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31 March 2014 874 comments
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It’s nights like this that separate Fantasy managers from the typical football fan. Sunderland’s home game with West Ham may not offer immediate appeal to most folk, but for us, the chance of a Vito Mannone clean sheet makes our Monday viewing worth the while:

The Black Cats have kept out their opponents in two of the last three at the Stadium of Light, and with a pair of double Gameweeks still to follow, their main Fantasy assets are central to our thoughts this evening. Adam Johnson owners will be frustrated, though, with the wide man left on the bench once again by Gus Poyet.

Sam Allardyce’s side will be looking to build on last week’s home win over Hull – a victory tonight would take them 12 points clear of the Wearsiders and give the Hammers breathing space ahead of a tricky schedule which sees them square up to Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and City in the remaining six Gameweeks.

Our Twitter feed has the latest news from the Stadium of Light, while our Dugout Discussion chatroom is once again open for any folk wishing to vent in real-time.

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  1. Bøwstring The Carp
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Mannone heard us whining so he's going for the 6pts lads

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    1. MJ6987
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      10 for a keeper!

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      1. MJ6987
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        *i don't know this

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  2. Kudo Warrior
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    This thread would have exploded if Mannone headed that in 😀

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    1. Tony Warner Fan Club
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      here he goes again!

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  3. Jairzinho
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    MANNONE UP AGAIN. GO ON SON.

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  4. Konig Luther
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    c'mon mannone once again

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  5. HurriKane
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    lallana to nolan in gw 31 has been a huge disappointment 🙁 Anyone else feeling my pain?

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    1. Lallana_
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Yes! I am. That DGW wasn't even worth it.

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    2. 7shadesofsmoke
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      yep, i reckon there are quite a few of us

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    3. Jairzinho
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Nope! 😀

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    4. Coaly
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Yep

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  6. Thatsnotcricket
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Bridcutt has given the ball away so much tonight!

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    1. lespaul
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      nowhere near Prem class

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  7. MJ6987
    • 15 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    What will you do if Mannone scores!?

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    1. asquishypotato
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Revel in it! 😀

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    2. Jairzinho
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      poo myself

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    3. DonTheSpecialOne
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Post a pic of something

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    4. Mílanista
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Express my excitement over the internet

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    5. applebonkers
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      • 16 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      a little tim henman fist pump

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    6. MJ6987
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Nothing here good enough for him to score

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  8. clockwork
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    scocco is terrible

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  9. Livinginapool - Top 100 Any…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 17 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    AJ is everywhere!

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    1. lespaul
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Best player on the pitch by a country mile

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  10. applebonkers
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    • 16 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    4 saves is actually the worst mannone has done since gw21

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    1. leo_messi
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      and they lost again..this is crap

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    2. Mílanista
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Been playing OOP though

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  11. Bad Pen
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Adrian yc.

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  12. Colonel Wasabi
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    MJ,

    Check this out when you have s few mins spare…..

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nzbn2/we-beat-the-all-blacks

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    1. MJ6987
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Cheers. Llanelli have beaten New Zealand but not Wales! Will we ever?

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      1. Colonel Wasabi
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        One day…… 😉

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      2. Feanor
        • 17 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        Nope. The All Blacks own Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

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        1. MJ6987
          • 15 Years
          12 years, 4 months ago

          Sad but true

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  13. ★FC Borecelona★
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    FU Adrian

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  14. FPL Daniel
    • 17 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Why Poyet keeps benching his best player?

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    1. RÏɠBY
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      he a bit fick 😉

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  15. RÏɠBY
    • 15 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    when their goalie goes up.. have one of yours in the centre circle
    common bloody sense

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    1. Tony Warner Fan Club
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      one of your goalies... that doesn't sound right?

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      1. RÏɠBY
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        ha!

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  16. asquishypotato
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Has anyone ever had a keeper in their team score?
    That feeling...

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    1. Towsor44
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Didn't Howard and Krul have a goal and an assist last year?

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      1. Jairzinho
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        Boruc scored this season too. Have never had a keeper score personally though!

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    2. Epic Fail
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Howard

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    3. Shakshuka
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Think Howard scored on a DGW last year, had him myself and imagine quite a few others around here did aswel

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    4. MJ6987
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Bloody hell no, don't think I've ever had a pen save!

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  17. Jairzinho
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Full time.

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    1. RÏɠBY
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      tomkins last minute hero.. 2 great blocks

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  18. applebonkers
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    • 16 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    imagine taking ki off and leaving wickham on

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  19. Thatsnotcricket
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Gus hang your head in shame for benching Johnson. Honestly believe they would have won the game had he started.

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    1. prophetíc™ ☆…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Really? gannin doon

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  20. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 16 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Fulham
    Cardiff
    Sunderland

    Going down

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    1. MJ6987
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Sunderland have had it coming for a few years

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      1. prophetíc™ ☆…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        +1

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    2. Jairzinho
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Very punty!

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    3. Robe Wan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      +1

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    4. Somalion
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Norwich to try their hardest to get relegated.

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      1. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 16 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        Norwich's last 4 fixtures....
        LIV man che ARS 😯

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        1. Somalion
          • 16 Years
          12 years, 4 months ago

          They is in some deep doo doo.

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    5. BONZ
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      LOL stick you neck out.....

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    6. prophetíc™ ☆…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Gannin doon!

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  21. Coaly
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Without Suarez my team scored 20 points this week. Fail of epic proportions

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  22. Nice to Finally Michu
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Am I crazy, i've had some bad luck recently and I want to get back on form so how does this sound for a -12?

    Kolarov, Puncheon, Koscielny, Lukaku > JRod, Demichelis, Caulker, Eriksen - 12 I definitely think that each of the players I'm getting is at least 3 points better than the one i'm replacing him with and that would give me flexibility to play any formation possible with confidence and leave me with a team of:

    Boruc-Mannone
    Caulker-Azpi-Demichelis-Chester-Baines
    Hazard-Eriksen-Snodgrass-Yaya-Nasri
    JRod-Suarez-Sturridge

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    1. Colonel Wasabi
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      As long as you've factored in the DGWs for Punch (might get reduced minutes) and Lukaku (good fixtures & playing full 90)….?

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      1. Nice to Finally Michu
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        I'm tired of having Lukaku in my team to be honest, he may play 90 each match but predicting where the points from the Everton attack has and will be such a crapshot plus JRod has been is superb form and he is cheap and Southampton look relatively free scoring of late. Puncheon is just a nuisance, I brought him in for his last double digit score ages ago but since then he has produced nothing but two pointers and one point cameos off the bench. As you said as well, there is a large rotation risk around him.

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    2. Robe Wan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Probably the worst move I've seen this season

      No offence 🙂

      Three DGW players out??!!

      -8 for Christian "no points" Eriksen and Steven Caulker

      Rethink amigo. Kos out sure and probably kolarov but that's it

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      1. Nice to Finally Michu
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        Eriksen has great fixtures and is great to have especially when he's on form and of late he has looked very threatening. Caulker has awesome fixtures the rest of the way and I fancy them to pick up a few clean sheets and as we all know by now he is a constant goal threat. Kosc is still injured and I don't really consider Kolarov a DGW player as there is a very small possibility of him playing moth fixtures

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  23. BONZ
    • 16 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    I do like Carra & Nev but I cant listen to a 30 minute analysis on that game.....Sunderland left it tooo late again!

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  24. Chu Young Ping Pong
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Laernu 🙁

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  25. Sweetpea
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    How does Birdcutt start ahead of johnson?

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    1. applebonkers
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      • 16 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      bridcutt is a better defensive mid

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  26. Scratch
    • 17 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    He might not be as bad as Di Canio but Poyet is a fool. Persisting with guys like Vergini and Borini who might as well be wearing floppy boots and red noses they're such clowns. Dropping Johnson who is quite clearly a class above everything else they have. Himself and Ki looked like the only capable players going forward. That Scoco is useless too. And where the hell is Giacherini?

    Buhbyes Sunderland.

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    1. Valar(Keith)
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Dunno why he dint start with AJ over the rest of that crap.. not just cause i own him but boy he really is the only class act in that team

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  27. Valar(Keith)
    • 16 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you for the goodbye present AJ.. now off you go for nasri. Dont trust your manager or your team or your next few fixxtures. see u GW 36 if at all

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  28. JK - Cønt ⭐
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    thoughts on Holtby or Degjah for FPL. If rotated with Puncheon it produces

    CPL/avl, NOR. STO, HUL, new/sto, CPL

    0.1 short of Lallana and have no Everton spots open. Eriksen leaves me 0.2 short if I want Kun for GW34

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Noone not Puncheon

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      1. Chris_White
        • 15 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        When, if ever, is Noone gonna be fit though?

        Irritating the sh*t out of me. I'll probably bench his haul this weekend if he's back...

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        1. JK - Cønt ⭐
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          12 years, 4 months ago

          need to lose Nolan tbh and only 0,7 banked. Not many options.

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  29. FACUPARSE
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    AJ owners playing next week against Spurs?

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      as it stands, yes

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    2. Kudo Warrior
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Sure. He should start every game, the manager is a tard.

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    3. Punty
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Tempted to transfer him in for Snodgrass and play him, Tottenham in shambles and surely Poyet can't bench him from the start again

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    4. Chris_White
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Yes

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    5. FPL Daniel
      • 17 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Bench probably and playing 4 3 3

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  30. FPL Daniel
    • 17 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Lets go fakiiiiinnnng menthallllll! Next round here I come. Everybody sing it!

    Lets go faking menthal, lets go.... Over and over again

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