The Dugout Discussion – Saturday

Saturday rolls on with a set of five afternoon kick-offs, rounded off unceremoniously by a tea-time clash as Hull City host Stoke. Interesting.

Before that, all eyes will be on Goodison and Stamford Bridge where two prime captain candidates – namely Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard, will carry the hopes of thousands of Fantasy managers as they face up to the Fulham and Crystal Palace defences respectively.

The afternoon’s events are completed by West Brom’s trip to Cardiff, while Newcastle host Southampton and an injury-ravaged West Ham entertain Sunderland.

As always, you can look to our twitter feed for details of the major movements on the teamsheets, while our Dugout Discussion chatroom will take you through today’s matches, right up until the final whistle at the KC Stadium.

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Debauchy
10 years, 4 months ago
Lukaku Cptnrs Think we got bit lucky . Yeah.
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1. Reedy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  A bit, yeah 🙂
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uhahpaulmcgrath
10 years, 4 months ago
how are lukaku buyers/captainers feeling ?
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1. Debauchy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  lucky.
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2. sinik
  10 years, 4 months ago
  he's always in the area and getting involved, hence the jammy assists. he's capable of scoring goals and they will come, Everton is on the rise and he'll benefit from that..
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  1. uhahpaulmcgrath
    10 years, 4 months ago
    sounds like Giroud
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3. Viper
  10 years, 4 months ago
  This isn't what you asked but, i'm pretty content as a non-owner!
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  1. copps
    10 years, 4 months ago
    i feel like im forced to buy him now that aguero is out
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    1. uhahpaulmcgrath
      10 years, 4 months ago
      with rvp out, i would have thought rooney was the obvious choice ?
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    2. Viper
      10 years, 4 months ago
      I'm actually thinking of going the Negredo route although Lukaku is probably safer.
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      1. uhahpaulmcgrath
        10 years, 4 months ago
        last 6 games that rooney has played 12,12,4,11,13,1
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4. Reedy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Captainer here, not unhappy. Suarez could make me rue the decision of course but I still think I did the right thing.
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⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
10 years, 4 months ago
Ok - Pellegrini already said aguero is having a scan tomorrow to determine how long he will be out.

We will know latest Monday.

We won't hear anything more until tomorrow.
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1. Top 210 Club
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Its easy to interpret the Aguero news...
  
  Calf pull = 7 to 10 days rest = no training
  tear = 4 to 6 weeks or more
  
  Hence why Pelli said how many WEEKS he may be out for
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RuudVanNistelrooney
10 years, 4 months ago
boruc to mannone
is this a good move?
will westwood automatically start at sunderland when he is back??
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1. Jude Rooney
  10 years, 4 months ago
  No way Mannone number one now
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2. Do I Not Like Orange
  10 years, 4 months ago
  No, Westwood won't come straight back in automatically. We've been more solid with Mannone than KW.
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Fabio20
10 years, 4 months ago
A) Brady + Terry > Hazard + Williamson

B) Brady + Ozil > Walcott and Silva

C) Brady + Terry + Ozil > Walcott + Hazard + Williamson

Any ideas?
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Zoom Zoom
10 years, 4 months ago
I would sell him immediately... he is a rotation risk regardless over the holiday schedule given Citeh's depth... his price will drop given the injury uncertainty... prices of Lukaku, Negredo, others will surely rise in the interim...

I'm bringing Lukaku in today before his price goes up.
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r0nh
10 years, 4 months ago
Ohhhh yeah...

Maiga FAIL

I showed the courage to question our leaders!!

I stood alone...

😎
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1. Brian (Not the Messiah)
  10 years, 4 months ago
  lol, you STILL on about this??
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  1. r0nh
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Well it was only today that he failed so miserably 🙂
    
    First time I mentioned it.
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    1. Brian (Not the Messiah)
      10 years, 4 months ago
      😉
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Brian (Not the Messiah)
10 years, 4 months ago
Cardiff and Hull defense fired nicely... I thank you very much 🙂
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FACUPARSE
10 years, 4 months ago
Wilson of Stoke on 3 bps 🙂
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Les Bleus
10 years, 4 months ago
If Aguero is out against Fulham, I'm getting rid. Who's with me?
A) Rooney
B) Negredo
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1. Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  A is probably with you due to the screenname and Grav. B not so much.
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  1. Les Bleus
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Lol. I try to put my FPL and real life priorities sepearte 😛
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    1. Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus…
      10 years, 4 months ago
      Wise move. Rooney's fixtures are better though. I have more confidence in him than Negredo.
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      1. Les Bleus
        10 years, 4 months ago
        Cheers
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  2. Debauchy
    10 years, 4 months ago
    B
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floydy_floyd
10 years, 4 months ago
Who will get more point til end of jan:

1. Lukaku
2. Negredo
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1. Alaric
  10 years, 4 months ago
  2
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  1. Alaric
    10 years, 4 months ago
    from a non owner
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2. Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  A
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3. Reedy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Lukaku would still be my first choice
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4. Make United Great Again
  10 years, 4 months ago
  2
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5. Debauchy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Depends on how long Kun out.
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Andy1
10 years, 4 months ago
Thinking of

Kos & nasri --> 4.7m defender & silva

Or

Kos, nasri & aguero --> terry, silva & lukaku
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Smarty Pants
10 years, 4 months ago
Intermediate results with bonus points on the assumption that BPS won't change. Hopefully, no bugs this time 🙂

Overall League:
• average score is 30;
• 7.3 players out of 12 have already played on average (counting captain twice)
• 55.7% of captains to go

Top 10,000:
• average score is 40.9
• 8.7 players out of 12 have played
• 46.6% of captains to go

GW rank projections:
http://fpldiscovery.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/gw-16-intermediate-results.jpg?w=151
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1. Les Bleus
  10 years, 4 months ago
  You are good!
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2. Namtab Nomolos
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Thanks for this. 55 is good then so far, but no captain left
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3. T1P
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Jeez that is a lot of captains left. Looks like I won't be in the top 10k by the end of the week
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  1. Namtab Nomolos
    10 years, 4 months ago
    They're all Rooney & Suarez so only 2 bullets to dodge. (big ones though)
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4. copps
  10 years, 4 months ago
  55% of captains still to go, wow.
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  1. Smarty Pants
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Suarez and Rooney account for 30%, 11% are van Persies, 14% - the rest
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5. Piggs Boson
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Urgh, those top 10k stats are depressing. They still have 3.3 players left!
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  1. Namtab Nomolos
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Those 3.3 players are 2 Rooney & 1 Suarez or the other way around.
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    1. Smarty Pants
      10 years, 4 months ago
      Only roughly 25% in the top 10 K have Rooney, 11% captains, so Roo is only 0.36!
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      1. Namtab Nomolos
        10 years, 4 months ago
        At last, a differential 🙂
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  2. copps
    10 years, 4 months ago
    i have 5, although im only on 30pts right now
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6. copps
  10 years, 4 months ago
  even GW Rank projections, you are a master sir
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7. Viper
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Haha, excellent grav!
  
  I'm sure the stats are just as good, but that dog is beautiful!
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8. JWF
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Red arrow for me then.
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9. Saint Domingo
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Cheers Smarty,top man
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10. Crash
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Brilliant work Mr. Pants!
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11. Call Me Old Fashioned
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Oh man... if I hadnt benched Whittingham I would have my best GW rank of season so far
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sinik
10 years, 4 months ago
let's say that Aguero is out for weeks

Aguero + Terry + Januzaj -> Negredo + Chester + Walcott for -8, leaves me with 1.5 itb

I posted this a while back but new crowd and all

cheers!
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1. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  still not interested
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  1. sinik
    10 years, 4 months ago
    cool guy
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2. The ghost of a Pug's g…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  No deal
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3. Andy1
  10 years, 4 months ago
  You cold get a better defender than Chester. It just depends on the other 4 defenders you already have
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  1. sinik
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Mert, Coleman, Burner and Clyne
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4. Debauchy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  If out for weeks - think great move.
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5. The ghost of a Pug's g…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Aguero ---> rooney
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  1. sinik
    10 years, 4 months ago
    that's the ideal but I don't want to miss out on the Walcott price rise
    
    would do Terry + Aguero + Ravel -> Rooney + Chester + Walcott but I'm off by .1 🙁
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Laserface
10 years, 4 months ago
what do u reckon will be the avge ? 25 i think
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1. r0nh
  10 years, 4 months ago
  32
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2. Poseidon. Not arrogant, jus…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  I'll go 34.
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3. Federico
  10 years, 4 months ago
  34
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4. Les Bleus
  10 years, 4 months ago
  About 30-31
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5. The ghost of a Pug's g…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  31
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6. T1P
  10 years, 4 months ago
  28
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7. Dr Dream
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Higher..plenty of high ownership picks got points...or be it not many each...
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8. HVT
  10 years, 4 months ago
  30
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9. Tim Canterbury
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Nobody said 30. Smarty pants above just said the average will be 30
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Piggs Boson
10 years, 4 months ago
Smarty Pants of buddy o pal, will 47pts at 11.2k get me a green?
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1. Smarty Pants
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Definitely.
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  1. Piggs Boson
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Thx dog.
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2. T1P
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Gone ahead of me by one. I was 9.5k. Damn you
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3. Smarty Pants
  10 years, 4 months ago
  you usually need a few points above average around you to get a green arrow, average in the top 10k is 40.9, so you have 6 points above, should be more than enough for a green one I think
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  1. sinik
    10 years, 4 months ago
    you think I could still end up with a green arrow overall on the weekend? on 59 right now after baps but only have Suarez left..
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4. Freshy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Is Your Grav the little Jenny Coleman?
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  1. Piggs Boson
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Yep 🙂
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Dr Dream
10 years, 4 months ago
Bit of a sickener today with Aguero...Good pick for the week as I fancied a right old goal fest, and got it...Biggest problem is that The Spurs match looks an equally big goal fest in the offing...I hope Suarez C's have better luck than us Aguero C's
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1. Pratik
  10 years, 4 months ago
  I don't think the Spurs match will be that big a goal fest at all....Both teams easily switch to the hit and miss easily. Spurs are still not playing fluid football imo.
  
  But voiced the same opinion regarding Aguero.....Good pick, but we were just unlucky....
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  1. The ghost of a Pug's g…
    10 years, 4 months ago
    This p much
    
    Aguero a great pick, just as Gerrard was - equally unlucky and is Lukaku (c)s lucky.
    
    I think spurs will will 3.2 and Suarez will get a goal.
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  2. Dr Dream
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Previous two gameweeks showed they had exactly 100 goal attempts between them...way, way ahead of any other teams...should be worth watching anyway.
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ratski
10 years, 4 months ago
Couple of questions..
A. How many weeks is Huth out for?
B. wally or silva to buy ?
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The ghost of a Pug's g…
10 years, 4 months ago
Hoping for my 9th green arrow in a row after a terrible start
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1. Les Bleus
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Same here!
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2. Strificus
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Same here!
  
  Although, my rank is still pretty pathetic. I'm new to the Premier league; so I've been relying on stats. I'm just getting the hang of this thing. 😛
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Proggy
10 years, 4 months ago
36 points with 3 to go.

Meh. 🙁
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Federico
10 years, 4 months ago
51 (post baps) with Coutinho, Suarez and Rooney (C) to go.

Hoping for Rooney to ice the cake tomorrow 8)
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1. @FPLMason
  10 years, 4 months ago
  39 prebaps with Suarez & Roo C
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@FPLMason
10 years, 4 months ago
So what are fellow Aguero owners going to do withthis predicament?
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1. The EJJ
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Waiting
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2. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  i'm going to annoy people on here by incessantly posting about him despite no official update
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  1. sinik
    10 years, 4 months ago
    or by just being snide instead of ignoring the post
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3. Reedy
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Nothing yet. Might move him on tomorrow if the prognosis is bleak.
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4. The ghost of a Pug's g…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Holding, with a plan to bring in the pig
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The Gambler.
10 years, 4 months ago
Agüero / Brady > Rooney / Silva

Or

Agüero / Brady > Rooney / Walcott

Have no Arsenal cover. Only have Nasri for City.

Have exact money for the moves!
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1. HVT
  10 years, 4 months ago
  B so
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Fabio20
10 years, 4 months ago
Which 2 from the following are the most essential for the next 5 GWS?

Silva
Walcott
Hazard
Lukaku
Negredo
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1. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  top 2
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2. Jude Rooney
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Sorry to e pedantic but how can you have 'most essential'
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3. Iwantmorepointsthanks
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Negredo & Walcott
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HVT
10 years, 4 months ago
Scores on the door :
53 - 2 to play (Jevan/suar)
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1. The EJJ
  10 years, 4 months ago
  25 with Rooney (c), Suarez and Mignolet to come.
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Total Foot 5 - romario 11
10 years, 4 months ago
pik best option thx

1--REMY: Keep ag cry ( and then transfer remy > rooney in futuire gw's)
or
2--ROON now: FT drop remy > rooney ag WHU
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Bolt-on
10 years, 4 months ago
West ham supporters must be bored watching their team play
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1. MattysFantasyFooty
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Feel sorry for them really
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Mr Smith
10 years, 4 months ago
Aguero, Ozil, Shelvey & Terry

To

Rooney, Walcott, Silva & Zab (-8)

A). Sensible
B). Bonkers

?
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1. Iwantmorepointsthanks
  10 years, 4 months ago
  might pay off in the first week already, definitely better over the next gameweeks.
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Piggs Boson
10 years, 4 months ago
What do you think is the average age on here is? 43, 13, 27?

Doosra's 147 must skew the average a bit.
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1. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
  10 years, 4 months ago
  thomass and daniel's combined age of -147 balances it out
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2. Namtab Nomolos
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Give him a break 😉
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3. Viper
  10 years, 4 months ago
  23 here!
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  1. Piggs Boson
    10 years, 4 months ago
    Got be in the mid to high 20's I reckon.
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4. Somalion
  10 years, 4 months ago
  Never known of any 147 year old who witnessed the birth of Christ...
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5. Manani
  10 years, 4 months ago
  finding the median will be more appropriate in that case 😉
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Lloyd Xmas
10 years, 4 months ago
ELO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXL3LYqjhVI
rated very highly by me !
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