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Game week 8
barcaRONAN’s last game week Score – 50 // Average Score on site – 44
Highest Haul – 12 // Lowest Haul – 1 // Average Score Per Player 4.5
Accrued Score – 310 (inc gameweek 1 score)
Place in my own fecking league – 65, up 2 Places
State Of Play
Jeez, 1/4 of the way through the season and I’m realistically out of contention on winning my own league, 87 points of the top, which is also 20% ahead of me. But who knows I might get ahead of the curve. Having had the international break to think about this, my ruminations have let me to the conclusion of hliuhlka49Pj;jhuyUHIUNVOPJhkjhlkjljk… yep just brain wobble. In a reductive way of putting it, I’m just picking the wrong horses. Am I putting to much stock in last season’s players/clubs who were impressive. I just don’t know, in managerial terms it’s like being Steve Bruce, there is no obvious mistake or reason things are going so unexcitedly.
Vindication
The Rooney and Agbonlahor is an expensive luxery, 20% of my budget did accrue me 45% of my points; so money provides success; ergo Man City will win the league (speaking of Man Ciry, interestingly .5% of the players of this game still have Tevez in their squad, which goes to show how many people have already abbandoned their teams I reckon)
D’oh
Wolves not pulling it together, Backing The Wrong Horse (For ever after I will refer to that as simply BWH)
Here’s the screenshot of my team from last game week
Questions / Hunch / Drama / Dramatic Narrative this game week before Sky Have Spotted it
So the Liverpool/Utd match dominates the gameweek, Rooney and Suarez in great form; both defences missing first choice players, having unfit players etc. There’s goals in this game, will it be 3-3 all; Echoing the greatest premier league game I’ve ever seen.
The bubbling under section of the season has kind of passed now, and people like Sturridge and Welbeck have really put their stamp on the season, with Torres out through suspenision and Hernadez out due to only returning from Mexico yesterday it’s probable he won’t be on bench. Two other United strikers to consider though are two very rested players in Berbatov and Owen, obviously the latter is unkileky to play 90 mins, but the fact it is at Anfield could be a great stage for a few goals.
Others, will Norwich claim 3 points at home?
Will the wheels come off the Newcastle momentum?
Arsenal have made most of this break to pull together something akin to a backbone? Ha ha ha aha hahhha ha.
Transfers/Theory/Selection
I’ve two transfers this week.
Hennessy fro Wolves is gone as my second keeper, they just aren’t keeping clean sheets so he’s pointless (no pun intended, he’s more POINTS[scored]LESS[than-I’d-expected]).. So I’ll bring in Begovic, he’s second top scorer in his position and cheap-ish, I know stoke seem to be getting hamstrung by Europa League travails, but he seems to have 5 good fixtures in next 8, and rotating him back and forth with Given should be successful
Also dropping O’Hara, essentially same reason as hennesey, and brining in Hoolahan, if Norwich come good, he could have good totals in 2 of next 3 gameweeks with favourable home fixtures.
selection: picked home players where possible and rooney.
My Team this week
Keeping An Eye On
Noone has really made me think of them, Bentner perhaps next week, however it’ll be hard to assess if he’ll bring his form from the internationals with him 10 days after.
Captain's Corner with Phergal
So the internationals are over (bring on Estonia) and we're back to the day to day (or weekend to weekend) business of picking our captain for the weekend. Let's take a look at the likely fixtures and candidates.
Liverpool vs. Man United - Usually goals to be had in this one. 3-1 to Liverpool in last year's corresponding fixture. So hard to predict these high tension games. Gerrard is back from a long injury, could be a nice differential pick this week, but at 11m he's just too expensive. I like Kuyt in this fixture, given his hat trick in this match last year. From United, i'd be a bit hesitant on captaining the Roo this week. His recent 3 match Euro ban and messy business with his father's betting scandal will no doubt be hanging heavy on his head.
Man City vs. Villa - Striker disarray with City atm. Tevez won't play again if Mancini has his way. Aguero is nursing a minor injury and might be back in time for the clash but Mancini has said even if he is ready he might rest him. Balotelli also is coming off a back injury that kept him out of Italy's qualifiers, he may also be in contention for a start. Dzeko seems the only sure bet and will likely play the 90. Silva becomes more attractive this weekend then, especially if he has only one striker to support, he should be playing a little further up and will have less people to share the spoils with. He is still to register any massive haul, but has been consistently getting 6+ points week in week out. a safe bet.
Arsenal vs Sunderland - Bookies and various other FF sites are tipping the Arse for a big win here. I can't see where they're coming from tbh. Sunderland haven't been great, but Arsenal have been much worse. Capable of scoring a few, but still a shambles at the back. Ramsey looks like he's settling in to a Fabregas shaped hole (oo-er!) as predicted by yours truly at the start of the season, he looks a good bet here and RVP obviously if you are backing a few goals from Arsenal.
Wigan vs. Bolton - This has goals written all over it. Bolton have had they're worst start to a season in 457 years and are leaking goals. Both teams are desperate for a win, with them both considering the other as their biggest chance of getting one. Di santo looks a good bet here. Moses for a gamble. He's had so many shots on goal one has to go in sometimes.
Liverpool vs. Man United - Usually goals to be had in this one. 3-1 to Liverpool in last year's corresponding fixture. So hard to predict these high tension games. Gerrard is back from a long injury, could be a nice differential pick this week, but at 11m he's just too expensive. I like Kuyt in this fixture, given his hat trick in this match last year. From United, i'd be a bit hesitant on captaining the Roo this week. His recent 3 match Euro ban and messy business with his father's betting scandal will no doubt be hanging heavy on his head.
Man City vs. Villa - Striker disarray with City atm. Tevez won't play again if Mancini has his way. Aguero is nursing a minor injury and might be back in time for the clash but Mancini has said even if he is ready he might rest him. Balotelli also is coming off a back injury that kept him out of Italy's qualifiers, he may also be in contention for a start. Dzeko seems the only sure bet and will likely play the 90. Silva becomes more attractive this weekend then, especially if he has only one striker to support, he should be playing a little further up and will have less people to share the spoils with. He is still to register any massive haul, but has been consistently getting 6+ points week in week out. a safe bet.
Arsenal vs Sunderland - Bookies and various other FF sites are tipping the Arse for a big win here. I can't see where they're coming from tbh. Sunderland haven't been great, but Arsenal have been much worse. Capable of scoring a few, but still a shambles at the back. Ramsey looks like he's settling in to a Fabregas shaped hole (oo-er!) as predicted by yours truly at the start of the season, he looks a good bet here and RVP obviously if you are backing a few goals from Arsenal.
Wigan vs. Bolton - This has goals written all over it. Bolton have had they're worst start to a season in 457 years and are leaking goals. Both teams are desperate for a win, with them both considering the other as their biggest chance of getting one. Di santo looks a good bet here. Moses for a gamble. He's had so many shots on goal one has to go in sometimes.
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