barcaRONAN’s last game week Score – 53
Average Score on site – 37
Highest Haul: 12 – Evans and Rooney (However Rooney’s 12 was 6 doubled cos he was captain)
Lowest Haul: Reina, Williams & Enrique – 1 point
Average Score Per Player 4.9
Accrued Score – 1328
Place in my own fecking league – 72, no change
Points Off the top – 364, raised 3 points closer to the top.
State Of Play
Well here I am, sat in a pub in Dublin (The Bernard Shaw on South Richmond Street if yer looking for specifics), it’s Thursday as I’m trying to be rushing it tomorrow. I had a good week against the average scores. But am just threading water when it comes to actual Back Of The Net Boy league, I’ve been hanging around the 70th to 80th mark for last few months.
Vindication
The goal machine Johnny Evans scored a magnificent 12 points for me, as did Rooney but as I said earlier he was my captain. That wonder goal from Crouch and Cahill’s clean sheet all helped.
D’oh
The other 7 of my team got 3 points or less. Puke Football.
Did I get the Keeper right?
Not really Reina got 1 to Krul’s 2.
Subs in general?
None of them got more than 2 anyway.
Screenshot of my team from last game week.
Questions / Hunch / Trends / Dramatic Narrative this game week before Sky have spotted it.
I have nothing of real note to say this week to be honest, and not cos I’m rushing; I post this blog in 24 hours like! Maybe more will come to mind tonight.
While SAF and Roberto Manchini are reaching squeaky bum time, this is more like jaded avenue for most of the people playing fantasy football; not the people who read this blog of course cos we all give a DAMN. Hence the average score dropping lower and lower (that’s based on what I remember from last few weeks, not a guaranteed statistic).
Well first thing to stand out for me will kick in 2 and 3 game weeks time, double gameweeks which are explained way better here - http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2012/03/29/double-gameweeks-announced/
Well this Chelsea revitalization seems solid enough, but Cech is only person selected every game so far, but I assume you can expect John Terry to play them all too, Cahill’s performances should put him ahead of Luiz.
Wigan seem doomed, Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd in GW 32, 33 & 34, so abandon ship there I’d say if you have of their players, and I think same for Everton as their eyes on the prize of the FA cup at this stage. (even though Jelavic is looking like yet another incredibly astute buy by David Moyes).
Newcastle seem to be playing a game of Jenga, by losing more and more players (9 by most count – Coloccini the captain recently moving to the sidelines, so attack must be the best form of defence for them this week at home to Liverpool.
Man Utd are gunning for a title now and possibly have a bone to pick with Blackburn after their unexpected defeat in Old Trafford last year. Once again Ferguson will have goals on the agenda, as ever he will tweak his team but I anticipate Valencia, Evans & Rooney all playing.
Will this collapse of Robin Van Persie’s form continue? No goals in 2 games… Time to lose him?? :)
Transfers
I’m doing possibly a flavour of the month thing, swapping Cisse for his club mate Ba, saves me .6million, mainly so I have a bit of ker-ching to play with next week so I can maybe make 2 transfers.
Theory/Selection
Argh, a lot of my players are away this week. And have the clash of Cisse versus Enrique, I’ll go for the home striker (especially since it’d be pointless to make a transfer and then not use him). The fact the Spaniard is returning to his old club mightn’t be too pivotal, but I do want to point out that I spot it.
My selection this week is based on what players to drop really, the two defenders I want to play the least is Williams at White Hart Lane (Spurs really need to get their shit together to try and get third) and Enrique as I’ve already said.
The last midfield spot is between Walters at Stoke who has really lost form and is possibly losing his spot with barcaRONAN next week, and new boy Sigurdsson, who may well score a schnakey goal at Spurs while they are trying to plough forward and win the match… I’ll let you decide who wins that little debate.
My Captain, My Captain.
It’s gotta be Rooney, with the Cisse to be the Riker to his Picard.
My Team this week
Keeping An Eye On
No one in particular, Everton in case players start picking up, and also Swansea and Sunderland who both have nice bursts of fixtures after this point, but are also in the group of clubs who aren’t fighting for anything, neither safety or Europa League spots, I guess every place being worth half a million pounds will give the Chairmen some impetus which would feed to manager and then in turn the players.
Captain's Corner
[NB Back Of The Net Boy is not responsible for Captain’s Corner spelling, grammar and basic text layout]
Lots of captain friendly fixtures this week, let's have a look.
Arsenal@QPR - Arsenal showed us they don't have to rely on RVP last weekend (much to the annoyance of those who captained him), with three goals from "non-RVP" players in a comprehensive win. Walcott, Gibbs and Arteta all getting on the score sheet. RVP remains a strong candidate this week, but Walcott and the likes of in form Vermaelen are also great candidates.
Man U@Blackburn - A tricky fixture for United recently, the reverse home fixture ending 3-2 to Blackburn to spoil Fergie's 70th birthday. And who can forget the nervy 1-1 at the end of last season? I fancy Rooney here though, but i also fancy the Yak to get on the score sheet. Both are good choices.
Fulham@home to Norwich - Fulham defied pundits who were calling a 3 to 5 nil win for the home side last weekend with a decent enough performance against United, and only lost due to a wrongly called penalty. Dempsey and Pogrebnyak are your picks here.
Man City@home to Sunderland - Kompany is back, Aguero is out. City are in poor enough form though, i would stay away from this one. Tevez could be starting though, could be a great differential.
Newcastle@home to Liverpool - Liverpool are amazingly bookie favourites in this fixture for reasons that are beyond me. Ryan Taylor and Collcini are out, Cisse and Tiote should be back for it. Liverpool look awful in the league recently, i can see the likes of Ben Arfa and Cisse getting some points on the board here. Cue a Liverpool demolition job.
Gamble picks - Sigurdsson against Spurs, he plays better away from home it seems and Spurs are still in a slump.
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