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Fantasy Football Scout Cup VIII – Fifth Round Draw

We’ve reached the Fifth Round of the Fantasy Football Scout Cup, sponsored by Paddy Power, this weekend, and are on the lookout for a new face to lift the silverware after our two remaining previous winners, Goonerdave and sleepingmaster, were both eliminated:

Pryston North End FC and Albany City were the respective victors and will now take on Team Hayemaker and ec3dm over Gameweek 17. We’re also keeping an eye on Hillbillypete – having knocked out current champion Wild Rover, he continue to remain in with a shout of the silverware and is up against site regular The Sarjeant in the Fifth Round.

Our site moderator, Applebonkers, is also in the hat and is something of an underdog for the weekend, with his opponent BJ sitting just inside the top 5,000. Tony Hibbert’s Love Child is the top-ranked manager in this week’s draw – sitting in 570th overall, he now squares up to Nepalock.

Looking at some of the site regulars, Malcolm Tucker for England manager is up against 11 Men in Flight, Tommy Tynan’s Left Shin Pad will pit his wits against TOMDN, while 2ndMan is up against mickey30101985 for a place in the last 32.

As always, we name-check the highest scoring manager from the previous round. Both Michu at De Gea Bar and Andy Paps achieved this accolade, with 97 points apiece, and will now go head-to-head with Son of Rambo and dino_dem next time around.

The lowest-scoring team to advance to the Fifth Round belongs to Mr T. He’ll be hoping to improve upon a score of 63 points as he prepares to do battle with heco87.

If you want a full update on how the ties played out in the previous round, click here. Otherwise, click here for the Fifth Round details.

Once again, good luck to those still in with a shout.

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  1. The3rdTurd
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 4 months ago

    My interest in this competition is over for another year 🙁

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    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 4 months ago

      Capital One Cup or FPL 3rd?

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  2. Syd.
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 4 months ago

    Zabbadabbado

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  3. Alejo - CFC
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 4 months ago

    Silva owners brickin it, if he gets a yellow

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  4. JT's Dog
      10 years, 4 months ago

      What happened to zaba? Just logged on to see him subbed

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      1. Andy1
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 4 months ago

        Hamstring broken

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        1. JT's Dog
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Like Romeo's heart broken?
            Or just limping

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        2. Alejo - CFC
          • 10 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          Injured, limped off apparently, Zaba owners thats gotta hurt

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        3. Scottys Army
          • 10 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          hammy injury

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        4. DonTheSpecialOne
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          No idea. My livescore page says he went out injured

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          1. DonTheSpecialOne
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Off*

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        5. Declan
          • 14 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          Ping!

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      2. Reed_Rothchild
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 4 months ago

        Dempsey coming to Fulham in January on loan. Hmmmmmm!

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        1. Yome
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          He's passed it

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        2. Syd.
          • 14 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          Makepeace will soon follow

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      3. Plagued by indecision
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 4 months ago

        Who to get for Aguero? Negredo or Rooney? Other strikers Suarez and Lukaku.

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        1. joinho
          • 14 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          Toss a coin

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        2. Yome
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          Rooney for sure, have you seen United's fixtures? Negredo will be rotated with Dzeko, Jovetic...

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          1. Plagued by indecision
            • 13 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Will he? He seems first choice, especially with Aguero out, and Rooney might shift into midfield. However, I think it would be foolish to go without him given the favourability in fixtures. Also fancy Man United to pick up decent form over the Christmas period.

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        3. Siegfried Sassoon
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          Great question - I'm amazed no-one's asked this before.

          "HULK" THIS MAN.

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      4. Djerbil
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 4 months ago

        Wow tough luck Zab owners

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        1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          ridiculous, first aguero now this ........... 🙁

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          1. Andy1
            • 14 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            I have Koscielny too...

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      5. Mindless Freak
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 4 months ago

        Might bring Dempsey in, Oh the good ol' memories from 2 years ago.

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      6. PussyGalore
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 4 months ago

        spanish yellow 😉

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      7. joinho
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 4 months ago

        Think I'm going with this team for GW17, not sure I've got my bench right though?

        Guzan (Harper)
        Santon, Mertesacker, Coleman (Gabbidon) (Clyne)
        Morrison, Oscar, Yaya Touré, Ramsey (Januzaj)
        Suárez, Remy, Rooney

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        1. BantamPhil
          • 10 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          I would play Clyne (if fit) over Mertesacker

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      8. r0nh
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 4 months ago

        Silva booked yet?

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        1. DonTheSpecialOne
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          Navas. No Silva.

          Yet

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          1. r0nh
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            🙁

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      9. J0E
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 4 months ago

        The Professor has given the Rate My Team (RMT) numbers a festive spruce up. Some dramatic changes - worth looking at over in the members area.

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        1. JT's Dog
            10 years, 4 months ago

            I shall go there now

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          • GreenWindmill
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            I bet Zabaleta's figures are way out 😉

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            1. J0E
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • Has Moderation Rights
              • 14 Years
              10 years, 4 months ago

              Annoyingly yes. But I'll make that change later in the week when we know more. Didn't look good though.

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          • 2nd Man
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Brilliant! Wish I'd waited a day before making my transfers though, doh

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          • The3rdTurd
            • 13 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            So what's changed?

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        2. sinik
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          Terry > Evans, Ward or Chester?

          other def are Coleman, Mert, Clyne and Burner

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          1. TheSteady ¤ Wines th…
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Ward IMO
            or
            Kolarov 😉

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            1. sinik
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 10 Years
              10 years, 4 months ago

              eh, Kolarov too expensive, would leave me with 0..thinking Ward myself..Palace seem more likely clean-sheeters than Hull lately and Evans isn't nailed on (though probably close to)

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        3. DRIZ ✅
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 4 months ago

          Damn tough for ZABALETA owners and for those who bought him this week.

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          1. J0E
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • Has Moderation Rights
            • 14 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            He was going to be my Terry replacement in a week or two. Back to the drawing board.

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          2. OptimusBlack
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            what happened sorry didn't watch ?

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            1. Djerbil
              • 12 Years
              10 years, 4 months ago

              hammy injury, out for some time

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              1. OptimusBlack
                • 11 Years
                10 years, 4 months ago

                sorry for all owenrs 🙁

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        4. JT's Dog
            10 years, 4 months ago

            The gods must not want me to own city players
            Waiting on negredo getting mugged by rogue santas now

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          • Sarri-ball
            • 14 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            As someone who bought silva yesterday before price rise.

            I honestly Thot he would be rested or benched.

            This yellow will arrive 2night I know it 🙁

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          • TheSteady ¤ Wines th…
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Sorry for 3rd repost. hidden in old posts and zaba out...

            Repost, was hidden in the treasure of Zaba OUT

            Team for GW17:

            ---------------Mignolet-----------------------
            ----Coleman ¤ Ward ¤ Burner---------
            Shelvey ¤ Ozil ¤ Ramsey ¤ Hazard
            --Rooney ¤ Suarez(C) ¤ Lukaku

            Bench: Harper-Distin-Kim-Vlaar
            1FT
            0.3M in bank

            Should I do?

            A: Kim ➡ 4.6 midfielder, one of Redmond/Bannan
            B: Vlaar ➡ M.Olsson
            C: Ozil ➡ Walcott
            D: Please suggest something if you would want to do something else...
            E: Save FT
            Cheers! 🙂

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            1. Siegfried Sassoon
              • 12 Years
              10 years, 4 months ago

              Suarez > Chamakh. The ultimate differential.

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          • 1234thro
            • 10 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            If Silva gets inujured/booked I may have to consider using my WC! Poor Zaba 🙁

            Also, how on earth has Silva managed 4 yellows!! He's probably only played 6 games the whole season!

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            1. Adnan Shah
              • 13 Years
              10 years, 4 months ago

              I heard he was unlucky on couple of occasions. Not that kind of player who gets booked often.

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          • pundit of punts
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Dzeko will remain on the bench now. Horrible miss.

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          • Djerbil
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            27.7% Zaba owners, even with the dead teams that as much as owners as Ozil

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          • Declan
            • 14 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            130 people have brought Zaba in, in the last hour. Now 3969 NTI for today.

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          • Yome
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Imagine if Dzeko scores a brace tonight, he could earn a recall against Fulham. Bench warming for Negredo then

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          • Dr Dream
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            I wouldn't worry to much about a yellow for Silva...It's the auto injury setting we need to worry about...It's been set to ON for about three years now.

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          • Fin
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Zaba -> Lolarov?

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          • Make United Great Again
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Yellow card at the King Power Stadium.

            It goes to a short, Spanish, attacking midfielder.

            Jesus Navas.

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          • Declan
            • 14 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Luiz booked

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          • r0nh
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 4 months ago

            Any news on Zalaleta yet?

            6 weeks for a hammy I heard.

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            1. Dr Dream
              • 11 Years
              10 years, 4 months ago

              He's back on 12 jan...with Gerrard, Van Persie and Aguero....otherwise known as ..WILDCARD WEEK...

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          • JT's Dog
              10 years, 4 months ago

              With Richards still injured does this mean boyata will fill in?
              Isn't he like 4 mill

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              1. Yome
                • 12 Years
                10 years, 4 months ago

                Lescott will play IMO

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              2. Djerbil
                • 12 Years
                10 years, 4 months ago

                Milner, Nasty can also play RB

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            • pundit of punts
              • 11 Years
              10 years, 4 months ago

              Kolarov on fire. What a strike.

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            • Andy1
              • 14 Years
              10 years, 4 months ago

              Best two defenders for 10.2m?

              My others are Coleman, Chester & Williams

              A. Kompany & ward
              B. mertersacker & olsson
              C. Evans & Debuchy
              D. Distinct & Debuchy
              E. Something else

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