjkj anyway.

With Fabregas out, Nasri will rule the midfield for Arsenal so hopefully he has a blinder.

For my captain I am caught between Nolan and Nani. As it stands I am going with Nani, but I will probably borrow an iphone and change it in the pub later tonight.

My Team this week

 

Keeping An Eye On

Dunn is looking better and better, I will wait to see him  get through this Man Utd fixture they have and after that the club has 5 matches that they’ll fancy.

Pires came on a sub and did okay, only 5 million too? Let’s see if he starts this week. No point having a sub on your bench who is normally a sub anyway.

Captains Corner with Phergal

So it looks like elmander is the new top boy and at such a good price, it's criminal not to have him. amazing that him and carroll are in the top three strikers and both under 6.5 mill. anyway, he's my pick this week against blackpool, although i've an awful feeling he won't score for no particular reason other then everyone is captaining him this week and murphy's law will come into play. i may well switch to tevez at the last minute away to stoke.

lot of interest in nani for captain this week aswell @home to blackburn but i'm not so sure of a points haul here. tottenham liverpool could be a decent game, VDV and Bale are good picks (anyone have both in their team?). newcastle chelsea is an interesting one. turmoil in the chelsea camp recently and some poor results and scoring have people selling malouda and drog en masse. i agree with this, no point having 13 mill getting you 2 points every week. if they start scoring again i'll get them back in somehow, but i've been getting much better results without them. however, malouda could be a good pick for captain here, he got a goal against zilina on tuesday and hasn't played badly the last few premier games. i also wouldn't rule out gambling on nolan or carroll in this game. they will be well up for this one, believing they can grab a win at home with chelsea in disarray.

gamblers choice for me though is n'zogbia versus west ham.