[sbu_large_image] Dugout Discussion
28 April 2015 1336 comments
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Gameweek 34 continues apace with Hull City playing host to Liverpool in a 7.45pm kick off. The Tigers look to build momentum after a 2-0 victory at Crystal Palace marked their first win in seven matches. Meanwhile, the Reds arrive at the KC Stadium off the back of a 0-0 stalemate against West Bromwich Albion, searching for only their second win in five outings.

Hull boss Steve Bruce will hope for a repeat performance of the Eagles clash, in which they fashioned the second-most shots on target (seven) of any side so far this Gameweek. Senegalese frontman Dame N’Doye remains the Tigers’ principal goal threat after netting twice at Selhurst Park, while Robbie Brady – who engineered the second most chances (five) among all midfielders on the weekend – keeps his place on the left as Steve Bruce names an unchanged XI.

Raheem Sterling’s abundance of owners will want more from the Jamaican-born wide man after he failed to register a single shot at The Hawthorns. Philippe Coutinho, on the other hand, mustered nine efforts on goal against the Baggies but has now failed to find the net in his previous six league starts. With two assists and four goals in seven appearances, Jordan Henderson is the form man for the Merseysiders and his prospects will be boosted by the absence of Steven Gerrard this evening. The Reds skipper drops out in the visitors’ only change as Brendan Rodgers hands Mario Balotelli another start up front.

  1. Would an idiot do that?
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Cmon Coutinho! About time I catch a break with you

  2. Dr Dream
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Messi only managed a pen out of five goals....but on the other hand it was one of the best pens you could wish to see...

  3. Mull
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    • 14 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    There was nothing good about N'Doye except for him having two games. He had bad fixtures during the double as well as after it and only 1 goal in 6 games going into it. Maybe my strategy for the next DGW should be to abandon logic and just pick any player with 2 games.

    1. RubeRx
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      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      😥

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

      worked well enough with Phillips and Tekkers

    3. tm245
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      That first sentence is the logic of a DGW, though -- cruelly, I kept Austin because of his fixture and form.

    4. Heels_Over_Head
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      2 games
      higher percentage chance to "do something"
      that's about all the logic in it

      1. Mull
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        • 14 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        Scoring a goal or getting an assist in one game maybe. What were the chances of an out of form N'Doye scoring two goals and being the highest scoring DGW player playing for possibly the worst team in the league whilst having pretty tough fixtures.

    5. Numb
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      10 years, 11 months ago

      Seems to be the way, doesn't it.

  4. Richd
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    10 years, 11 months ago

    Go go skrtel, pop one in

  5. Ser Football 42
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    🙂

    1. A Defender's Nightmare
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      😯

    2. RubeRx
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      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      👿

      1. Ser Football 42
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        :devil:

    3. Heels_Over_Head
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Just use spaces and go old school. It's better that way now : - D

      1. Numb
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        : shock :

        1. Ser Football 42
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 11 months ago

          😎

          1. Heels_Over_Head
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 11 months ago

            8 - )

        2. Heels_Over_Head
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 11 months ago

          O.O

    4. RubeRx
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      1. Ser Football 42
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    5. Davido989
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      :*

      1. Davido989
        • 15 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        Fail

    6. RubeRx
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      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      🙄 😳 😛 😡 ❗ 😐 😮 💡 😀 😕

      ➡ testing

      1. Ser Football 42
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        👿

  6. mad_beer ✅
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    10 years, 11 months ago

    Henderson is my differential. Please score. Thanks.

  7. Heels_Over_Head
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Do Hull look like they think they should win this? or is it just me?

    1. Ser Football 42
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Too early to tell

    2. Davido989
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      They need to get something from the game, they have awful fixtures and could be dragged right in.

    3. TorresMagic™
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      • 16 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Good start by them.

    4. Numb
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      I have a feeling that Pool will weather the early enthusiasm and then pick them off as the game goes on.

      1. Heels_Over_Head
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        10 years, 11 months ago

        with a different manager in charge, I'd be inclined to agree

        not sure with this lot right now

        half the team is thinking about where they're going to play next year ("not here!"); the manager lets too many players fire off a stream of wild long distance shots instead of coaching them to pass the ball to a player in the box; Balotelli on the pitch after all he's done this season is just inexcusable; etc.

  8. Doctor X
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    10 years, 11 months ago

    Balotelli is terrible. It gets on my nerves just watching him doing sfa.

    1. Wings of Steel
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      10 years, 11 months ago

      awful

    2. Heels_Over_Head
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      10 years, 11 months ago

      Bournemouth wouldn't take him on a free transfer for 10 quid a week

  9. Spencer
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    • 14 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Was that a shot from Glen Johnson?!

    1. TorresMagic™
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      • 16 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      +BPS

  10. Pariße
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    10 years, 11 months ago

    You can't imagine how pissed off I am because of Moreno. I've made 2 hits all season, one was for this guy and now my rival is looking at 13pts from Lovren and I have -4 from Moreno, that's just ridiculously unlucky.

    1. Numb
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Yep, you just can't legislate for that. Cheers Brendan!

    2. Pariße
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      ...and again no one looks like scoring in this game (my ''differential'' is Sterling, he has Coutinho and Henderson).

    3. Wings of Steel
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      No way of knowing I nearly brought him in.

      1. Pariße
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        It sucks so much though, his team is 3m cheaper so he went for Lovren obviously.

    4. The Machine
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Should not have gone for an injury prone player

      1. Mull
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        • 14 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        🙄

        1. The Machine
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 11 months ago

          theres one. Anyone else wanna bite?

          1. Mull
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            10 years, 11 months ago

            FFS. Can't believe I took the bait.

      2. Pariße
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        So Lovren and Skrtel were better options (Y)

        1. The Machine
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 11 months ago

          there is the other

          1. Pariße
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 11 months ago

            😛

      3. RubeRx
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        hook em

    5. SC not pearls before swine
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      It really is. I got Schlupp and Moreno on my wildcard 🙁 I didn't have that much time to research but there was no evidence that either was injured before the weekend, was there?

      1. Zimppa
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        Nope. I also brought them both in 🙁

        1. SC not pearls before swine
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          10 years, 11 months ago

          Well, I don't feel too badly about it then. I can pretend they each would have gotten 2 hattricks if they'd played and rocketed me into the top 10 in the world...

  11. Richd
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Reading reserves v Rotherham.

    Lol @ millwall and Wigan.

    1. Jax
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      cue a 1-0 reading win

      1. MBK 42
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        I doubt it.

        1. Jax
          • 16 Years
          10 years, 11 months ago

          championship mate. never tell what's gonna happen.

          1. MBK 42
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 11 months ago

            I'm a Reading fan (in case my grav wasn't enough of a clue), we're awful at the moment, can't score and players don't seem to care at the minute. If Rotherham can score first we won't come back.

            1. Jax
              • 16 Years
              10 years, 11 months ago

              yeah but this happens week in week out. i think you'll get a draw.

              1. Richd
                • 13 Years
                10 years, 11 months ago

                reading have won one in ten or something mental.

                1. Jax
                  • 16 Years
                  10 years, 11 months ago

                  doesn't mean anything in the c'ship.

            2. Richd
              • 13 Years
              10 years, 11 months ago

              Bust a nut all over them gooners.

              Thats all the season was about. Could have been FA cup winners with the run of the green.

  12. Stats Don\'t Lie
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    So what I need today is a skrtel og, ndoye penalty miss and injury but no save for mignolet. Liverpool to concede 2 and sterling + Henderson to both score and assist 1. Match to finish 2-2. I don't think I'm asking for much, am I?

    Yours Sincerely,
    Disappointed Moreno owner that got him over skrtel.

    1. Pariße
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Game cancelled, replay, Moreno hattrick.

  13. drughi
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    I actually believed balotelli would do well when liverpool signed him, what a flop he has been

    1. Jax
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      lol. seriously. he's a joke,

    2. Wings of Steel
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      I didn't. Wrong sort of player as is Rickie Lambert

    3. The Machine
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Goals are not everything. His off the ball work has been excellent all season

      1. Jax
        • 16 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        yeah sure.

      2. Pariße
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        No one's gonna fall for this one 🙂

    4. Pariße
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      I thought he wouldn't fit in, because he's a lazy player and Liverpool's success last year was based on a lot of running from the front 3...but I wouldn't imagine him to be such a flop.

  14. tm245
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    PVA off the bench for Moreno -- about average?

    1. TorresMagic™
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      • 16 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Below on FFS.

    2. Stats Don\'t Lie
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      That's what I've got.

  15. Dr Dream
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Stunning goal by Messi.

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

      man is on another plan

      up there with the greatest ever

      Pele, Maradona, Best, Cryuff, Messi

      1. Dr Dream
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        Best player who ever played the game IMO.

        1. Malcolm Tucker for England …
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          • 15 Years
          10 years, 11 months ago

          don't be silly.
          remember Carlton Palmer.

          1. Dr Dream
            • 13 Years
            10 years, 11 months ago

            Well...apart from Carlton of course....That goes without saying.

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

        *planet

        1. Wings of Steel
          • 15 Years
          10 years, 11 months ago

          (Heskey chuckles behind in the shadows)

      3. Malcolm Tucker for England …
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        Charles

      4. Super PVA - Small Spuds
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        He's head and shoulders above them

  16. LewanGOALski
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    c'mon Sterling, gimme 10+ tonight!

    1. Jax
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      this + henderson

  17. Wings of Steel
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    6 nil. I bet Barcelona players don't enjoy scoring goals as much as Leicester.

  18. Mull
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Imagine how many goals N'Doye could score if he played for Barca.

    1. Heels_Over_Head
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      i'll need to drink more first to contemplate that

  19. Pablitto
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    F**ck the hell the choice I had ... to choose between Strling+Moreno or Cout+Skrtel
    What do you guys think I went for?

    1. Mull
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Sterling and Moreno still sounds better with all the information you had available to you. Skrtel and Coutinho was probably the safer option though.

      1. Pablitto
        • 15 Years
        10 years, 11 months ago

        probaby true, cheers

    2. Jax
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      coutinho hasn't scored

    3. Numb
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      N'Doye?

    4. The Machine
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      The ine with the injury prone player who is not playing today

    5. Malcolm Tucker for England …
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Moreno and cout here.
      but schlupp and remy help, as does benching Adrian...

  20. Jax
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    barca +78 goal difference. yowza.

  21. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Ibe looks pants

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

      I was just thinking the same WR.

    2. Numb
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      He's very young. Looks a good prospect to be fair.

  22. TorresMagic™
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    • 16 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hull so close.

    1. RubeRx
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      • 11 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      Who has the TV rights for PL in Australia?

  23. Wings of Steel
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hull close there

  24. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Migs save point 😎

    1. TuttiFrutti
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      should've been on TOTY, rly.Will atleast get goldem glove by some distance though...

  25. RubeRx
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    • 11 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Ohhhhhhhhhh close

  26. Spencer
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    • 14 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hull playing well here.

  27. The Enlightener
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Attaboy, Migsy-Poo!

  28. Sif
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Should have captained Mignolet...

  29. The Orienteer - find me in …
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Moreno is still in my UPFL team, but as I've made some other manager substitutions, not sure if an automatic substitution can apply (?) - if so Wasilewski comes in I think!!

    1. Malcolm Tucker for England …
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      • 15 Years
      10 years, 11 months ago

      unfortunately not

  30. Ser Football 42
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 11 months ago

    Mignolet save point 😎