Week 3 - My Team

 Cudicini

Faubert  Skrtel   Bale

Walcott  Adam  Barton  Malouda

Carroll  Drogba  Berbatov

As I'm off on holiday to the South of France, my team (and this post) was done on Friday afternoon, so no last minute changes for me...and yes I've checked it was definitely saved! It means I won't be able to do any barndoor work, and you won't see any blog posts from me for a week, but I'm sure you'll cope :)

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Week 3 - Player Picks

Ok - Week 3 is where my season begins. Forget Week 1 when I picked Rooney over Drogba. Forget Week 2 when I picked neither Walcott nor Carroll, and where my ISP cost me 25 points...it all starts here. I really need a big score - after Week 3 we have a one-week gap before Week 4 due to international fixtures, and it's never fun to go in to a break doing badly.

Anyway, I'm writing my player picks post early this week, so there is a fair chance that some recommendations will be changed after the fall-out from the remaining Carling Cup/European games over the next 48 hours (suspensions/injuries etc). But there is one thing that won't change, and that's the Week 3 fixtures....there are some crackers for fantasy managers.

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Week 2 - Points Are In

The Week 2 points are finally in, and as you can see above there were some huge scores...the top weekly score of 240 is the highest I've ever seen in a one-game week - 13 goals is insane!

With so many goals/hat-tricks about it really wasn't a good week for my internet to go down, but I end on 116 points, which I'll take. I've done my calculations and the team I couldn't save would've got me 141, so only 25 points lost...it could've been far far worse.

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Yahoo! Technical Difficulties

My internet disaster on Saturday morning (costing me goals from Chamakh, Cahill & a Verm CS) combined with a lack of Walcott (because of the uncertainty over his starting status) or Andy Carroll means I wasn't in a huge rush for the points to come in on Saturday night, but it's now Monday and it's all getting a bit ridiculous.

We do however have an update on the YFF homepage...

MESSAGE TO ALL PLAYERS
We are currently experiencing technical issues with points scoring in Fantasy Football. Our engineers are fixing this issue and all points will be awarded correctly as soon as possible.

So fingers crossed we'll see an update after the Man City v Liverpool game tonight, but I won't be holding my breath.

After missing the Drogba hattrick in Week 1 things really could not have started any worse for me, but there were 2 things that did make me happy this weekend: (1) Spurs grabbing a vital win at Stoke despite missing 5 first team players, and (2) Discovering many of our readers had outstanding fantasy weeks, with some of you having as many as 10 goals...I expect to see many of you approaching the Week 2 Top 50, maybe even the Overall Top 50, which would be fantastic!

The whole point of starting this blog was to help people become more successful, so if my posts or the great advice from our community has helped in any way then it makes all the effort (and on this occasion, the devastation) all worth it!

Cheers,
AM

Week 2 - My Team + Blog Team

DISASTER - I'd written the "Week 2 - My Team" post this morning before I went out, but I never save my team until around 15 minutes before the deadline just in case there are any last minute changes and I decide to keep someone....it has backfired spectacularly this week as when I returned home my internet went down for 20 minutes and didn't come back up until it was too late. I was therefore unable save my changes, and I'm left with a team containing a number of players I didn't want.

The team I am stuck with is Jussi (didn't want him), Bale, Faubert, Kolorov (injured), Adam (didn't want him), Malouda, D.Jones (didn't want him), Alrighton, Petrov, Drogba, Kalinic

That was my barndoor team from last Sunday which has £9m still in the bank, and it's missing 4 players I had unsaved on my team page - Foster, Vermaelen, Cahill & Chamakh.

I went to the effort of writing my initial team post, so you may as well read it, but I feel it was a complete waste of all the effort I put in to the blog this week, I'm really gutted but need to just get on with it now and hope the damage is limited...somehow I doubt it seeing as I have ZERO Arsenal players and ZERO Everton players.

This is the post I had written for the team I was MEANT to have....

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Week 2 - Player Picks

I'm really struggling for time this week due to work commitments, so for now I've decided to do a quick analysis of the fixtures and just list my player recommendations. If I get time in the next 48 hours I'll try to expand on my suggestions as I usually do, but it might not happen (it happened!)

Firstly, how lucky are Spurs to still be in the Young Boys tie? The pitch wasn't great, but that first 30 minutes was as bad as I've seen us under Redknapp & it could've been 5-1 before Pav made it 3-2. We definitely have a chance now it's back at WHL, but I'm not counting my chickens after that performance.

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Week 1 - Monday

Just the one game on Monday night, as Manchester United ran out very comfortable winners over a Newcastle side who worked hard, but are going to struggle this season unless they can keep the ball...although Andy Carroll will prove a handful, especially at St James' Park

It finished 3-0 largely thanks to a Paul Scholes master-class, but in all honestly it should've been more had their finishing been sharper - I doubt Berbatov will have a better chance for an Old Trafford hattrick.

It was a match that cemented my decision to go with Wayne Rooney as a complete disaster; he failed to score and was subbed after just 60 minutes and 4 fantasy points. Had he scored one goal and gained maybe 15 points it would've certainly taken away some of the sting felt from Drogba's hattrick. But he didn't score, and to be honest he looked pretty damn poor all evening.

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Week 1 - Saturday & Sunday

The opening weekend of the new Premier League did not disappoint one iota, with plenty of great goals, shocks, controversy and drama.

As you'll probably know I've not had the best start after my worst fears stated in my Week 1 Team post....

Yes...I'm scared about a Drogba hat-trick.

...came true, but more on that later!

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