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Sky Fantasy Football Arrives At The Scout

We’re delighted to announce that the Sky Fantasy game will be our second supported game this season, with an official Fantasy Football Scout League now open, complete with a rather nice prize for the winner.

The Scout League will go hand in hand with an array of coverage of the Sky Fantasy game for the upcoming season. You may have missed Sky’s early launch last week: the headlines are, the game is free to play and there’s £25,000 for the overall winner.

Over the season, we’ll be producing a weekly focus on the movers and shakers within the Scout League, giving airtime to those at the top of the leaderboard and the standout performers in any given Gameweek.

Prior to the big kick-off, we’ll also delve into the rule set and roll out our analysis of player picks over the next few weeks before the season gets underway on Saturday August 18.

As far as prizes go, the overall Scout League winner will pick up a Samsung Blu Ray home cinema system worth up to £600 – not to be sniffed at. We’re also hoping to get a monthly prize sorted, too; stay tuned for more on that.

For now, though, why not join myself and Mark on the ladder – the league is “FFScout” and the Pin is 8004519. We’ll add details for both in the middle column of the homepage. Click here to get involved.

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  1. applebonkers
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    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    i like to think the official fpl twitter account only published these 3 prices to stick 2 fingers up at the fraudulant @fpl1213.

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    1. Tommytour
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      Christ I'm sad, I'm looking forward to tomorrows 3!

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    2. heco87
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      Great marketing ploy - get loads more followers, work the addicts up into a frenzy etc

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  2. Chazza
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    11 years, 11 months ago

    Sky game forces an interesting compromise between DMs and AMs. And only 11 players means no defensive rotation/big points on the bench headache. Not to mention the limit of transfers per month and season means this is a satisfactory differential to the FPL game.

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    1. Manani
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      user interface is crap though.
      not very user friendly.

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      1. Chazza
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        I don't find it a problem at all, to be honest.

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        1. Manani
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          maybe just me then

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    2. HuttonDressedasLahm
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      Love the two BPs for 60+ passes.
      Welcome to my team Britton, Yaya, AWilliams, Arteta

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  3. LOL LINGARD SCORED
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    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Guys, how do you add a picture to your profile?

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    1. LOL LINGARD SCORED
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      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      nvm, got it.

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    2. riot
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      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Google Gravatar 😀

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    3. Gimli son of Gloin
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      Go to gravatar.com

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  4. The Mighty Slovenian
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    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    This is 2012. What kind of a game limits participant countries to only England and Ireland?!?

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    1. Manani
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      racist *cough*

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      1. LOL LINGARD SCORED
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        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Yeah you would think they'd be more open

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    2. riot
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      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      What...?

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      1. The Mighty Slovenian
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        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        I was actually looking forward to fill some time with Sky fantasy until I got an error that I chose the wrong country.

        Why on earth can you choose from all countries in the world in the dropdown, if they don’t allow you to take part unless you’re from England/Ireland? It’s like they’re deliberately mocking me :p

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        1. riot
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Oh 😮

          That's shit, I presumed once they let me pick Ireland you could pick anything outside the UK....

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          1. The Mighty Slovenian
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            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Me too, considering they are offering for you to choose from all those countries 🙂

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    3. Scroobius Mac
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      It's to do with betting laws I believe.

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      1. The Mighty Slovenian
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        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Does fantasy football fall under betting laws?

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        1. pompeyfan
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          anything with cash prizes does.

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  5. afishyfish
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    11 years, 11 months ago

    I hope this doesn't dilute the persistently excellent coverage of the fpl (real) game.
    I fear it may.

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    1. Chazza
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Doubt it, it's the equivalent coverage of the Metro game last season i.e. kept well below FPL.

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      1. afishyfish
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        11 years, 11 months ago

        I hope you're right

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  6. Oliver Reed
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    11 years, 11 months ago

    ark at FPL teasing us with some player prices. Pog at 5m and a dgw is a no brainer. Same cd be said for Hazard at 9.5m..

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    1. Manani
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      great minds 😀
      see below

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  7. Manani
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    11 years, 11 months ago

    so anyone planning to get pog for the 1st GW?

    have a dgw and only cost 5.0m, great bench folder

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    1. Derailed Bandwagon
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      Not sure yet. Depends on other prices. Certainly one to consider.

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    2. Tommytour
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Dont like to bench a striker though and your GW3 team will struggle if going with 3 Chelsea also?
      Chelsea away looks like 2 points to me.

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      1. Manani
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        11 years, 11 months ago

        fair enough

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        1. Tommytour
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          But 5m is tempting, I'll give you that

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    3. The Finnisher
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      I dunno - his record his pretty hopeless. Hasn't scored over 8 goals in a season in 6 years.
      Although he did alright for Fulham.

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    4. Tiki-Taka
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      why do reading have DGW so early? who else has any? thanks

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  8. The Mighty Slovenian
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    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    I was actually looking forward to fill some time with Sky fantasy until I got an error that I chose the wrong country.

    Why on earth can you choose from all countries in the world in the dropdown, if they don't allow you to take part unless you're from England/Ireland? It's like they're deliberately mocking me :p

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    1. The Mighty Slovenian
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      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Sorry, double post ...

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  9. LOL LINGARD SCORED
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    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    I was planning on including all those 3 in my quad anyway so that tweet was useful 🙂 so far spent around 91m based on assumptions but still got 2 defenders to decide on :-s

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  10. Oliver Reed
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    ive decided on a name for my team 'tenacious clagnuts' thoughts..?

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    1. riot
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      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Tenacious Pognuts

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  11. Bøwstring The Carp
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Hey guys you know I'm not one to BS, just checked my email from my reply to the support centre:

    "Hi Matt,

    Thank you for your interest in the game.

    The 2012-13 season will be coming online over the course of this week or so. The season starting deadline will be the 18th August at 11:30. By this time no more changes can be made to affect your team for gameweek 1.

    Please contact us back if you have any more queries.

    Regards,
    Fantasy Support"

    Could be out before Monday?

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    1. riot
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      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Let's all join hands and pray...

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    2. emperikal
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Ya looks like a lot of people have gotten that same template reply.

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    3. LOL LINGARD SCORED
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      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Nice 🙂

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    4. The Light Knight
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      I'd say so. FFS has set a fire under them by adding Sky due to their early release. Well played Mark 😉

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    5. Manani
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      keyword: or so.....

      so probably early next week?

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    6. Derailed Bandwagon
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      Quite a few have had this email aswell. The problem is there have been so many different verdicts sent out, im not convinced even they know when it will be ready.

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      1. heco87
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        11 years, 11 months ago

        +1

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  12. The Light Knight
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    11 years, 11 months ago

    How much are people roughly planning on spending on their defenders?

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    1. Tommytour
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      4.5 - 4.5
      7 - 4.5 - 4.5 - 4.5 - 4.5

      Better be some good 4.5 defenders is all I've got to say

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      1. The Light Knight
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        So long as you think Norwich, Reading and Wigan defenders are good 😉

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        1. Tommytour
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Wigan and QPR ill dabble at

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    2. FORCA INTER
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      i will have at least 2 expesive defenders

      UTD+city and 3 cheapos

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    3. The Finnisher
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      34M or less.

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      1. The Finnisher
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        😳 that's with keepers.

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        1. The Light Knight
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          🙂 I didn't see you going quite so heavy back there although my back 5 could be pretty close to that

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    4. LOL LINGARD SCORED
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      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Hopefully going with...

      Kompany, Evra, Fabio, Vertonghen & Ashley Willams.

      Might switch Evra to Rafael tho when he's recovered from the Olympics and free up some dosh.

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      1. Tommytour
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        So 31m on defence!!!!

        7.5, 7, 5, 6.5, 5

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    5. heco87
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      £6.5, £5.5, £5.0, £4.5, £4.0 = £25.5m or thereabouts.

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    6. Gimli son of Gloin
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Vertongen, Best valued Utd or City defender, and 3 4.5's.
      De Gea and a 4.0 in goal.

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  13. FORCA INTER
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    11 years, 11 months ago

    hopefully fpl open before baines sign with UTD

    Jelavic will taking pens when Banies leave Everton and he will offer fantastic valute agin

    Everton is ready to sign Pranjic as free player when baines go to UTD

    all 3 of them will be main part of my team at the start of the season i think

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  14. Bøwstring The Carp
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    11 years, 11 months ago

    Doosra if you're around, I think you could quite possibly be right about Fri 13th 😉

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    1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Indeed. Happy days!!! The Parm Tree also said this ... 😀

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  15. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Diaby

    Can he stay fit? Is he likely to start if he can?

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    1. SuperDunny - Used to be goo…
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      I would have thought so. I really like him as a player, seems to have a bit of everything

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    2. Ginkapo FPL
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Arsenal have a lot of players in the midfield now.

      Arteta, Song, Wilshere would appear to be the first choice trio. But Diaby could throw a spanner in the works, along with an on form Rosicky and Ramsey isnt exactly poor.

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  16. Ginkapo FPL
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    11 years, 11 months ago

    That is a nice cow

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    1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Skin it, gut it and hang it for a month.

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      1. Ginkapo FPL
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        It was one of the farm decorations on the Tour de France.

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        1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
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          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          😆 Well, that's what the French would do too ... 😉

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  17. PintPounders
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    when is the main game launching?

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    1. Derailed Bandwagon
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      The honest answer? No one knows. Not today, unlikely to be tomorrow, could be friday or any time after that.

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    2. Tommytour
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      It launched today, you have a choice between Hazard, Park and Pog.

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  18. @banterburyH2H
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    anyone getting this come up ? https://users.premierleague.com/PremierUser/account/register.html

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    1. riot
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      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Yep

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      1. @banterburyH2H
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        its not showing on link but its ask me register and when i sumit goes to maintenance page ??

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    2. pompeyfan
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      yes

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  19. LOL LINGARD SCORED
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    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Anyone have any idea how much El Ahmadi might cost?

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    1. pompeyfan
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      too much. avoid

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    2. Tommytour
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      He could be on tomorrows pricing?

      Hopefully not

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      1. pompeyfan
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        lol, that would be a let down!

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  20. chocolove
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    test

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  21. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Sky

    If you had Hart in goal would you double up with Kompany or get Vidic?

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    1. Tommytour
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Kompany for the first 10 fixtures then swap

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    2. Derailed Bandwagon
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      vidic

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      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Tommy wins on rank (and reasoning).. Thanks both

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        1. Tommytour
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Wooo first 3 points of the season

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  22. FORCA INTER
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    does scouts updating ticker sometimes?

    i bought my 1st memb so i have no clue how ticker works

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    1. Tommytour
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      They sure do, don't ask me when though

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    2. ★FC Borecelona★
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Yeah, they regularly update it

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  23. China Mag
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    By the sound of Pardew's press conference, we are not going to be bringing many in this summer. But i'll be happy with just debuchy (wishful thinking), and a back up centre back and forward. IF we keep hold of everybody.

    It looks to me like our seasons success will hinge on how many of the youngsters can step up. Expect to see much more of ferguson (yes, that one), vukic, abeid, sameobi, and tavernier this season. Doubt any will get enough game time to be of interest in fpl, but i'll be keeping an eye in case of any injuries!! I'd much prefer we play some of these lads over raylor and squidward to be honest!!

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    1. riot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      We seem to be in the running for everyone, not to mention the entire French team. But we're not really doing much conclusive buying...

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    2. pompeyfan
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      good, hands off Anita! 😉

      Not a bad idea when u have the likes of Marveaux still to come in. Although Douglas would've been a good signing

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      1. China Mag
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        I'm still hopeful on Douglas.

        I think anita is too expensive for us. We were probably hoping to get him on the cheap. Jonas can play centre mid. Perchinio did well centre mid at the end of last season, and I expect mehdi abeid to step up. Also it seems the pardew has high hopes for bigirama.

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        1. pompeyfan
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Pardew mustve been crazy thinking he could land an established first team regular for a title winning, regular in the CL team, on the cheap.

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          1. Shanty Toon
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            It's just our transfer policy these days. Get young, talented and established players in on the cheap with the view to make a profit in the next few seasons. I reckon it'll be a while till be see a £10mil+ deal for NUFC, unless we get De Jong but that looks highly unlikely now.

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          2. heco87
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            "A shy bairn gets nowt" 🙂

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            1. China Mag
              • 13 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              My current favourite phrase!!

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  24. Soidisant
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Can you not change your team name in the Sky game? Made a typo and now can't see where to edit or delete my team

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  25. isacki: full casual
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    I go offline for 30 mins after a week of FPL stalking and 3 real player prices are given out officially!

    Definitely a regular feature set to return tomorrow. Since it's high-mid-low let's try and get as many questions answered as possible - we need the 3 to be Aguero, Sess (mid or forward) and Evans.

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    1. FORCA INTER
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      where you can see those players prices?

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      1. Tommytour
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Twitter

        Hazard 9.5
        Park 6
        Pog 5

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        1. FORCA INTER
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          i am not on twwiter

          can you give me some link?

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          1. Tommytour
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Previous page

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    2. The Light Knight
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Watched pots and all that 😉

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    3. Tommytour
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Why Evans? Im definitely staying clear of him until injuries

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    4. heco87
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Go offline again?

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  26. Mílanista
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    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    In my email to FPL I asked if they could release player prices if they were finalised, say via Twitter. Now if only they could provide a link to the lot rather than teasing us with 3.

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    1. Tommytour
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      I tweeted a full list of prices would be nice

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      1. Mílanista
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        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        I was about to ask for someone on Twitter to do this 🙂

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  27. Drip Doctor
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    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Why the hell would anyone want to know Parks price? They are taking the piss.

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    1. The Light Knight
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Best player at a supposedly up and coming team. As Isacki says above, they seem to be giving one expensive, one mid range and one cheapie so they can drag it out for a week or two

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    2. Shanty Toon
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Really? You can't see any reason why people would be interested in Park's price?

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  28. Conrad.
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    does anyone know why we dont run our own FPL?

    just need a committee of people to pick prices and also a keen computer programmer to put it all together. i feel like this community has those capabilities for sure. also, we'd have finished the game and opened it by now!

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    1. Gargamel
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      I could probably build one, but what would be the great point with it when there are already many different games out there?

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    2. Elniñorules
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      only difference we won't be paid for the work.

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  29. LOL LINGARD SCORED
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    So who's everyone's preferred striker of choice?

    I can't see Van Persie repeating last years season if he does stay in the Premier League. I really want Torres to do well but it's a gamble as always.

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    1. The Light Knight
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Kun

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    2. Gimli son of Gloin
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Aguero and Rooney.
      Pog 3rd striker if he really is 5.

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      1. LOL LINGARD SCORED
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        How much you reckon Aguero and Rooney are gonna be?

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  30. Funkyav
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Dear All those at FPL towers,

    Pull your finger out of your Ass and get the game live. Last season you royally screwed the whole thing up so you would think this season you would be looking to make amends.

    Yours

    A FPL Addict.

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    1. Elniñorules
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Imagine them repying toy woth that very finger 😉

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    2. Tommytour
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Going with a subtle approach then?

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    3. Derailed Bandwagon
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      😆

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    4. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      *Arse

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