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Pesam who were the other low key players you were bigging up? Pratley was one? Any other's? Might chuck them on my fantasy football team if cheap. Thanks.
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I've mentioned Ashley Williams (CB) quite regularly over the last few seasons and I think he'll prove easily upto EPL standard. Swansea have had the best defensive record in The Championship for the last 2 seasons primarily IMO because of him. They have now added another quality young CB on loan from Spurs, called Caulker, and I'm putting them both in my team because they're cheap and if my hunch that Swansea will be relatively tight at the back is correct then picking them both could double the return.
Also for Swansea, I think Danny Graham could score at least 10-12 goals and maybe more. Pratley will do well but I'm not 100% sure he'll be a regular starter at first - we'll see. I think I'm going to put Goodwillie in because he's impressed me over the last couple of seasons.
I'm just back from a 10 day piss up in the Czech Republic and only got to bed at 2am this morning so my brain is frazzled but as I think of more I'll add to this post during the day.
Craig Gardner & Jay bothroyd are two interesting ones............. after years of watching Bothroyd I still can't figure him out, he has power, technique and confidence in abundance but I'm not sure he has the brains for the Premier League and I think defences should figure him out. Gardner is like David Platt used to be and I suppose David Dunn is (or was when he was younger) in that he's a midfielder who scores goals but if you take his goals away there's nothing else - I don't think Gardner's good enough for the EPL but if he plays he'll almost certainly score goals.
Gareth McAuley is a CB signed by WBA (from Ipswich) and although it's hard to make a case for WBA keeping too many clean sheets McAuley usually pops up with 5 or 6 goals per season and many assist because at 6'7'' he wins everything in the air.
I wouldn't bother with Chris Eagles of Bolton. I saw him many times at Burnley and he plays one good game (albeit very good) every 5 games.
Connor Wickham i haven't seen enough of to judge but i reckon he'll be too expensive (on Fantasy football) to be worth the risk.
Anthony Pilkington (norwich) is definitely woth a risk, he'll probably be cheap and could get 7 or 8 goals with a lot more assists. Similarly Elliott Bennett (also Norwich) could be a good investment but I'm not sure he'll start too regularly at the start of the season
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Thanks, something to think about anyway.