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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. JK - Cønt ⭐
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    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    if Adrian gets a CS i may get close to Doosra's benching record, I'm on 24 already

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Anyone actually play him over Mannone?

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      1. JK - Cønt ⭐
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        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        people were asking this, I went with the old rule, play the guy at home

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    2. Pepin - RIP Absinthe
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      11 years, 11 months ago

      Isn't his 40+?

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      1. JK - Cønt ⭐
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        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        it might be, but he's old maybe he added he added up wrong

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        1. Pepin - RIP Absinthe
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          😆

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

          He did, his record was 43 but he says 47 on his profile here

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      2. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        He also had a good team score though... I once scored 31 with 35 on my bench 😆

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        1. JK - Cønt ⭐
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          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          I'm on 32 with 24 on my bench

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

      30 Here..Boruc/ Flanagan/Ward/ Ince

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    4. Granville
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      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      I think I had 27 earlier in the season.

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      1. JK - Cønt ⭐
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        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        an Adrian cleanie and I'll beat that. No way AJ isn't coming on

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    5. In Like Flynn.
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      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      GW11 I scored 30, benched 32.

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    6. Granville
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      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Tough call benching Flanagan but I guess he doesn't get attacking returns like the Everton duo

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      1. JK - Cønt ⭐
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        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        that was my logic. I didn't expect Spurs to roll over and have their bellies tickled either

        Flanagan has scored 18 points on my bench and 3 in my starting team

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  2. Pepin - RIP Absinthe
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    What's more likely - a Bardsley YC (his 10th) or a screamer?

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    1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      knowin my luck the former

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

      Well, Bardsley hasn't scored 9 screames this season so I'm sure you know what's more likely 😉

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      1. Pepin - RIP Absinthe
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        'ave a +1, it's all good laughs

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      2. DonTheSpecialOne
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        • 15 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        😛

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  3. Tony Warner Fan Club
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Cattermole must have thought he was on defensive duties with that shot. Passed it right to Adrian...

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  4. MJ6987
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    I told you it'd be 1-0 to West Ham

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    1. DonTheSpecialOne
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      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      You never told me! Swapped Boruc and Mannone last min on saturday. If I knew I wouldn't have done it! 😉

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      1. MJ6987
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        I played Mannone ahead of Boruc as well! It was only after the deadline passed that I realised that this meant Soton would keep a CS and Sunderland wouldn't

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        1. MJ6987
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          I have now remembered why I enjoyed having Boruc and Davis - no benching failures!

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          1. DonTheSpecialOne
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            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Oh yes

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          2. Woy of the Wovers
            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Well set for GW33 too.

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        2. DonTheSpecialOne
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          • 15 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          🙁
          Terrible GW for me. What about you MJ?

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          1. MJ6987
            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Pretty bad - 48 plus Mannone

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            1. DonTheSpecialOne
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              • 15 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              I'm on 34 now 😎

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    2. Lord Flashheart
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      And you are 80 minutes away from being right, which is just 10 minutes less than you were a week ago.

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      1. MJ6987
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        I know but West Ham are pretty good at holding onto 1-0 leads and Sunderland are fairly sh*te

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        1. Lord Flashheart
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          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          AJ will come to save the day.

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  5. Tony Warner Fan Club
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Please score, Sunderland. Just to save us from Big Sam's smug, tw@ face.

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    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Just hoping West Ham swamp them now, so Mannone sweeps up the save points and baps.

    Too much to ask? 😉

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

      If you can keep AJ on bench, I can give you Mannone's 9 saves & 1 bonus

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

      Big Fat Sam's team will sit back, defend and barely shoot at all

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  6. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    come on sunderland even 10 men hull scored against em!!!!!!!!!!!1

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  7. Mílanista
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    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    My reason for watching this game has gone already, and its that git who got sent off in his one game in my team that has ruined it! 😡

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    1. In Like Flynn.
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      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      😆 .............................Sorry.

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    2. MJ6987
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      FPL...the game that keeps on giving

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    3. Pepin - RIP Absinthe
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Now it's save points for Mannone owners vs. the slight hope of an attacking contribution for Bardsley / Alonso owners.

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

        In other words, its 2 points all round.

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      2. MJ6987
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Or a very remote chance of a Mannone pen save

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  8. banskt
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Nolan not involved. As usual.. A single GW can make you so tolerant to failures, amazing! 😀

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    1. DonTheSpecialOne
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      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Still early, have faith!

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  9. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    at this rate i may just not bother with sunderland all together, id rather play gerrard in 1 gw than AJ in 2

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    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      What happened to AJ??

      I know he was a legend in his own mind but why is he not playing??

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  10. Granville
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    • 16 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Forgot about the game tonight for UFPL. Would have brought on Borini.

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  11. JK - Cønt ⭐
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    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    If I'm lucky I'll hit 35 points this GW 😎

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    1. Granville
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      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Sobering after last week.

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      1. JK - Cønt ⭐
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        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        it would be so bad but for

        a) That bench
        b) having gone top of ML last week, I've dropped again as rival has Lallana, JRod and Rooney

        meanwhile only Suarez and Baines have scored more than 2 for me

        Gotta take the bad times if you want the good.

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

      If I'm lucky my FPL account will still exist after this GW

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  12. FPL Blow-In
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    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Please stay quiet Nolan please my h2h is so close and im facing my rival in first place!

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  13. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Mannone makes a save 😎

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  14. FPL Notebook (John)
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Carroll ! 🙂

    Thank you to those of you who talked me out of doing Carroll -> Dzeko. There were certainly a few of you

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    1. Woy of the Wovers
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Didn't Dzeko score?

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      1. FPL Notebook (John)
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        He got an assist. And it would have cost me 4 points

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

      Keeping him until the end of the season!

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  15. Zombie
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    This settles it...AJ get the hell out of my team despite your 2 extra gameweeks

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

      I have a note to myself saying: DO NOT BUY SUNDERLAND PLAYERS. Awful, they are going down.

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  16. gers23
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    What does every1 Think of Allardyce as a manager?

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    1. Cheggers
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Good

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

      Meh, he has his moments

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    3. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Likes to keep it simple

      Hoof Hoof Hoof Hoof

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    4. JK - Cønt ⭐
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      a bit like Pulis he's not everyone's cup of tea but he gets results.

      Look at this way, even allowing for the massive pay-off it would have taken to get rid, when West Ham were struggling at the start of the year, the owners asked themselves which manager they'd want for the situation they were in. The answer they came up with was Sam Allardyce

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  17. Cheggers
    • 16 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Poyet is a shite overrated manager

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Swopped one looney for another

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  18. GoonerByron
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Johnson's going to come on for a measly one pointer isn't he? I've got him starting and Silva 1st sub 🙁 🙁

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    1. DonTheSpecialOne
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      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      1 assist.

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    2. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Silva 1st sub is mental though

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

        I had faith in Arsenal's defence 😐

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        1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          after chelsea thrashed em 😯

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    3. Mr Smith
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      😯 serious?!!

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

      Flanagan coming on for me if AJ doesn't come on..But we all know that's not gonna happen 🙁

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  19. copps
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Damn, Vergini is almost as bad as Ali Dia

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    1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      was lucky not to be off v pool

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  20. @ocprodigy
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    • 12 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Hunting for differentials, how does:

    Adam, Nolan & Jelavic -> Nasri, De Guzman & Rodriguez sound?
    May mean no Aguero but I don't know if I can deal with the heartache again.

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

      Something I said? o_o

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  21. Granville
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    • 16 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Sky Go isn't working. Good, saves me the bother watching this match on the off chance that Adrian gets a cleanie.

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      he will get one. It is written for this GW for the defenders I play to crap whilst I bench 3 cleanies and 2 assists

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    2. FPL Notebook (John)
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Go enjoy your evening! 🙂

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    3. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Blessing in disguise

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  22. Granville
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    • 16 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    I need to rip a couple of DVD's onto a memory stick. Anyone got a freeware recommendation?

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

      Haven't used it in a while, but DVD Shrink used to be THE program for this.

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      1. FPL Notebook (John)
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Agree

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    2. donkey73
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      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      format factory. best by far. transcodes everythin to everything

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    3. Qubit
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      DVD Fab 8

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  23. FPL Blow-In
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    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Skrtel on if AJ stays off

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

      He will come on, unfortunately...

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    2. JK - Cønt ⭐
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Flanagan for me. I promise you with the GW I'm having AJ will come on

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      1. La Roja
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        That's pretty obvious

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    3. La Roja
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      You know that he will come on though, don't u?

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    4. Gazza2000
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Ward for me...

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    5. Spike ⚽️
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      He wont tho. Sunderland lacking pace so far without him

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    6. Spencer
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Livermore for me!

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    7. FPL Blow-In
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      • 13 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Yeah I know he will/. At half time hopefully might get an assist or something. 5 points in my h2h game with first placed rival. He has Nolan and I have Mannone and AJ.

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  24. JK - Cønt ⭐
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Rival also has AJ.

    if he no shows he get Baker off his bench

    for this reason alone., AJ will come on.

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  25. JJO
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    So who is that guy that is going to score for Sunderland and how?
    Im watching at that lineup and just cant believe that AJ is not playing?
    Who is suposed to be a connection between Borini and Wickam and the rest of the team?

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  26. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Bardsley is by far Sunderland's biggest attacking threat 🙂

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    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Wickham is awful

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  27. FPL Daniel
    • 16 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    The way this so call bench GW is going I won't be surprised at all if Adrian delivers from the bench 🙁

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
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      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      totally

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  28. Syd.
    • 16 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Anybody know any good jokes?

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  29. FPL Daniel
    • 16 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Any cjance Adam to sty on the bench?

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

      no

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