Jimburst

you misery guts. You just have to take premium down to a palmer/saka/son type and you can get any manager easy, right? Then get that premium back when the 3 gameweeks is over.

Worth their salt who do I think I am.

Surely you only have 3 players from the teams at the top of the table. Any manager worth their salt is going for the big points on the mid table managers.

80 points this week. Some big green arrows, finally!

That Isak > Jackson transfer is emblematic of my season. Usually in the NO top ten but can't get close this year. Not sure why, is it the transfers? I keep sticking and twisting at the wrong moments.

Aye, I think I agree. We'll score goals vs the shite teams but I'm not convinced it's loads and Jackson has such great fixtures past spurs that I'm happy to take the hit for future gains and the ability to start sorting out my defence next week.

I just took a minus 4 to get rid of Isak for Jackson. This the yellow card thing is overblown cos at least you know when he'll get his christmas rest and change your team accordingly. I'm also having my worst ever FPL season, so I'd stay away from my advice.

I wouldn't might seeing Osula doing a bit of Isak's running. He seems very into the high press, not sure if we could play 2 up top, Isak roaming and Osula running down the CB's.

Aye, not taking hits has killed me twice in the last 4 weeks. Once to get Salah in his mega haul (got him on a FT the next week) and now not going Son > Saka last week has done me out of 16 points . Infuriating, all were planned but I didn't want to risk the 4 points

If you want to repeat yourself, feel free. I can't really argue against it. I think Isak plays in a far worse team than any of the other strikers mentioned as Elite in this argument, and I'd argue he'd put up exceptional numbers if he played for a top class team. I guess that's opinions, but I think it's definitely a factor.

I think you're ignoring similar barren patches of other elite strikers if you think he isn't currently elite. Haaland is undoubtedly in the bracket of best ever strikers to grace the prem, and he's having a nightmare in the PL at the moment. Lewa, Kane etc all have had barren patches. Kane was a notoriously slow starter in terms of goals scored for multiple seasons. None of these facts make them poor finishers, it's just a fact of life. No one is perfect.

I think Isak is an elite finisher personally. All faith in him finishing all but the most difficult chances. Going through a slightly wasteful patch atm but his confidence and composure in front of goal is top class.

I think we clearly went 4-4-1-1 until Gordon went off and then we went 4-4-2. Definitely a tactical switch. It was shocking, but it was clearly something different.

This is more the point. The narcissism is painful.

I don't think so. There's a large luck component, but the same people finish in the top 10 of the N-O league pretty regularly.