Dugout Discussion
3 February 2013 4307 comments
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Gameweek 25 reaches a conclusion with Sunday’s programme, as we’re treated to two televised affairs to round things off. West Brom host Spurs in the lunchtime encounter, with Gareth Bale carrying the Fantasy football hopes for many as he looks to build on his midweek strike at Carrow Road. Later this afternoon, Man City will attempt to close the gap on United after their win at Craven Cottage. Roberto Mancini’s side take on Liverpool at the Etithad, with Fantasy managers scouting for double Gameweek assets as Brendan Rodgers’ side come under the microscope.

Our Dugout Discussion chatroom is now open and will remain so throughout the day to provide another option for those looking to express themselves over the course of the day’s games.

The team news from the Hawthorns finds the home side field both Shane Long and Romelu Lukaku for just the second time this season. Claudio Yacob makes a return from injury to start having returned to the bench in the week, while Steven Reid also gets the nod at right-back: Jerome Thomas and Billy Jones drop to the bench while George Thorne is out through injury. Visitors Spurs are unchanged from the starting XI which took on Norwich in the week; Lewis Holtby again starts on the bench, then, while Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Michael Dawson keep their starts in defence.

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

  1. bennydebull
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Don't feel quite so bad about not having the big Belgian now. A Chichy goal or assist and a brace from Suarez and I'll actually start feeling happy with the week.

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  2. Piggs Boson
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Yesterday i started with 8pts from 1 as well. That must mean i'm getting another 30pts from the remaining games as well :mrgreen:

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

      Boom! Jinxed it

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  3. COMH
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Cote D'Ivoire v Nigeria. Finally an ACON match I can get on board with.

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    1. SW6
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Not interested in Burkino Faso vs Togo? 😉

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      1. COMH
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Em.......em......Na.

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  4. Killitzer
    • 15 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Afternoon all

    Another crappy week courtesy of RVP captain choice but will still keep hold for the time being. Next week am looking at a couple of options for the liverpool/swansea DGW.

    Current team:

    Bego, Fed
    Zab, Apz, O'Brien, Martin R, Mariappa
    Fellaini, Michu (x2), Mata, Walcott, Guthrie
    RVP, Suarez (X2), Giroud

    Apz has to go as Terry is back but was thinking of:

    Apz----> defender £4.6m
    Fellaini----> Gerrard

    Of course next week Gerrard will have to be replaced.

    Any thoughts?

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    1. Corkyote FFS CWC Champion 2…
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Can you afford azpi to Enrique?

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

      Keep Fellaini since you have Suarez. What about Azpi >> Enrique. If you have 2 transfers, what about Fed >> Tremmel ?

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  5. Pat Mustard
    • 15 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Need Aguero & Sturridge to outscore Suarez by 13 to rescue my Cup tie, c'mon.

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    1. Declan-
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      I don't wish you any success in your endeavour

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  6. Tim Canterbury
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Im sick of all my players getting smashed in the face

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

      Ok

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  7. Rossamous
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Breakout game for Aguero to set the world straight

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  8. hnmfm
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Come on Zaba clean sheet and Aguero hattrick all assisted by Zaba 😆

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    1. Piggs Boson
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Spot on.

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      1. Piggs Boson
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Throw a City loss in there somehow as well though.

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      2. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        ^^

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  9. unoaime
    • 15 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    For some stupid reason i benched Anichebe and played Sturridge.

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    1. michudagawd
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      That isn't stupid.

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    2. danishdynamite
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      You'll first know whether it's stupid in 2 hours

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  10. Sting
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    45 transfers, 20k rank here.

    Anyone top that ?

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

      46 transfers, rank 729 before counting this GW points 🙂

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      1. Tatty Bojangles
        • 16 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        DAMN YOU PROFESSOR CHAOS!!!! 🙁

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      2. Thick Of It
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Good going gents

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      3. Sting
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Wow nicely done

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      4. Butters
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        thanks 😀

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    2. Tatty Bojangles
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      31 transfers, 777

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

      Well yeah...20,000 other people.

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      1. Tim Canterbury
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        haha you dont get it do you

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    4. Buck The Trent
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      40 transfers, rank 352

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      1. jayzico
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        wow. that's seriously awesome hit taking skill

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    5. jayzico
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      damn good. 44 transfers here. 37K though

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    6. Mílanista
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Gopher's transfer history is immense. He's top 1k despite taking TWO 20 point hits

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      1. Give The Todd Some Love
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        :O 😯

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        1. Give The Todd Some Love
          • 14 Years
          12 years, 11 months ago

          Damn, I thought :O would make a face

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

            He even got a green arrow with one of them 😆

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      2. AJRRF
        • 16 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        That's just unbelievable...so bold and skilled in using transfers hits.

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    7. thischarmingman
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      what, wait, I'm not doing enough transfers?

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  11. Dial Square
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    60 with 3 to play - I don't really have a comment to make, just boasting 😉

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

      Well done good man.

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

      42 with 0 to play, but 42000 places above you 😉

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      1. Dial Square
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        🙂

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    3. Drogba "Unstoppable, U…
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Nice

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    4. Halftime
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      67 with 2 to play

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  12. GunsnRoses
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Just for the records Bale now has scored 9 goals of his tally of 11 away from Home 😉

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  13. JD_96
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Bale Captain. Woop Woop 😀

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

      Had a threesome last night, "woop woop"

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  14. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Bale has a proper fat lip 🙂

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  15. thischarmingman
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    With that slight knock to his face, Bale looks even more like a cartoon character.

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  16. danishdynamite
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Anyone care to suggest how I should get another (no hit needed) liverpool into this GW27 lineup??

    Bego
    Davies / Rafael / Azpil
    Bale / Michu / Mata / Fellaini / Walcott
    Sturridge / RVP

    Bench: Fed / Tevez / Bertand / Pearce

    Bank: 0.8m

    Was looking to get Gerrard in for Bale, but after today there's no one from the 5 who I really wanna drop.

    Am I mad for not looking for a 2nd liverpool player?

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    1. PGR
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Rafael to GJ?

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    2. Natas
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Coutinho for fellaini as a punt - fellaini away to united anyway and you have enough in bank to get him back the next week. Also, fellaini fixtures get hairy 2 or 3 game weeks after that so funds won't be tied up for long.

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    3. Killitzer
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      am going to take a hit to bring in Gerard for Fellaini. 2 home games has got to be worth it? The move will also take out Azp.

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    4. Corkyote FFS CWC Champion 2…
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Azpi to je or GJ

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    5. danishdynamite
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Thank you fellas

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  17. PGR
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    So 6 out of my front 7 got attacking returns this week. Sucks that I captained the only one who didn't! 🙁

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  18. Tim Canterbury
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    HAS THE BAP CHAP BEEN ON YET

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    1. Tatty Bojangles
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      DUN FINK SO

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

    Wow Holtby's English is excellent ! 😯

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    1. SW6
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      He's half English

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    2. Alan The Llama
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      As is yours.

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    3. blue cheese
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Half English. Childhood Everton fan.

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    4. The Finnisher
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      His mother is English

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

        or father

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        1. COMH
          • 14 Years
          12 years, 11 months ago

          English Dad. His Mother speaks Ze German.

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      2. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Father.

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    5. Demí
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Not surprising is it? He has English parents, is half English.

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

        Also a from Burkina Faso. You should hear his zwahili, amazing as well

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

          A sister*

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

      Cheers guys I didn't know!

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  20. walt_48
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Need Aguero not to get more than 8 points.....

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  21. Paolo Di Laernu - low rep r…
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 11 months ago

    Bale, 9 shots, 3 on target, 6 off target, 8 crosses, 3 key passes, 4 Dribbles

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    1. PGR
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      All that I'm interested in is 3 baps or not?

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    2. Piggs Boson
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      *Awaits BAP Chap in an eager suspense*

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    3. Declan
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      2 BAPS

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    4. Doctor X
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      In for 2 BPs maybe. Walker for 3?

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    5. The Finnisher
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Fair to say he'll top the ICT chart this week.

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    6. Pasqualinho
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      I think you may be missing one important contributing factor.

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    7. ronty
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      that is why I am not in favour of the rather more -ve PPI shots off target get.

      Only player in that awful 1st half from Spurs who tried to do something

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  22. Mak_Gold
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Anyone else using this site on mobile and find it @&%=+- up? When I refresh a page, I can only see the posts and not the comments on them. I won't even be able to see the comments on this post. It's totally effed up! 🙁

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      1. reply fail
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        So I could call you a twat and you wouldn't see it?

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        1. Corkyote FFS CWC Champion 2…
          • 13 Years
          12 years, 11 months ago

          😆

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    • Thomass
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Predict The Score: Man City __ v Liverpool __

      Complete: I think the first scorer will be ______

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      1. SW6
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        2-0
        Aguero

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      2. Declan
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        2-1

        Gareth Barry

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      3. SuperOsçarBaby
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        4-2

        AGUERO 0O0O0

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      4. get_in
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Predict The Score: Man City 10 v Liverpool 12

        Complete: I think the first scorer will be Reina

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      5. Piggs Boson
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        3-0
        Aguero

        Unfortunately.

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      6. suarez 25
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        1-3

        Suarez

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      7. Rossamous
        • 12 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        3-2
        KUN!!!

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      8. Smakies
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Man city 2-1Liverpool
        Garcia

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      9. Alan The Llama
        • 16 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        2-1
        Goater

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      10. Thick Of It
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        It is all blank mate, numbers are usually at the top of your keyboard.

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      11. blue cheese
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        2-2

        Suarez

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      12. Red-United
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Predict The Score: Man City 2 v Liverpool 2

        Complete: I think the first scorer will be Gerrard penalty

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      13. Natas
        • 16 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        1-0
        Zaba

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    • GinjaWhinja
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      55 pre bonus with Zabaleta and Sturridge to play.

      Nothing to rave about, especially when I should have got Anichebe ahead of Le Fondre this week 🙁

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    • walt_48
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      55PTS with Suarez left... how am I holding up?

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      1. Tatty Bojangles
        • 16 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Probably slightly above average for the people on here.

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      2. Doctor X
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Thats IT? 55? Poor.

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        1. walt_48
          • 13 Years
          12 years, 11 months ago

          RVP captain 🙁

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          1. walt_48
            • 13 Years
            12 years, 11 months ago

            + Demba BA

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      3. JWF
        • 16 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Damn sight better than me.

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      4. get_in
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Terrible

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    • Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Godamnit Bale! Ruining my leagues. I need Sturridge and Zabaleta to kick ass!

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

      Bale 9 shots, 3 on target ... hmm dunno if he'll get 3/2 ... maybe 1?

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    • Rossamous
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Who do we prefer as a sub 6.0 defender?
      a) Clichy
      b) JEnrique
      c) Someone else?

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      1. Milner4eva
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        enrique for the dgw

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      2. jayzico
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        sorry I thought you meant long term. yeah enrique

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      3. jayzico
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        evans

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      4. Rossamous
        • 12 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Yup long term. Have both and might have to downgrade one to Onouha to free up some cash to spend in the midfield

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    • DVassell
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      Bale(c) nailed for the 3 BPs?

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      1. get_in
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        Nope

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      2. jayzico
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        walker or bale I'd say. But walker went off... so yeah I'd say it's got to be bale

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    • suarez 25
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 11 months ago

      27 transfers Rank 375

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      1. Chu Young Ping Pong
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 11 months ago

        fail

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