BarcaRONAN’s last gameweek Score – 66 // Average Score on site – 57
Highest Haul – 34 // Lowest Haul – 1 // Average Score Per Player 6
Accrued Score – 198
State Of Play
Jeez, my average score per gameweek is just below 50 points, so that’s not league winning form at all. On a personal level I need to d better and stop being hungover writing these blogs.
Vindication
The Rooney captaincy, what insight eh? Errah 34 points will do me fine. I picked 3 clean sheets too and I had no hunches that I ignored that came back to haunt me
D’oh
The rest of team combined accrued less points than Captain Rooney…
Here’s the screenshot of my team from last gameweek
Questions / Hunch / Drama / Dramatic Narrative before Sky Have Spotted it
So apparently there are rumblings that Torres may go to Milan (http://joe.ie/football/football-news/serie-a-giants-offer-early-chelsea-exit-for-fernando-torres-0015849-1) or is that he will be pushed. Either way the pressure on him now is immense, and against Man Utd he has the chance to bag the lead role in sky sport’s always understated highlights package at end of the broadcast.
The Spurs v Liverpool match promises to be a better game I feel, and certainly more points to be mined. I however am just coming up with no ideas beyond that, I am scratching my beard, scrolling up and down different websites, fixture lists and permutations and I’m coming up with nothing. I feel close to saying something like “is there anything to be said for another mass?” [there is never a situation where a Fr Ted references doesn’t work here at BOTNB HQ]
In short, I’ve got no hunches, no ideas or anything, so I’m gonna just hoof the ball forward and hope a gutsy Irish forward does something with it…
Transfers/Theory/Selection
So I’m buying Walters! Basically cleverly is out for a few weeks, just too long to have him warm the bench so I looked at my midfield watchlist and he appealed to me most, away at Stadium Of Light won’t be too daunting for Stoke and he’s a good chance of an assist or even a goal. And he seems to take the penalties too.
That’s it really, I fancy Given over Hennesey in goal, doubt Alex will play so put him on bench (also doubt either Chelsea or Man Utd will keep a clean sheet anyway. Dropped SWP cos I want Wolves to keep a clean sheet for Johnson to pick up 6 points for me, and then just had to pick who I felt will do least at weekend at Norwich away at Bolton looks a toughie for young Wes. (is he young?, I’m older than him I guess ergo he is young)
My Team this week
Keeping An Eye On
Everton, there are dark clouds over Goodison at moment and the next 4/5 fixtures they have are realy toughies, Man Utd/Chelsea/Liverpool derby, so if they can weather those, maybe eek a few draws and a late win etc etc, then I see some of them joining barcaRONAN
Captain's Corner with Phergal
So it's all about Rooney at the moment as he achieved an incredible back to back hat tricks against Bolton, bringing his premiership total to 8 goals in 4 games. So do you captain Rooney all season a la Ronaldo 07-08, getting rid of a major source of headache every week (not to mention making my column redundant!) leaving you to spend more time thinking about the rest of your team? It seems like a good choice at the moment, although i would offer up my old advice from last year: safe captaincy choice when you're doing well (if they don't score big, you won't lose too much ground as everyone will have them captained), take a gamble when behind, although it's still a bit early to be getting too worried about being behind in leagues. One decent week can still catapult you to the top of your league.
And what better week for a "differential" captaincy choice than this weekend as Man U take on Chelsea @home? I would safely say that a huge amount of people will be captaining Rooney from now on regardless of fixtures. Against tough opposition like Chelsea (albeit a home fixture) this offers you a chance to make up some points, so who looks a good bet this week?
Arsenal away to Blackburn - Lots including my good self got burned last weekend captaining RVP against new boys Swansea, perhaps we chose to ignore the warning signals - no signs of a resurgence in Arsenal's form and a good defensive showing (mostly) from Swansea. Perhaps we read too much into RVP's 4 goals (is there a name for this in football? quadtrick, double brace?) against San Marino. Anyway, RVP has scored 8 goals in 10 matches against Blackburn and looks a good shout here even though that's what i said last week, and he was highly rated against Dortmund the other night as well.
Fulham @home to Man City - Fulham are off to a bad start and City's premiership form is irresistible. Again we're faced with the rotation dilemma. Tevez and Aguero started last week with Dzeko rested for the mid week Napoli game. Two matches isn't much to go on to try and second guess Mancini so there's a big caveat here. In my opinion Aguero is the most likely starter.
Gamble pick - Baines at home to Wigan. Expect at least 6 points with a good chance of a goal or assist.
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