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Dugout Discussion – Brighton vs Bournemouth

Another year another Gameweek.

We take a trip to the seaside for the opening Premier League match of 2018, easing ourselves back into Fantasy Football action with a clash between Brighton and Bournemouth.

Our interest in this match-up is somewhat limited, with a clean sheet likely to be the desired end result for many managers.

The Seagulls have impressed of late with their resilience, recording a shut-out in three of their last four Gameweek outings.

Shane Duffy and Lewis Dunk are the key figures in their back four – they are owned by 3.5% and 3.4% ahead of today’s contest.

Pascal Gross remains their most popular asset. The German is still part of 17.7% of squads and hinted at a revival in his Fantasy output with a goal in Gameweek 19 which ended a run of six matches without a return.

Bournemouth go into today’s contest off the back of a win over Everton but without injured key men Josh King and Ryan Fraser, while Nathan Ake is rested to the bench.

Fantasy interest in the Cherries is limited, with Charlie Daniels their top owned asset as part of 6.7% of squads. He has lost over 336,000 owners since Gameweek 16.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. The Big Fella
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Anybody give a recommendation for a midfielder worth 6.9 or less? Was thinking Zaha but I have RLC. If I downgrade Son after this week I can get rid of Morata the freeloader for Aguero

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Lingard

      1. Alan The Llama
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        This

      2. The Big Fella
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Not a bad shout that actually mate. Would free up extra funds too. Is he nailed on?

    2. Fpl stress
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Lanzini or arnartovic

      1. The Big Fella
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Got Arnie and not sure doubling up with WHU is the way forward

      2. Fpl stress
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        See how they play this week then make your choice - good fixtures coming up imo

        1. The Big Fella
          • 7 Years
          6 years, 3 months ago

          Sound advice that. Cheers mate.

    3. Netley Lucas
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Well Arnie is the one

      1. The Big Fella
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Got him already for this week mate. Not sure I want to double up on WHU by getting Lanzini either.....

    4. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      lanzini, good fixtures, well rested

      1. The Big Fella
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Got Arnie. Would you double up?

    5. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Zaha, Arnie, Richarlison, Lingard, Groß - in order of price. Finding 1.0 to afford Pogba/Silva might be better, or 0.3 to get Alonso in a back four etc

      1. The Big Fella
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Cheers. Got Alonso already. Had him from the start of the game and he won't be leaving. Ever. I like the Lingard option I think. Zaha is another but with RLC, that would be too much Palace attack for my liking I think.

    6. The Big Fella
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      What about Willian?

  2. #FPLBhuna
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Adam smith.

    Retro action surely.

    Wow

  3. FDMS All Starz
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    So Salah and coutinho not starting means Kenny and Quaner come in...great

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

      Kenny could be great.
      United have no forwards

    2. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      you never know, could be dreamteamers

  4. Kuneshwar
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Salah and Coutinho spotted on a bicycle outside Burnley stadium..

    1. Spike ⚽️
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      A tandem ?

    2. StoichkovFPL
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      tandem bike?

    3. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Who was peddling?

      1. Kuneshwar
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Salah injured his knee.. So i think Coutinho was peddling..

    4. Brap.
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Salah was up front, kept his head down, flew over the bar

  5. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Anyone know if Salah or Coutinho were on the Liverpool coach?

    1. Drosiah
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Apparently neither

  6. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Haz, Mee, Zaha > Silva, Pogba, Alonso?

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Silva & Pogba are not great shouts just yet.

      United have been a bit pants whilst we still don't know what's up with Silva.

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Yeah need to give them another week or two, prices are going favourably too with silva going down so can wait. I think the Alonso, Silva, Pogba option looks much better on paper

  7. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    If Coutinho is not in the squad it is going to throw petrol on the fire of the Barca transfer rumours.

    1. Mark
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Don't think that they are rumours. No way that Nike thing could have been a stunt, surely?

      1. Ógie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        I thought it was a stunt tbh. He might as well hang on until the summer now but who knows?

        1. Brosstan
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 3 months ago

          Nike would know how unprofessional it is to make a stunt like that. Too highly involved with all the big teams.

  8. tm245
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    He has to pass there.

    1. Rik Waller
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Should've just scored

      1. tm245
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Or that, too. Once he brought the keeper into it, sliding the ball across became his best option.

    2. Syd.
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      A bit like me on Mastermind

    3. Jekori
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      The pressure of getting in the fantasy dream team squad. Would have loved a Propper goal

  9. Darth_Krid
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    What’s Kane’s EO? Do normal captains want him to fail because of the triples?

    1. #FPLBhuna
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      What does EO stand for? .. been meaning to ask this on here for a while see it used all the time

      1. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Echo Oscar

        1. #FPLBhuna
          • 7 Years
          6 years, 3 months ago

          Eggnog octopus

      2. La Roja
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Edwin Ogbonna

      3. BananaNose Maldonado
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        It means effective ownership, and takes into account the percentage captaining a player. If EO is higher than 100% and you HAVEN'T captained him, you are essentially hurt by him scoring.

    2. Netley Lucas
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      God no, still all about points

    3. rivercityransom
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      just 146.5 in top 10k

    4. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      146 % in top 10k. Regular cappers are on 200 % so you want him to go mental.

    5. yakirh
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      No
      I want my Kane points

    6. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Of course not

    7. Iceball
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Between 140 and 150 top10k. I have him but Eriksen captain, hoping for a blank.

    8. Darth_Krid
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Should clarify a couple of rivals have used TC so there’s that as well as the wider EO issue.

  10. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Salah & Coutinho spotted getting out of taxi in Burnley, no room on coach

  11. Dreaming of glory
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Wish i had done couts > son now instead of haz. Thought salah would be out so couts would def olay. Ah well see how things pan out

  12. tommills
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    I didn't triple captain Kane. Had my finger hovering over the game chip even at 11.29! Has the possibility of being the best or worst fantasy football decision I've made in a long time. What has everyone else done?

    1. Rik Waller
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Won't be the worst. Be more opportunities don't worry. Imagine Salah on a DGW

      1. tommills
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Good point thanks Rik

    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Even if he scores well, you'll have the captaincy points. Two thirds of anyone who TCs.

      A massive proportion will have gone with Kane today, so the variance is low.

      If you TC someone where there's more options that week, the variance and possible rank jump could end up being a lot greater.

      1. tommills
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Great point, I guess the triple captain chip is always a bit of a lottery. My preference is to use it as a differential

    3. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      You could have done it and taken it away.

      See how it fits. I genuinely do that with captaining players. The C makes it more real.

  13. barracuda
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Is it me or Ben Crabtree is having a blinder? Can't believe he has been struggling so much.

    1. Spike ⚽️
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Having a stinker you mean?

      1. barracuda
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Sorry, it meant to be sarcastic...

    2. Rik Waller
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Doesn't blinder mean good? Having a shocker?

    3. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Doesn't help when you refuse to buy Liverpool players and the best player in the game is from that team.

      1. barracuda
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Can't believe he has decided to go that route..Madness

    4. Hibbo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Who cares how he's doing tbh.

      Him, Ville Ronke, Jay Eg, seriously who cares?

      1. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        You must be fun at parties

        1. Pierce34
          • 8 Years
          6 years, 3 months ago

          So 'fun at parties' means discussing Ville Ronka and Jay all the time? 😉

          1. Wild Rover
            • 13 Years
            6 years, 3 months ago

            Haha 😀

          2. Hibbo
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            6 years, 3 months ago

            Exactly being a FPL nerd is bad enough but being one that obsesses about the transfer of other players in the game that they don't even know is just weird.

            What did Mark do? Who cares.

            What did Jay do? Took Kane out for a hit because he's a cabbage and bought Bony.

            Who cares.

        2. Hibbo
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          6 years, 3 months ago

          I am indeed.

          I don't feel the need to sniff the arseholes of other grown men.

          1. Wild Rover
            • 13 Years
            6 years, 3 months ago

            So you’re not fun at all then? 😛

  14. Hotdogs for Tea
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Sold Salah for Eriksen .... fed up having big hitters on my bench

    1. STEP rOVERS
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Lol

    2. Iceball
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Did the same, will get him back in 2-3 weeks

  15. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Wow.

    Turns out Coutinho and Salah have been carrying the entire Liverpool team and the coach.

    1. barracuda
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Salah on one knee 😉

  16. Jairzinho
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Salah and Coutinho not playing

  17. bobbyt1
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    A) Christensen + Pogba
    B) Alonson + Lingard

    Cheers

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Cup games between now and next Gw. Alot could happen.

    2. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      B

    3. Jairzinho
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Allen, Son + Lingard looks better to me

    4. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      b

  18. #FPLBhuna
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Nooooooooooooo... arter off... ffs Howe... SAID NO ONE EVER

    Lol.

  19. Whats the Huth
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    This is a huge week for me in my ML.
    I am praying for a Jones start.
    Arsenal goal. And hudds goal.

  20. HD7
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    To all of us who still have the 3 chips:

    Free hits is for around February March where there should be a GW with only 4-5 matches like last year? (Reas something about GW 31)

    Bench Boost obviously around the end of the season where there is always a big DGW?

    Triple Captain is more interesting though... I would have put it on Kane for GW 22 because he has the form and the fixtures... however the matches are very close to each other and this illness...

    If we are playig Bench Boost around the end season, will we have other chances for Triple Captain?

    1. tommills
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      Great points, I worry I will run out of opportunities to use the triple captain effectively. I didn't use it on Kane for this game week based on the illness concern, what did you do?

      1. HD7
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 3 months ago

        Just Captained Kane

    2. doy
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      DGW34 usually

  21. yakirh
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Liverpool lineups up yet?

    1. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      no

  22. Whats the Huth
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Team news time

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

      Nervous

  23. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    BOBBY BENCH

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

      Really?

  24. BrockLanders
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Where's me Daniels assy??

  25. Syd.
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Teeth on the bench

  26. Kuneshwar
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Firmino benched..

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

      Noooooo

  27. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Has there ever been a treble GW? What would need to happen... imagine TC in a TGW!

    1. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      there was one once

    2. Celt Abroad
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 3 months ago

      It happened once, for Birmingham. Everyone captained Nicola zigic, who scored 2 points three times.

  28. rivercityransom
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    salah and coutinho out of squad, firmino benched

  29. Grand Thibauto
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    No firmino, Coutinho

  30. Hotdogs for Tea
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 3 months ago

    Scenes