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Dugout Discussion January 1

Tuesday Dugout Discussion

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Seven Premier League matches ease us into 2013, starting with West Brom’s Hawthorns clash with an ailing Fulham outfit. That’s followed by a string of three o’clock matches, with both City and United in action.

Robin Van Persie will sport the armband for many when he faces up to Wigan at the DW Stadium, while City will be looking to blow down the stubborn Stoke barrier at the Etihad. The Swansea teamsheet for their encounter with a porous Villa defence will be keenly anticipated, with Michu due to undergo a fitness test to decide if he can take pot-shots at Brad Guzan. Arsenal, with Theo Walcott expected to be in the striker’s role once again, round things off with their trip to Southampton for the evening kick-off.

Our Dugout Discussion chatroom is now open to hoover up the emotion as the day progresses and already, the early team news is in from the Hawthorns:

Steve Clarke makes five changes from the side that slumped to a 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford. Youssouf Mulumbu returns after a hamstring knock to take his place alongside Chris Brunt in the Baggies’ double-pivot, while the West Brom boss changes all four of his offensive players. Marc-Antoine Fortune, James Morrison and Zoltan Gera replace Graham Dorrans, Markus Rosenberg and Peter Odemwingie in the attacking midfield three, and Romelu Lukaku gets the nod over Shane Long as the lone forward.

West Brom Starting XI: Foster; Jones, McAuley, Tamas, Ridgewell; Mulumbu, Brunt; Fortune, Morrison, Gera; Lukaku.

For the visitors, Martin Jol makes a single alteration as Alex Kacaniklic replaces Kerim Frei on the left flank. Mark Schwarzer and Damien Duff fail to recover from neck and calf problems, while Matthew Briggs is preferred to John Arne Riise at left-back again.

Fulham Starting XI: Stockdale; Riether, Hangeland, Hughes, Briggs; Dejagah, Karagounis, Sidwell, Kacaniklic; Ruiz; Berbatov.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. kimoo
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    bench berba for michu 🙁 🙁

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  2. Back on the horse
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    refreshes to see latest score. hang on why hasn't O'brien cs gone?! did he come off early?

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    1. Gaz Downright
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      es tu horse?

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      1. Back on the horse
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        ha- innocently got him in last week due to Rafa inj.

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  3. Tim Canterbury
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    All the RVP losing his assist talk is from non-RVP captainers who are crying. it wont happen

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    1. Captain Berbarossa - arrrrr…
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      absolute stonewall assist. Just bitterness from non-RVP captainers.

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  4. theirishheskey
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    hernandez on the bench
    life isn't fair 🙁

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    1. COMH
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Just start him then.

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  5. Live4pool
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    already feared that aguero's price could explode till GW23, but now he will get flagged right (which stop people from buying him)?

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  6. United13
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    47 from 5. Baines, Ceullar, Fellaini, Caz, Walcott and Ba left to play.

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    1. tajulariff
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      27 currently. Walcott, Giroud, Gibbs, Cuellar, Pienaar, Torres (C) to play.

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      1. United13
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Good luck mate!

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        1. tajulariff
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 5 months ago

          same to you. i was reluctant to (C) RVP as he never scored more than 1 goal since the hattrick against SOU. quite regret about it but i think Torres will do some favor to me.

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  7. FORCA INTER
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    i must be honest and say that i am very delighted with no atacking returns from Michu

    2manny people got him and when he deliver it always cost me my overakl rank

    having say this i might break in top 1k today for the first time ever in my fpl history 🙂 🙂

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    1. The EJJ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Grats.

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    2. Parm
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      He's cost my overall rank...

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    3. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      +5675475666666666666666666666 Forca

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    4. Chu Young Ping Pong
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      I never had him as well and I don't think I ever will!! Unless he drops to 7.5m or something..

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  8. ItsAKrulGame
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Mert not starting. 🙁
    Left with 9 this gameweek.

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    1. chocolove
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      cruel game

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  9. Nighthawk
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    FPL should add a feature that allows you to swap the armband to your vice-captain. It would cost a -4 point hit regardless of if you stick or twist, and the option to enable this feature has to be selected before the deadline passes.

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    1. Chazza
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      No, they shouldn't. Just choose who you think will score the most points in the first place!

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    2. Miracallas
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Did you not captain RVP, by any chance? 🙂

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    3. dribbler
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      nice idea but they'd never do it...this game is ultra-popular because it's easy to understand

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    4. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Would ruin the game. Suck it up.

      (I didn't (C) him either btw).

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    5. isacki: full casual
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Kind of defeats the objective of captains and vice captains, and generally wary of suggestions made out of personal inconvenience, I mean if I had my way, stoke defenders would be banned from the game

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    6. Parm
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      I would like this 😀

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  10. Beamer
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Is Clark suspended for the next game against villa?

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    1. Beamer
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Against Southampton*

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    2. Billy Gilmore
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      No, but he's injured isn't he?

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      1. Billy Gilmore
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Stayed on, maybe not injured then.

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        1. Beamer
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 5 months ago

          He played 90 minutes... Not sure if he's injured

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          1. Billy Gilmore
            • 11 Years
            11 years, 5 months ago

            Na, I don't think he is, someone posted that but it was probably just a knock.

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    3. chocolove
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      no i think. before 31des 2012 for the tightrope

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  11. Timmy Cahill Rules
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Time has come for me to get RVP

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    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      good thing your WC is active

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    2. Bad Pen
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      The time to get him was the start of the season 😉

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    3. chocolove
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      14M 🙄

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    4. Mílanista
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      After all your posts slating teams with RVP 🙄

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    5. Tim Canterbury
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      and gone. long gone

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  12. Call Me Old Fashioned
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    1 or 2, both options have Pog.

    1 - Evans, Nolan, Aguero
    2 - Nastasic, Fellaini, Suarez
    3 - 4.9 DEF, Fellaini, Aguero

    Potential WC team

    Bunn, Begovic
    Cameron, Davies, 4M, Sagna, X
    Michu, Walcott, Mata, Bale, X
    RVP, Pog, X

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    1. Chazza
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      2

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    2. Parm
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Evans, Fellaini, Suarez.

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      1. Call Me Old Fashioned
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Cant afford by smallest of margins

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        1. Billy Gilmore
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 5 months ago

          Get Harte, for the 4M?

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          1. Call Me Old Fashioned
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 5 months ago

            Can have Azpilicueta, Fellaini, Suarez

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    3. -Matador-
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Aguero, Fellaini, Zaba/Cole

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      1. Call Me Old Fashioned
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Short of money there again

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  13. Optimus.
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    going to w/c after game..want bale and need to lose young/clyne/hughes/nastisic/demel

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  14. JapBen
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    If Walcott scores 6+ I should have done what I almost did but now can't afford - Michu to Walcott for a hit

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  15. kobebeef
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Any website that gives the quickest managers post match interview? Cheers

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    1. Hello. Yes, This is Dog
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      skysports probably

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    2. dribbler
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      whatever floats your boat but i don't care if i never hear an interview of a manager ever again

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  16. Live4pool
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    martin r. on my bench & i sold benteke last week
    but still got 47 so far with sagna, johnson, walcott, mata, suarez, lambert left

    if mata is benched tomorrow, could you see him staying there?

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  17. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Fcking Clark falls off tightrope.. As well as being in a shite team. I have more pressing issues so he will be worthless by the time I play my WC... 🙁

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    1. Billy Gilmore
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      It's the new year, he's not suspended.

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      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        I knew that..... 😳

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      2. Billy Gilmore
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Unless he managed 6 yellows in that game 😉

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    2. Parm
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      ?

      10 yellows now.

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      1. Rafabio
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Yes extended to 10 at the turn of the new year,

        http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/suspensions

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    3. The Light Knight
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Nice win for Rovers today though. Big Eck having an impact already 😉

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      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Haha, glad Forest snapped him up before we got any silly ideas 🙂

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        1. The Light Knight
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 5 months ago

          Matrix style bullet dodging 😆

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    4. blue cheese
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Eh? I thought the limit was reset to 10 overnight?

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    5. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Ignore me... Still hungover

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  18. Catastrophe
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    57 with Ba, Fellaini, Walcott, Luiz.

    All my rivals have Cazorla. Come on Theo...

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    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      link?

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  19. Tim Canterbury
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Lol someone on here earlier was saying they accidentally captained Suarez over RVP

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    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      happens to me all the time.

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  20. COMH
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Artur Boruc in goals. 😆

    Great news for Theo.

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  21. Yes Don
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    wildcard active. feels nice!

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  22. JJO
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    First touch after RVPs shot was outside the box...it cant be na assist..PERIOD

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    1. Tim Canterbury
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Did you captain Michu 😉

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      1. JJO
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        No i went with Ade

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    2. @FPLStrategist
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      But it deflected into the box. Clear assist.

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      1. Chu Young Ping Pong
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Rules are clear. "If after this touch, an opposing player touches the ball outside the penalty area altering the intended destination of the ball, then no assist is given, except if this intervention directly results in an own goal"

        He should lose the assist.

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      2. JJO
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        That doesnt matter..when Michu scored against Arsenal there was no assist cause Jenk touched it outside the box...

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    3. Pasqualinho
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      May have to watch it again - I thought the wall was inside the box, though.

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      1. JJO
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        No the wall was outside for sure..I just saw that

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  23. Chu Young Ping Pong
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    That Norwich goal still hurts...

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    1. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      I know, my sides still hurt from laughing...

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    2. Demí
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Yeah hurt me..

      ... realised after that O'brien had been subbed off though so the hurt went away.

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      1. Joga Bonito®
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Same.

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      2. Art Vandelay
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Same 😀

        Nice to be on the right side of that sort of thing for a change.

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    3. Optimus.
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      yep double CS lost at the death

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    4. The Light Knight
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      The West Ham goals hurt more 👿

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    5. NapalmDeath (Northern Chaos…
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Tell me about it. I thought my lack of Nastasic was going to be redeemed by the man Guy. Alas, it was not to be 🙁

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  24. Tim Canterbury
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Dont understand why anyone would own Demel over O'Brien

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    1. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      I''ve got him from GW1.

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    2. Optimus.
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      because maybe most had demel when o brien wasnt playing?

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    3. The EJJ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      .4 cheaper. Now you realise.

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    4. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      'Cos I've had Demel since week 1 and swapping like for like was never enough of a priority...

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    5. kaz 96
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      - demel owners have had him for a very long time now

      -he's cheaper

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    6. Pat Mustard
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      ...

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    7. Tim Canterbury
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      yeah but o'brien scores better points. its all about the points

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      1. Area16
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        I havent checked since GW1, but, no he doesnt.

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    8. chocolove
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      cheaper, i went for o'brien though

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      1. Konig Luther
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        lifeoffplmanager.tumblr.com/post/39061442390/when-your-4m-defender-score-a-goal

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    9. alsybach
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      says the bloke ranked 670 000th!!!!!

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  25. Sarnab
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Predictions for Arsenal vs sot game??

    Point predos for walcott and santi.

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    1. Specialist
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      2-2.

      8, 5.

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  26. Konig Luther
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    for those who used the Jan WC early last year:

    worth use early, or it is better use in the last week

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    1. Konig Luther
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      ???

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      1. dribbler
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        you'll get better replies if you use a gravatar and link your team

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        1. Konig Luther
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 5 months ago

          http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/2357248/event-history/21/

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    2. Hyperion
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      I used it in the last week but remember being gutted I didn't use it for GW22, missed out on about 50 or so. What I learned was if you have the other one in hand for later use, just get on and use it.

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      1. Konig Luther
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        i have another

        thanks....

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  27. Joga Bonito®
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    My main rival has zab and o'brien :(...

    But he doesn't have RVP 😀

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  28. Aditya K
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    RVP get the 3 bps PLEASE.

    http://lifeoffplmanager.tumblr.com/post/39322409533/when-your-captain-gets-3-bonus-points

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  29. Chu Young Ping Pong
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    If after this touch, an opposing player touches the ball outside the penalty area altering the intended destination of the ball, then no assist is given, except if this intervention directly results in an own goal.

    No assist for RVP.

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    1. Miracallas
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      I've captained him but there is no way that should be an assist

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      1. ItsAKrulGame
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 5 months ago

        Only saw the replay of the goal but wasnt the touch just inside penalty area?

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    2. Hyperion
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      The touch was inside the box.

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  30. Viper
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Come on Santi & Theo! 🙂

    So, we're expecting Ba to play tomorrow? He scored twice in the reverse fixture at Goodison..

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