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Adam Earns Two-Match Ban

22 February 2011 644 comments
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Charlie Adam has this evening earned his tenth booking of the season, a pointless yellow card for a late challenge on Tottenham’s Michael Dawson in a 3-1 win – he will now face an immediate two-match ban. Adam will miss Blackpool’s next two league matches at Wolves and at home to Chelsea.

This comes as a major blow for Fantasy Managers who already face the tough task of getting a full starting XI out for gameweek 28 given the blank fixtures for Arsenal, Spurs and Birmingham. With an ownership of 37% in the Fantasy Premier League game, Adam could now be forced out of many a Fantasy squad through pure necessity.

It’s worth considering that, on Adam’s return from suspension, Blackpool face two straight away games – a pair of tough encounters at Fulham and Blackburn. Following that however, Adam and Blackpool have an incredible run of four consecutive home matches with Arsenal, Newcastle, Wigan and Stoke all due at Bloomfield Road. It could well be feast and famine when it comes to Adam’s prospects then.

Adam opened the scoring from the spot in tonight’s 3-1 for Blackpool and is expected to in amongst the FPL Bonus points once again.

Full Scout notes on tonight’s match will follow.

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

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  1. Jinswick
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    What's better for GW28:

    a) Cahill
    b) D Silva.

    Then for GW29, depending on the above choice

    a) Cahill, Saha & Carr
    b) Silva, Saha & Gardner

    a) or b) peeps?

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    1. Jinswick
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      boo the lack of reply - anyone? annnyyyone?

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  2. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    CRICKET

    Where are all the Fantasy Cricket managers? Next game between Pakistan & Kenya is about to start.

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    1. pompeyfan
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      Pakistan batting first

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      1. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        Might watch a few overs then.

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    2. Chucky77
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      Khan, Gul (c), and Tikolo in action for me

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  3. George Agdgdgwngo
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    Guys can anyone suggest what transfer to do this week:-

    Begovic, Foster
    Coleman, R Johnson, Kelly, Huth, Kolarov
    Cahill, Nani, Adam, Fab, Barton
    RVP, Odewingie, Tevez

    I have 1 free transfer and £4.5m in the bank. i'm contemplating doing

    Fab & Odewingie > Arteta & Rooney.

    Or I could just do RVP > Rooney,

    or even R Johnson > Rapheal

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    1. Kings of Lyon ★
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      I like the Fab & Odem - Arteta and Rooney. I wouldnt touch rafeal, with the potential rotation. and I think RVP is a fantasy goldmine.... when he plays

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    2. Putherover
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      I'd do the first one, a 4 point hit will be a minimum most players will do in gw28, keep RJ for next few weeks, Arteta on pens

      Don't know if you have money in the bank but Can you do RVP + Adam > Arteta & Rooney?

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  4. matiakez
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    Annoyingly i'm going to have to keep Odem these week grr!

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  5. Chucky77
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    Khan, Gul (c), and Tikolo in action for me.

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    1. Chucky77
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      oops reply fail

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    2. jimnastics
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      I've got Hafeez(c), Shehzad and Gul. Obviously relying on a massive opening partnership!

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      1. Boom!!!
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        only tikolo playing without captain ðŸ™

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        1. pompeyfan
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 20 days ago

          I've got Khan, Rehman & Afridi (c). Come on boom boom!

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        2. jimnastics
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 20 days ago

          Who did you captain??

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          1. Boom!!!
            • 15 Years
            15 years, 20 days ago

            the cricinfo site was not working for me all day ðŸ™

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  6. Kings of Lyon ★
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    I sold barton for 4.6 on my WC in GW26 and now im looking at buying back for 5.0. God damn.

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  7. tosey
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    anybody want to lend me 0.1m? i can give it back to you start of next season?

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    1. Boom!!!
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      only if u can lend me 0.2 😉

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    2. Kings of Lyon ★
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      i'l charge you interest of 0.05 per month, (rounding up)..

      What you planning to do ?

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      1. tosey
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        im taking a 12 point hit

        bringing rooney and tevez in for rvp and defoe

        then have 12.4 for 2 midfielders, any ideas on the options below?

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        1. SackWenger
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 20 days ago

          Our sides are quite similar and didn't need the Adam suspension last night too.

          I wonder whether Giggs is an option as one of those midfield slots, but the main point in responding is to say that regardless of 4pt hits it is essential to attempt to field an eleven and if that means a 12pt hit for 4 transfers than that should be done.

          Think of it as no-one is available. You would make 11 transfers at a 40pt hit as the majority of weeks you score more than 40. Far better than scoring nil.

          If you take that principle and consider that the defenders don't need changing around, then you are making 4 transfers in key positions and most likely bringing big hitters from big clubs with either double gameweeks, double gameweeks to follow or good fixtures, then I'm sure that although 12pts is a kick in the nuts, it is a short term kick and it is far better an option than to field 7 players. With Van Persie's injury doubts and Defoe's non existent form (I thought it was worth a gamble too) then the switch to Rooney and Tevez is obvious.

          You could lose ground making the hits, but you most certainly will fielding 7 players.

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          1. tosey
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 20 days ago

            martin b.....agree 100%

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          2. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 20 days ago

            Nice one, Martin B! 🙂 +42

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  8. Demí
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    Line-ups

    Mohammad Hafeez, Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Akmal†, Younis Khan, Umar Akmal, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi*, Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul, Shoaib Akhtar, Abdur Rehman

    SR Waters, MA Ouma†, CO Obuya, SO Tikolo, T Mishra, RR Patel, JK Kamande*, TM Odoyo, NN Odhiambo, SO Ngoche, E Otieno

    No Saaed Ajmal for Pakistan

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    1. Boom!!!
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      😆 @ priest bros. 😉

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    2. jimnastics
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      Obviously not risking Ajmal's dodgy finger.

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      1. pompeyfan
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        I have a feeling some of us are going to be running low on transfers soon in our quest to keep near the top of the FFS leaderboard.

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        1. Boom!!!
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 20 days ago

          i will go down and down after today's match all thanks to the crap site 😥

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          1. pompeyfan
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 20 days ago

            Its swings and roundabouts tho, you will have extra transfers for another match which some others may not have representation in. This may not be the worst match to miss out on..

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  9. griff
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    Lennon and Adam out for Cahill and Downing?

    Or go for another Man U midfeilder?

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  10. Sess!
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    Anyone else can't wait for the end of the match tonight and this gw to be over?!

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    1. Kings of Lyon ★
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      This has been my favourite GW

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      1. tosey
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        itll be good for me if fabs does well tonight

        defoe has put a dampener on it! still cant slag him off tho after he got me 50pts against wigan last season

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        1. Sess!
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 20 days ago

          I've had an ok gw. On 85 at mo with fabs and djourou to play but still, you've got to admit it's dragged on a bit!

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          1. Kings of Lyon ★
            • 15 Years
            15 years, 20 days ago

            It has, but march doesnt look like its going to be any more exciting.

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            1. Sess!
              • 15 Years
              15 years, 20 days ago

              That's true enough. Oh well onwards and upwards.

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    2. jimnastics
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      Djourou and Fabs(c) could hammer this GW home for me, I'll be honest I've had a good one so far.

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      1. Woy of the Wovers
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        Much the same here. I've fallen back a little relative to the league leaders and that's all down to leaving Nani on the bench.

        And points from Fabregas tonight will bring those points back

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  11. tosey
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    12.4m for 2 midfielders

    a) nolan/etherington?
    b) young/4.3midfielder to bench most weeks
    c) arteta/vaughan
    d) something else

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    1. Kings of Lyon ★
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      Young & Ferguson would have been ideal mate 🙠I would look for something else. I think barton & nolan would be too much and I dont rate vaughan or arteta.

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      1. tosey
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        the reason for nolan is that they have 4 nice games that take me up to gwk32 when adam begins his nice run of home matches, from then on in adam and barton rotate well

        plus barton would be my cheap option so apart from this week i probably wouldnt start both of them

        nolan at home to his old club this weekend is tempting me

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    2. Putherover
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      Gutierrez+Fellaini/Fletcher

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    3. Boom!!!
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      A if u can get ethers...u already have 3 stoke players?

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      1. tosey
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        o yeh sheeeet didnt think about that!!!

        hmmm back to the drawing board

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  12. Rafiki
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    Is young close to a suspension with 8 yellow cards? I'm thinking of either getting him or downing.

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  13. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 20 days ago

    Why are so many buying in Rooney the night before a CL game? Would have been really annoyed if he had gone up last night.

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    1. tosey
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 20 days ago

      im guna bring him in straight after the game if he doesnt get injured

      man city also have to play 2moro aswell and loads are bringing in tevez

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      1. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        +1 Rooney.

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      2. Sess!
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        Yeah think I'm going to succumb and bring in rooney. With most people struggling to field 11, it's effectively like having an extra player with their dgw

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  14. Mak_Gold
      15 years, 20 days ago

      Al-Habsi,
      Rafael,Coleman,Kelly,Simpson,
      Nani,Brunt,Adam,VdV,
      Tevez,Odemwingie.

      Subs: Foster,Djourou,Fabs,RVP.(2.5 in bank)

      Which is the best transfer option?:

      A) Adam->Meireles,VdV->Cahill.

      B) A + Al-Habsi->Begovic for -4.

      C) Fabs->Meireles,VdV->Cahill,Odemwingie->Berbatov/Rooney for -4.

      P.S.: Despite Adam's 8 pointer last night,my ranking fell(and this is despite the fact that auto subs haven't yet been processed,for all those who have Nani on the bench.)Can someone explain this curious occurrence to me?Cheers.

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      1. Ancelottery
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 20 days ago

        People obviously had more than Adam playing. I.e. If they had Adam and Gallas, they'll go above you! 🙂

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        1. Boom!!!
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 20 days ago

          gallas 😆

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        2. Ancelottery
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 20 days ago

          Oh and in answer to your transfers. I've taken out VDV as he said on twitter 2 days ago that he's had a set back and wont be back for 2 weeks.

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          1. Christina.
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 20 days ago

            He tweeted yesterday that he is def back for the Wolves game.

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          2. Sess!
            • 15 Years
            15 years, 20 days ago

            Cheers for this info. I was already leaning towards taking him out over adam as he's due to drop in price and there's no way he's gonna be risked against wolves with ac 3 days later so effectively he's out of the next two games as well

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            1. Sess!
              • 15 Years
              15 years, 20 days ago

              Ha ha, twatter. Don't you just love it.

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            2. Christina.
              • 16 Years
              15 years, 20 days ago

              After their loss last night I wonder if Harry won't "throw him to the Wolves"...

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              1. Mak_Gold
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  🙂

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          3. Mak_Gold
              15 years, 20 days ago

              But still,if you see a red arrow on the night despite an 8 pointer from Adam and when the other most popular player,VdV was crocked,there's nothing much you can do.

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          4. Boom!!!
            • 15 Years
            15 years, 20 days ago

            vdv to cahill
            adam to jarvis
            i don't think miereles will continue to score points and westham (A) and manutd (h)...i will stay away from him...

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            1. Mak_Gold
                15 years, 20 days ago

                Cheers,BOOM!!

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              • Mak_Gold
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  And what about the GK,mate?Do AH->Begovic for -4? Or maybe Odemwingie->Gyan or someone like that?Sick of seeing that useless Oddthingy in my team.Can't wait to get rid.

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                  1. Boom!!!
                    • 15 Years
                    15 years, 20 days ago

                    al-habsi could get 2-3 points on saves...i don't think hit for a keeper will work unless it is a dgw keeper and gyan is away to everton this week...gyan fixtures are not good until gw 32 so stay away from him atm...
                    keep money in the bank and upgrade wingie to saha/zigic in gw29...

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                    1. Mak_Gold
                        15 years, 20 days ago

                        Cheers.

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              • hillbillypete
                • 16 Years
                15 years, 20 days ago

                Only 8 starters this week now but don't really want to get rid of my Arsenal players or Adam. Lennon will be going tho.

                Anyone playing an under strength team or just taking hits?

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                1. Ancelottery
                  • 16 Years
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  I'm playing 10, and thats with a 4 point hit. I blame Adams.

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                2. tosey
                  • 16 Years
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  im taking a 12 point hit

                  as i wouldnt field 3 players without it its effectively a 6 point hit

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                  1. Christina.
                    • 16 Years
                    15 years, 20 days ago

                    Im using 2 free transfers to field 10 players. Not playing a keeper though.

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                3. SackWenger
                  • 16 Years
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  See my post further up.

                  0pts with no players playing or 40pt hit to field an eleven.

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                  1. Putherover
                    • 15 Years
                    15 years, 20 days ago

                    just read your post up the page, think your right, point hit wildcard here i come

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                    1. Woy of the Wovers
                      • 15 Years
                      15 years, 20 days ago

                      There are lots of players who won't score 4pts or more. The argument works for key players but not for marginal ones.

                      Considering the fixtures for Arsenal and Tottenham and the DGW for birmingham, there are arguments in favour of keeping some players rather than taking hits for what would be a short term gain.

                      At least consider things over a longer timescale before going straight to the transfer button. Otherwise, that 4pt hit might end up giving you another 4pt hit in a few weeks.

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                4. Kings of Lyon ★
                  • 15 Years
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  I can field 11 with no hits.

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              • Kings of Lyon ★
                • 15 Years
                15 years, 20 days ago

                Just checked and Barton is on 8 yellows... only two away from a two match ban. here hoping he picks up his 10th GW31

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                1. tosey
                  • 16 Years
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  7 according to FPL
                  nolan on 8

                  ??

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              • Sess!
                • 15 Years
                15 years, 20 days ago

                New post

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              • @FuzzyWarbles
                • 15 Years
                15 years, 20 days ago

                thinking of transfer plans that requires a look ahead at GW29s starters. How do you rank these players?

                a) Huth (whm)
                b) Simpson (EVE)
                c) Kelly (MUN)
                d) Brunt (bir)
                e) Rooney (liv)

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                1. @FuzzyWarbles
                  • 15 Years
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  new post? ok moving this question to new post.

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              • Mak_Gold
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  Boom,if you are still there,how about Adam->Jarvis,Fabs->Cahill and Odemwingie->Berba for -4??Because the lads above were saying that VdV will return against Wolves and as it is Fabs is performing below his level.I'll be getting Nasri in the next 2-3 weeks,but in the meantime why not buy Berba considering he has a DGW?There's the risk of him being benched against Chelsea,but if he starts he's certainly worth considering.

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                • Shteve
                  • 16 Years
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  Thoughts on following 2 transfers so I can have 11 starting:

                  Fabregas - T. Cahill
                  Adam - A. Young

                  It would cost me 4pts

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                • Jonah
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 15 Years
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  Who's a better pairing, if I really want to keep them from now until the end of the season.

                  a) Foster and Djorou

                  b) Sczesney and Kelly.

                  Answers on a postcard, please.

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                • applebonkers
                  • Has Moderation Rights
                  • 16 Years
                  15 years, 20 days ago

                  .

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                  1. AP
                    • 16 Years
                    15 years, 20 days ago

                    Hi!

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