GW2: Deadline 19:00 Friday 19th August

Payet dropped again?  

listed with a calf injury..may not play next week. How did you all fare on week 2? I did ok with 68 points.

Yeah, I see that. Well, he will be playing again soon. I'm doing changes on my team because I have no idea who the players are and who I bought before the games started. I don't follow Premier League. So, I'm changing things all the time. 

With the premier league kicking off on a Friday night, this weekend felt like it ended fairly quickly, so we can all enjoy a night down the pub on Monday to plot our next team selections

A recap of GW2’s shenanigans then..
With Pogback from his Pggban, Mourinho’s Manc Untidy’s first home game of the season saw some flashes of days of old, when buying the title was actually worth the money.
But it was freebie, Ibravonavenovic’s brace that secured all three points as the Old Trafford crowd raised the volume by chewing their prawn sarnies with their mouths open.
Saturday saw a striker-less Palace firmly take root at the foot of the league & Pep (it’s raining goals) Guardiola’s City take command at the top, thwarting all attempts from Mike Dean trying to get more camera time than Mark Clattenburg.
North of the London border, Watford took a surprise lead, but Conte (The Hairy One) brought on newbie Batshuayi who leveled things up. That just left it to Di(v)ego Costly, escaping yet another red card, to snatch a late winner.
Despite the Baggies taking an early lead against the Toffess, Koeman’s troops turned the game around, walking off with a 2-1 win & no, Lukaku IS NOT LEAVING them (yet).
At Turf Moor, Burnley were restricted to 19% of possession, yet still managed to take Liverpool to the cleaners before half time even arrived.
& shocking as that result was, not quite as shocking as Hull, who, with 13 fit players, a caretaker manager & turmoil in the boardroom, turned Swansea over at the Liberty Stadium fairly comfortably. So note that for your next visit to the bookies.
The Clattenburg game saw the champions take on Arsenal. Both teams still reeling from opening game defeats looking to get back to winning ways, but could only manage a gritty 0-0 draw where the only winner was the KP stadium’s crazy lawnmower guy..
Sunday saw the first derby of the season as Moyes’ boys welcomed Middlesbrough to a library-like Stadium of Light…. & promptly lost to them.
Then over to the ‘Lympic stadium for the Hammers PL debut in their rented home.
& it took 85 minutes of yawning for the tenants to unleash the bubbles against a feisty 10 man Bournemouth.
But one of the talking points from the weekend is the clamp down on Škrteling, with Mike Dean taking front stage, awarding 2 penalties for clear cases of Škrteling.
But I digress…

Back in the world of FPL, the tables were well & truly shuffled in GW2. BB&S take the week by 29points as IGM hold a 20 point lead overall.
& the standings as of this morning are…


The remains in Germany with Johnny Rev 7.0 ’s FC Bennweg-Zeis 1921  while this week's goes to The Roker Roar for a hefty 85 point haul which will take the edge of Sunderland’s defeat a bit. 

In the H2H BB&S win it with 21points  but, in the table, there are 9 teams all on 6 points. However, thesettles again with Johnny Rev 7.0 ’s
FC Bennweg-Zeis 1921. 
Current standings are

But, for those of you who recall last season, the table can change quite suddenly, as emilystrange will confirm as we had to prize the crown from her vice-like grip & clean all the chocolate finger prints off it as her long standing reign came to en abrupt end

So, back in the shed the pies (or what was left of them) went down a storm although one ended up on the roof which I believe scores a 7 on *The Rooney Scale™. I am told I have to remove said pastry in case it poisons one of the local pigeons, so if anyone can lend me a ladder I’d appreciate it.

That’s it for another week & it's starting to look like all teams are reaching match fitness. Thanks to everyone for dropping by for the chit chat & for playing. 
Now it’s over to Mav787 who is priming the smoke machine already on MyHeartland for GW3

*The Rooney Scale™
0- shot is on target
1- hits the post
2- hits the ad boards
3- front of terrace
4- back of terrace
5- off the upper deck
6- into the upper deck
7- on the roof
8- into car park
9- into adjoining property
10- hits overhead blimp
+1 modifier for going into the corner. +2 modifier for hitting the sidelines.

There's one in my garden.
I'll go fetch it

Congrats for your win over my team in H2H, cheesy cat.