The Suspension Tightrope – Devilish

The visit of former club Everton proved crucial for all the wrong reasons last night as Wayne Rooney toppled off the Suspension Tightrope. United’s main man delivered no more than a yellow card for his growing legion of Fantasy owners and subsequently earned himself a one-match ban, having picked up five cautions for the campaign:

Rooney now misses Saturday’s home game with Newcastle as David Moyes attempts to recover from the defeat to his former club and with Robin Van Persie still a real doubt, the United boss has plenty of issues up top against the Magpies.

Jonas Olsson is also set for the weekend off as West Brom prepare to welcome Norwich to The Hawthorns. The Baggies centre-half also earned his fifth booking of the season in last night’s home loss to City – an ever-present this term for the midlands outfit, his absence is set to give Diego Lugano or Craig Dawson a rare start alongside Gareth McAuley at centre-half.

West Ham’s Ravel Morrison also sits on the naughty step this weekend as his side head to Anfield. The former United midfielder picked up his fifth yellow for pushing Palace’s Joel Ward in the face in Tuesday evening’s loss at Selhurst Park – his owners will at least be relieved to hear Morrison will receive no further punishment for his behaviour and is available for the Gameweek 16 clash against Sunderland.

Two players clamber onto this week’s Suspension Tightrope after picking up their fourth cautions of the season. The culpable duo in question are Southampton’s Jose Fonte and Sunderland midfielder Jack Colback – if they collect another yellow in the next six Gameweeks, they will trigger the automatic one-match ban. Newcastle’s Mathieu Debuchy now moves onto six bookings after falling foul of the referee’s wrath in last night’s defeat at Swansea.

Elsewhere, Palace winger Yannick Bolasie serves the last of a three-match ban at home to Cardiff this Saturday. In terms of returns, Hull welcome back Curtis Davies for their trip to Swansea after the centre-half missed last night’s 2-0 loss at the Emirates, while West Brom’s Youssouf Mulumbu and United’s Phil Jones are also available for home games against Norwich and Newcastle respectively.

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TorresMagic™
10 years, 4 months ago
What happened with all the Ashes cricket talk. Pretty quiet so far.
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1. Scottys Army
  10 years, 4 months ago
  That tends to happen when england are losing ......
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2. Thomass
  10 years, 4 months ago
  I'm listening to the sky ashes podcast 😉
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3. The Enlightener
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Crickets chirping......
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Mojo Rojo
10 years, 4 months ago
Barkley > Brunt worth a hit?
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1. Misery likes Kompany
  10 years, 4 months ago
  nope. I personally think Barkley will experience a resurgence.
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  1. The Enlightener
    10 years, 4 months ago
    That's a bit wishywashy. Nothing to signal that Barkley will turn it around soon. The lad has skills, but there's just something missing. Something with his focus. Not sure I can put my finger on it.
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2. Jackson123
  10 years, 4 months ago
  I like that move but definitely not for a hit.
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3. Mojo Rojo
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Cheers lads... Will hold
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Mr F Gallagher
10 years, 4 months ago
Why is there so much talk of getting rid of Rooney? He's banned for one game. 1 game!
Next 4 are: Avl (a) Whu (h) Hull (a) Nor (h)

Based on fixtures, I'd be more tmepted to lose Aguero over Rooney.
What say you?
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1. isacki: full casual
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Yeah there is that. City are doing considerably better than United though, and the budget freed up could get you a whole bunch of points.
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  1. Mr F Gallagher
    10 years, 4 months ago
    I've not got Rooney yet and am keen to get him for giroud. Involves making changes elsewhre but do you think Lukaku is a better bet up top with Aguero and suarez?
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    1. isacki: full casual
      10 years, 4 months ago
      Think so yes. Score similar points and much cheaper. Has potential to absolutely explode.
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2. Cruizer van Nistelrooy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  They jz want a reason to get lukaku,n its difficult to break suarez-aguero strike duo
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3. Efan Ekoku Pops
  10 years, 4 months ago
  If RVP is back in the team soon, it could well affect Rooney's points returns. Plus, United aren't playing as well as City at the moment.
  
  For me it comes down to which is the better combination: Rooney + Lallana, or Lukaku + Hazard?
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  1. money face bandwagon
    10 years, 4 months ago
    haha whether rvp will affect rooney remains to be seen although definitely rvp will share freekick n peno..we can see that rooney is scoring points despite united not doing well. and personally i feel tt it depends on how to spread the cash arnd..finding an inform hazard+lukaku cfm will win any combo..but ventongen+lukaku and ward+rooney may not have that much difference alr
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Thomass
10 years, 4 months ago
Would you take -8 point hit for Walcott, ravel and Rooney to hazard, Lampard and Lukaku
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1. Heydudes13
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Do you not ever have a bench? Such ludicrous hits all the time.
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  1. Thomass
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Yes
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    1. Heydudes13
      10 years, 4 months ago
      So you're bringing in Hazard, fair enough. Really want to risk bringing in Lampard who could be potentially benched for a hit when you already have Chelsea cover? Just play Cabaye or someone else over Ravel and leave him on your bench.
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      1. Thomass
        10 years, 4 months ago
        Yeah, but lamps has started the last 11/14 games
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2. TorresMagic™
  10 years, 4 months ago
  http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/6167764
  http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/6167911
  
  Guess 10 minutes is really 1 hour?
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  1. Kudo Warrior
    10 years, 4 months ago
    :d
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3. Cruizer van Nistelrooy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Walcott n ravel yes..keep rooney
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Dogba
10 years, 4 months ago
Do we have ANY news on Vlaar whatsoever? The only thing I can find is that he was subbed at HT, not much about why?
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1. 7shadesofsmoke
  10 years, 4 months ago
  calf complaint, awaiting news on how serious i believe.
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2. Misery likes Kompany
  10 years, 4 months ago
  calf complaint i heard. they said they would see if he is available for fulham but I would get rid, personally. villa's clean sheet blitz is over (villa fan talking)
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  1. 7shadesofsmoke
    10 years, 4 months ago
    woah, stop the bus.
    
    Another Villa voice here. I don't see why we should write off Villa clean sheets. We still have favourable fixtures and the team were excellent until we had to replace Vlaar with Lowton at CB for the 2nd half.
    
    If Vlaar returns to fitness, he's a great value option in my opinion.
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    1. Lanley Staurel
      10 years, 4 months ago
      I was at St Marys last night and Villa were completely outplayed and lucky not to be 3 nil down in 20 mins. You mugged Saints with 3 break away goals and your strategy worked. Having seen you play though I would not recommend a defender from Villa.
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3. Dogba
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Thanks all, sorry for the late reply! Will probably ditch him tomorrow.
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Jönny
10 years, 4 months ago
Afternoon chaps. Anyone else thinking about dropping Ozil for Hazard for the next few weeks?

Thinking about using my two frees this week to also ship Yanga for Ward, to give me:

Mignolet
Walker Ward Johnson
Hazard Ramsey Sess Brady
Aguero Suarez Lukaku

Camp Koscielny Rat Dikgacoi (1.4m in the bank)

Any thoughts? Or should I maybe sort out the big white elephant on the bench that is Dikgacoi, instead of Yanga? Would allow me to bench Brady this week instead, if I played Koscielny.

Muchas gracias amigos...
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1. Misery likes Kompany
  10 years, 4 months ago
  yeah sort your bench at christmas
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  1. Misery likes Kompany
    10 years, 4 months ago
    sorry that's rather confusing. i mean sort your bench now.
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    1. Jönny
      10 years, 4 months ago
      Yeah I get ya. So I guess Yanga is the priority, since he's not playing.
      
      I guess the alternative is to hang onto Ozil this week and do Yanga and Dikgacoi -> Ward and [Pozuelo/Bannan/Kacaniklic/A.N. Other]
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2. Red20
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Was considering Ozil -> Hazard,
  
  After some thinking I think I've narrowed it to Brady-> Bannan or Clyne -> Chester and Nasri -> Hazard
  
  I planned to get Hazard this week but Nasri's two goals lured me into a false sense of assurance!!
  
  Resulted in Red Arrows galore from a score of 93.... Who'd have thunk it!!
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Matt
10 years, 4 months ago
I'm really not sure what to do with my team...

Migs Lewis
Dawson McAuley Burner Chester Vlaar
Ozil Ramsey Yaya Barkley Morrison
Suarez Kun Lukaku

0.3 in the bank
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1. A.T
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Save your transfer
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FAITHNOMORENO
10 years, 4 months ago
rooney -> lukaku?
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Tony Yeboah
10 years, 4 months ago
in the last 5 gws my rank has gone 71k-69k-59k-65k-69k.....talk about average scores every week......cant move on up!!!!!!
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1. TorresMagic™
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Be happy to have that rank.
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2. 7shadesofsmoke
  10 years, 4 months ago
  what sort of rank did you set your sights on at the start of the season?
  
  I finished outside the top 400k in my first season so i hoped to half it this year. Had a good run so i moved my sights to the top 100k, then again to top 50k.
  
  Id be very happy if i can maintain that, but it all comes down to your personal target i guess.
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  1. The Enlightener
    10 years, 4 months ago
    I always want to win the whole kit and kaboodle. Guess that's just my nature though. I'm ultra-competitive when I get into something. If not for a few stupid punts that didn't pay off, I'm having a pretty good season. Still sub 200K. I am forecasting some green arrows over the festive period.
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  2. Tony Yeboah
    10 years, 4 months ago
    ive played 5 season and never finished worse than 134k with an average finish of 76k so am lookin to beat my average finish this year......im happy with my current rank but find it amazing that over 5 gws my rank has only moved in a range of 12k
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    1. 7shadesofsmoke
      10 years, 4 months ago
      fair play mate, i think i'd be a little frustrated in your position. Decent record you're putting together there!
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Arsenals Number 19. Santi C…
10 years, 4 months ago
A) Townsend to Silva

or

B)Giroud to Rooney and Townsend to 6.8 < (would be done after this gw)

Thanks
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Scottys Army
10 years, 4 months ago
Lampard now an option again ?

On Pens and seems to be on a roll scoring points

Essien out of favour as well after blunder v saints,
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1. Misery likes Kompany
  10 years, 4 months ago
  yeah lamps has served me well the past few gameweeks. still not positive i would get him in. Hazard?
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  1. Scottys Army
    10 years, 4 months ago
    For me its either
    
    Rooney and Whits
    
    or
    
    Luk / Remy and Lamps
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2. isacki: full casual
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Lampard's started 11/14 games and played in all. CL was the cause of the some of the rotation too and that's kind of over now with Chelsea having already qualified. I'm considering.
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  1. Thomass
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Thanks mate check your mails in 2mins
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rozzo
10 years, 4 months ago
is barkley to shelvey a good idea? need room for lukaku so have to offload barkley
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andres
10 years, 4 months ago
Who should I drop (2 players) to do sess to a heavy hitter next week?

Migs davis
Walker merte williams (coleman chester)
Hazard sess lallana rambo (jedinak)
Lukaku suarez kun
0.3, 2FT
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Lao Tzu
10 years, 4 months ago
Brady out for...

A) Brunt
B) Bannan
C) Redmond
D) Shelvey
E) Other (6m or less)
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1. Sarnab
  10 years, 4 months ago
  D
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@ocprodigy
10 years, 4 months ago
Contemplating Benteke > Lukaku for a hit, although it seems hasty (esp with such a tasty fixture for Benteke). Problem is if Benteke doesn't start, and Sessegnon doesn't start, I'm down to 9 outfield players...Would you?
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1. Red20
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Form over Fixtures.
  It's working well for me. I let myself down putting off my Hazard Transfer this week.
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2. Misery likes Kompany
  10 years, 4 months ago
  tekkers still looks like he's not fully fit to me (cue hattie)
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Bubz
10 years, 4 months ago
If Baines was fit, it would be pretty norty having a Suarez, Negrado, Lukaku front 3, allowing for not only a 3 big hitting mid midfield (Hazard, Gerrard, Silva/Walcott), but a defence of Evra, Coleman, Baines. Could see that scoring very good points and quite differential. Of course all this is hypothetical.
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1. A.T
  10 years, 4 months ago
  It's what I'm planning for, an early return. Baines, evra and Ivan till jan. Hoping Ivan/Chelsea can turn it around.
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Snikiii
10 years, 4 months ago
After West Ham Suarez has
TOT (A)
Car(H)
City (A)
Chelsea(A)
I am actually considering losing him for a differential, his run needs to stop at some point doesnt it?
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1. Cruizer van Nistelrooy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Atm he can score against anyone..except against hull 😯
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  1. Misery likes Kompany
    10 years, 4 months ago
    yeah sorry, but tranferring him out is suicide in my opinion.
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2. The Sarjeant
  10 years, 4 months ago
  It's Suarez...
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  1. Snikiii
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Its Liverpool
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    1. The Sarjeant
      10 years, 4 months ago
      So?
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    2. The Sarjeant
      10 years, 4 months ago
      What's wrong with Liverpool anyway?
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      1. Snikiii
        10 years, 4 months ago
        They have not performed in the big games
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3. FAITHNOMORENO
  10 years, 4 months ago
  he never stops buddy.
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isacki: full casual
10 years, 4 months ago
Getting Lukaku this week is tricky. Arsenal have been a lot tighter than I have been used to; the passing game protects us, our pressing is underrated, and Mert and Kos have been in very good form. Not as many errors as last year. Are Everton the sort of team that could ruin our clean sheet or more? They do kind of play our game and have a beast up front to unsettle us physically, something which usually we don't take too well.
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1. isacki: full casual
  10 years, 4 months ago
  McCarthy and Barry are a solid base for Mirallas/Deulofeu, Barkley, Pienaar and Lukaku to attack from with freedom. Also they pose a lot of threat down the wings with Coleman and Baines/Oviedo, an area where I think we could be vulnerable with our wingers not being good defenders.
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  1. Eboue
    10 years, 4 months ago
    I think we'll win but concede. Lukaku can snatch a goal out of anything, plus both teams may be fatigued so chances will drop up at both ends.
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    1. isacki: full casual
      10 years, 4 months ago
      Yeah possibly. Initially I thought it was going to be a tight, tense, low scoring game with Arsenal looking to grind their way to victory. Not sure now.
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2. Cruizer van Nistelrooy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Everton has a few players that are difficult to predict eg. Deloufou, oviedo, mirallas..credits to martinez as he has instill an attacking style of play but continue the good defensive works by moyes..i think its going to be a high scoring match
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  1. isacki: full casual
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Hope so, with Arsenal winning 😉 In these kind of games with great attack and defence it's hard to see which will win.
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Gr3g
10 years, 4 months ago
I love how everyone is trying to find a "reason" to make Rooney -> Lukaku switch, which I think is a week premature 🙂
Yes, Rooney will miss next game but Lukaku is playing against Arsenal, both have a good schedule but once you make the switch is done and remaining money spent elsewhere there will be no way back 🙂
Please continue selling Rooney! I need to catch on OR
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1. The Enlightener
  10 years, 4 months ago
  There's always a way back if you really decide you need a player.
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  1. The Enlightener
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Plus, Lukaku will score against Arsenal. Mark my words.
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  2. Gr3g
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Yes, there's. Few hits or wait for Jan WC. With all the rotation, injuries etc. there will be more pressing transfers in coming weeks
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    1. The Enlightener
      10 years, 4 months ago
      The argument of keeping Rooney is also a good one. It's one of those things where you just have to decide one or the other and then amend if needed moving forward.
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    2. isacki: full casual
      10 years, 4 months ago
      Rooney is a pressing transfer out this week to be fair though, as you go 2 strikers without him and midfielders are shite.
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2. JK - Cønt ⭐
  10 years, 4 months ago
  There is a wc 😛
  
  It may be a week premature, but there is no point holding Rooney through a blank week only to sell him the week after. sell him now, or don't sell him at all.
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Xavi Iniesta
10 years, 4 months ago
Will Walcott start vs Everton?
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1. TorresMagic™
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Wouldn't bet on it.
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JK - Cønt ⭐
10 years, 4 months ago
@ Scotty's Army

a) Look at Lukaku's fixtures, they're good till pretty much the end of the wc window, then you'll be able to re-asses

b) I'm also considering a Hazard, Lampard double-up. Lamps is one of Jose's faves and I agree with the points Isacki made about his rests, the CL is done for Chelsea until Feb/March as they won their group. Plus if you have both, you're pretty much covered for Chelsea set-pieces
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1. Scottys Army
  10 years, 4 months ago
  True mate great points
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2. Misery likes Kompany
  10 years, 4 months ago
  not a bad shout.
  lampard resurgence more to do with formation change than champs league rests in my opinion. i don't think he will play every fixture over Crimbo.
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  1. isacki: full casual
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Cool interesting, so what are they playing now? A 4-3-3 with Lampard as the most advanced midfielder? Seems to change from week to week
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3. The Enlightener
  10 years, 4 months ago
  I just made moves yesterday to do the Lamps and Hazard double-up. Am stoked about it, especially against Stoke. Crystal Palace to follow as well.
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1-1 at Newcastle
10 years, 4 months ago
What's the news on RVP?
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1. Xavi Iniesta
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Had a falling out with Moyes.
  
  RVP suggested that Moyes buy some hair dye as he doesn't like ginger hair. It didn't go down too well.
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Sarnab
10 years, 4 months ago
Giroud > Lukaku this week??

Or next week?
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1. drunken_mess
  10 years, 4 months ago
  next
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2. A.T
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Next
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3. Misery likes Kompany
  10 years, 4 months ago
  next obvs
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Whazza
10 years, 4 months ago
Are the Team News getting updated right now? There's nothing on Swansea and Alvaro in the likely lineup.
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1. TorresMagic™
  10 years, 4 months ago
  No. Still being worked on.
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  1. Whazza
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Thanks.
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Psychos got ya number
10 years, 4 months ago
Just done Brady and Rooney out for Romelu and Stevie G. My thinking is while its hard to part with Roo, having SAR not only makes budgeting elsewhere difficult, you're gonna be placing the armband on Suarez or Aguero more often, meaning Roo's an expensive option to have if Utd blank, which will probably happen more often than City and Pool in my opinion
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Misery likes Kompany
10 years, 4 months ago
Thoughts on Jonjo? Why did he get dropped earlier in the season? risk of it happening again?
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1. Whazza
  10 years, 4 months ago
  I'm so close to bringing in him. Think he will play lone forward for a while?
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FPL Notebook (John)
10 years, 4 months ago
Who'll score more at weekend?

Giroud or Lukaku
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1. Snikiii
  10 years, 4 months ago
  even imo
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Thomass
10 years, 4 months ago
Isacki you still around?
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Somalion
10 years, 4 months ago
Any words about Sagna? I reckoned he would just miss this game to give his hamstring a rest.
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Adderz
10 years, 4 months ago
Best 4.6 defender apart from Burner?
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1. Whazza
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Ward/Gabbidon
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