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13 August 2011 725 comments
Mark Mark
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While we wait for further information on the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) situation, I thought I’d draw your attention to a recent rule tweak concerning the Bonus Point awards which some of you may have missed.

The FPL rules now state…

“Bonus points will be awarded on the Monday morning after the weekend matches are played. Any matches played on a weekday night will be awarded on the following morning.”

So, just to prevent even more frustration later this evening, we thought we’d make this clear to all in advance. The Bonus Points will be awarded after all the Gameweek action has been reviewed and any scoring issues addressed – which, given that they are now based on a system driven by a statistical index – the EA SPORTS Player Performance Index – is perhaps not surprising.

Fantasy Football Scout will of course be publishing a review of the Gameweek on Monday, discussing the Bonus Points and the EA SPORTS PPI in full.

Later today we also hope to have our first set ICT Scout Index scores available to Members which should offer some guidance on where the Bonus Points are likely to go.

As mentioned in my recent comments in the site earlier this morning, if we can get an update on the FPL situation, we will pass what we can.

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

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  1. Manky Yanc
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    Half a million less players than last season - Hmmm

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    1. Tabasco
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      That's because like me, thousands joined after GW1.

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      1. Manky Yanc
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        500 thousand ?!

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        1. Tabasco
          • 15 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          Probably more by the end of the season lol

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    2. FearTheTurtle
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Thats the casual half million that sign up on Friday.

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    3. McGurn
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      This time last year there was only 1.5 million players. Nearly a million joined late

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      1. Gavin - Gers in turmoil!!!
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Yep numbers at this time up on last year

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      2. Livinginapool - Top 100 Any…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Fancy joining a certain league, McGurn. Fifteen of us so far.

        ...if you've managed to log in, of course.

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      3. Manky Yanc
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Hi Chris - you don't know me, but well done for last year !!

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  2. Out4GoodBehavior
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    1 hour 7 minutes until deadline?

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    1. HST
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I hope your joking or your gonna be very dissapointed.

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      1. Leysh
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        +1 haha

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      2. Arselona
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        lol...
        Don't blow out his beacon of hope

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        1. arsenalrock
          • 15 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          guys, Charlie Sheen has ordered the games to be postponed an extra 24 hours. We still have a bit of time before deadline, it's alright.

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  3. SOM.... This is Fellaini�…
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    My team:

    http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/279/event-history/1/

    Something doesn't look right...

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    1. PFOR
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Very similar mate, good luck.

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      1. PFOR
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Actually not really similar on 2nd thoughts. Like it though.

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      2. SOM.... This is Fellaini�…
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Cheers, you too.

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    2. njfsdkffslkf
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Nice team. Maybe the 20mill leagues your in?

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      1. SOM.... This is Fellaini�…
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Thanks. I have no idea what you mean by ''Maybe the 20mill leagues your in?''

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        1. andy85wsm
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          • 15 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          That's what doesn't look right

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          1. njfsdkffslkf
            • 16 Years
            14 years, 8 months ago

            +1

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          2. SOM.... This is Fellaini�…
            • 16 Years
            14 years, 8 months ago

            Ahh. Meant to leave a few, will when I can sign in.

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            1. Sasquatch
              • 16 Years
              14 years, 8 months ago

              I've left a few of mine involuntarily 😛

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    3. Chinese_person
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      log out!

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    4. HST
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I think it looks very good, I'd be watching Liverpool from behind the sofa though.

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      1. SOM.... This is Fellaini�…
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Twill be a nervy wait alright.

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    5. Damo.
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I know what it is. You couldn't log in to get Shittu out of your team.

      Oh wait that's me.

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  4. chrisr
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    This is the FPL http address when attempting login. How very apt!
    http://fantasy.premierleague.com/?fail

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  5. For Fuchs Sake
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    This is getting silly now!

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  6. Fray Bentos
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    comments still going at 100mph then

    I agonised over RVP or rooney so much! in the end went with rooney. Better fixtures in the first 3 and arsenals morale could be low.

    of course, can always change to rvp but think i'll stick with rooney for now

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    1. HST
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I chose Rooney over RVP as he plays in a much better team.

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      1. Leysh
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        This! 😉

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    2. Countess Weffie von Wobbego…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      And if either Droggy or Torres breaks a fingernail the other will become nailed on.

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    3. Gavin - Gers in turmoil!!!
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I picked RVP as have nani for UTD cover

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  7. Jas aka The age of Ozil is …
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    LINE UPS !!! I NEED LINEUPS!

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  8. Mithrandir, the Grey Pilgri…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    Relieved to read the comments here about getting on the site. I've just woken up, came in from nights this morning and went on with no problems at 06.30 for a last minute think.
    Yet the wifes in a dark mood as shes been trying to do last minute changes and says the sites been down all morning?

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  9. Neddy55
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    I'm filing a class action lawsuit against the Premier League and Barclays. Twenty mill should compensate me for the emotional damage of this morning.

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  10. bhargi
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    Error logging in. Please check your details and try again.
    "I am so frustated"

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    1. slava725
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      ditto..

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      1. RyanP
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        +2

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  11. FUNNY_OLD_GAME
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    is it just people overload or techical issues?

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    1. Loktai
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I would say that with the new site design they have not tested it with 1 million people trying to access it at the same time.

      After this week they will be able to see what caused it and implement a fix. I wouldn't expect it to be sorted this weekend or maybe even next weekend though.

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  12. njfsdkffslkf
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    This is 11. Few risks re starters but its only week 1.

    Given
    Kompany, Enrique,Senderos
    Nani,Lampard,Moses,Silva,Tarrbart
    Dzeko,Suarez(c)

    Ruddy, Gabbidon,Dunne,Graham

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    1. HST
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Different but I like it.

      If Suarez and Senderos don't play you could be in for a pretty rough week, who's your VC?

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      1. njfsdkffslkf
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Silva Vc. I felt it was worth the risk. Dunne and Gabbidon have small bit of potential this week so rolled the dice.

        I have a few options for next week. N zogbia and Drogba/ Sinclair & Bent. Think il take a hit and try cover the 2 nice fixtures while removing the 2 city boys

        Hows your fixed?

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        1. HST
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          Solid reasoning, mine is quite generic however I do think it's the best team I could afford.

          Given,
          Kompany,Lescott,Gabbidon
          Malouda,Silva,Moses,Tarrabbt,Nzogbia
          Rooney(c),Carroll

          Going to change Lescott to a Chelsea defender GW2 when who is playing becomes clearer.

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          1. njfsdkffslkf
            • 16 Years
            14 years, 8 months ago

            Solid team

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    2. andy85wsm
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      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I hope Senderos doesn't play simply because I didn't get him in for that point 🙂

      Nice differentials with Lamps and Dzeko. Dzeko could go mental!

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  13. methos
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    I logged in this morning and have remained logged in ever. I would have gone berserk if I hadn't been able to do some final changes as well. I assume they have restricted the number of people who can login to reduce the server load since the site is really good once you are logged on. Doesn't feel quite right tbh... Not democratic at all.

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    1. methos
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      *have remained logged in ever since

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      1. Davidmon
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        u selfish little bitch! hogging the site! some people were waiting all night and day!

        OJ! good for you

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      2. Chinese_person
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        log out please

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        1. stilicho
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          • 15 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          What difference does it make now?

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          1. Chinese_person
            • 14 Years
            14 years, 8 months ago

            i wanna see the head to head fixtures and teams of others in the league

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            1. stilicho
              • Has Moderation Rights
              • 15 Years
              14 years, 8 months ago

              Aw poor you

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    2. Arselona
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Rank will now be based on internet connection speed.. 🙂

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    3. I've got worms
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      At least you have a fair attitude about it than some smug people on here.

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    4. AIRMILES
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I agree. I was fortunate enough to sort out my team, though I only made two changes this morning. Whilst I think that anyone who hasn't got a reasonably complete starting side by now isn't going to be a contender anyway, I still, like you, think this is very disappointing and not great for the game.

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  14. HST
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    I forgot just what a mong Merson is.

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    1. andy85wsm
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean,

      top 5 player in the world

      I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean,

      good footballer

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      1. HST
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        It's car crash tv, gotta love him though.

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        1. andy85wsm
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 15 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          Yeah cracks me up. Had SSN on the other day when Germany were playing Brazil. Listening to him try and pronounce schweinsteiger's name was brilliant.

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      2. Leysh
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        I had never noticed the "I mean" untill now - thanks for that!

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        1. Bubbles
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          😯 How the hell could you not have noticed that?! There's a good five "I mean"'s per sentence!

          Him trying to pronounce any surname that sounds foreign is pure comedy gold to me.

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          1. Leysh
            • 15 Years
            14 years, 8 months ago

            Because I just don't pay attention to it, it's one of those things. Don't you ever not notice something that someone does until someone mentions it then you can't stop? 😛

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    2. Chinese_person
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Merson is a legend

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      1. Arse Craic
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        +1

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  15. AIRMILES
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    People are going mental on Facebook group, FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE

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    1. Tabasco
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      It's a 3rd of the size, and pants.

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  16. Johnny Unitas
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    I wonder is there anybody actually working for FPL today, surely it's an automatic system, and the staff could hardly be that large for a free game, so all this anger, mine included, is being vented in vain, would be really good to have some kind of explanation from FPL, the site crashing on deadline day, fair enough, over 12 hours before, and where in the weeks leading up to the deadline I was sometimes getting the same error message logging in, they knew it was unstable, and should have acted.

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    1. MCH
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I doubt they let a site with 1.8m users run by itself during its peak usage period.

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  17. roytommy
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    i cant help but think i maybe typing wrong password in- im going mental here!

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    1. AIRMILES
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      You're not. Don't worry.

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    2. Bestplayerintheworld
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      That's what I thought too but I checked my email records and confirmed that I've been using the correct info. But I'm still getting: "Error logging in. Please check your details and try again."

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  18. whatawasteofmoney
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    Found my team trawling the FFS mini-league:

    http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/194356/event-history/1/

    phew, relieved, was a bit sloshed doing it last night. But don't know why I picked Drogba

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    1. AIRMILES
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      How do you crawl through the minileagues? I'm in one called "It's a riot" if you can find it???
      Cheers

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      1. whatawasteofmoney
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Click on my team in the post above. Then on the right, go into the FantasyFootballScout classic league. Then trawl through looking for your team. Took me a bit.

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  19. Soop
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    I called my new league teh fixture mixture 🙂

    Quite pleased with that 😀

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    1. disparate dan - a reasonabl…
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      soop!

      wagwan

      I'm 🙁

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      1. Soop
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        what's up Dan, why are you sad?

        You didn't get the last minute tweaks in?

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          1. Soop
            • 16 Years
            14 years, 8 months ago

            holy shit, you don't even have a team O___O

            Well, hey don't feel down, you've gotten over a 50 point deficit before, right?

            You might not win world #1, but you could easly still get back your mini-league titles!

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  20. Ruud van Kane
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Guys

    Please coment on my team, took me a few weeks to select

    Al Habsi

    salgado Tate J enrique

    Lampard Nani Kuyt Dempsey

    V Persie Bent Tevez

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    1. AIRMILES
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Poor. Sorry, but there's not much positive I can say. Sorry.

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    2. imlegit
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I would change Tevez, Lampard, Kuyt, so expensive for not that many points

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    3. MCH
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Fake team surely

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  21. rm9
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    Hi all,

    It was impossible to log in... 🙁 I left my team like this:

    Kenny (Given)
    Cashley, Kompany, Hughes (Simpson, Wes Brown)
    Silva (c), Moses, Taarabt, NZogbia, Malouda
    Rooney (v), Zamora (Holt).

    Wanted to swap the Holt, Malouda, Simpson trio to Drogba, Dyer, Enrique, but couldn't log in. Would you do that transfer if you could? (Please say no, I'm still pretty mad... 😀 )

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    1. theevilking
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      No

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    2. AIRMILES
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Mate, I managed to log in in order to replace Drogs with Holt, and replace Taraabt with Malouda. So frankly I hope you were fortunate!

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    3. thetinkerman
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      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Wow, closest team I've seen so far to mine. Only differences are Rooney/RVP, Malouda/Lampard and Kenny/Ruddy.

      Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, since I am going to win 😉

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  22. Blue Teets
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    I'm back you barstuards. Although I don't have a team registered for GW1...

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  23. Dave Bauer
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    It's probably my lack of IT knowledge, but why can some people get in and others can't?

    I'm firmly in the can't camp, btw.

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    1. Soop
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Maximum number of users exceeded. If you're in, you're fine. If you log out to help a friend, as I did, you can't get back in.

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      1. Dave Bauer
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Cheers Soop. How are things with you now?

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        1. Soop
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          With Donna? Still a bit odd, we went out last night (she got hit on twice in the 3 minutes it took for me to arrive!) And then she fell asleep in my bed watching rainman.

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          1. Dave Bauer
            • 16 Years
            14 years, 8 months ago

            Yeah with Donna, just wondered how things were as haven't been on here much of late. Sounds like tough times, hang in there.

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    2. pieces
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I am no IT fundi ...but it seems like it will allow a limited no of users on at a time. Once you're in you have no problems at all. I was on this morning, sorted my team out and got off to allow others on. I am now not able to log back on. It seems that they need to disconnect people logged on if there has been no activity for more than 15 min or something like that

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      1. pieces
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Sorry soop repeating what you already said. Started typing reply then got distracted by the kids

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  24. Ruud van Kane
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    un original 3/10

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  25. LMNO
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    I work in high end web development and it's inexcusable for a modern web project to go so badly wrong. This is probably because some half wit web developer failed to properly load test the application. The project was probably developed in an 'agile environment' where no-one takes ownership of the project or gives a damn about users.

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    1. Soop
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      what's worse is, it's not like they didn't know roughly how many people would be using it.

      Loadrunner is expensive though.

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  26. The ghost of a Pug's g…
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    Alright guys let me know what u think...seems pretty generic tho...

    keny (Given) - the first 9 fixtures alternating are amazing

    Kompany Hughes Enrique (De Laet Tate)

    Malouda Moses Taarabt Silva (Sinclair)

    Rooney Carroll(c) Rodallega

    Scores outa ten?

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    1. andy85wsm
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Who cares! You can't change anything now.

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      1. Soop
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        +1

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      2. The ghost of a Pug's g…
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Sorry for using this forum as a forum. i mean i'm just being silly aren't i you massive 8------D

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        1. andy85wsm
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 15 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          You're the know it all pr*ck from last year. Why do you need our advice and opinions when you know everything?

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          1. The ghost of a Pug's g…
            • 15 Years
            14 years, 8 months ago

            Good point. You make sense for a change dandy

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        2. Soop
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 8 months ago

          let's be honest here. Say I say that I don't like it. what will that achieve? Nothing I point out makes any difference now, and in a few hours you'll have proof or not of EXACTLY how good your team was (for GW1 at least).

          We've had about a billion RMTs anyway, and they all look like that one. If you're desperate just find similar teams on previous posts.

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          1. Gavin - Gers in turmoil!!!
            • 15 Years
            14 years, 8 months ago

            +6.5

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    2. AIRMILES
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Mostly good, I think. I have the same strike force and captain, and my only difference in midfield is having N'Zogbia instead of Taraabt (who I replaced this morning with Malouda).

      Didn't clock the Given/Kenny fixtures - went with a more simple Given/Schwarzer.

      Do you think Enrique will play the full match, rather than just make an appearance as a late sub?

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    3. Goodfish
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      I on ze whole is liking, but I am not ze liking Enrique (this week), De Laet (any week), and I am ze thinking that Moses, Taarabt AND Sinclair is a gamble two-times too many.

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      1. The ghost of a Pug's g…
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Are you still selling the caravan?

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  27. pasterofmuppets
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    If you want to ask the FPL sponsors how they feel about being associated with this shambles retweet this. Cheers! http://twitter.com/#!/samroake/status/102354792751439873

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  28. Ruud van Kane
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Guys

    Please coment on my team, took me a few weeks to select

    Al Habsi

    salgado Tate J enrique

    Lampard Nani Kuyt Dempsey

    V Persie Bent Tevez

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    1. Fray Bentos
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 8 months ago

      Tevez?!?!?!?!

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      1. Arselona
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        Easy dude, it took him a few wks...

        😉

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      2. Fray Bentos
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 8 months ago

        oh wait a minute....

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  29. Lovely Jubbly Lions
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 8 months ago

    blimey Paddy Kennys done some weight!

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