Sunday’s Dugout Discussion
Loosen the trousers – today we can look forward to a banquet of Premier League football to accompany the Sunday Roast. There are no less than five games coming up, starting with Blackburn’s local derby with Bolton at Ewood Park at 12pm. Aston Villa and Burnley kick-off a couple of hours later at Vlla Park, followed by Fulham vs Birmingham and Man City vs Liverpool at 3pm. The day’s proceedings are then brought to a bumpy end on the troubled surface at the DW stadium as Wigan host Harry’s Spurs at 4.15.
Dugout Discussion via our live chatroom will be open throughout. There will be two rooms open today, so you can choose your destination according to the “vibe”. You never know, we might see such a frenzy of points, we made need to cordon off a chill out room.
Need a lot of 0:0′s today!
I’m banking on Milner, Ade, N-Zog & Baird.
I’ll go with you on N-Zog & Baird. Villa for CS. Not too many points from Milner and Ade )
everyone has n’zgobia though so it doesnt matter, its like rooney. makes no difference
not quite mate, 14% as opposed to 50% of managers
30th >>> 31st
Hoping for a better Sunday / Monday
Hey guys.Going to spice up my defense for the final stretch.
Need some advice
Of these 5 defenders – Baird, Ivanovic, Ridgwell, Nelsen, Dawson
Which 2 would u get rid of?
Im thinkin Baird/Nelsen for Collins/Gallas(or Baines or Insua)
Thoughts
insua & baines
who would u get rid of from the 5 i have?
I replied below – sorry. Again for me Nelsen for sure because of GW 29 and most likely Baird because of the same reason.
And another point: I would wait until after Thursday to make transfers. This week I seen so many people make their transfers early and end up re-transferring some of those players again.
Cheers man, yeh im gonna hold out as long as I can ha!
a good point – I’d definitely wait till the results of the FA cup matches become clear
Need roddy to come good today
I will get rid of Nelsen myself just because of GW 29 which could be a nightmare. If Stote, Spurs and Villa all win it will leave a small set of teams to select from. If Bolton lose their FA cup game they will have a DGW?
Blackburn’s fixtures get considerably tougher from now aswell, I’ll be upgrading Olsson soon I think.
Nelsen was going for me last week, but Lamps injury forced me to keep him for 1 more week. He’s out for me, likely for an Everton defender at a guess – most likely Baines.
cheaper option need to get rid of evra, served me well but now its time…
Can you survive until after GW29? If not then look at Liverpool, Arsenal and Everton.
nah needs to go now, arsenal dont fancy got verm already thinking maybe carragher. Also worth getting on the bendy bus?-for roddy need to get shot of some wigan players, and its time to start now.
I didn’t buy the bendy bus yesterday and I’ve already been shown some ??? marks. Not sure.
me either if truth be told, however good differential in my league, can always bench him too, and frees up a bit of cash that desperatly needs to go into the midfield.
I’m getting Carragher for Ivanovic this week. Insua & Agger seem to be the more popular options, but both are under Rafatation (haven’t said that in a while!) threat considering Skrtel and Aurelio were first choice last season, and have been hampered by injury since. He’s also actually getting bonus points – 5 in 8 games.
Roddy seems bang out of form, and Arsenal’s fixtures are pretty attractive. Rodallega -> Bendtner seems like a sound move to me.
good man, cheers. Now just need to get through this GW with no further injuries and im laughing as ive got a plan!!!(how many bleeding times ive said that this season?)
ha! Pedersen just threw the ball in the bet!
*net
It should’ve counted! ive done scorecast 1-0 with MGP getting the goal.
I could do with Lee doing absolutely nothing today, so I don’t regret playing Bent isntead of him…
lee almost had an assist there…
If he had better players around him he’d do much better. Quite a few times this half he’s made passes or got into positions and nobody is thinking or moving as well as he is =/
Are arsenal players worth getting in next week or wait until the Burnley game?
I wouldn’t fancy arsenals chances too much at stoke
Bendtner he’s on fire!!!
kidding???
yes, but on the other hand he scored=on fire for him.
are we talking about a raging inferno, or lighting your own fart?
candle in gale force wind.
They are on form now. So if not now, when! Depends on who you are thinking about?
Their midfielders that are good FPL are limited now.
speaking as an Arsenal fan probably would be worth a shot getting in delap and then watching while arsenal defence stands in amazment everytime he takes a throw in. (similar to the drogba V arsenal defence phenomena)
ShawX will score a hat-trick against Arsenal…:))
Yeah, pretty worried about the Stoke game next weekend. Fuller’s got a decent record against us too.
aye think i lay of the bendy bus for now, hopefully get him in for the burnley game.
Nelsen struggling. the bell end
hes off. damn a terrible 1 point
what crap luck!
Nelsen going of
shite nelson off injured!
damn I’m probably going to have to make 3 transfers this week now to field 11 players!
I took 12 hit poits for this…GW, but so far dropped only 1 place in the world rankings…you never know…
yeah but from the players I’ve got, upcoming fixtures and players needing to be replaced, I don’t see them bringing in big points. I might just take a 4 point and field 10
Don’t know mate…will take 8 hit points for next GW as well…just to field 11.
Think it’s very important to have 11 players playing…
Of course assuming that the transfers are good…
okay what do you think to this, at present I’m contemplating
out; Tomkins, Etherington
in; Lee, Fox (both have a double coming up)
but could also do
out; Nelson
in; Distin or Rickets
I’ll wait to see if Bolton get knocked out the cup, and if so and their DGW is confirmed will lean towards Rickets in the short term
sound like a plan?
Sounds good to me…good to get one or two Burnley players with favourable fixtures…and Bolton/Everton player should give you a good return of points….
Only one thing – not so sure about defenders…
problem I’ve got is its cheap defenders I need to replace, and the only reason I’d look at those teams is because of the potential doubles
Then go for it…in this case I definately would…
At least I’m lucky that I was going to transfer him out this week anyway. But not happy that I’ve possibly lost 5 points now.
I hope Lee scores now
he’ll probably get some bonus points as well…
This game has the potential to usurp Sunderland Stoke as Worst Game of the Season 09/10
KALINIC!
Gutted having dropped him a few weeks back.. looks to be finding his feet.
MGP assist but i could be mistaken
you are right
kalinic goal
Who do people think will score most to end of seaon out of fab / lamp??????
Fabregas easily i would say.
fab
by miles.
Cesc, with the games Arsenal have coming up, and the fact Drogba seems to be getting all the points at Chelsea
no brainer – Fab…if fit of course…
Cesc without doubt
the cesc machine
Have f*cked up big styles not doing the switch this week, lamp selling price down fab buying price up!!!
That’s the way it goes sometimes. I got lucky, made the switch early during the gameweek to catch price rises: Lamp and Tev out for Drog and Fab … feeling quite smug about it now
i bet you are!!
I’m behind in my league so needed to take a risk. Could quite easily have been Fab who got a virus and Drogba who needed to go to Argentina to see his newborn. Then I would’ve been in all sorts of trouble
would be interesting if drogba went to argentina for birth of his child
Don’t feel so down. Look at all the people who made the mistake taking in Diaby early and had to make another. Who knows, Fabs could get injured Vs. Stoke and you will be smiling again. But I hope not.
Thanks for reminding me of that.
baaaaaaaaaaaam
Just relegate these 2 teams and be done with it.
blackburn do know how to win games though, they wont go down.
No, but that punt and hope style is depressing to watch. As a player, I’d refuse to do it.
how did bolton look in the first 1/2 half?
Impotent
they contributed well to a dire half of football
fair play, thanks guys!
I need them to be playing poorly so that Cohen can get his place in the team back for GW28 and GW29.
To Frank on fantasytools.co.uk
some strange happenings on the prize falls page, Lampard, Cole and Tevez have target ntis of 13m, 11m and 4m respectivly. Pretty sure thats not correct!
bridge-> vermaelin
valencia->pienarr
-4
what do you think? to field
hart
verm
dann
hughes
pienarr
lampard
fabregas
taylor
n zogbia
drogba(c)
bendtner
ta
Why not just do Valencia to Pienaar?
that was the plan til nelson injury, also gw29 in mind and arsenal and everton have the best upcoming fixtures…. otherwise would mean playing one of
nelson(inj doubt plus liv away)
wilkinson(red card)
or
bridge(away at chelsea drogba will score several imo)
Arsenal have Stoke away – not a given clean sheet.
And Nelsens injury does not look good
Taken from sportinglife :
48: News on Nelsen’s injury. The Kiwi has hyper-extended his knee, but Rovers won’t be sending him for a scan today. Nelsen is expected to be OK by next week.
I’d be surprised but I’ve been wrong before
Good news for Nelsen. Was coming out of my team this week though even before the injury.
nelson->carragher(good run)
valencia-> pienarr (good run)
-4
allows simply
bridge to anyone gw29 to field a decent 11 with no pt hit
like the look of this transfer – I might steal it
Any opinion on Burnley fixtures…was thinking to bring in Fletcher or Eagles…cheap as a chips, and might bring in some points as well…
GW28 – POR
GW29 – ars, STK
GW30 – WLV
GW31 – wig
GW32 – BLA
In GW 29 half of the teams might not even play…and Burnley will have 2…
I’ve brought in Fox so hope he stays in the starting XI for a not bad run of fixtures. Also, freeing up funds for the strike force of Drogba, Rooney and Torres.
Could be Portsmouth’s swansong too
Aston Villa: Friedel, Cuellar, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, Ashley Young, Milner, Petrov, Downing, Agbonlahor, Heskey
Subs: Guzan, Luke Young, Sidwell, Carew, Delfouneso, Delph, Beye
Burnley: Jensen, Mears, Carlisle, Cort, Fox, Eagles, Cork, Bikey, McDonald, Nugent, Fletcher
Subs: Weaver, Duff, Paterson, Elliott, Blake, Nimani N’galou, Thompson
bolton double sub on 59 mins……taylor & muamba off needed just 1mo minute!!
I reckon Coyle knows some1 in his mini league got em pair…..
nightmare
because they’ve player the extra minute of added time at the end of the first half, technically they’ve played 60 mins
MATT TAYLOR IS GETTING THE FCUK OUT OF MY TEAM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE HE IS REALLY P!SSING ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!
Very overrated player who Coyle doesn’t seem impressed with since he joined, one of the worst bandwagons I ever joined, I suppose at least he’s fit unlike David Dunn (who I still have for some reason)
I had him in my team at the start of the season and all he did was lose value so got rid long ago. Shame as he used to be a great ff budget player.
Does this count?
cum on burton – they not counting!!!
Has anyone heard how long Diaby is potentially out for?
Nelson you w**kbag!!
Is is better to do:
Scharner / Hughes > Insua (no hit)
or
Fletcher > Kuyt and Tevez > Bendtner or (4 point hit)
All aboard the Bendy bus then is it?
First stop – frustration.
First stop was a goal and 6 points yesterday wasn’t it? You just stick to Hugo I-haven’t-scored-this-year Rodallega!
Watch him score today
Or maybe that should read 
Rodallega was just for the dgw, no other reason.
Nice score mate – why didn’t you have a link to your team for so long?
Thanks. No particular reason really, didn’t want my comments to be judged on how well/poorly I was doing I guess
another option:
Fletcher and Modric > Kuyt and Whelan (4 point hit)
basically I am thinking kuyt higher priority that liverpool defender for short term….anyone agree?