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We’ve managed to eek out one final fixture in this heavily truncated gameweek as Manchester City play host to Everton. Carlos Tevez has withdrawn his transfer request, could my prophecy of Friday morning ring true? Chance would be a fine thing.

City then, unsurprisingly, recall their captain and Aleksander Kolarov to the line-up follow suspension (and a hefty portion of drama), while James Milner replaces Nigel De Jong who himself is suspended. David Moyes meanwhile makes two changes as Leon Osman returns from injury to deputise for Stephen Pienaar who picked up a niggle in the week, while also giving another face a chance to shine up front with Victor Anichebe forcing Saha, Yakubu and Beckford to the bench after weeks of paltry returns. Teams in full are..

City XI: Hart; Zabaleta, Toure, Kompany, Kolarov; Milner, Toure Yaya, Barry; Silva, Tevez, Balotelli.

Everton XI: Howard; Neville, Jagielka, Distin, Baines; Coleman, Rodwell, Fellaini, Osman, Cahill; Anichebe.

As per, the Dugout Discussion opens it’s doors once again while we wrap up for the last match prior to Christmas.

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  1. Henry Hill
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    Cahill gets the three bonus points and rightly so!

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  2. Johnny Unitas
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    Jagielka really was a poor purchase this season for me, Baines is far superior for the cash, and like I did Boateng to Kolarov this week for free, I may be doing Jagielka OUT Baines IN soon aswell, annoying to do "sideways" moves but Jagielka has no goal threat as he seems to hang back for all corners (Distin is better in that respect) and with them not keeping clean sheets BP's are out of reach too.

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    1. Boom!!!
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      +1..done nothing apart form bp's in chelsea game...i hope he is not injured.

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  3. Lovely Jubbly Lions
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    anyone know when the subs come off the bench?

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  4. rasher
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    to all u tevez captainers

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAH

    CAHILL CAPTAIN BY DEFAULT..... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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    1. disparate dan - a reasonabl…
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      plus a million

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    2. Long Live King Eric
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Can I hazard a guess that your ranking is 500,000th or lower? Yeah? thought so. F.uck of.

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      1. rasher
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        nope.. 18k so up yours! i deserve it after all my poxy captains have been so unlucky hittin the woodwork alot etc..

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  5. Ole Gunnar Kush
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    can someone give me a good reason not to get rafael in for boateng?? who is a better choice than rafael?

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    1. Jairzinho
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Good reason - will Boateng be more likely to start next match with K Toure out the frame? Don't know for sure but just a guess.

      Also I'd wait til Saturday before making any transfers due to snow news. I heard the northwest may get some snow soon.

      I'm thinking about the same transfer as well though.

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    2. Pasqualinho
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Was thinking the same. Good idea.

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  6. Viper
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    Can't believe Distin didn't get any!

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    1. jamsiep
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Me neither. He was excellent.

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    2. Flycroft
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      yeah, he was immense. not complaining though, my cup opponent has him

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    3. Henry Hill
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Who got the 1 point? All i can see is Cahill 3 and Howard 2

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      1. Flycroft
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        silva lol

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  7. SöundLight 30
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    Silva seems to keep getting Bonus points. Trying to decide on bringing in him or YaYa. Can anyone tell me how those two looked tonight?

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    1. Spoiler
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      yaya

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      1. SöundLight 30
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        Thanks for the tip!

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  8. rasher
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    3 BONUS CAHILL YEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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  9. KarachiKid
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    a guy on our league will end up with a score of -4!

    http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/eventhist.mc?id=1077284

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  10. Houdini
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Out of the cup because of Cahill's bonus points and I have him ffs.

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    • Viper
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      I would have been so sick if all matches were played!! Cahill first sub!!

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    • gaspar
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Silva 1 BP?

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      1. PintPounders
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        no idea why, to my eye, I'd go w/ Baines or Distin for the point.

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    • For Fuchs Sake
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      8 points this week!! Wahoo, bring it on baby!!!

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    • jman
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      what happens if my captain and vice captain didnt play? does it keep to the criteria of emergency captain to it finds one?

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      1. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        You get deleted from the game!

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    • People in Preston
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Assuming neither Hart, Kolarov or Tevez score BPs I've won my FPL Cup tie with a (real) football score: 3 - 1

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    • Elts
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Mmm .. currently winning my cup tie 23:22 .. then the emergency captains will kick in .. opponent will (c) Cahill, I will (c) Tevez .. and I exit the cup!

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    • Johnny Unitas
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      My friend hasn't looked at his team in 2 weeks now, Cahill auto (C), good thing I spend so much time on mine! 🙂

      This game is cruel sometimes!

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      1. Johnny Unitas
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        oh, and out of cup, opponent (ranked 937,968 to my 75,000 odd) has Cahill auto (C), double bummie

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        1. njfsdkffslkf
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 3 months ago

          Through in the cup after a 12 point hit at 12 seconds to 11 30 😀

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          1. Johnny Unitas
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 3 months ago

            well played sir

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      2. Granville
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        I have to say this Cahill emergency auto captain is rather sickening, 13 points. In some cases I think he was 5th choice in peoples teams. Some of us who lucked out are going to have massive falls. My rival is going to score 38 points, it's an absolute killer of a gameweek.

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        1. Johnny Unitas
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 3 months ago

          +13 I have yet to be at the receiving end of a frightfully lucky auto captain week, but I look forward to the day, it will make up for all this annoyance

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    • Boom!!!
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      26 points from only 3 players i will take that...

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    • conchur
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      silva?!? poor shout he didnt do an awful lot

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      1. Gargamel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        Complete and utter shit, David Silva.

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        1. jamsiep
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 3 months ago

          hehe, knew you'd love it.

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          1. Gargamel
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 3 months ago

            🙂

            I've come to peace with that he's done alright this season. I think he was very poor today though. Much sideways passing, no end product, never beat his man.

            He did play the nice through ball for the goal of course.

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      2. Boom!!!
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        they usually give atleast 1 bp to useless player so not so surprised...

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    • tosey
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      how did silva get a bp?

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      1. The relentless pursuit of p…
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        No idea, he should not be getting BPs, lots of other players that should rather have gotten BP

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      2. Gargamel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        For doing a very good Joe Cole impersonation

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    • The relentless pursuit of p…
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      So looking at around 20 points this week, I guess thats pretty good right?

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    • Zep
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      It's looking like 36pts for me...

      I gotta be absolutely delighted with that... 🙂

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      1. GirlsJustWanaHaveKun
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        yeah you have...and?

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        1. Zep
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 3 months ago

          No dude, that is all! 😉

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      2. Little Lukin
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        yeah i'm delighted with 38

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        1. Zep
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 3 months ago

          nice score 🙂

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    • KarachiKid
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      chamakh.... I don't need luck! I will win that digi camera will be mine.. 🙂

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    • Ragabolly
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      I am totally against that emergency captain rule !

      I think it is perfectly fair to penalize a person who picked a captain choice that didn't play, by sticking the armband to him, or if he will be substituted, then he should have no captain for that week..

      My rival won my mini-league last year with the aid of very non-playing captains who transfered their captaincy to Lampard, the obvious by value choice, who always scored high...

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      1. Im Not Marshal Foch
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        the 2008/2009 season called… they want their rules back

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        1. Granville
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 3 months ago

          Ah recipient of 13 points.

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      2. jamsiep
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        Amen. The rule sucks, I hate it.

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      3. Somalion
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        Thats fair enough during a normal playing week but you cant expect people to be able to predict what matches will be called off and then penalise them for picking someone whos match was cancelled

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        1. Ragabolly
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 3 months ago

          Now, you penalize only those who don't have the exact good players whose games are not called off. How could you predict that as well?.. same unfairness in abnormal weeks..

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          1. Somalion
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 3 months ago

            I can understand where you're coming from and it is a fair point. If we were given more information and the pitches were assessed a day or two before the deadline then I would agree completely. But they arent, in fact many clubs say that the games will go ahead only to cancel at the last moment. This is unfair to those who have picked captains from these teams and they deserve to be allowed to have their captain change. To anyone who has picked a captain who played and didnt do well then thats a shame and a bit of bad luck but still that was their choice, they didnt have to pick this player. Maybe to make up for this they could introduce a system where, on a week like this, you can choose to allow your captain to change whether or not they played. Sorry for how long that was.

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        2. Jack Frost
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 3 months ago

          Exactly, when the Birmingham website says all along, we will play, then cancels. Good rule on Captains.

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      4. bunk_medal
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        That's fine normally - I probably agree with you - but in this sort of gameweek I don't think it's particularly lucky to get an emergency captain. This is one of the few gameweeks where the emergency captain is fair because it was just random as to which players ended up playing.

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    • rasher
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      look at sven makin excuses 'you got beaten ye old swedish scientist'!

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    • Jafstar - TheRedDevil
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      i just want my points to be properly upgraded this is tense...

      altho im already thru

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      1. rasher
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        yeah im excited to see my captain points from cahill.. 1st proper captain choice in 12 weeks!!! and it was by default haha

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    • disparate dan - a reasonabl…
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      delighted with 36

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    • SNOW
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Lost 40-21 :/

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    • Will
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      20pts for me. Not too terrible from 4 players. And my 4pt hit to bring in Yaya for Jarvis actually ended up paying off, which I really wasn't expecting!

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    • alsybach
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      I have pederson, bent, Tevez (genuine c), Coleman and Kolarov.........my head to head opponent has 1 player playing all week......Tim f*cking Cahill!!!! bye bye!!

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      1. Syd.
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        Now thats what you call a one man team 🙂

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      2. Jake Donahue
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        nae luck

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