November
23

Moneyball – Jason Puncheon

Filed under: Members - Posted by: Chris Glover

This series has generally been engaged in looking for the “next prospect”, the unheralded and the unfashionable. This week, we’re going to go in a slightly different direction and re-examine someone who was first mentioned in these pages back in Gameweek 6, after which he was promptly benched to seemingly slip back into obscurity. As last weekend’s performance at QPR demonstrated, however, the underlying potential of Jason Puncheon was never in doubt: pitch-time looks to be the key factor in his prosperity as a Fantasy asset.

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  1. Thomass67 - GOOD LUCK TO TH…
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    best defence for coming weeks??????????????????????

    1. RVP4CPT
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      My three, in no particular order, are ??????, ??????? and ????

  2. berbatron
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    Shawcross Cuellar Enrique Clichy Bjones

  3. Darren Caskey
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    Best defender for 4.0 now? Not WC`ing until january.

    Clyne? Ben Davies?

  4. bigbraff
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    Any thoughts on Berba and Nolan out for Podolski and Puncheon?

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