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28 April 2014 1626 comments
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The final match of Gameweek 36 sees Arsenal entertain Newcastle at the Emirates this evening. Arsene Wenger’s side now look perfectly poised to claim a fourth place finish after Everton’s loss at Southampton leaves the Gunners a point clear of Roberto Martinez’ side with tonight’s match in hand:

Fantasy attentions turn to Aaron Ramsey after the Welshman was drafted in by an incredible 334,000 new owners last week, whilst Lukas Podolski goes in search of a third successive brace, having hit two past West Ham and Hull in the previous couple of Gameweeks.

Unsurprisingly, the Gunners are unchanged from the side that cruised past Hull last time around. Alan Pardew makes three changes as he desperately trying to halt a dire series of displays which has seen the Magpies lose six of the last seven, with just two goals scored over that run. Mathieu Debuchy, Moussa Sissoko and Loic Remy all come into the starting XI, with Papiss Cisse, Luuk de Jong and Shola Ameobi dropping out.

Full details of the starting lineups can be found via our Twitter feed, while the Dugout Discussion chatroom remains opens for those looking to indulge in some real-time banter.

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  1. Woy of the Wovers
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    Kick off. Ramsey fail.:D

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    1. Woy of the Wovers
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      😳 😀

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  2. Towsor44
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    As a Rambo owner, I need him to fail. Rival has 1 point less this week, both have Rambo left but he has him Capt 🙁

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    1. Woy of the Wovers
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      Ramsey hater 🙁

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  3. Jafooli
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    Which team has spent most days in 1st place this season?

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
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      Arsenal

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      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
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        JKI 1 point

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    2. LewanGOALski
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      Arsenal ? 😯

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    3. SneakyPete
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      Specialist in Failure

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    4. Woy of the Wovers
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      And in 2014?

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  4. McSauce
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    Mannone
    Stones Baines Chester
    Gerrard Nasri Ramsey Eriksen
    Suarez Aguero Rooney(C)

    Boruc Azpi Baker Parker

    A) Gerrard Baines and Eriksen ----> Yaya Mata and Brown

    B) Gerrard Baines and Eriksen ----> Fernandinho (Differential) Mata and Evra

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  5. Syd.
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    How's Ramsey playing??

    Does he look good??

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    1. SneakyPete
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      Nope. Quite poor

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    2. LewanGOALski
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      total fail. 2 points tops today.

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  6. SneakyPete
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    The Ozil show starts

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    1. Breadbin
      • 15 Years
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      I hear an echo.

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  7. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    Szcz, Mert and Rambo owner so a Arsenal win to Nil is my ask this evening

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    1. SneakyPete
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      3-2 to Arsenal Giroud Hattrick

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    2. Breadbin
      • 15 Years
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      Couldn't have guessed.

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  8. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
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    Right think I might run a quiz. Who's in?

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    1. Woy of the Wovers
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      If i know the answers, maybe.

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    2. RÏɠBY
      • 15 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      do we have to turn our tv on ?

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      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
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        No but you might need your physics books.

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        1. RÏɠBY
          • 15 Years
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          i sold mine
          for crack

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    3. jdogg
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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      Yes indeed.x

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  9. RÏɠBY
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    my GW is kerknackered and even if ramsey scored a hattrick
    my h2h would still be nutted
    so i'm sitting back.. and just not stressing on this.. (but go the arse obviously 😉 )

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  10. Dušan Citizen
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
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    Smalling ---> Alonso worth do do? 🙂 I dont think Smalling gonna play both games

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  11. jonnybhoy
    • 13 Years
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    Are people selling Suarez?!?

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    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
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      In their droves

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    2. Yome
      • 14 Years
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      Yes for RVP

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    3. Towsor44
      • 13 Years
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      Yeah, looks like he might drop soon!

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    4. McSauce
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      Only if RVP is fit!

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    5. Whitman2013
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      I did but out of neccesity, I only have a tv of 105.3

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    6. RabMac
      • 12 Years
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      I have contemplated it but it is very risky as you basically need his replacement to score at least 10 points to break even, as I would imagine most people want Suarez for GW38.

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      1. jonnybhoy
        • 13 Years
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        exactly against Newcastle who have the worst defence in the league imo atm. He is captain for that gw without a doubt, could be a title decider that day and he is a must

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  12. Reed_Rothchild
    • 16 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    When did you first know that Moyes was in over his head at Manchester United? For me it was when ManU lost to the Thai National Team in the pre-season.

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    1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 16 Years
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      When they named him as manager

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      1. BONZ
        • 16 Years
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        This.

        Most would have questioned why it was Moyes?

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    2. Syd.
      • 16 Years
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      If only they had sacked SAF after 10 months

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    3. Mull
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      The 4-1 loss against City.

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    4. RabMac
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      WHen he sacked all the coaching staff.

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  13. Nucky Thompson
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    Current team

    Lose Coleman or Baines for Demichelis?
    Lose both for Demichelis & Evra?

    Anybody concerned that Evra may not play final game if Giggs is experimenting?

    MANNONE
    Coleman Azpi Baines
    MATA YAYA Ramo Eriksen
    AGUERO ROONEY Suarez

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  14. jonnybhoy
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    Spurs defender or Alonso?

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    1. Big_Andy_GAWA
      • 14 Years
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      Depends what you intend doing with the cash that would be left over if you did Arsenal defender.

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  15. TG32
    • 13 Years
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    Hey guys, anybody know what the Greenwich area of London is like? May be getting a job there & I'm not familiar with the area. Cheers

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    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      It's mean but you should have a good time

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      1. Towsor44
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 10 days ago

        I think he needs a more observatory response

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      2. Baa
        • 13 Years
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        😀

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    2. Woy of the Wovers
      • 15 Years
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      Bit socialist.

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    3. Spencer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
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      Greenwich is really nice. Be careful though, some parts of the borough of Greenwich aren't too nice. Do you know exactly where it is?

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      1. TG32
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 10 days ago

        Early days yet but it's for the catholic secondary school there. Is there only the train into Central London & no tube?

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        1. Spencer
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 14 Years
          12 years, 10 days ago

          Greenwich station is on the DLR.

          Depending on where it is, the Jubilee line might run that way too.

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    4. RabMac
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      I'm guessing it is nicer than Govan.

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      1. Big_Andy_GAWA
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        Job in London. Sweet. You'd need a good tight 32/35 grand to have an alright time, though. Friend of mine pays 950 quid rent and electric in a high-rise apartment block per month. Hectic !!! 😯 😆

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  16. Optimus.
    • 15 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    Giroud back hoof fail

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  17. RÏɠBY
    • 15 Years
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    spot the american arsenal fans in the corner.. not only the shirt but arsenal baseball caps wtf!

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  18. Bolasie
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    Howard
    Demi* - Cahill - Shaw
    Eriksen - Lallana - Rambo - Johnson*
    Aguero* Rooney* Suarez

    Olsson - Burner - Mutch
    1FT .

    A, Lallana to Mata
    B, Lallana to Yaya
    Any other moves for a hit?

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  19. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    Q1

    The poet John Keats once wrote (in his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn"),
    Beauty is truth, truth beauty,---that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

    By contrast, Plato (in The Republic) warns of poetry's power to make a falsehood seem true, by beautifying it.

    What, then, is the relationship between beauty, as achieved by the artist, and truth?

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    1. Aurora
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      When u said quiz I thought u meant

      Something cool.

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    2. Woy of the Wovers
      • 15 Years
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      #woyfail

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      1. Woy of the Wovers
        • 15 Years
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        On further consideration, according to Plato, all beauty is a lie.

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    3. SneakyPete
      • 14 Years
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      WTF ?

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    4. Mull
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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      42

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    5. Syd.
      • 16 Years
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      Poetry is a load of bollox

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      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
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        1 point

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    6. RabMac
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      I don't feel like doing your philosophy homework for you. 😛

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    7. jdogg
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
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      Benito carbone?x

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    8. Towsor44
      • 13 Years
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      Yaya or Mata

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    9. Aurora
      • 12 Years
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      Answer: poetry is shite?

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    10. BONZ
      • 16 Years
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      Lionel Messi

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    11. BR
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      When your own heart asks, how will you respond?

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    12. Chris_Fàbregas #DOOS…
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      That the definition of beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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    13. Celt Abroad
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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      Both beauty and truth are subjective concepts. The artist, as an actor in the game of perceptions, can choose to conform to conventional wisdom, negate it, or help to shape a new collective consciousness

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    14. Bøwstring The Carp
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      Well for Keats they're synonymous.

      Plato was known for his Theory of the Forms and is really strict on what constitutes as truth. Poetry, being an art form does not, and will never, constitute a truth. Similarly to how a mirror will show the reflection of yourself, but we don't say the reflection IS you.

      So for Keats, he is saying that beauty is truth and truth is beauty. Simple as. They are the same. Yet it's very problematic saying this. I think John Lavery paintings are beautiful. Yet some do not. Therefore how can we have two truths? Likewise I despise Dahli's work, yet some do not. How can one person's subjectivity be true over an other's?

      Perhaps Keats is trying to say it is always beautiful to be true (to yourself), i.e. not to live a lie and to embrace your inner "urn" that shows your true colours? (Or something soppy like that)

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  20. RabMac
    • 12 Years
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    A wee fact to encourage managers with Arsenal assets.

    Arsenal have nearly a 90% win rate when Monreal has played this season.

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  21. lionhunter
    • 14 Years
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    I have two City players, Zaba and Dzeko, and only one more open spot.

    Aguero or Yaya?

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    1. Slacker
      • 13 Years
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      Having that same nightmare.

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    2. Syd.
      • 16 Years
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      Kun

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    3. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
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      Kun if you can't have both

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  22. andres
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    A Luk, Nasri, Eriksen, Fonte, Coleman => Roo, Yaya, Amalf, Zab, Alonso (-16)
    B Luk Erisken Coleman => Roo, Amal, Zab (-8)
    C Luk fonte coleman => roo, demi, 4.2 def (-8)

    mannone (marshall)
    azpi coleman c.davies (ward fonte)
    mata nasri AJ rambo (eriksen)
    Luk suarez Aguero
    1.6, 1FT

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  23. Chucky
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    Come on Ramsey 😀

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  24. FUNNY_OLD_GAME
    • 16 Years
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    Anyone else still have Giroud?

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    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
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      21.1%

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      1. FUNNY_OLD_GAME
        • 16 Years
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        anyone here though?

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    2. BONZ
      • 16 Years
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      I bet that fat bloke Piers Morgan does......cant stop abusing his every miss.

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  25. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    I actually only owned Ramsey for 3 gameweeks over the whole season. I need to take some hits and get on the big bandwagons much earlier next season

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  26. Syd.
    • 16 Years
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    Ozil you tosser

    Ramsey would've had a tap in

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  27. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
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    Q2

    Very few paintings by Norman Rockwell hang in the great museums. Would you rate his art as highly as you do the art of Rembrandt, Valazquez, and other old masters? Why or why not?

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    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
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      The closest I get to art is when I fart

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    2. jdogg
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
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      Surinam?x

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    3. The Light Knight
      • 14 Years
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      No, he's called Norman

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    4. Piggs Boson
      • 14 Years
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      You have exams in art? 😯

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    5. RabMac
      • 12 Years
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      I have zero opinions regarding art.

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      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
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        1 point

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  28. Aurora
    • 12 Years
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    BPLTEAM;)
    THE MATA ISSUE

    With RVP back in training and likely to start alongside Rooney for at least one of the DGW matches...lets face it he won't be benched for both...

    Where will Mata play?

    Giggs wants to make United playing the old way. That is, with wingers such as Valencia bombing down the flanks.

    Possible line-up vs. Sunderland

    De Gea (nailed on)
    Jones Ferdinand Vidic Evra (can't see that changing much to be honest)
    Valencia Carrick Cleverley/Fletcher Mata (Mata may start wide like with Moyes)
    Rooney RVP

    Alternatively, Giggs may have to sacrifice his wide playing style:
    De Gea
    Jones Ferdinand Vidic Evra
    Valencia Carrick Kagawa/Cleverly/Fletcher
    Mata
    Rooney RVP

    This would be more unlikely as Carrick would have to cover a lot of ground if the wingers would bomb down the flanks.

    So, I think that may lessen Mata's appeal, with Giggs preferring a wide playing style.
    Sure Mata will start at least, if not both games, but is he a UNITED player?

    Im not so sure.

    This week Ive bought Rooney and Valencia (cheeky punt)

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    1. Robareid
      • 12 Years
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      Didn't you posted this yesterday?

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    2. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      mata on the bench or wing

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  29. UnitednationsXI
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    Have a real dilemma folks...

    mannone*
    zaba* chester* vlaar* (baines kaboul)
    silva* mata* AJ* salah (barkley)
    suarez aguero* rooney*

    A: Silva >> nasri

    B: silva + baines >> yaya + evra (-4)...leaves me with 0.5 to upgrade salah > 6m in gw38..will bench chester in this instance

    C: silva + baines >> yaya + jones (-4)..leaves me with 1.1 to do salah >> sess in gw38...will bench chester in this instance

    D: silva + barkley >> yaya + amalf (-4)..will bench baines and salah in this scenario

    Between B and C i reckon

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    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      B looks best option

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      1. UnitednationsXI
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 10 days ago

        thanks..pull the trigger tonight?

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    2. Hect.OR 98th
      • 16 Years
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      C

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      1. UnitednationsXI
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
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        hmmm...so better to go with the gametime risk of jones just to cater for sess in gw38?

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  30. McSauce
    • 16 Years
    12 years, 10 days ago

    What would you do with this lot??? Willing to take hits up to (-12)

    Mannone
    Stones Baines Chester
    Gerrard Nasri Ramsey Eriksen
    Suarez Aguero Rooney(C)

    Boruc Azpi Baker Parker

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    1. Fchildress
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      How much in the bank?

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    2. Hect.OR 98th
      • 16 Years
      12 years, 10 days ago

      Not much. Gerrard to Yaya and Baines to Jones?

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