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The ScoutCast – Episode 191 – Penultimate

One more Gameweek. One more ScoutCast. The final whistle has almost blown on a remarkable season but we’re determined to fully exploit the final throws.

I’m joined by Jonty, Andy and Luke as we open a bumper 80-minute show with our dedication to Leicester City’s extraordinary title win. We then quickly shift to take on another raft of community questions as thoughts turn to Gameweek 37’s double fixtures.

We run the rule over the protagonists, assessing West Ham’s assets, Eden Hazard’s renaissance and even make an attempt to find a reason to make a late investment in Norwich City. Then necks are put on the block as we review the weekend fixtures, coming clean on our current double Gameweek transfer and captaincy plans.

The ScoutCast is first aired live on our YouTube channel on Wednesday night. Be sure to subscribe to get a heads up on future broadcasts.

You can view the full Google Hangout version of this episode via the second player below or stream the edited audio from this link or the first player.

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  1. Takedog1
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    think sturridge will start at weekend?

    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Bentekkers.

    2. istanbul05
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Not a chance

    3. Whats the Huth
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Unlikely. But who knows

  2. royals forever
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Morning Guys

    Which 2 STs out of the following are the best to have for this front 8

    Martial
    Deeney
    Costa
    Defoe

    Front 8 are

    Payet Sanchez Noble Townsend Iwobi

    Lukaku xxxxxxx xxxxxxx

    Any ideas would be welcomed

    1. Najoman86
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Defoe & Costa or Martial from that lot

    2. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Defoe n Costa

  3. Siva Mohan
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Thank god.. those price changes didn't hurt my planned transfers..

    1. SomewhatPleasing
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Which one do you use? Neptune helps me out with my bench order

  4. Jonny Sutt
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Bit of an odd question, who will get the most and least minutes in the next 2 games for Liverpool?

    A) toure
    B) Randall
    C) lallana
    D) Allen

    1. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      (most to least) in order according to me
      Allen
      Lallana
      Toure
      Randall

    2. FPL Hitman
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Lallana might play both games. Others 1 game (full most likely)

  5. BB-8
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Pick one

    A. Baines
    B. Ivanovic
    C. Valencia

    1. Syd.
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      B

    2. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Baines - more attacking, clean sheet i dont see much
      ivanovic - attacking, clean sheet i dont see much, but pricey
      valencia - dont trust LVG selection

      1. xtremesid
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        oops....so A for me

        1. BB-8
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Cheers xtreme

      2. Fred54
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Don't expect many Chelsea CS with Terry at the back...

        1. BB-8
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Looking at him for his attacking returns

    3. istanbul05
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      B

  6. Takedog1
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    valencia pretty nailed?

    1. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I dont think so

  7. xtremesid
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Does the bench n starting look good or wud you switch any:

    DDG**
    PVA**-Cresswell**-Delaney
    Milner**-Hazard**-Mahrez-Payet**(TC)-Townsend
    Kun-Deeney**

    Bench: Schmeichel-Kane-Simpson-Bellerin

  8. Weeb Kakashi
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Costa or Caroll if money not a problem?

    1. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Carroll - goin with form

  9. SpaceCadet
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Is Clyne expected to start against Watford? Keep or dump?

    1. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I doubt Watford - Chelsea yes. But, selling him for a hit is something I would not do

  10. kalmoffit
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Is anyone who watched Monday's game, still happy with triple Sunderland. The Chelsea on holiday story was a good yarn.

    1. Siva Mohan
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      expecting a high scoring game..

      1. kalmoffit
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Me too. My double Sunderland defence is suddenly looking like two points, though.

  11. Ready Manager One
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    TC or BB?

    Darlow
    Bellerin-pva-simpson
    Sanchez-kdb-townsend-payet
    Kun-kane-carroll
    (Robles; lanzini-gab-rose)

    Looking to bringing in smalling,fab/haz,defoe for rose,kdb,kane/kun

  12. Siva Mohan
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Leicester City Player Wages (Top 3)

    Jamie Vardy - £80,000 per week
    Riyad Mahrez - £55,000 per week
    N’Golo Kante - £55,000 per week

    1. Syd.
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I doubt Vardy would be on that amount given he was signed for £1 million

        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        He signed a new contract back in January.

      1. Siva Mohan
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        he was on £40,000-per-week in Feb, 2016 .. doubled after signing a new 3.5 years deal

        1. Syd.
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          If that's the case he has gone from a few grand at Fleetwood to 80 grand in a couple of years. Nice work if you can get it

            • 10 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Well he certainly deserves it more than teammates like Wasilewski who're on about £20k a week

    2. Jebiga
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      No way 🙂

    3. Whats the Huth
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      No chance. Be on way less

        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        It is what it is. Andy Carroll's on about that much for goodness sake. Only recently promoted counts for sweet FA as every championship player basically has an "if we get promoted" clause.

  13. Syd.
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    The Europa League final is in 12 days. Liverpool have 3 games before then.

    1. istanbul05
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Fully expecting the first 11 to be rotated this weekend, then play against Chelsea...and then rested again GW38

    2. Siva Mohan
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      GW37/1 - Reserves
      GW37/2 - Main Squad
      GW38 - Reserves
      EL Final - Main Squad

      1. Jigger & Pony
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        This

  14. Whazza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Are my Pool players starting? Just wanted to see if anyone here know if Klopp has decided that yet and told us?
    Shut up!

  15. Jebiga
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Who would you rather have Robles or Adrian or DDG ?

    I have Robles, 9dgw players and Aguero and Kane and i want to keep (fighting for top scorers).

    1FT

    1. Robles to Adrian
    Or
    2. Robles to DDG
    ?

    Thanks

    1. Whazza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      1

    2. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      2

  16. Weeb Kakashi
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Rose+ Coleman + Robles + Sturridge > Cresswell + Martin + Ruddy + Carrol (-12)???

    1. Whazza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Double Norwich defence in for -12, now we're talking 😎

    2. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Wow !! That is tremendous risk but can pay off crazy if works

    3. Whats the Huth
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Yes to all except Robles

  17. istanbul05
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    De Gea,
    Cresswell, Bellerin, TFM,
    KDB, Firmino, Mahrez, Lanzini,
    Kun, Kane, Defoe

    Forster, Sanchez, Simpson, Gabriel.

    I'm thinking either:

    A) KDB & Firmino to Payet and Hazard (-4)
    or
    B) Above + Simpson to PVA (-8) (Bench Bellerin)

    1. Takedog1
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      u know kdb is going to start every match now their out champs league. might be worth keeping?

      1. istanbul05
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Tempted by Hazards additional game...just not sure if it's worth a hit!

  18. JAC THE CAT
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    For a -8? Would get me 8 DGW players out + Sanchez, Townend and Aguero.

    Dawson + Sakho + Kane
    To
    PVA + Cresswell +

    1. Slumdog-Mignolet
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I did -8 to bring in PVA, Cresswell and Carroll.
      Got rid of Kane for Carroll. Have Aguero and Defoe too.

  19. SpaceCadet
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Guys how would you rate this lot? Any changes needed? Cheers

    robles
    smalling cresswell clyne
    payet hazard sanchez firmino
    martial deeney carroll

    darlow coutinho simpson gabriel

    1. Jigger & Pony
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Nice. Get PvA or Ivanovic for Clyne.

    2. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Robles may not play - feel Everton will be playing Howard in the remaining games
      Defense -> Yup
      Midfield -> Yup
      Strikers -> Martial no - would prefer Defoe

  20. sergioaguero67
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Already on a -12.
    0.0m in the bank.

    Do you think I should swap Antonio ---> Kouyate?
    Just because I know Antonio won't do a thing and Kouyate can give me returns.
    Yes or no?

    1. Takedog1
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      -16 too much

    2. Jigger & Pony
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      No, sideways

  21. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Is Andy Carroll even nailed on for two matches? Or 3 matches in 8 days?

    Just seems everyone thinks its a formality.

    1. Whazza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      No, check history

  22. Kun Tozser
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Sturridge or Kun out for Deeney?

    1. Jigger & Pony
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Sturridge

    2. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I wouldnt do the change

  23. Jigger & Pony
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Guys which looks better?

    A. Lanzini + Martial
    B. Coutinho + Carroll

    Sanchez Payet Hazard xxx
    Aguero Defoe xxx

    1. Kun Tozser
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Defo Carroll but not Liverpool

  24. SpaceCadet
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Drop kun or coutinho? Already have Firmino

    1. Jigger & Pony
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Coutinho

  25. Koflok
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Chasing 40 points from my ML leader. He'll prob captain Payet.

    I have TC.

    T(C)arroll?

    1. SomewhatPleasing
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Does he have TC left too?

      1. Koflok
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Nope

  26. SpaceCadet
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Best mid option for 6.1m to complete the team?

    payet hazard sanchez firmino ?
    kun carroll deeney

    1. Jigger & Pony
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Redmond

    2. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Townsend

  27. Lateriser 12
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    No liv mid worth getting in right?

    1. Jigger & Pony
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Nope. Likely to miss Wat and GW38.

      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Well I'm looking at benching mine (Milner) to play Sanchez, but each to his own.

    2. xtremesid
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I have Milner but doubt he will play both

    3. SomewhatPleasing
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Wouldn't be looking if I was shopping. I'm stuck with Milner and undecided if I start him.

    4. Syd.
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      12 days to Europa final, 3 games before then, heavy rotation coming, players will probably play one game over the DGW and completely miss out in GW38 so in essence Liverpool players should be avoided

    5. Siva Mohan
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      No

      EL winner goes to CL

      everyone wrapped in cotton wool..

  28. Syd.
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Given that Swansea are going to rest quite a few players, it makes it even more tempting to TC a Hammer

    1. Kun Tozser
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      And for Kun and KDB in 38

  29. xtremesid
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Repost:
    Does the bench n starting look good or wud you switch any:

    DDG**
    PVA**-Cresswell**-Delaney
    Milner**-Hazard**-Mahrez-Payet**(TC)-Townsend
    Kun-Deeney**

    Bench: Schmeichel-Kane-Simpson-Bellerin

    1. I.K
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Bench Delaney

      1. xtremesid
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Cheers mate

  30. I.K
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Morning every one
    Can't wait for a Bolivian Seaman article
    It really influenced my Wildcard moves which paid off positively. I moved from 120k to 70k