[sbu_large_image] Dugout Discussion
9 August 2015 5274 comments
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After yesterday’s disappointing start, many Fantasy managers will be looking for some of Sunday’s heavy hitters to come to the rescue.

A couple of 1.30pm kick-offs get us underway. Community Shield winners Arsenal welcome West Ham to the Emirates before Steven McClaren takes charge of Newcastle for the first time in the top-flight as in-form Southampton roll up to St James’ Park.

Stoke play host to big-spending Liverpool in the late kick-off, with Brendan Rodgers’ side looking to immediately avenge their 6-1 mauling at the Britannia in the final league fixture of 2014/15.

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  1. Sánchez
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Wenger had a stinker today.

    Said before game if he drops Walcott its awful man management.
    After WBA hat trick, cup final goal, community shield assist.
    All 3 wins, finally beat Mourinho, trophy in the bag.
    Theo then handed big money new contract, must've been eager to get goals.

    But no, the donkey starts, does nothing and Walcott gets on at 0-2 when a bus is getting parked rendering his pace useless. Change a winning team and a performing player, get beat at home, awful decision all round.

    1. Les Bleus
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      I sense you are a Walcott owner.

      1. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Sour grapes

      2. Sánchez
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        I said this exact thing 2 days ago.
        Total slap in the face to drop him at this point.
        Especially for a proven donkey.

        1. Royal5
          • 14 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          Every single Arsenal player was dreadful.

          1. Sánchez
            • 13 Years
            10 years, 6 months ago

            Yep. No pace in the attack. With sanchez out that was blatant.
            Had to start with walcott if he's out. Oziland Giroud hardly unpredictable players

        2. Les Bleus
          • 14 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          Giroud had 5 goals the last 5 games against West Ham though...

          1. Sánchez
            • 13 Years
            10 years, 6 months ago

            Against James Collins west ham. Not ogbonna

            1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 16 Years
              10 years, 6 months ago

              This ^^^.

    2. Frank Black
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Arsenal is not going to win anything until they sack Wenger. They have 200M euros in the bank and he doesn't want to spend any of it.

      1. Debauchy
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    3. owls on the up
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      So true, was no need for team to be changed!

    4. Milner4eva
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Not sure not playing walcott was the problem - should have started with Sanchez imo

      1. Sánchez
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Ogbonna and Reid are 2 big defenders.
        They handle a big donkey no problem.
        Pace would have worried them though.

    5. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Worst of all was playing Cazorla on the left. Tomkins at right back, so attack him with pace. 12 year olds on FIFA understand this concept.

      Also taking Cazorla out from the middle for Ramsey who is completely ineffective.

      1. owls on the up
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Cazorla was too deep for my liking wasn't impressed!

        1. Wilshere Knowledge
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          Was the deepest when Coq was subbed. Coq was bad because he had to increase the distance of his distribution because Ramsey doesn't stay as close as Cazorla does.

          Cazorla-Coq had been the basis of our midfield success, and he splits it up...

  2. TJ_777
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Will Gomez nail down the lb spot?

    1. Breadbin
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Might do.

      1. 4vets
        • 15 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Shut up, git bag!

        #icypissed

  3. Rafabio
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    http://www.fiso.co.uk/crackthecode.php

    Mahrez 12,062 NTIs today. Choooooooo choooooooooo!

    1. TJ_777
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      All aboard the bandwagon.

      As a mahrez owner stoked that he will (potentially) get a big price rise so I can sell him after gw2 or keep him

  4. Bøwstring The Carp
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    A lot of Liverpool fans I know big up Lallana, thinking he's a fantastic player.

    He's good at best, but that £25mil price tag though.... you'd expect more

    1. Ricky - it doesn\'t ta…
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      hes' crap. always overplays and take too many touches

      1. Rafabio
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        He's not crap but the latter part of your comments are true.

      2. Frank Black
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        And yet he was great at Southampton.

    2. Sánchez
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Very over priced. Sure they paid less for Suarez than they did for Lallana.

    3. Russell
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      He's the same as players like Dempsey, Sigurdsson etc. They are great in an average side, but are just not quick enough to be a great player in a really good team.

  5. The Train Driver
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Can in - Milner pushed up...

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

    gomez yc

  7. FPL Touches
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hurling on SS3 is...interesting.

    1. 4vets
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Thye have a puking competition?

    2. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Kilkenny hardly had to try final should be more intense.

  8. mr messi
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    What a dull game

  9. SheBangsTheDrums
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Ozil and Benteke looking likely to leave my team to accommodate Kun and Alexis.

    1. Skipdipper
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Do you have 5.5m in the bank?

  10. Eden Hazardous
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    I got 28 points this week but thats okay........I will stay strong and keep Wal(c)ott............I will make no transfers.........Leicester attack is not essential.............said no FFS manger ever

    1. Francescoli
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      ha

    2. TJ_777
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Idk if it's any time for Leicester to get goals this half of the season it's early when they have the foxtures

      1. Eden Hazardous
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        essential still????

        1. TJ_777
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          No not at all lots of differentials scoring this gw but I see a few actually doing decent ie cabaye wijnaldum ayew Payet shelvey(played wayyyy better than he scored) oscar and ofc mahrez but so I think there are better options than mahrez

          Mahrez however is in the whole with two strikers up front so he will have lots of shots at the top of the box and passes to the strikers. If he can nail down pens i will probably stick with him but I don't think he should be the person to go to if u have 7.0

  11. pablo discobar
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    What a terrible week. On 42 at the moment. Really need a Benteke goal and bonus points here. All that planning for this

    1. Milner4eva
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      42 is good........

      1. Eden Hazardous
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        *very good

    2. Les Bleus
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Get out.

    3. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Looking for attention?

      1. Eden Hazardous
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        This^^^

    4. Skipdipper
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Jog on

    5. megatronaldinho
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      by now u'd think that u'd have the awareness to read a room

    6. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      reverse that , 24 , you lucky fecker

    7. Nascimento
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      That's actually a really good score this week. Good luck with the Benteke punt.

    8. km79
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      same as me and I'm delighted !

  12. Milner4eva
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Benteke has looked really off the pace today IMO

    1. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      It's those joke donkeys around him.

      1. Milner4eva
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Not having a go at tekkers, think he's quality, just needs a few matches before hebstarts firing

        1. QPR expects... glory!
          • 14 Years
          10 years, 6 months ago

          The problem is that this is his competitive pre-season warm up. No other way to get him match fit except by playing matches

      2. Debauchy
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Missing the quality he had before

    2. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      It was one of the few things the two former FPL numbers were right about on the fantasy scout surgery. They are only guessing like the rest of us!

  13. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    This soccer game is nearly as dull as a cricket game. If it rains are they called in?

    1. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Yes, because Can doesn't want to get his hair wet.

  14. Sheep Flavour
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    everyone selling Wally then?

    1. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Not yet.

  15. Egg noodle
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    My keepers are Adrian/Butland

    Adrians 11 points staring at me from the bench.
    Butland please keep a CS !!!

    1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Errr ... 10 for Adrian, maybe 9 ...

    2. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      I have had a dreadful week, but I am smiling. We're top of the league!! Not for long of course, but we have to enjoy these rare treats.

      1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        +42! Well done! And thanks for all the fish ... 😉

  16. reason17
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Is Liverpool's Gomez permanently nailed on?

    1. Breadbin
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Lol.

    2. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Dumb question

  17. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Oxford 4427 - 216 = 4211 net transfers in ...

    1. SW6
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Rising?

      1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Obviously.

    2. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      216 out? 😆

      1. Eden Hazardous
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        Oxford is not a defender......he will destroy my formation

    3. walkman666
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Noice.

    4. Skipdipper
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Is he likely to start many?

      1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGeniusâ…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        I do not know. Didn't expect him to start this one, that's for sure!

      2. skindogg
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        they might play tomkins in the holding roll next week - Jenskinson was unable to play against arsenal due to loan ....... but after that performance I doubt it.

  18. ihateramsey2
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    why does Cech have high NTI?

    http://www.fiso.co.uk/crackthecode.php

    1. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Courtois replacement

    2. Captain Goodwin
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Probably all the rage Courtois transfers hehe

    3. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Probably Courtois.

    4. Tiki-Taka
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Courtois red

  19. thepuntmaster
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Absolutely appalling start to the season for me! 20 points with silva and Aguero to play!

    1. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      It's not even too bad.

    2. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      decent

  20. Chenku╰☆╮
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    common stoke score a goal already..

  21. Keno
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hazard----->Sanchez, thoughts lads?

    1. Francescoli
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      no way

    2. owls on the up
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Nah find another way to get sanchez

    3. Sheep Flavour
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Sanchez is probably Mr Arsenal.....so he is more important to Arsenal than Haz is to Chelsea.

      1. Keno
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 6 months ago

        I completely agree

  22. Francescoli
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    29 fantasy points; the coach from my team, marseille, resigns at the post game press conference (after losing the game); and australia lose the ashes...

    couldn't get much worse really...

  23. jam sandwich
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    How many people with Ruddy and Butland played Butland?

    1. Debauchy
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      None

  24. Forza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Coutinho is really starting to piss me off. That's an easy ball through to Benteke, but he just runs...

  25. thepuntmaster
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    In Italy so missed the action this weekend. Who is everyone getting in and selling?

    1. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Selling all the good players and buying the random budget ones.

    2. 4vets
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Folks are selling everyone and getting everyone else in, it seems.

    3. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Hazard out
      Mahrez in.

    4. Nascimento
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      Many will be getting Mahrez/Payet. Would expect many to be shipping Walcott.

  26. faux_C
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    People asking questions no-one could possibly know the answer to.

    People humblebragging about their scores.

    People crying and kneejerking.

    FPL is back!

    1. the axolotl
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 6 months ago

      there's been some wonderful humblebrags tbf

  27. Captain Goodwin
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Oooo this game is really hotting up now. 2 shots in the last 5 mins!!!

  28. Milner4eva
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    I always thought it wouldnt be long before Milner got set pieces off Henderson

  29. Sheep Flavour
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    Just saw the goals from the earlier game.

    I broke my own rule no 1 from FF, never buy a pricey keeper.....and he was at fault for both goals!

    Keeping the faith for a few weeks but need it to shape up.

    Mr M must of been giggling.

  30. Francescoli
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 6 months ago

    wonder if the guy with Bertrand on the field is still leading Last Man Standing...