Game week 6
barcaRONAN’s last game week Score – 27 // Average Score on site – 40
Highest Haul – 8 // Lowest Haul – (-1) // Average Score Per Player 2.5
Accrued Score – 191
State Of Play
Ah FFS what a horrible week, 13 point below the average, or 33% to show how gaping a whole that was. I’m more than half way down my own league and a massive 101 points off the top. Maybe I’m making the mistake of doing the blog to soon in the day and not looking at stuff Saturday morning but I haven’t really been caught with last minute omissions etc. Well thrice in 5 weeks, but the resulting results (that’s a valid word construction yeah?) showed it would have produced negligable returns anyway.
Vindication
Arteta got me 8, and not captaining Rooney was a good idea cos of the missed penalty… eek eek eek, can you hear that? That’s the sound of the bottom of the barrel of vindication being scraped.
D’oh
A bad workman always blames his tools eh? Well I had 11 tools on my team last week. Well 10, I’ll let Arteta off the hook.
Here’s the screenshot of my team from last game week
Questions / Hunch / Drama / Dramatic Narrative this game week before Sky Have Spotted it
(*) – I haven’t listened to this week’s fantasy podcast, (or indeed read the Captain’s Corner’s) so if I make any major changes in the morning I’ll put them in the comments box. But I can’t imagine doing so, I’ve got clearish thoughts already.
Are the wheel’s coming off the Liverpool wagon, cases for the prosecution, (A) they seem to have no depth in full backs, (B) Stevie G is coming back, and for some reason, like Johnny Giles, I’ve never liked him. Even Kenny can’t drop him (yet), and with Charlie Adam suspended, there’s an obvious swap there. But what will it do to the balance of the team {extra subtext it would be quite a story is Lampard and Gerrard are both becoming non-essential figures in their clubs at the same time}. (C) they weren’t walloped by an excellent Spurs team, they were terrible and Spurs were quite good; can they pull themselves back from that, I doubt Kenny’s ever lost by that much ever. {will I bother researching that? No. I’m sure Pat Mulhearn will tell me if I’m wrong}.
But… Wolves at home is a good fixture I guess. But then Everton derby and Man Utd could be bad as well.
a lot of people going on about Newcastle, indeed Leon Best are the biggest price rise of last week, according to another FF site
Transfers/Theory/Selection
I’m committing myself to 3 changes so that’s gonna be 8 points gone from the team already
Okay, well Alex can go, he’s not performing well for Chelsea, and is suspended anyway. Everyone is tipping Ryan Taylor, but I’ll go with his namesake Stephen, as he seems to get more bonus points. And he is first choice player.
I really want Mata, my hunch a few weeks ago to get him looks valid, I only wish I’d jumped then. Houlahan is the one to go even though a very poor Sunderland at home could be a good un for him, Man Utd the next week means, realistically he could expect an average of maybe 3/4 points each from the two games. Mata could (hopefully) get a haul of 12/14, which would make it a worthwhile swap.
Bent out and his club mate, Agbonlahor in, at a tidy 2.3 million saving. He has two favourable fixture this week and next week, so should cover the extra 4 points I’m spending on him
Captain’s choice is between Arteta at home to Bolton, a Bolton who’ve lost 4 in a row and an Arteta who’s eager to step out of the shadow of Fabregas and Nasri; and barcaRONAN new boy, Mata, at Swansea. I’m gonna go with the latter; mainly cos it rhymes with Mata.
Reason Rooney isn’t in contention is while Man Utd mightn’t lose at Stoke, I can’t see them walloping them (the team will already have their nose out of joint since Steve Bruce, who’d know his fair share of getting his nose out of joint (yeah, that’s right, cheap dig at his shrón), managed a 4-0 win last week. Also if the oft repeated claim that Rooney scores in bursts perhaps his penalty miss will bookend his last great spell.
Having said what I said about Liverpool earlier, I still won’t play Hennessey in goal, but rather Given, who while away at QPR and while playing SWP and hoping he does well, will hopefully save a load of shots or something!
And the basic reasoning behind the rest of my team, is I’m playing everyone who’s playing at home, other than Walters (who is my first choice sub), so that I can play Rooney, who I might be a fool to not play eh?
My Team this week
Keeping An Eye On
No one in specific to be honest, more so to see if Stoke perhaps are starting to tire, might be time for Huth and Walters to head for the door? And is my Liverpool theory correct. Also will I continue my head in the sand approach to Aguero and Dzeko?
Captain's Corner with Phergal
It's quite open this weekend in terms of captaincy options, let's take a look at the main candidates.
Rooney away to Stoke - Rooney won't be the automatic choice he was other weeks, due to Stokes resilience at home. Rooney has also never scored against Stoke for what that's worth. I like this fixture though, Stoke will have a lot of the same players that played mid week and will be tired, and were also badly exposed by Sunderland last weekend. I can see a few United goals here despite the tricky fixture.
Aguero/Dzeko @Home to everton - I reckon Dzeko and Aguero will both start here, having been rested mid week for the carling cup tie. Aguero seems the safer bet. I see Everton putting up a good fight here though and City play a bit more carefully against the better teams (do Everton count as one of these "better teams" though?) so i wouldn't expect massive returns.
Suarez @Home to Wolves - Suarez has yet to produce a large return and the Pool are going though a bad patch but what better time to rack up a big score than at home against a Wolves side that are losing some of their start of season shine.
Torres/Mata @Home to Swansea - Swansea's excellent defensive record will be put to the test this weekend by a Chelsea side still in the process of settling with new players, new manager and new tactics. Chelsea put in a good shift against United last weekend and Torres's howler will have overshadowed what was actually a great performance from him. Mata looks a good shout too although he hasn't staked his claim as a regular captain option just yet.
Adebayor away to Wigan - bagged two last weekend against Liverpool, nice fixture against Wigan for him to grab some more points.
Gamble pick: Leon Best @home to Blackburn. On a great run and against relegation candidates at home.
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