Dugout Discussion

Saturday Dugout Discussion

We’ve only about two hours of Premier League football today, but with 14 teams in action it may well prove eventful. The Dugout Discussion opens it’s doors as team news from today’s seven games roll in…

Aston Villa XI: Given, Lichaj, Collins, Baker, Warnock, Gardner, Herd, Agbonlahor, Ireland, Bannan, Weimann.

Chelsea XI: Cech, Ivanovic, Luiz, Terry, Cole, Mikel, Lampard, Sturridge, Mata, Kalou, Torres.

Alex McCleish makes a total of six changes from last weeks defeat at Arsenal, and Gary Cahill drops to the bench for Chelsea.

Everton XI: Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka, Heitinga, Baines, Osman, Gibson, Fellaini, Pienaar, Cahill, Jelavic.

West Brom XI: Foster, Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Ridgewell, Brunt, Andrews, Scharner, Tchoyi, Long, Odemwingie.

Tony Hibbert and Phil Jagielka come in for Everton, replacing Phil Neville and Johnny Heitinga.

Fulham XI: Schwarzer, Kelly, Hangeland, Hughes, John Arne Riise, Murphy, Dembele, Ruiz, Dempsey, Duff, Pogrebnyak

Norwich XI: Ruddy, Ward, Whitbread, Ryan Bennett, Martin, Naughton, Fox, Surman, Howson, Hoolahan, Morison.

Danny Murphy and Bryan Ruiz return to the starting line-up for Martin Jol’s Fulham, whilst Norwich look set to play five at the back.

Man City XI: Hart, Richards, Toure, Kompany, Kolarov, Milner, De Jong, Toure Yaya, Silva, Balotelli, Dzeko.

Sunderland XI: Mignolet, Bardsley, Turner, Kilgallon, Colback, Larsson, Gardner, Cattermole, McClean, Sessegnon, Bendtner.

Vincent Kompany is back for Roberto Mancini’s side, and Matt Kilgallon and Jack Colback come in for the Black Cats.

QPR XI: Kenny, Onuoha, Ferdinand, Hill, Taiwo, Barton, Diakite, Derry, Taarabt, Mackie, Zamora.

Arsenal XI: Szczesny, Sagna, Koscielny, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Song, Arteta, Ramsey, Walcott, Rosicky, van Persie.

Laurent Koscielny is fit for the Gooners, and Aaron Ramsey replaces Gervinho. The hosts are without the suspended Djibril Cisse, and in comes Joey Barton.

Wigan XI: Al Habsi, Alcaraz, Caldwell, Figueroa, Boyce, McCarthy, McArthur, Beausejour, Moses, Di Santo, Maloney.

Stoke XI: Begovic, Wilkinson, Shawcross, Huth, Wilson, Pennant, Whitehead, Whelan, Etherington, Crouch, Walters.

Victor Moses is passed fit and starts for the home side, and Jermain Pennant in for Cameron Jerome is the only change for Stoke.

Wolves XI: Hennessey, Stearman, Johnson, Bassong, Ward, Kightly, Davis, Edwards, Jarvis, Ebanks-Blake, Fletcher.

Bolton XI: Bogdan, Ricketts, Ream, Wheater, Alonso, Miyaichi, Mark Davies, Reo-Coker, Petrov, Klasnic, Ngog.

Slyvain Ebanks-Blake is prefered to Kevin Doyle for Wolves and Ivan Klasnic starts up front alongside David Ngog for the visitors.

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  1. SetantaL
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Clint Dempsey Captain.

    Winning!!

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    1. Crazy Joe
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      Yep, 2 main rivals have RVP and Rooney captain so it's looking like a good start for me!

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  2. Nopli
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Demps ruining my dayyyyyy

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  3. fatherted
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Clinton assist

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  4. HappyAnkit
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Duff Goal Demps Assist.

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  5. Sheep Flavour
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Didnt Pog have a poor record at his last club before coming to Fulham?......come on lad do somthing for me 🙂

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    1. Smarty Pants
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      yes, he did

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  6. Le Gooner
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Two assists for points machine Dembele

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  7. udit
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Dempsey ... I

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    1. udit
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      Strange.

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    2. COMH
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      You're flying already!

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  8. Pat Mustard
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Well done to any Clint Captainers

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    1. udit
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      Thanks 🙂

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    2. Reedy
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      Ty 🙂

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    3. Up the Boro
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      cheers, was so close to changing to RVP this morning too!

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  9. The EJJ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    YES! It really shouldn't make me this happy 😀

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  10. HappyAnkit
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Demps can help me win my Europa Match easily. 🙂

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      same I need to win as heavily as possible, Dudu does not own Clint

      (oh and he took a 4 pointer which means I still have my 4 point head start)

      I didn't captain him as I bottled, plus I figured my main rivals don't own him, so anything he gets is a gain regardless

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      1. HappyAnkit
        • 12 Years
        12 years, 1 month ago

        My Europa Rival has 8 point Advantage over me.
        I own Demps while he owns Pog.
        Likewise I have Suarez & he has Gerrard.
        I hope Walcott just stays quiet.

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  11. Hazard267
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    and that why you captain dempsey

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  12. DV8R
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Took out Dempsey for Walcott

    Yay me

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    1. mouldy_uk
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      Very nearly did the same move, but didn't. Yay me 🙂

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    2. Pigvig
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      Last week Demps to Siggy. Not looking the best move now.

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    3. Enrique
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      idiot.

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  13. bmb100
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Come on Robin justify your armband...

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  14. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Dempsey ownd by 19.2% still... Damn

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    1. Hazard267
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      you but most people would of captained rooney or rvp plus there both owned alot more then dempsey is 🙂

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    2. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      Gotta assume pretty much everyone in the top 200 has him, so none of this points frenzy matters unless you have him (C).

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  15. COMH
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Sunderland the better team @ the Etihad. City are bottle merchants. United all the way!

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    1. HappyAnkit
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      C'mmon Man City!
      McClean 's Goal will be nice though.

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  16. samcro
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Fair play to the Clint captainers. I captained him for his hat trick so know how you are feeling; smug!!

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    1. Reedy
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      Fair play I missed out on that one!

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  17. Mílanista
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    New strategy for owning Dempsey:

    1) Sell before next gameweek
    2) Buy back in 4 gameweeks
    3) Repeat

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    1. Drip Doctor
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      Selling before Bolton away?

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      1. Mílanista
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        12 years, 1 month ago

        Are you familiar with the Dempsey 4 game rule?

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        1. Drip Doctor
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          12 years, 1 month ago

          Ah right, yeah, i get you now.

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          1. Mílanista
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            12 years, 1 month ago

            😀

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  18. A2U
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Extremely glad I didn't take Dempsey out a couple of weeks ago, but maybe a bit disappointed I didn't have the cahones to captain him over RVP

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      +42

      My logic was sound though, my main rival doesn't have him.

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  19. Call Me Old Fashioned
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    My rival took out Dempsey 2 weeks ago, phew!

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      so did mine.

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  20. Spoiler
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    providing dempsey is doing well, anyone else planning to shift before gw 34?

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 1 month ago

      I planned on dropping him for Sess in GW34. He can't score with no match and his DGW is 2 away matches

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  21. Sheep Flavour
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    QPR Zor free header...misses.

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  22. Park the bus
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Rival 1 has Dempsey, Rival 2 has thrown me by playing WC - assumed he had played it. Struggling to take this all in with an absolute monster of a hangover. FPL is burning me out!!!

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  23. Nopli
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Cmon Wacott

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  24. Jinswick
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Meh, Dempsey (vc)

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  25. Sheep Flavour
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    EFC 1 (Osman) WBA 0

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  26. COMH
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Osman goals. Jelavic assist

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  27. Mílanista
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Osman goal, Jelavic assist

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  28. Hate that rotation
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Osman goal

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  29. Parm
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    OSMAN GOAL, JELLYFISH ASSIST!!!!!!!!!1

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  30. Nopli
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 1 month ago

    Osman!

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