Fantasy Football 2012-2-10

Game week 25­

barcaRONAN’s last game week Score – 30

Average Score on site –56

Highest Haul: 9 – Ba

Lowest Haul: Huth – -2 points

 

Average Score Per Player 2.8

Accrued Score – 1038

Place in my own fecking league – 76, down 7 places

Points Off the top – 367

State Of Play

Feck it, the team I didn’t do much with scored quite well. That says it all eh

Vindication

Two of my strikers scored, whoop de do

D’oh

I got a lot, A LOT of feedback last week when I explained why I got rid of RVP, and I know stand completely unvindicated, I could have been a contenda. But having just seen the new Muppets movie, the moral of any story is to try. If you try, you can’t fail. I tried to do something and it backfired, so be it, I’d rather blaze my own path than follow a well-beaten path (I really wish I was doing better though!)

Did I get the Keeper right? Subs in general?

Yes, Kenny got 2 points and Foster got 1, boo ya! Sessegnon I had on my bench and he did better than every other midfielder I had playing, same with Williams in relation to his defending peers.

Screenshot of my team from last game week.

Questions / Hunch / Dramatic Narrative this game week before Sky have spotted it.

Well drama is making up early tomorrow to be at Old Trafford, that irascible Luis Suarez and that scamp Patrice Evra will be probably facing up to, I meant lining up against each other. This can’t be anything but a fiery match, Liverpool have a strong defence and Utd have been relatively potent in recent weeks, I have Suarez in my team, so I’m hoping he doesn’t get sent off. While Kenny clearly backs his man, there is a lot to be said for him not starting the game.

The Dembe squared partnership looks potent, I suppose they don’t’ need to bed in as such, due to their international background

Will it snow, will it snow, will it snow? A lot of football league matches called off already, but all the EPL matches were played last weekend, so I doubt anyway will be called off. So in many ways this is a needless sentence or two. But possibly Sunderland could get caught in the grim north, which leads us to…

McClean – What does he have to do? Trappatoni could surely have brought him into squad, like does Duff need to play a friendly game at this stage? Martin O’Neill being such a motivator will surely rile up him up after this

Harry Redknapp – So he got off, or isn’t guilty is fairer and doesn’t imply he got away with anything. Will this ‘spur’ Spurs on? He seems to have ruled out job sharing the England job with his Spurs role

What are the odds?

So 3 big games this weekend, 6 of the top 8 as the fantasy football site itself points out; bookies are always good suggestion, for instance Spurs, Chelsea and Man City all to win is 7/1, so Paddy Power must fancy Newcastle, Villa and Everton to all provide a solid game.

Just want to show you something.

This site, http://www.11kicks.com/Competitions/Premier_League/Stats,  is a bit simple to be honest, but the interesting fact that Chelsea get the most cards per game in entire league stood out to me, but also look at the assists figure. For some reason the team that has scored the most team goals has also got the most team assists too. Go figure! -

Transfers

No transfers this week, so to have two to play with next week, and a possible third and only lose 4 points.

Theory/Selection

With my ruckus of last week nothing came from it at all, keeping all those players cos I can’t be getting rid of them now! Huth is suspended so I only have 2 players to play with, since I hope Bale to have a good game, I am dropping my Newcastle defender, Simpson, and that leaves one. I’ll be honest and say I’m wary of having 3 QPR players at Blackburn, what with Hughes returning to his old club AND Blackburn coming back from that trouncing AND Yakubu returning from suspension after that great burst of goals, I would so much play Walters if I could drop Onohua, but I can’t so I won’t. Right now I fancy Kenny to make more saves at Ewood Park than Foster will at Wolves, even if both don’t’ keep clean sheets.

My Captain, My Captain.

Bale at home seems obvious enough, but Dempsey could be a good bet due to Huth being suspended, so in that order they are my captain and vice captain respectively.

My Team this week

Keeping An Eye On

-     Gibson and Jelavic, let’s see how they do against dirty dirty Chelsea! They have next gameweek off anyway, so it’s not pressing for this week.

-       Cleverly at Man Utd, every week in recent times has had him as coming back that weekend on this generally accurate site http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php

-       McClean at Sunderland, very good chance it’ll bring him and Cleverly in next week.

Captain's Corner with Phergal

[NB Back Of The Net Boy is not responsible for Captain’s Corner spelling, grammar and basic text layout]

afraid it didn’t arrive today, we both were out of synce with our normal working weeks this week.