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right. i think the consensus here is to sort my defence! noted. cheers!

Darmian(5)/Jones(4.8) are the obvious United cover. Don't recommend a double WBA at the moment. Friend (4.4) if you want to be ahead of the curve can then upgrade Love to someone respectable.

Protecting managers from making poor decisions is very vague. Could argue Stones should be flagged as far from nailed and Man city defence is interesting to say the least.
To be fair I've not read the Hazard story so shouldn't really comment

But they go hand in hand especially when you brought up the issue with Bony's lack of flag. There has to be a balance especially when it comes to popular players. You cannot leave a high ownership player like Coutinho unflagged when the club takes 3-4 days to confirm his ankle injury. That may mean thousands of transfers in when it was obvious to anyone who watched the game that he'd be out for a while. It should not be required of an FPL player to watch games, read news articles before making transfers. There are plenty of people who are new to the game, and it's unreasonable to expect everyone to look up news stories on tens of players as potential transfers before bringing them in. It is up to the game to keep them engaged and make things as easy and exciting for them as possible.

Also, what is the actual problem with them flagging someone too soon? You, as an experienced FPL player, do your own research, and are able to decide if it's an injury that is serious or not. Hazard being flagged affects you in absolutely no way other than a potential delay in 0.1m profit. It, however, stops a casual from potentially bringing in players who will have been ruled out later in the week. Your less flags approach will only work if transfers can only be made after Friday press conferences. If I can make my transfer any time during the week, the game better tell me as soon as it knows if someone is sulking for not receiving cake, lest I bring him in.

Here's some quotes from the reports...

"With Diego Costa and N'Golo Kante suspended for the clash with Bournemouth on Boxing Day, Chelsea will be desperate for Hazard to overcome the knee complaint. If the Belgian is unable to prove his fitness, Pedro could come into the starting line-up."

"Club sources insist the injury is not serious and that he is expected to be fit for the Boxing Day home game with Bournemouth. Costa and key midfielder N’Golo Kante will be suspended, so Conte is taking no chances on Hazard’s fitness."

You don't think that, on reading these quotes from two separate reports, that these don't suggest any element of doubt whatsoever?

Quotes like "Expected to be fit" and "Unable to prove fitness" - if you read those, you'd still 100% buy the player today without any hesitation or the need to perhaps wait till Friday for the press conference?

The fact is, folk who could be considering Hazard can read these reports, buy him and then, if he doesn't play, refer back to these and wonder why they weren't alerted. That's what the flag is for - minor doubts - some concerns - some element of doubt that he may not be 100% available for the next match.

You say that "If people need to think for themselves they can find out that Hazard is having a bit of extra physio. It's just the same."

The flag does just that, it alerts them to the fact that "something" is being reported. Without it, how do they find these reports? It's sound's like you're objecting to folk getting a heads up when that's what the flags are for and have always looked to achieve.

Unless you completely dismiss reports from the Guardian, Star, Sun and Express - there is clearly "something" surrounding Hazard otherwise he would have surely been given the break.

If you already have you mind made up and are informed and confident he is 100% fit, why is there an issue?

Yes, high profile players are more in the news and therefore, there will be more reports surrounding them but then the flags can only report on what is out there. That's the same all over, it's the high profile players that earn enquiries in press conferences so it's those names we often hear about in terms of fitness and availability - we may not hear that Billy Jones is struggling from Moyes because he's only asked about Defoe. That happens.

Re: AFCON squads are not named until January and an article will be going out before Xmas to warn on players. No flags can be added because no AFCON player is a doubt for the next match - flags only apply to the next Gameweek. Mane is not a doubt for Boxing Day so why would a flag be added? There is no method of warning on impending absence but that's the same for loanees ahead of playing parent clubs - folk are warned only before the Gameweek - they have to research themselves if they want that kind of warning.

The fact that flags address only the next Gameweek is not really illogical, then.

All these people asking need to learn about this new search fandangle google 😉

As said - I'm not offering any opinion on what I think a flag should be - I'm merely saying what FPL's criteria is.

I don't have an email address but I'd assume there'd be a customer support one somewhere on their site.