Tavernier in a David vs Goliath battle against the other popular captains for me this week but we hope for the best. My brother's wedding today so locked and loaded from here on out... See you on the other side.

A good friend of mine that is still quite active in the bad place sent me some of his replies and DM's from recent posts. Just normal team score and OR etc.. The trolling there is honestly second to none.

I don't have one player in the confirmed on games in BGW34 so far... Only problem is almost everyone with FH that week so the template will be very strong anyway. Can't see an opportunity to go different on when to play the FH so we will all have to gain elsewhere it seems.

I've heard of people playing anti-fpl and trying to get the lowest score each week. May join one next year. I like having a spread of different league, classic FPL, draft FPL, 30mil and maybe anti FPL too to spread the risk. Surely one of the teams has a good week generally which is the theory.

Tavernier comes in and takes the armband... Salah did the business this week so over to the man who nearly had a mega haul to hopefully go nuclear against Burnley. Most importantly though, it means I was able to discard Rogers for the season and hopefully forever.

Salah (C) and Ekitike come in for Wolves... Erling, please don't do points.

With all the leak rubbish and Cartel conspiracies etc. I'm starting to think I may actually enjoy the FPL Draft game more. It's close but the draft game is clean and you don't end up with everyone on basically the same team etc. The captaincy thing is also something that doesn't come into play.

Going against Haaland this week and he's not in the squad...

Go forth and conquer... Thiago gets the nod as Captain... May the Gods be with him.

Had a few wins lately with Gabriel and Semenyo so let's go again.

Only United can save me now... One assist as a return across the entire team... ONE Pathetic is an understatement.

Yeah, that's the end of triple defence for me. Bought it for the visual team symmetry anyway.

Captaincy next week will be a discussion at least. The Robot against Leeds or Thiago facing Burnley.

Bowen Defcon AGAIN... Are we overlooking his defensive prowess 😂

Semenyo the hero once again... triple defence fail but looking ok for next GW. Alot will depend on the robots fitness... if he's out it's another story all together.

Will it be another Haaland gate this weekend... #leakchaos #FPL

We bought triple defence for the rest of the season anyway...

Triple defence and Gabs TC. You know what's coming...

Me two weeks ago with the money to go from Rogers to Palmer... Nah, Palmers still a bit injured and no way as explosive as he once was... DOH...

Weird to see the robot and Bruno so low... doubles season is upon us.

10 effective Arsenal defenders... bound to go wrong. Gabs (TC) The challenge now is to move some pieces around before BGW31.

Bruno the new robot... Lol.

Could actually roll again to 3 tranfera unless there's an injury or a massive upside play... Boring... hopefully something comes up.

Sunderland are unbeatened at home this season...

I don't it so tough to roll transfers... Hopefully I can hold out this week.

Looks like an easy roll for next week at this point... Bench points are annoying even if you were never going to start a player in a thousand years.

Beat the robot by a few points, I'll take it. Now who the hell to captain next week...

Locked in... Boom.

Semenyo in for Gordon and captain... Let's see if I have the guts to go through with it but Spurs are quite good at shutting down strikers so he may have opportunities.

Not sure I want to go Mbuemo (already have Bruno) until I see how they handle the next game or two... Semenyo is tempting. Have 10.5 to spend once I turf Gordon on the trash heap.

DCL and Tarko to come tomorrow...

Come on Ricey boy... Now's your chance...

Lol, not one player put his foot on the turf today from my starting XI. At least my bench did their job and didn't make me regret anything yet.

Rice captain after the Haaland leak... What could go wrong.

Eying up Ndiaye at the moment when I finally flush Gordon down the loo this week. With Grealish looking like he's out for a while he'll be way more involved.

Going to stay with this line-up with Gordon stinking up the bench. Even tempted to swap him and Reinildo at this point. Gordon to someone will be the pondering for next week. Have £3.1 mil in the bank so can go to almost anyone.

This is unreal... shameful. Seems like alot was going on at AFCON behind the scenes... Anyway, happy Senegal won after all of the stuff that is coming out now. youtube.com/shorts/wt4uv...

Anyone else with a bit of mid season fatigue? * Footballs changing style * Defcons * BPS changes * Premiums sucking * Small pool of "exciting players" Here's hoping the 2nd half of the season doesn't end up being how many 8's we fit in our squad along with our defcon DEF's (Bowen included).

Mmm...seriously pondering benching Gordon next week. Surely Tarko vs Leeds offers more potential the way he's been trolling. Cue the hat trick but I doubt it against Villa. On 55 with Rogers to go which does cuision his uselessness this GW... but he's a passenger in the team and needs to go soon.

Bruno came in for Palmer this week... Finally a good transfer result... so far. No clue what to do next week with 1.5mil itb but hey ho. Need to start taking money from the bench as well.

May I present the highest possible scoring team over the last 5 weeks... 371 points for £78 million... no captaincy included and assuming no transfers made. Really made me think around my bias in using all my money somehow makes my team better. Also some interesting names in there - Kelleher😱

Lol, only realised today that there's no deadline till next week...

Who would have thought Mane was ever going to be a viable first bench option... even arguably playable in some fixtures... but here we are in an FPL season that has been nothing short of a bit mental. Even starting DCL is actually funny... If the robot ever misses out, Gabby will have to deliver.

May I present the midfield doldrums... a dreary endless stream of uselessness... On a positive note, the BB paid off with Mane pulling some points out of the bag. Now to start to unload some £'s from the bench. Just like Assman, I pray every season that BB gets permanently binned.

Bowen painfully short of Defcon again...with 9...

So in keeping with my hatred for the BB chip, it's getting deployed this week. Next plan is to tank the bench. Begrudgingly captaining Haaland with few other options out there. Gabriel captaincy worked out last week which was at least an up yours to having so few captaincy options. Good luck!

Bowen getting Defcon again is wild... and against Wolves.

A great start to the WC, Gabriel captain could have gone better... but Rice in was one of moments in FPL you want a few times a season. Captaining Rice would have been better obviously but no way I was doing that. Now for the Robot to ruin everything but at least I'll have today🤪

Rice... He starts!

After much deliberation I have finalised the wildcard. A deep bench with the aim of rolling back up to 5 FT's and maybe even getting rid of the BB early. Chelsea new manager bounce and great fixtures in a few weeks time means they are tripled up. Good luck everyone and have a great weekend.