The first members’ article of the week arrives this evening as we delve into the data from Gameweek 6. We check in on Chelsea and West Brom’s new attackers, assess Everton and Southampton’s lone strikers, and cast an eye over Liverpool’s main performers in light of Brendan Rodgers’ move to a 3-4-1-2 formation at home to Norwich.
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Anyone else starting to think that again like last season value won't be that important?
A lot of reasonably priced defenders (Naughtin/Nyom/Francis), Mids (Payet,Barkley,Mahrez), Forwards (Wilson,Ighalo,Sahko,Diouf),
All these equate to easy routes into 6.0 Defs, (kola/Azpi) , Heavy hitting mids if needed - Hazard/Kdb/Sanchez and almost any striker within reason alongside Aguero/Wilson.-
I'm starting to think nothing is important, but then I'm in the 2 millions
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It's a crazy season, I'm considering benching an 11.0m player (Sanchez) in favour of a 5.0 player (Ighalo) this week.
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Lol - I'm giving Sanchez one more week, Both he and Arsenal have been so disappointing.
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Will probably play AOA, and have both.
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Best WBA, Norwich combo
A) Martin and Myhill (rotated with Butland)
B) Evans and Ruddy (rotated with Butland)-
Clearly A for now, but I guess Myhill s days could be over sometime
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Anything rotated with Norwich and anything rotated with Stoke sounds horrible to me, but A for me so you never have to play Butland.
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Butland has good fixtures, so am hopeful of decent returns.
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Fair enough but I have them as one the three worst defences in the league.
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Agree now on Butland he was a mistake-we (owners) got lucky last week.
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Luckier than we Muniesa owners thats for sure!
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Morning all,
got a few mins before i have to open up the market stall...
Darmian to Azpi on my next week FT?-
I would
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yes
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thanks all
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Kenny Dalglish has put his 1984 European Cup winner's medal up for auction to help raise money for his wife's breast cancer charity.Noble gesture.Well done.
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Anyone know what happens if you play AOA & one of
your mid/fwd's doesn't play? does your 1st def on bench still come in?
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I thin def will be subbed in
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yea must have happened to a few silva/sterling owners over the last few weeks
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You get a sub in as normal and lose your chip.
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Hi everyone,
Does anyone know where I can the find the actual points for each players, week by week, so far in the same format as the either "rate my team" or "projections" formats.? I.e. GW 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
I can't seem to find this anywhere.
Thanks
Daniel-
those weeks projections disappeared into the ether as the deadlines passed away I'm afraid.
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I made a note to save them all last year but didn't bother this year. What I can say though, is those numbers are excellent.
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I am not interested in projected numbers I am interested in the actual numbers the player received. Thanks
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Guys, help me out with a really boring transfer?
Oxford Reece to Nyom/Franics or Souare?-
Not Francis due to fixtures...
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hmm. good point
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Nyom lights!
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thanks!
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Love the grav Trequartista, don't go Souare but the other two are close calls.
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Thanks mate
Only reason I've been thinking Souare is that he plays for a better team and has the better fixtures.-
As great as their attacking options are, Palace's defence is a no-fly zone for me.
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Fair enough
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Agree with your earlier point about graving up - it helps in getting answers and breeds familiarity amongst posters, Not saying posters have to but in my experience have a grav helps you integrate into the community by association with your grav.
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Yup. An excellent suggestion.
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You're spot on, these comments often fly too quickly for me to read everything so I often skip to gravs I know. I really only spotted Trequartista a day or so ago and linked together a few of his posts mentally because I loved the username. the gravless Alex123's and Johnny456's all blur into one otherwise.
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I'm new on FFS this year. Joined GW 3 too. Playing FPL after a good 3-4 years 🙂
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That's cool to hear man, welcome aboard 🙂
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Nyom
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thanks!
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nyom has good fixtures & better defence around him
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Would you play him at home to Arsenal though?
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A. Diouf to Martial
B. Gomez to Creswell
C. A and B for -4p-
A this week
B next week
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Is Diouf out?
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B.
But I'm assuming you already have Chelsea/West Brom/City coverage?-
No Chelsea defs. Might just do Gomez to Azpi actually
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The B. could actually be Gomez to any defender
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B
Diouf now fit and has great fixture
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@Balders just wanted to know whether I have made it to the tournament you were told of starting some weeks back. I have mailed my FFS and FPL id to you mail id.
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Yep you're in, watch out for this weeks article shortly. In the meantime have a gander here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iTFYdh_tO9S8XXvF2fYuVu73bLAVAOn3MaGFMWJLbm4/pubhtml?#-
Thanks mate will bookmark it.. can you please share the actual url of your posts. Just wanted to go through it.So next week 128 will remain am I right?
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Not quite, we're still in qualifying, H2Hs will drag out over many weeks also.
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got the link mate..cheers
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OOh great I made it , not sure what it all means though! will look out for the article.
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Hey Balders I mailed you my ID too and I was on the list you provided earlier yet I seem to hv been kept out somehow.
Had 68 pts this week a hit excluded-
Hi Jonjo, can you mail me again? The team I have for you scored 35 points.
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ID please.
You can check my team from my profile it's 68-
FPL ID: 87
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Just looked at your linked team, you're now updated in my list and the database but beware your score in the community article will read 35.
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Sorry I don't understand.
Username RN.87
FPL ID 206087
Will that affect my qualification chances?-
I erroneously had your FPL ID as 87, missing out the first four digits. Your score has been updated in my database and will not affect your qualification chances. Unfortunately I have already submitted my community article which will state the wrong score for you. So do not be alarmed when you see that. Sorry for the confusion!
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Thanks man!
And the mistake could have been on my part as well. 🙂
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As long as it does not hurt my chances it's fine whatever it shows in the article.
Can there be no last minute tweaks in the article?
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Balders, can you explain what is the advantage of considering bench points as a tie breaker ?
Because I think it just promotes teams to get a rotating front 8, which I don't think is a good strategy in FPL in general-
It's promotes strength in depth. Its still better to have 56 points with 0 on the bench than 55 and 12 on the bench. But 55 with 12 on the bench shows you have a stronger squad than someone with 55 and 2.
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Ok, Take this as an example :
Say 2 FPL managers have exactly the same team apart from 2 players, one of them (A) has Sako and Deeney rotating for the seventh attacker spot while the other (B) plays Vardy every week and benches Wanyama every week.
Now there will be weeks when the starter from A outscores( or matches the points of ) Vardy, but long term B would have a better FPL overall score in my opinion, while A would have a distinct advantage in your competition.
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Got a feeling there will be a Azpi rush next week if Chelsea keep a clean sheet... i'll be in for him fo' sho'
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many will be doing UTD def >> Azpi after SUN game
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same. i'll probably be Darmian for Azpi
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+1
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Yup. Expect him to rise a bit in the next few weeks.
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As long as he can walk straight after you're done with him Pat!
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Had him from the start, it's not been a fun ride - finally getting some benefits tho.
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Best 4,5 def for next 10 or so gws?
Not Nyom or Francis-
Souare has good fixtures but no cleansheets. Everton have excellent fixtures from GW 11 so Galloway could be an option too.
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Thanks man
Dont like Martin as fpl pick,well Norwich defenders
Souare is an interesting 1-
Yeah. Souare is the same, just that he plays for a better team than Norwich and has very good fixtures.
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None really stand out,
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Yeah thanks
Maybe I will try to find 0,5 somewhere and go for 5mil def,better options there
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isnt Ward back soon?
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Best def up to 4.9 to replace Gomez?
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Evans.
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Uninjured Evans.
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Sporting was here? We get Champ Beric SJ and a few other regulars and DZ will be gold.
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haven't seen Beric in awhile
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This injury Pelle has on FPL - any sources or informations about potential omission from the upcoming GW ?
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here you go. he his only doubtful for today game.
http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/southampton/news/40491/?-
Thx mate, cheers!
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AOA or bench ?
A) Sanchez (lei)
B) Pedro (new)
C) Yaya (tot)
D) Payet (NOR)
E) Mahrez (ARS)
F) Kun (tot)
G) Wilson (stk)
H) Ighalo (CRY)-
AOA. T
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Bench
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Play Williams or targett this week? Really can't decide.
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Targett
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From BBC Sport -
Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski stepped off the bench at half-time against Wolfsburg last night and score five goals in nine minutes to inspire a 5-1 comeback win.
That means that in nine minutes, Lewandowski scored more league goals than Liverpool, Newcastle and West Brom have this season, Wayne Rooney has in the whole of 2015 and Nicklas Bendtner has in over three years.-
It helps when you have 10 other Bayern Munich players behind you! I watched it, Bayern were incredible and Wolfsburg were caught in the same headlights that found Brazil in 2014.
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Bendtner could have scored 6 but he didn't want to steal the limelight #Gent
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Don't take Lord Bendtners name in vain!
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I'm in a decent position (not usually in the top 100,000 by this time in the season) and have got good team value with only a couple of minor doubts for the next game. However, I think I wildcard will be needed very soon because, somewhat subconsciously, I have slowly been shifting my funds towards the rear of my team over the opening gameweeks and I think I'm gonna need the money for some big hitters soon:
Butland, Ruddy,
Azpilcueta, Kompany, Cedric, Dawson, Francis
Payet, Mahrez, Ayew, Chadli, De Bruyne
Aguero, Martial, Wilson,
1.1 itb
You might say that's a balanced team, but I don't think I've ever had a fourth defender worth 5.0 before, especially when my fifth defender is a regular starter at 4.5.
Does anyone else think this team looks like it's gonna need an overhaul next week? Shifting the funds forward in order to grab someone like Hazard is gonna take several transfers. But the point is I have an (almost - Kompany) fully fit squad, so a wildcard feels somewhat wasted.-
I think dropping Chadli to a 4.5m mid could be a big help
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Yes, this and dropping one of my defence to a proper budget defender, and maybe dropping Wilson to Ighalo, and Possibly Martial to Pelle (depending on how he performs over the next couple of fixtures). These are all moves I could do together to create funds to get in, say, Hazard AND Sanchez.
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Hazard & Sanchez are sooo last season. Dumped the latter last week after wildcarding him in during GW3. So frustrating to watch and even the single assist he got this season was a fluke (his header was going wide but was OG'd in).
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Good point - if I was gonna do it this week I should have done it already. I think I am bracing myself for THE WEEK where I need to move all that money forwards
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Don't WC that, honestly that team looks really strong.
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I know, it sounds like one of those calls just for reassurance, but I think it's coming. Maybe this week is a little early, but I am nervous of not owning Hazard or Pedro this week, and I have no Arsenal. they are about to have great runs of fixtures, (as will Everton) so even though this team, is doing well, it might need a complete overhaul very soon...
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Nice team. Personally, I'm not a Chadli fan and I'd be downgrading him to the likes of Fletcher at 4.4m and using the money for an upgrade elsewhere. I've tried the 8 playing forwards thing but it's annoying the money you leave on the bench. As for Hazard, if he's off penalties there's absolutely no way he's worth 11.3m.
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My squad is very similar, Pedro is my 2nd most expensive player and like you I have a fair bit of cash invested in my defence. This is where having a WC is an advantage though, we can restructure our squads at a moments notice so don't worry about your team balance. Thats what the WC is for. Use it only when the moment is right.
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Yes, the consensus is to hold the wildcard, but I reckon it could only be a week away...
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I'd like to hold for some good fixture swings. Between GW9-13 sometime. I do sense a change in the wind though, I'm hoping it won't come about too swiftly.
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Ward's price is soon to drop... worthy of a cheap Gomez replacement or go for Evans?
PhysioRoom says he is back 3rd october-
he wont drop beyond 4.5. so no point is selling now. since he will back in 2GW time. I'm also holding him and benched him
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I have Gomez and Darmian which i want to ship out... is it worth bringing in Ward at 4.5 for when he is back?
Gomez > Ward or Evans
Darmain > Azpi
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Palace can't defend
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Palace *don't want to* defend - Pardew's own words
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Palace don't do clean sheets. His goals are hard to predict and he'd never scored more than one goal a season before this. Avoid like the plague.
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Morning all.
On WC. Thoughts?
Bego McCarth
Kola Azpi Dawson Evans Nyom
Haz KDB Payet Mahrez Fletcher
Kun Wilson Ighalo.
2.5 itb
Looking long term with defence, considering a one-week Mata/Martial punt. Ighalo most likely a short-term pick while the best striker to sit along Kun and Wilson makes himself known.
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Looks good. I orefer Dawson over Evans myself
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Gomez --> Moreno for a hit (already brought in Martial ) ?
Gomez Targett Bellerin Azpi Kolarov
Moreno registered more touches in the final third (36) than Philippe Coutinho in the Canaries clash, received just one pass less than the Brazilian (21 to 22) in the final third and supplied the assist for Danny Ings’ opener.-
No, just bench him
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Not for a hit. Also don't think Brendan has a #1 LB yet, so who knows
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No hit, but Gomez and Targett need to be sorted out pronto
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Hi everyone,
Does anyone know where I can the find the actual points for each players, week by week, so far in the same format as the either "rate my team" or "projections" formats.? I.e. GW 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
I am not interested in the projected numbers for the player instead I am after the actual points that the player received for that week.
I can't seem to find this anywhere.
Thanks
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ohhh just seen your reply, here:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/turd1461#!/vizhome/FPLplayerstats2015-16/Lineupspitchmaps-
"Points by Player by GW" tab is the one you want.
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Excellent, thanks, that's what I was looking for!
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If you just click on the little i next to the player, then history, on FPL it brings up all his historic weekly points
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Who would you play?
a) Nyom (h) CRY
b) Francis (a) STK
c) Dawson (a) EVE-
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Dawson is at home btw-
Yep, sorry my bad
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Dawson all day. Trust WBA defence more than any at the moment, bar United and City.
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C. Can see a CS there
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Falcao or Remy to replace Costa ?
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Imo I wouldn't as you'll only need to use another transfer. Costa will only miss 2 gw
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good point - cheers
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Who cares? Both rubbish
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Falcao I think
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JWP is dropping. Anyone know why? I thought he was playing well?
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Do you meant Ward-Prowse?
Coz he hasn't got any point return for FPL managers to take any interest in him.
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Hi folks, this lot good enough to save for this week?
Begovic
Kolarov Skrtel** Dawson
Sanchez Yaya Coutinho** Ayew Mahrez
Aguero Wilson*
4.0; Naughton; Coloccini*; Rantie
1.4 banked, 1 FT
**/* on the chopping block with 2 FTs next week. ** likelier to leave-
Aye, ye be fine!
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thanks as always Balders.
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😀 I love that you own him
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Might own him all season just to be a parody of myself and change team name to It's Just Bantie if I look nowhere like matching last season's levels
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😆 I would love to see that! I might join you then with "Its just Banterleb"
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Yes.
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thanks TQ
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Yeah good enough to save I think.
Skrtle->Azpi seems like an obvious one-
either Azpi for double CHE or double WBA def for me. Azpi would be a good shout though.
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Looks good to me Shifty
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Cheers AT - the logical side of me says save too. Just need some of my decisions to pay off for once this season!
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Does anyone know what's happened to Muniesa? On the bench in the Prem and the Cup this week...
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Dropped
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No idea but Stoke are pants so I'm shipping him anyway
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He was dropped at the weekend, but I said last night it was strange that he didn't play in what was essentially the second XI. Only thing I can think of is that Hughes wants to get Wilson fully up to match fitness. However I'm not going to transfer Muniesa out until we know the picture after this weekend.
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Play cech ( lei) or myhill ( eve) this week?
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Cech, obviously
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Tough call, you have two very good GKers so these selection headaches are inevitable. I'd go with Cech but there is nothing in it.
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myhill
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Any news on Silva? Doesnt look likely that his price will drop, but it's a shame having a City mid on the bench for weeks.
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Await presser but word has it he could be ok to play. Check stickies, there's a quote on it somewhere.
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Switch to KDB
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Costa to........
Pelle (form/fixture)
Martial (form 1 fixture)
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Ighalo for me. Martial would have made sense at the start of the week due to the price factor. Ighalo + 3.1m should outscore Martial over the long run
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what but ighalo plus 2.9m wont?
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Martial if you can afford a one week punt.
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