Tuesday is poll update day - well at least it is this week. The usual FPL captains poll has arrived to stroke Ronaldo’s ego that little bit more ( I know he is a keen visitor to the site ). Will anyone get close considering that United take on the Gunners? Maybe.

As for the second poll - with Defoe and Torres topping the “strikers most likely to do the damage over the remaining five games”, it’s time to test out your views on defences. So who has the best chances of reaping those clean sheets over the final five? Not so easy given the injuries to Vidic, Ferdinand and Cech. There are some dark horses here, so this one could be pretty pretty close.

You may experience some downtime in the next 24-48 hours as I transfer the site to a new server host. I’ve not been happy with my current hosts and today I’ve migrated the site to a new one that should result in some faster speeds and greater reliability.

We may lose some comments in the move as I’ve had to migrate the database earlier today. Apologies for this - I may be able to add lost comments once we’re fully up and running with the new host.

Hopefully they’ll be no problems aside from this and downtime will hopefully be kept to a minimum.

Ta for your patience.

*Update* It looks as though the promised downtime was avoided and that the site is now fully transferred to the new host - complete with much faster page load times. There are a few text bugs to sort out in the Database but nothing major. Fingers crossed for no problems going forward. Again, thanks for your patience.

No, not a typo in a news story on some last minute signings by Harry Redknapp, instead two brand new polls for the site over in the left-hand menu.

For starters I’ve added one to canvas opinion on what’s likely to be a deciding factor over the rest of the fantasy season - just which striker will perform best. It’s funny, when you take Ronaldo out of all fantasy football equations, there’s suddenly a far more difficult decision to be made. When it comes to finding that goal machine for the last six games there’s actually more than a few reasonable candidates. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

The usual FPL captains poll meanwhile includes Ronaldo of course so all bets are off on the winner. Those who get close to him though? That will again be interesting - there’s a couple of tasty looking fixtures about this weekend that could just tip the balance for a few contenders but I’ll shut up now and leave the voting to you.

All quiet on the injury front so far today - no confirmed news as yet on Torres, Ronaldo or Cahill - so I’ve updated the FPL captain’s poll (scroll down the left menu) for the current gameweek. Could be interesting again this week, with just the merest threat of rest/rotation hanging over Ronaldo. It will be interesting to see how worried you lot are about that prospect and just who will get close to him.

There’s an issue with the site in Internet Explorer today whereby the right-hand menu has disappeared. In Firefox the site is performing as normal.

I’ll restore the sidebar back to an earlier version later tonight which should hopefully fix this. Right now though, I’m at work without my backups so IE users will have to make do for a few hours. Normal service will hopefully be resumed very soon however.

I made a few changes to the site on Saturday evening/Sunday morning, the most signficant of which is the edit comments feature. I’ve also made some fancy-dan colour changes and added a nice little ticker at the top of the page listing some useful stats. Read on for a description on how to kill comment spelling errors dead once and for all…

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The FPL captains poll for gameweek 28 is now active in the left menu. Without prompting your votes, it will be interesting to see how close the Liverpool lot with their double gameweek, can get to Ronaldo this week.

From this week on, I’m changing the way in which the player ranking tables in the right-hand menu work. A number of you have requested player recommendations over a longer period of time, rather than weekly scout picks. To cater for this requirement, the player rankings will now be based on the next five matches, the same five that are listed in the forthcoming fixtures table in the same menu.

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I’ve been meaning to do this for weeks but with the FA Cup break, I’ve finally got it off the ground. I’ve added a new permanent poll to the left panel menu, underneath the existing poll, which can be used to canvas opinion on the Fantasy Premier League captains for the coming gameweek.

This poll will remain and be updated each gameweek so you can see at a glance who visitors think are the best candidates each week. Yes Ronaldo will doubtless top the poll each week but hopefully, it will give some opinion on other choices.

Addtional polls for those not playing the FPL game will appear above this as normal.

Get voting.

Okay, you may have noticed some subtle tweaks to the site. I’ve made a couple of key changes to the front page that will hopefully tidy things up, give visitors a little more control over content and keep you all more up to date with the goings on that concern fantasy managers.

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It started with a morning of insane attacking abandon as the goals and red cards flew around the grounds. It ended in a dire, turgid affair as Portsmouth clung to a point against the Arsenal tide. A funny old Boxing Day then. Let’s take stock…

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While the Turkey is in the oven and things are quiet on the news front, I’d thought I’d work on some small site changes. I’ve played around with the right-hand menu a little - what I like to call the “technical area” of the site.

You may have noticed in the last week, further down the right menu, I’ve created a “Forthcoming Fixtures” table. I’ve now promoted this up the menu as I feel it can be very useful. This lists the next five games for all teams so that you can see at a glance, the distribution of home and away games and the opponents for each team over the coming month.

I’ll update this each gameweek and I’m thinking of highlighting those teams which appear to have favourable fixtures by highlighting rows so you can see, even more clearly, which teams to consider week by week.

I’ve also tidied up the “Suspension Tightrope”. I’ve filtered this by those on the verge of ten bookings and those sitting precariously on four bookings. These are the players that you really need to be wary of after all. The table is also now fully updated and ordered by club within each bracket. I’ve created a full table so you can track the bigger picture here. There’s still some “cosmetic” work to do on that page but I’ll be done with it soon.

That’s about it for now. I’ve got some more plans for the New Year and some things I’m going to propose to see what the reaction is via the poll.

Happy Christmas and Good luck on Boxing Day.

Yep, I’m back in action and have updated the Injury table and made a first pass over the team news for the weekend games here. Sorry for the spell of absence, ridiculously busy at work right now but things should settle down once this week is out of the way and over Christmas. Many thanks for the continued support and all the posters that have been active while I’ve been away.

I’ll be making updates to the team news from now and until kick-off and the Suspension Tightrope, my Shortlists and Scout Picks will be updated later today.

Agbonlahor scare.Fabregas is sidelined. Essien banned. Elano is out. Rooney lined up for a return. Get all the team news for Weekend games, updated up until the kick-offs, here.