My policy for COMMENTS

I'm still a little unsure how to proceed on this, so I might well amend this later when I have a clearer idea if allowing commenting here might be productive for anyone. (All moot at the moment, since I have no readers yet anyway!)

However, I think I will allow comments only on selected posts - where a variety of opinions from other Fantasy Premier League enthusiasts might be illuminating.

And I will ask for, and strictly enforce, basic standards of coherence, relevance, and civility.

Unfortunately, the community of FPL managers does seem to attract an awful lot of dingbats, berserkers, and haters; and I don't want people like that running amok around here.

 And, alas, I fear the modern obsession with ultra-short-format social media exchanges is wrecking everyone's literacy levels and attention span!

Sorry, but I am only going to allow comments that have something useful and relevant to say, give clear reasons for their positions, and use reasonably full and correct sentence structure. Anything else will be deleted.

So, readers (if I ever get any) will be welcome to contribute from time to time in the 'Comments' (on certain posts, at least) - but please make the effort to write properly.

And any kind of abuse or disparagement - of me, or anyone else - is, of course, not going to be tolerated. 

You are all welcome to disagree with me. But please express your dissenting opinions politely, and give reasons.

That is all...

My aims for this blog

I really don't know if my musings here will attract much attention. And I don't care very much. 'Fame and glory' are not my things.

I decided to try writing some pieces here primarily because I like writing. And I also enjoy thinking about Fantasy Premier League. So, this blog provides an opportunity for reflection, a pretext for reviewing my own learnings from playing the game over the last several years, and perhaps an aid to getting my thoughts well in order and finding some new insights for the season ahead.

Over the past year-and-a-half or so, I have dipped in and out of a number of online FPL forums, mostly on Facebook; and I have found that quite diverting, and occasionally enlightening. During lulls of no work and drab weather (rather too frequent lately!), these online forays have threatened to become a bit of an addiction for me - and I try to impose lengthy spells of abstinence on myself so that I don't fall too deep into that mire.

But quite a few of the regular posters I've encountered on those pages - many of them still relatively inexperienced in the game; or, like me, struggling with being in a distant country without ready access to good football coverage and prompt team news updates - have been very appreciative of my comments. Some  have sought me out specifically for further advice; a few have even PM'ed me, begging me to become their FPL 'mentor' (sorry, never going to happen). And, you know.... it is kind of nice to feel wanted and appreciated like that, to start to believe again that you might actually be useful to someone, just once in a while..

So, although I won't be obsessively checking my traffic stats to track the size of my 'following' (I wouldn't be surprised if it remains forever limited to two or three old buddies in my mini-league....), and although I have no goals or expectations for building a large audience here... I do have the modest hope that gradually some handfuls of people may find their way here.... and find at least some of my pieces interesting and helpful.

Let us see. Fingers crossed!

I am preparing a long-ish post (it might have to be cut into two instalments!) on 'Choosing an initial squad'' - which I hope to be able to post in a day or two.  Keep an eye out for it!  

(And if you have somehow found your way here within days of this blog's launch - WELCOME!)