Week 13 - My Team
Kirkland
Vermaelen Baird Alexander
Dempsey Dunn Ireland Duff
Defoe Adebayor Drogba
After loads of chopping & changing yesterday, I ended up with exactly the same team I had after the barndoor closed on Wednesday night.
In goal I've gone with Captain Kirk - I'm not confident of a clean sheet but at his price he was just too cheap to turn down & it's allowed me to build a really solid outfield team.
My defence has a familiar look with Vermaelen & Alexander, though I'll continue to assess them each week if I don't get a strong performance from either of them soon. My final spot goes to Chris Baird who I barndoored at under 5, which means 2 of my defenders will be playing in midfield against teams in the bottom 4...never a bad thing!
My midfield contains 3 of the same players I had for Week 12 in Dunn, Dempsey & Duff. All 3 are in great form & have good fixtures. I was initially looking to avoid having 2 Fulham midfielders, but with Dempsey likely to be moved upfront I now have 1 striker & 1 midfielder (...actually...2 midfielders if you count Baird). Ireland is the final midfielder after his fantastic performance & goal against Liverpool last weekend. His movement should cause Hull all sorts of problems, so if Hughes drops him then he really hasn't got a clue what he's doing.
Upfront I've stuck with Drogba after riding out the zero last week & I think he could be in for a goal at The Emirates. Defoe is in, not because I think he'll necessarily score at Villa Park but because he has some great fixtures coming up in the next month & i'll never be able to afford him again after he shot up to £23m - long term strategy is still important. Finally, the one pick I didn't really want to make, Adebayor. I hate him & he's repeatedly let me down this season, but I felt I needed a City this weekend & he's the only guarenteed starter as far as I can see.
So that's my team & I have £1.13m left unspent. Something important to note - I held Rooney & Bily instead of Adebayor & Duff until very late in the day yesterday, but in the end I switched it back. I just couldn't justify Rooney's price when he's out of form & away from home (even against Pompey). I also preferred Duff vs Bolton over Bily vs Liverpool - it could be a move that comes back to haunt me...lets hope not! I almost changed it back this morning, but stayed strong :)
Good luck to everyone! How has your team ended up looking? Who are you planning on grabbing on the barndoor?
Cheers,
AM
32 comments:
So Ill be taking some huge risks this week
Fulop in goal
Verm/Da Silva/Gabbidon
Dunn/Demps/Noble/Ohara
Drogba/Rooney/C.Cole
lamps for the bd I think..
Suddenly Defoe's price jumps at 26.87!=)
This is my team!! : (
This was the team 10 minutes after the BD LAST week!
Given
Verma/OShea/Fabio
Cole/Moko/Dunn/Bullard/Lennon
Rooney/Defoe !!
This SHOULD HAVE been my team -
Kirkland
Verma/Samba/Ridgewell
Dempsey/Dunn/Giggs/Fletcher/Lennon
CCole/Campbell
Lets see which team gets more points!
It'll obviously be the 2nd Team!!
ughh!! How i hate Adobe Flash for takin THREE second to load the 'Confirm Changes' Page!! :@
Also taking mahhoooosive risks, but what the hell, the only reason i play this is for fun after all hehe.
Henessey
Verm, Alexander, R Johnson
Fabregas, J Cole, Noble, Bullard, Bily
Rooney, Benitez
Obviously my worries are as follows;
Cole not getting played
Bily not getting played
Bullard not getting played
And Benitez and Henessey against each other, hopefully it'll be 5 SOT's for Benitez.
Good luck everyone, i'll be in the chat room Cheering/crying from 3pm.
First time this year I made so many radical changes just before the deadline. I felt Givet, Ireland, Valencia and Rodallega (why?!) will screw me up and not all of them are sure starters, so swapped them for definite starters as well as more consistent Brown, Jarvis, Carlton Cole and Adebayor. I actually feel happy about it, so hopefully that was a good decision.
So after a great week 12, hoping for another 100pt haul:
Kirkland
Paintsil - Roger Johnson - Brown
Dunn - Dempsey - Gera - Jarvis
Defoe - Carlton Cole - Adebayor
Worried about having 3 Fulham players, but Gera is my real hunch for this week, and Bolton are really poor at the moment. Good luck all ;)
AM, I had a very similar dilema to you, knowing that we struggle against villa really played on my mind when it came to Defoe and Lennon, but as you said i looked at the long term and a good run of fixtures coming up, I dare not say it but I think we have finaly found a manager that has solved our inconsistency. Spurs , as u know can beat anyone on their day but also, be beaten by anyone, So in Harry we trust and top four I think is a real possibility this year ...... Anyways ended up with
Problem,
Verms, R Johnson, Alexander
Billy, O Hara, Dunn, Lennon
Drogs,Defoe,Rooney
fingers crossed after a disater of a week last week.
Keep up the good work AM
kirk
Vermalen Alexandra Nelson
Dunn Dempsey J.Cole Valencia
Drogs Rooney Defoe
Schocked at how many people dropped da drogs
Any thoughts on my team
Fulop
Vermaelen Brown Craddock Konchesky
Duff Bilyaletdinov Valencia
Drogba Defoe Berbatov
Taking a risk here with Valencia, Berbatov and Craddock
given
vermaelen..ryan nelson..da silva
cesc..dempsey..dunn..lennon..bily
drogba..jason roberts
i am rolling the dice on midfield. my last four weeks have been poor up front and the pickings have been slim. my choice was for bellamy or lennon and lennon is more long term for me. i had j cole until midnight and am tired of missing players, so i went with bily because two sights said he would play. it is given's last chance for me.
on the barn door i am going from roberts to eduardo. i hope to keep cesc, lennon, dunn, dempsey for a while. i think that is a deadly foursome in midfield and i will sub out the fifth spot, unless bily goes off. ryan nelson may make way for traore.
Fulop
verm heita bridge
Duff Dunn O'Hara Bullard
Drogs Rooney Robinho
Risks are Bullard and Robinho. I absolutely don't know why I took Robinho, I was playing with my team a hour or so before closing, up early here, read on a site Hughes saying good things about him. Last second hunch. Dropped Saha for him. This may bite me in the ass,
cheers
chrism
@doc teeth-still searching for a life
i've gone...
kirkland
givet/roger johnson/evra
dunn/hunt/bily/duff
drogba/c.cole/yayga
and on the barn door i'm going heavy on the arsenal players! prices have dropped (and i think will drop again after a probable defeat v chelsea - even tho i'm an arsenal fan!) and they have a good match up against stoke at the emirates
C. Kirkland
Vermaelen Bridge Brown
Fabregas Bullard Giggs Bilyaletdinov
Drogba T****y Rooney
Now that I'm out of the Cup and concentrating on the League I'm looking for my first good week for a while.
Think I've got 9 very good FF players.
Can't drop T****y till he comes good (so I guess he's a season keeper)
Hennessey
Vermaelen/Givet/Baird
Dunn/Dempsey/Ireland/Reid
Drogba/Rooney/C.Cole
I'm taking a bunch of risks:
1) My non-standard (but not, I see, unique) choice in "cheap keeper roulette." I couldn't bring myself to ride the Robbocoaster again. Hopefully I won't regret passing on Kirkland.
2) Givet or Baird might not start.
3) Ireland might not start (I'll be shocked if he doesn't, but managers have done stranger things before now). Since I don't have anyone else from City, I couldn't bring myself to drop him.
4) Rooney might continue being MIA fantasy points wise.
Other than that, this line-up is rock solid. :) Fingers crossed...
Kirk
Alexander Brown Baird
Dempsey Dunn Giggs Ireland
Drogs Blake CCole
I talked myself out of Evra and went Brown instead
I like my midfield. If Hughes doesn't start Ireland I'll have a sh1t wobbler.
Lite front line but we'll see
Bethchapman
Here is my team:
Given
Verm/Alexander/Melchiot
Etherington/O'hara/Dunn/Dempsey
Drogba/Rooney/Yayga
Wishing I hadn't dropped Defoe on Wednesday now. I have a doubt he won't score, but I forgot about the long term and didn't bother checking his fixtures.
bellamy on the bench!
I went with Rooney and am not complaining, I will take those 3 goals (so far) thanks!
Apparently Robinho was not another 'defoe moment', still, he should pick me up some points, should'nt he?
A mixed bag so far.
Pluses:
1) Rooney, Rooney, Rooney.
2) Carlton Cole. Too bad though that Eagles' late goal wiped out his MWG points.
3) CS for Givet.
Minuses:
1) Deciding not to drop Ireland for Collison or Eagles. Made the mistake of thinking City would stop being lame.
2) Midfielders in general: Dunn, Dempsey, Ireland, and Reid. Ouch. Too bad I dropped Bullard for Reid.
3) Somehow both Robbo and Kirkland get CSs, and here I am with Hennessey. That could really come back to bite me tomorrow. I thought both Stoke and Sunderland would cause more trouble today.
Off to a good start after two horrible weeks that dropped me down 20 places in my blog league and out of the Blog Cup.
Nobody disgraced themselves today, and with Fabregas, Drogba, Bily, Benitez and Drogba still to play this could be a badly needed good weekend:
Kirkland
Givet / W. Brown / Bridge
Fabregas / Giggs / Dempsey / Jarvis / Bily
Drogba / Benitez
Not to mention Jarvis (did I miss Drogba?)
86pts with Drogba and Verm to go. Its a solid week fro me after the double.
Next week:
Kirk
Verm, Baird, W.Brown
Eagles, KPB, Dempsey, Fabs
Rooney, Drogba, HRod
this week I had:
Kirk,
Verm,G.Alex,Wilk
Demps,Dunn,Giggs,O'H
Drog,Rooney,Cole
kind of wish I had picked up SWP, i had a hunch he would be a good scorer this week, but didn't listen. He's been quietly a pretty consistent scorer this year.
What i thought was a good start to the weekend, turned out not so good when i saw the huge points other players seemed to get. Duff, Rodallaga etc..
I had 4 players today, Noble warmed the bench, Alexander did nothing, Bullard got a goal and Rooney got a hat trick. I watched with glee as the goals starting flowing, but looked in horror when the points came in and saw i dropped 300 odd places haha. Rooney and Bullard's lack of any phantom points supprised me a bit, but i didn't see the games properly so i don't know how they played.
A grand total of 47 from 4 players for the day.
So enough of today, i have to hope that the players i picked for tomorrow will come out on top to get me back into contention. I have a few more than most still to come, but this will by no means be a big scoring week i feel.
Henessey, Verm, R Johnson, Fabs, Cole, Bily and Benitez, score me some goals boys :P
@Bean: so far really good week for us, only 10pts behind you in league play and 9.5pts lower than your first day score. Wish I hadn't dropped Duff for Reid, but oh well, still scored much better than most other teams.
Lately I've been falling apart, and this week isn't different. The last 3 weeks were 54.5, 37, and 39 in this one for now. I still have Fabregas and Vermaelen, so I hope Arsenal will destroy Chelsea, with Drogba beeing the one that everyone already own. In 2 weeks, including this one, I dropped 4500 places to 6000th.
For next week:
Kirkland
Vermaelen Heitinga Warnock
Fabregas Milner O'Hara Walcott
Drogba Defoe Rodallega
It's actually like a 3-3-4 formation, because with Asenal's injuries Walcott will play as a forward with Eduardo against Stoke.
With a hope for better weeks,
SF
Finally. Thank you Rooney Duff and Bullard. 93.5 with Drogs, Verm, Heiti still to go. Guessed right on Robinho starting but he only returned 4 pts. Just dropped him next week for Bent. If Saha scores big I will be ripped but heh. Went up about 1600 places overall, about 12 in AM group 2 which is very tight. Arsenal Chelsea tomorrow should be a great game.
Having okay week, 91.5 points with Jarvis to go. Climbed nearly a thousand spots overall and still dominating my group.
Next week is easy as I don't have to change much. Kirkland, Rodallega, and N'Zogbia are going nowhere with Brum coming to town. Milner and Jarvis stay as well, but my whole defense has to go.
Here's my early team for next week and barring injury will probably be final:
Kirkland
Scharner/Vermit/Kaboul
N'Zogbia/Jarvis/Milner/O'Hara/KPB
Rodallega/Agbonlahor
Dunn injured, Lennon, Defoe and Evra do nothing, Given concedes...Kirkland, Stanislas, Yayga and Duff, however (all of whom were picked by the guy below me) all perform amazingly!
@Kellz - somehow i think we'll be battling it out all year. we seem to end up with similar picks alot and get similar points.
Kind of amazed with 95.5 points i go (-36) overall rank. maybe it was just -36 after spurs match update? still happy with this week as I've had two bad weeks preceeding this. still have Drogba and Verm to play like everyone else
Here's my team for next week
Kirkland
Vermaelen Stearman ???
Bilyaletdinov Boateng Duff Fabregas
Drogba Defoe Rooney
I have a problem though, I have only 4.25 units left to fill that last defence spot, and I cant even find one that starts. I'll need to make some changes. I have big discounts on Rooney and Defoe, but one may have to go for Eduardo, or Fabregas to Arshavin?
Hey bean, kellz, good Saturday for u both in the Twightlight league. At this rate both of you will go back ahead of me by the end of next week- I didn't do as well: 71.5 from 9, with Rooney scoring nearly half of my points on the day. Missed the barndoor, too, so I was unable to pick up Yayga & KPB before their prices increased.
@bean - yes, your (-36) overall ranking must be based on the Villa/Spurs scoring update.
Curious to see if/when Aquilani finally gets in the 11, and will he be a good points-gatherer?
Looking forward to the full-on double week following this next week - mouthwatering!!!.........
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