After deliberating over your opening team, and who to captain, it is now time to sit back and see how your fantasy team performs. Following your fantasy players in action usually results in a roller-coaster ride of emotions, but there’s no need to keep it all bottled up. We invite fantasy managers to share their views on all the gameweek 1 matches live as the action unfolds.
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The boys at the FPL have certainly got their finger out this year!
True Kop vey speedy
Evening Jim! Fernando flattered to deceive again!
He’s got the Reading game to prove himself to me!
Still I picked up 8 bonus points so I’m happy
Eddy and Kop! Evening gentlemen. The quicker I get this weekend behind me the better!
Quick question, worried with Ramires and transfers out already being high. Thinking of getting Ben Arfa in. Even though he has a tough fixture against Chelsea next, seems as tho his stock is rising so would be wise to get him in now. Will wait and see tmrw cause other possibilities could be a United player or Cazorla. Way you think, hit or stay until Fridy?
Migs – Try and hold out until after the Chelsea game on Wednesday night. Ramires didn’t play today because he was ill!
Well to be honest I’m hoping he doesn’t play on wednesday as well!
terrible hey
Michu is on my bench
Have got Michu on my bench 2 but unfortunately all have started so that is points lost! You couldn’t predict that Swansea score line though
Mugs, sort for delay in my answer, Kop is spot on mate, wait out until the dust has cleared on Wednesday. Appreciate your dilemma with Michu!
*Migs* sorry, iPad!
Just found this website, fantastic work lads. How do I follow your official team? Got 37 points, wish I’d not taken Michu and petrick out
#panic transfers:(
54 pts so far, pretty disappointed. Was hoping I wouldn’t be regretting my starting XI so soon! lol
GC – That’s 23 points above the average. I dont think you should be too disappointed!
KW- not too disappointed just you know how it is when you’ve made changes and if I hadn’t I’d have scored more, plus one of the lads in my money league scored an 84, early days, but still don’t like losing when money is on the table!
GC you should see my bench
GC, early days buddy, in fact it’s only been 32 hours since the league started mate. And my bench, well f**k me for 21 point then! Lol
Eddy- Aye man not getting too down or anything… just kicking myself over a few ‘could have been’ decisions, but sure that’s the nature of the game. Seen your bench there, a lot of points on it, that is always a sickner!
GC, to be honest apart from playing the Hammers lads I wouldn’t have done anything differently. Thought Sunderland would lose at the Emirates. If I was that good I’d be a manager! Lol
Eddy- aye think it was justifiable putting cuellar on the bench, still it bodes well for sunderland in relation to keeping clean sheets this year, think we were right about MON having them tight at the back! 4.5m is a bargain.
GC, good shout and Michu is in my team already so that’s good, I like the look of Carzorla as well!
eddy me too, had him in my original team as well then took him back out… just wasn’t sure about Arsenal’s fixtures few tricky ones GW 7,8,9 look really good for Arsenal.
GC, that’s The 3 gws I’m looking at. Interesting?
eddy- very interesting would be good to have a couple of arsenal fella’s in for that… Cazorola and maybe Podolski if he is performing.
Just seen this as well;
‘Arsenal’s Cazorla set up more shots than any other player this weekend in the Premier League. Looks like he may have strong assist potential’ FFC tweet
TCB- Aye that is pretty gutting having all that on your bench, I just had cuellar on the bench with significant pts, still 66 is pretty tasty for yourself lad. Petric and Michu was a good pick. I’d been thinking Petric but didn’t follow through!
Should have left Hazard in as well ahead of Mata! #regrets
GC you can’t be lucky all the time Well I can’t lol but on the plus side it boads well for the team
TCB- True, true and like KW said getting above the average isn’t something to be too down about. Your team looks well mate, strong bench and a nice score anyway like.
Still not showing your team GC??
Just hadn’t got round to it, working now?
GC yes mate and a City double up MMmmmm
TCB- backfired!lol thought they’d hammer Southampton, I would have picked Aguero over Tevez if I’d just went with one of them so not all bad.
TCB, nice Avatar! The Conspicious Drinking Cross!
GC I nearly when for Bent but chuffed i didnt
TCB- haha aye good call!
As a Villa fan, I’m gutted by that performance.
GC I think Villa will do ok under the new gaffer
Any thoughts on getting Rodwell & Bertrand? Bertrand is a defender but plays in mid. At 4.5 looks good? Rodwell at 5mil is cheap and looked great today despite that one costly error.
No to both of them!!
ditto!
Rodwell is too defensive to use in FF and Bertrand won’t get much game time in my opinion.
True. Thanks. Still a newbie to this..
Just remember that in general defensive midfielders are a no-no, while they may be playing well for real, in FF doesn’t usually translate to pts.
Unless of course they’re also set piece takers — then there may be a shout, as with Lampard this week (eh Kop?).
Very true thanks. Just made me think that Bertrand could score some good points since his listed as a defender. But unlikely that he will get that much playing time. I guess I was thinking to get them as my subs or something. Thanks for the advice!
ememeh- personally I wouldn’t count Lampard as a defensive midfielder given his record.
ezeq – yes that’s actually a good way to think — those playing in more attacking positions when listed in more defensive positions can be really great to snap up! It’s just that on this occasion, he’s not likely to play. One solid piece of advice is that *even for subs* only choose those likely to play. Today will bear testament to that principle, given how Ramires didn’t, and still might not in the next game, play.
GC – yeah, certainly that’s not his standard position, though I heard he played there today, right? At least, that was suggested before the match. In any case, there will be instances of other defensive players who are set-piece takers and for that reason alone may merit picking.
ezeq- aye as ememeh says it’s good to have defensively listed players who score, Seamus Coleman is a great example, he was listed as a defender and was playing left mid for Everton, racking up a load of pts. Bertrand would be a decent pick if he was a regular, until then it’s just not worth it because he won’t be playing most of the time.
Alright thanks guys for the help!
according to MOTD2, Aguero twitted that it is not serious, 50% chance of playing according to FPL.com, hope he plays GW2 – palm face for all those who have transferred him out already. gonna wait till Thurs/Fri before looking at my team again
50% isn’t great odds like, if that’s how it remains it may still be worth transferring him out. I still have in like, will see how it develops.
I’ve been checking FISO, and even did some of the calculations myself to double check, and it’s unlikely that Aguero’s value will fall tonight.
Much of it depends on how the FPL-public take such news as ’50% chance of recovering’ and Aguero’s positive tweets. So long as the PR is positive, or is construed that way, the number of people selling him won’t cause his price to fall.
Currently, roughly 25,000 FPL managers have sold him. Before today, he was owned by 30% of managers, which is about 600,000 teams. Of those teams, if approx. 10% sell him (that’s 60,000 teams) then his price will fall by £0.1m. That means between now and whenever FPL decide to make the changes (about 2am, say), 35,000 FPL managers need to let him go. Given the lack of increase in recent hours, it shouldn’t be a problem tonight.
However, over the course of the week that could definitely change, according to how the FPL-public take the news being put out about Aguero, and also how much of a domino effect there is by those scared he will drop in value.
now 75% chance of playing
I’d take the FPL percentages with a pinch of salt — I don’t know if they’re privy to special information, or whether much of it is just guesswork anyway. It seems City probably don’t even know the extent of the lay-off yet…
Are you happy now Eddy and no i,m not doing a VC over 90% are postumos and your going nowhere soon??????????
TCB, deserve the vc for teaming up with you! Lol. If your ever in the Smoke, go the The Union Jack Club in Waterloo, every VC and GC winner is on a board in the Foyer and you can see the Citations for them.
nice i will call on my way home one time
TCB, cheap beer in the bar as well mate!
stayed there one new year, went to the bar before we hit the town and a lad I was at school with was the bar manager, hadn’t seen him in 15 years. Result! got hammered together, woke up in Kings Cross at Backpackers! 
Via ???????????
TCB, f**k knows, remember a taxi and tube ride, nothing else. Though apparently I did walk back from kings cross to Waterloo, took about 3 hours I’ve been told!
Lmfao those are the best days of your life lol Night mate i’m off
GC, you a Game of Thrones fan?
Eddy- aye, haha you noticed it?… that’s actually were the name Golden Company comes from.
GC, nice one mate, rumour is Ciaran Hinds is in the new series. Good local Actor.
Eddy- Yea fantastic actor, loved him in Munich (film) and Rome (tv series), cast as Mance Ryder, brilliant choice.
Cicero??
Julius Caesar
Aha, one of that lot! Good job I never became a Roman scholar.
GC, very true mate, good actor, he was brilliant in the tv series Above Suspicion and the films Road to Perdition and There will be Blood.
eddy- will be looking forward to seeing him GOT, great show… books are better though like usual.
Night all
night mate
night
TCB, night partner, chat later mate.
Right lads, good night and good luck!
eddy- night
I started off with an alright GW with 54 points, but please can someone help me out with my team! Preferably Eddy, Kop or anyone that can help out.
Federici
Clichy,Cole A,Coloccini
Pienaar,Hazard,Bale,Kagawa,Dyer,
Torres,Pogrebnyak,Ba
Krul,Barnett,Tierney
Who should start GW 2 and who to get instead of torres?
I have 2.5 in bank
wait for the GW to complete
Ok thanks, but what do u think of the team?
I need serious help, poor outcome so far, though still have rooney and pienaar. hopefully they can perform and get me back in it.
GK: Davis (Cerny)
Def: Kompany, shawncross, coloccini (barnett, clyne)
Mid: Oscar, ramires, yaya toure, pienaar
attk: rooney, tevez, torres
I have to make alot of changes to my lineup. this is my first time playing fpl so i dunno if its worth losing points to make these changes. And so far i dunno who to keep, who has potential.
kompany – didnt perform, had 2 goals conceded , probably not worth the money
coloccini – injury 75% of playing, should i keep him?
My defense has been terrible
Oscar : made the mistake of replacing hazard with him. however i think he will get some more gametime. Dunno if i should keep him either, or get hazard back in.
ramires: sick , 75% of playing. again, should i sit him out?
how can i improve?
JT, you have mail!
excellent!
Replied!
JT – And again.
Back at you!
Hi guys! Firstly sorry for not speaking to those in my league, just got back from my wedding in Hong Kong!
A quick RMT if you don’t mind gents ( this is for a 4 point hit)
Jaas Federici
Hangeland Demel Pearce Clyne BAE
Noble Hazard Yaya Dyer Pienaar
Teves Torres RVP
What do you guys think?
Cheers Folks!
Congrats on the marriage
Not sure about BAE, Spurs have looked poor at the back.
Benji, congrats mate, welcome to servitude!
. Nice team but Noble isn’t producing the goods and Fulham look woeful away from home. spurs are a concern also.