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You know nothing Jon Snow.

not worth the investment on arsenal players anyway.

Keep an eye on him in pre-season. I'm not sure he's a better defender than Shawcross but he's a better footballer with him being a La Masia graduate who can carry the ball out of defence. That's what Hughes will want from his centre-back. Shawcross just likes to boot it up. If it wasn't for him, we'd play better football.

SSN???

may be something on thiago and rooney???

"We've got some knocks but they should be OK."

Get use to that over the course of the season. The most you'll get out of Moyes.

"We're considering making one or two bids for some players"
"There's a chance we might sell a couple at some point"
"I've got a cat in a box, it might be alive or dead"

That kind of thing?

Mannone.
Rat, Gabbidon, Rose.
Bale, Hazard, Cazorla, Mirallas, De Guzman.
Van Persie, Aguero.

This will do then.

They're quite expensive compared to FPL(Decent ones take up £5m of a £75m budget), so are even less worth it than in FPL, which you may get some value out of.

Cristiano Ronaldo: My future is with The Sugababes

Less boring?

They are essentially playing American Football anyway...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfEb-I_QSFA

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Yeah, maybe swap Suarez for Bellamy.

+Tevez

Haven't read this one but someone else posted a long one a while back convincing us using starts that using a WC early is more common as you look further up the rankings. With the top 1K having a huge margin of players WC'ing early.

haha, seriously I don't know the answer Parm but I won't be unless I have a dreadful start as I think it could be a huge benefit (although I squandered mine around gw12/gw14 last season).

The temptation to use it is huge every gw especially when you have a bad gw and a few players hit form together so it will take huge discipline to keep it. If you are not going to be able to keep it until the end or for weather postponements etc then you might as well play it early and increase value and get the early bargains in your team I guess.

Really? :O

How far wrong were they? o.O

Really Demi? Were they much out?

In any case the post should stand alone with deliberating the merits of early wc and the possibility of more dbl's or a treble gw due to this years truncated season.

A lot of comments on that thread seemed to either feel vindicated about playing the wc early each season or were seriously thinking about it as the better strategy due to the stats mentioned and I just didn't think they were getting the full picture hence this post (I've just been too busy until now to sit down and write it 🙁 )

I guess the point I was trying to make was although he won it he was one of only 60,000 or so in the top 100k that played their wc early and maybe it is a high risk strategy i.e. while all in on a pair of 2,2, in texas holdem against a whole table might sometimes come off it would not be recognised as the best strategy.

Kelvin (who came 2nd last season) didn't play his main WC till GW24, but still scored 118 in GW1 and was ahead of Matt (the eventual winner) most of the way. It wasn't his early WC that won it for Matt, it was his consistent good play and strong finish, making some better or luckier decisions compared with his rivals in the later part of the season.
Most champions in recent years have used their main WC in a DGW for multiple teams, but perhaps starting with a DGW in GW1 made 2012-13 a bit different.

Thats a pretty good reason to wc IF you don't have the right team. If it's a knee jerk because hazard scored a hattrick and you want him in your team then it's just a kneejerk the same as at any time in the season.

The thing I try to do is not look at overall rank until you hit gw10 as you should know by then how your players are performing (obviously you will have 10 transfers by then so you could have a whole new team) and if things are not working by then you could try and change tactics a little.

If you end up with a team where 3 or 4 of them are dropped and one or two are playing wrong positions etc then it might be wise to wc but I see a lot of guys in my mini leagues each wc just because they want the latest flash in the pan player in their team.

If its someone like hazard who is scoring well then i wouldn't bother trying to get him in but if you had say michu, fellaini, a couple of 4m defenders and a 4m gk at a top team as well as a great value mid at a top team that you hadn't spotted pre-season start then I would probably wc as these kind of players will be in your team for the whole season so you could be at a serious competitive dis-advantage if you have to pay a lot more for them. Other than such a scenario (which is highly unlikely) I will be trying my damndest to hold it for the run in this year.

Yep, that's not a bad idea. I tried to play it cute last year and not burn points and keep the WC. Whilst I made great use of the WC when I eventually played it (got me from 9000 to 2000 when i played it in GW34) my TV was awful all year.

I might do as you suggest, target the DGW1 and then spend to get rid of those DGWers in favour of the early bandwagoners.

Don't agree at all.

There is nothing stopping you building up a big tv without using the wc and in any case having the most expensive team doesn't always correlate to the most points. Often the bargains don't surface until gw 5 - gw 10 when you can see new managers and players have settled in and what formation the are sticking on. If you get players in based on first gw or two (wbrom def last year) then you could be stung once their form disappears.

If you get a run of gw's where you have dbl's confirmed coming up to the end of the season then having a wc to set your team up could be hugely beneficial.

The fact that you get to set your team up from gw1 should mean you don't need to wc early unless you pick a disaster of a gw1 team and also the point made above re having a dbl gw early on meaning you get the benefit of dbl gw and early price rises is wrong imo as the dbl gw's later in the year will involve a lot more than two teams and they usually the involve the top teams who have progressed farther in the cups.

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Who is wow, and why does he love Djokovic?

*to love

Yep, this is Carroll's season for me. It suits him being a big fish in a small pond and I expect him to recapture his beastly form at Newcastle.

Needlevor has forever tarnished the reputation of all Stoke fans on here 😀

I think Cornelius could be this season's Michu and Carroll will be back to his best. There's my two. That's my thinking regarding mids because they look defensive minded. Can't see Shelvey or De Guzman being permanent starters. It was hard to put 5 new signings in midfield.

Mate, they don't like us. We don't care.

However, I think the media and everyone else will start to enjoy our football under Hughes. This time, he has a proper squad of players to work with and no mercenaries. Still, I'm reserving judgement until after 6 games at least.

I looked at Luna but went for Okore because he was the more expensive one, so could be a guaranteed starter.
He plays too deep and will be rotated, so I doubt he's much value. just a replacement for Barry. Yaya is a better option.
Yeah and I don't know about the other one. Could be worth a punt.

Cheers.

I hope so. Surely playing in a team that dominate possession means more threatening dribbles down the touchline for Navas. High hopes for him.

I advise you to get Carroll in before he becomes a bandwagon.

As do I. I've been playing the game for 5 years now.

Do you know how to change your display picture?

André Schürrle

Just what we need another Arseman. No offence intended Arseman but more than one cynic is unnecessary.

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Mikel out
Marin, Romeu loan
Malouda, Benayoun released

We have: Mata, Hazard, Schurrle, Oscar, Bruyne, Lampard, Ginkel, Ramires, Essien.
we have a lots of matches compared to other teams.

Thanks and how to become a moderator?

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Not really a huge plunge though is it? For even the features already here, 12.50 is a tiny outlay...

I made some sample members articles from last season free to view...links are on this page...

http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/scout-member-benefits/

First members article of pre-season is likely to be this time next week.

I will happily pay to help the maintenance and running of the site. The stats and everything else you get are a waste of time

This

Always play 3 at the back.

...or bench him.

Unhelpful to make silly in-jokes when newcomers are looking for help

The numbers are up/down votes. Patrick's Demel comment was downvoted by a couple of people because it was unhelpful. The green and grey arrows under a poster's grav are the buttons you use to do that. As a rule, don't use them to agree or disagree with someone, but to mark a comment as something that others should read. Maybe you disagree but enjoy the ensuing discussion and think it's interesting.

I won't remark on individual posters; you'll figure that out soon enough 😉

Actually, one thing to be genuinely wary of on here is the tendency for fads and trends to set in as a sort of mob mentality. Some set of players/mentality can be proclaimed to be the gospel by a large group of people on here only for the whole trend to change the following week. The vast majority of advice is good, just be wary of these trends that develop.

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Hi, welcome to Fantasy Football Scout.

Worth noting that we don't encourage negative comments about other posters.

And the numbers signify reputation and whether people are more involved in the site such as moderators.

Enjoy the site, hope you find it interesting.

This last piece made a massive difference last season for me. Previously I would pick the occasional flamboyant captain on a hunch...massive mistake over a 38 game season. Pick RvP, Bale, Suarez etc.

Unless you have good hunches, in which case let us know 😉

I know 🙂 I'm dipping in and out and I did a double take at the scoreline when I last dipped in

well it looks more and more likely.

The question is, where would that leave Jelly?