FPL Socialist
@robbiefaulds
FPL, SFF, Revolutionary Socialism, Ipswich Town FC, Indie Music, Rangers FC - not necessarily in that order! If I post an image the Alt Text is usually worth a read 🙃
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First time I've properly "seen" the wind vane at The Piece Hall in Halifax and it's *chef's kiss* 🐑⚔️
Minus eight taken to try and salvage some fun out of the final GW since my season is long past saving. Good luck to all those somehow still in contention for mini league wins... may type arrows be the brightest of green.
For the benefit of those outside the UK who may not have had the pleasure of reading the Viz comic 🙃
I did a couple of transfers but I'm on holiday and no longer really care about FPL so here's a photo i took today which, now i think about it, will probably prove to be rather prescient wrt my two transfers
Here's where I'm at on my WC, with £4.3m ITB. FH33 and this gets me through GW34. I can see Brobbey terrifying a Spurs defence potentially trying out new tactics. In fact, fuck it, I might just give him the armband 🙃
And it's wildcard time! I'll be free hitting in GW33 and able to field full team in 34 (injuries allowing). BB already shot of which helps. I quite like it 🙃
Salah and Chalobah injuries mean I've had to take a -8 to get 11 out, with Rice also departing for Shirley, Iwobi and Ice Cold. Bruno captain as plenty of differentials already compared to ML leader. Past caring at this point but at least it will be fun 🙃
Yeah mate go for it that's a brilliant bench boost. In fact it's so good it might even beat my own rogue bench boost from gw26 🔥🔥
Been on a run of grey arrows so for the first time this season I welcome Mo Salah to my team, for Mbeumo. Massive ML differential so captained against a depleted Spurs defence. It will either be a genius move or a disastrous one. Recent experience suggests the latter 🙃
Here's where in at. Tarks & KDH out for VVD and Adli. Have seen everyone talking about pretty much every Bournemouth attacking asset apart from Adli so wondering whether I'm an utter fool or an absolute genius* for bringing him in 🤷♂️ Mboomo as differential captain *my money is on the former 🙃
A new challenge for GW27 - try to keep my shiny new top 500k which took a lot of work to finally achieve! Gyökeres slung out for Thiago as fast as possible - a DGW punt which flopped. Can't see anything else worth a hit but Bournemouth on my radar. JP the troll captained so low expectations 🙃
Bench boost only gained me 6 points but still broke the 💯 barrier and no longer need to mess up my team trying to plan around that awful chip 🥳 Into the top 500k which was looking completely unachievable for a very long time. Never give up hope he says fully expecting a huge red arrow next week 🙃
Hit taken (Verbruggen/Wilson/Guiu > Sa/KDH/Gyökeres) and BB activated 'cos it keeps things interesting and gets that pain in the @rse chip out of the way pre WC. Captain choice is because @miko.is.camp got me thinking a lot about Rice so decided to treat myself. HW, HW, HWFG 🙃
Likely to be another grey arrow this week as I bounce around the 1m rank. Very tempted by a -4 which would allow me to get my bench boost out of the way. Alderete/Wilson/Guiu > Hill/KDH/Gyökeres Genius or complete and utter madness?
Recommend this as a good read on the subject. It's light hearted to read and really nails the science stuff like speed of light and time dilation.
On a four hour flight so here's a guessing game for you till I get back to blighty. Below is my #FPL rank history. Q. During which season did I get married 🙃
Didn't expect it to happen this week after a -8 but have finally cracked the top 1m. Which clearly is still a shit rank but it's been one of those seasons. Only 72 pts from top 100k which probably need to win ML. Don't much fancy my chances TBH 😐
First -8 of the season taken. NOR/Ekitike/Tav/Wirtz > Tarks/Watkins/Cherki/BrunoG Going to charge into the top 1m by next week. Playing safe hasn't been paying off this season so attacking the game from now on. Hopefully without making too many kneejerk moves 🙃
Five green arrow in a row mean I'm in danger of hitting the top 1m. Want Bruno G, Watkins and Cherki so need to decide who is for the chop. Probably involves NOR going and MCI attack triple up in a 3-4-3/4-3-3 formation. Minus 8 incoming 🙃
Another small green last week puts me into the top 1.5m for the first time this season. It's been a grind! Timber >Gabriel as ML differential so want on early. Rolling a FT.
GW17 is that beautiful time when you can confirm it's not a tactic and your #FPL mini league rival has indeed failed to read the new rule about getting two of each chip 🙃