Quote: Godot Taxis @ 28th December 2014, 12:12 AM GMT

So you're saying he was your first choice for captain and not Ya Ya? I don't believe you.

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I am. I'm not sure why it's difficult to believe, you'd have to be a bit crazy to captain someone you think is going to start on the bench.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ 28th December 2014, 12:12 AM GMT

If you were expecting him to turn into a goal machine Saturday night you were the only one.

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I'm pretty sure Sanchez was the most captained player of the gameweek; I'll come back with a source if I remember where I read it

The defence rests:

https://twitter.com/FantasyFootyFix/status/548472479153659904

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 27th December 2014, 7:36 PM GMT

Well done Radish Senior, you're a much better player than your son was. Keep it up.

Bollocks to rotation, they're paid 250 grand a week to be fit and play - so play. I bet most of the Brits will, Rooney, Terry, you won't be able to stop them.

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Many thanks Mr Kipper. He was relying on the advice of Kenny Sansom last year just because his Nan had gatecrashed Sansom's wedding. I sent Sansom packing and brought in Steve Kember as a replacement. Well, he lived diagonally opposite his best mate in the 1970s. Fortunately it has worked out quite well.

Re Sanchez: Will the return of Theo Walcott later today enable him to be rested? Plus: Drogba for Costa?

Quote: Gerry McDonnell @ 28th December 2014, 12:24 AM GMT

I am. I'm not sure why it's difficult to believe, you'd have to be a bit crazy to captain someone you think is going to start on the bench.

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Well you captained a player who was suspended so I wouldn't offer that as an argument. If you say you intended it then I accept what you say. Just seems like an unlikely choice.

Quote: Gerry McDonnell @ 28th December 2014, 12:24 AM GMT

I'm pretty sure Sanchez was the most captained player of the gameweek; I'll come back with a source if I remember where I read it

The defence rests:

https://twitter.com/FantasyFootyFix/status/548472479153659904

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Okay 293 people also thought he would score. Got any stats on Milner?

What a terrible bloody week for me.

Fascinating stuff at half time in the season and as we contemplate a new year.

Luckily, my 1001 points were strategically timed to coincide with my 1001st post.

2 free transfers for the first time ever
So I'll have to do at least one transfer today

Quote: A Horseradish @ 30th December 2014, 9:29 AM GMT

Fascinating stuff at half time in the season and as we contemplate a new year.

Luckily, my 1001 points were strategically timed to coincide with my 1001st post.

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Never mind worrying about rotation with you getting a big fat 16 points of the bench.

Here's the table so far of points off the bench. Unsurprisingly you're at the top Radish with Don not far behind.

Radish - 50pts
Don - 44pts
Gerry - 35pts
Ross - 26pts
Splodge - 23pts
Godot - 22pts
Ben - 21pts
Kipper - 20pts
Steve - 17pts

To save you the trouble of subtracting the points yourself here's the totals without bench points:

Godot - 972
Don - 956
Radish - 951
Steve - 944
Gerry - 941
Splodge - 937
Ben - 895
Kipper - 884
Ross - 831

It's a much more interesting contest than last year's. No Suarez means people have to think a bit, especially with that other little foreign twat goal machine sidelined. Again.

And it's nice to see the lead changing a lot more. Halfway and I don't know who to put my 10p on. Don & Gerry up and down with each other are letting Horseradish in the back door. But will Godot run them over in his taxi? Nailbiting. HNY.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ 31st December 2014, 11:55 PM GMT

Never mind worrying about rotation with you getting a big fat 16 points of the bench.

Here's the table so far of points off the bench. Unsurprisingly you're at the top Radish with Don not far behind.

Radish - 50pts
Don - 44pts
Gerry - 35pts
Ross - 26pts
Splodge - 23pts
Godot - 22pts
Ben - 21pts
Kipper - 20pts
Steve - 17pts

To save you the trouble of subtracting the points yourself here's the totals without bench points:

Godot - 972
Don - 956
Radish - 951
Steve - 944
Gerry - 941
Splodge - 937
Ben - 895
Kipper - 884
Ross - 831

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Interesting stats but my mind turned to David Fairclough. Did his 18 goals in 62 substitute appearances make, say, Bob Paisley less than legendary? Putting a player on the bench is at least one square ahead
of Pellegrini failing to get his Yaya out for Burnley. Whatever that was, what it wasn't was great ju-ju.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 1st January 2015, 9:27 AM GMT

It's a much more interesting contest than last year's. No Suarez means people have to think a bit, especially with that other little foreign twat goal machine sidelined. Again.

And it's nice to see the lead changing a lot more. Halfway and I don't know who to put my 10p on. Don & Gerry up and down with each other are letting Horseradish in the back door. But will Godot run them over in his taxi? Nailbiting. HNY.

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Don can't win. He hasn't posted for more than two months - he's out of the league on his own rules. Gerry won't win playing Milner and captaining Sterling. Splodge scares me the most and obviously Dan - who knows his football but keeps shooting himself in the foot with his captain choices.

Steve has also come right back into contention. Ross - last year's Mr. Differential seems to have completely fallen away.

I have Kane on the bench and all my first eleven played.

I bought Kane for my B team
I may have to add him to the Florists as well

van Persie just ain't cutting it

Quote: A Horseradish @ 1st January 2015, 6:50 PM GMT

I have Kane on the bench and all my first eleven played.

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Yeah, you, me and Splodge. 26 points pre-bonus on the bench at the moment. Oh well, happy new year!

I may just swap Austin for Kane instead
Could keep van Persie for a straight Aguero swap if he's getting fit

When can we use the January Wild card?

And it was going so well until that game...

I had avoided the Silva captaincy trap, got a double Villa clean sheet and Falcao scored when Rooney and RVP didn't.

Now all I can see is the 25 points stuck on my bench and Toby Alderweireld's sad face.

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 1st January 2015, 7:50 PM GMT

When can we use the January Wild card?

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*Checks to see how close you are in the table*

Try February 1st.

Or 29th.