Forgot to change my team. Still have fecking Garancho as captain. Not as if I'm close to winning about £800 if i keep my current positions up in my mini leagues. feck sake
2 weeks in a row for me. Still got Salah captaining from his DGW when he got dropped plus Darwin and Diaz.
Last weekend got completely blitzed on Friday night and missed the deadline. Just assumed the deadline would be Saturday this week.
Only my first season playing since taking part in Telegraph Fantasy Football League way back when, when Baddiel and Skinner were on telly, and I think I learned a lot. This will be a very tame end to the season but definitely know enough to be top 100k next season. If I hadn't missed 3 or 4 deadlines, plus indecision when keeping Haaland through his Christmas injury I'd be there right now.
The other big mistake was around second wildcard. Pumped enough players in for the City/Liverpool double GW just before the Carabao Cup final. That didn't pay off as everyone flopped, but I don't think that was bad in itself. The worst thing was that I had to keep enough cover for that league cup final weekend that Liverpool and Chelsea were involved in soon after so created a spread out squad, with decent valued players on the bench and have had that ever since. It was Garnacho and Douglas Luiz at first. Not been able to get back to a squad of expensive starters plus dirt cheap squaddies since because I'm always putting out fires and I've been too reluctant to take hits to do it. When I was doing well the first half of the season that's exactly how my squad was made up.
Next season will be balls out for the starting XI for the full season. If there's ridicuously cheap starting players then pick 'em up as subs, but otherwise forget about the bench. If I'm somehow finding I need a bench for a week and do build one, bin 'em off quick for a -4 when I don't need them again.