Dugout Discussion
13 August 2016 2873 comments
Mark Mark
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Spare a thought for Mike Phelan.

Already the Hull City caretaker manager seems to be unfurling the white flag, even before Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez get their first run at his patched-up defence.

The first Dugout Discussion of the Premier League season could witness one of the most one-sided opening fixtures in memory.

Champions Leicester turn up at the KCOM Stadium off the back of the FA Community Shield defeat to Manchester United but surely still brimming with confidence and optimism following the triumphant campaign.

Certainly they bring plenty of talent and pace – heightened by the presence of Ahmed Musa and Demarai Gray on their teamsheet. That might just prove too much, even for a spirited Hull City showing.

Stranger things have happened, though. Just ask Claudio Ranieri.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. Lateriser 12
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Go on Hull. Keep it steady.

  2. Boss Hogg
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Just a gentle reminder to everyone...

    PATIENCE!

    1. JIM BOB
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      🙂

  3. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    So this is it? The end of FPL?

    1. Clump
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Worse. End of the world.

  4. Siggy in the Middle
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Musa could be a good prospect if Leicester do well this season.

  5. JIM BOB
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Couple of draft league dilemmas:

    A.) Carroll, Musa or Deeney?

    B.) Redmond or Demari Gray?

  6. Canadian Football
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    what time did the fpl site crash? Was it significant?

    1. Nice1Cyrille
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      I couldn't get in after 11:20. Significant enough.

    2. Amateur Pundit Zan
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      i tried to make changes about 30-40mins before deadline and could not get it done

      1. Canadian Football
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 28 days ago

        Extra wc like a few years ago?

    3. Odikostar
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Around 15 minutes before deadline

  7. Granville
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 17 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    I'm quitting. 9 minutes into the season and I've blanked.

    1. The Wise Owl
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Still a second half left.

    2. Syd.
      • 17 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Still a chance of a CS point

  8. Mickey Tyrion™
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    The o/u on this game was 2 with Leicester at even odds. The writing was on the wall for an early snoozer.

  9. S.Kuqi
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    whats the odds for Leicester to relegate?

    1. Rogue Todd
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      16-1 with Sky Bet is the best odds currently

    2. JIM BOB
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      14-1

    3. Weasel Boy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      14/1 I heard

    4. Obi-1 Kenobi-0
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      On the day they won the league they were 50/1 on Bet365.

      I'm on it for £20.

  10. Forza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Selling Mahrez and not buying Vardy finally pays off. Only took 7 months 😎

    1. Tibidabo
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Comments like this are absurd lol. Get out of here

    2. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      10 minutes gone. Please leave.

    3. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      This site needs to invest in a sarcasm detector.

  11. Piggs Boson
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    *waits for Vardy to swear at the ref*

    1. ★Kuntheman★
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      I held my breath haha

    2. Siggy in the Middle
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Vardy to get 6 red cards this season for swearing at officials.

  12. Puntillimon
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Hull are actually decent!

  13. Nelson Vivas Fan Club
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    What to do while waiting on cache-bma7032-BMA?

    1. Mull
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Put the kettle on.

      1. Nelson Vivas Fan Club
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 28 days ago

        Good idea! I should also think about what to wear when cache-bma7032-BMA arrives

    2. Amateur Pundit Zan
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      watch the game?

      1. Nelson Vivas Fan Club
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 28 days ago

        Do you think cache-bma7032-BMA will be there? 😉

  14. Obi-1 Kenobi-0
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Not to be premature or anything, but a Leicester clean sheet certainly doesn't look like the certainty it did before kickoff.

    1. Milner4eva
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Cs never are

    2. Make United Great Again
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Very premature of you

  15. Swan - Villa Proud
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Got the error "Timed out while waiting on cache". Don't most of us fail when the cache doesn't roll in 🙂

  16. S.Kuqi
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Disgraceful if we don't get free gw2 wildcard

    1. Boss Hogg
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Get a grip man!

    2. Eden Azzzar
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Why?

      1. S.Kuqi
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 28 days ago

        as you know site didn't work for last hour. Didn't have time to make my changes 😉

        1. Rupert The Horse
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          10 years, 28 days ago

          Oh an hour, really?

          1. S.Kuqi
            • 13 Years
            10 years, 28 days ago

            Yes. Not sure if I have Kun or Zlatan as my captain

            1. Rupert The Horse
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 13 Years
              10 years, 28 days ago

              Don't know what my team is.

    3. Siggy in the Middle
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      How? Should've had a team picked by Friday evening to avoid morning-before-deadline tinkering.

      1. Rupert The Horse
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 28 days ago

        I worked from 10am to midnight yesterday and similar on Thursday.

    4. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Why? Was it down for a while before the deadline?

  17. klopp4kop
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    davies playing with great confidence....

  18. ★Kuntheman★
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    It's only taken 10 minutes for some of you to predict the whole season. Slightly impressive.

    1. Mull
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      We're that good.

  19. How Mina You
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Musa, if he plays regularly, could be a steal into the Leicester City forward line...

    1. Dimen
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      yeah, not really nailed though. And will most likely be subbed often for okazaki and ulloa.

    2. Nelson Vivas Fan Club
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Yeah, could be...

    3. *sigh*
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Dial up?

  20. ScotsmanAbroad
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    So not only is the changed FPL site one of the worst updates in game history, now it isn't even capable of working in time for the kick off. GO BACK TO THE OLD SYSTEM!!

    1. Mull
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      BRING BACK MAN IN THE STAND!

      1. Celt Abroad
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 28 days ago

        Absolutely. Then sign Charlie Adam immediately.

    2. S.Kuqi
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      What was the old system?

      1. ScotsmanAbroad
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 28 days ago

        Any of the previous 3 years where you didn't have to click 3 times to achieve what one click did in the past. Any computer "update" where the end user has to do 3 times the work to achieve the same goal is a massive fail.

    3. The Royal Robin
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      I agree with you mate. I preferred the website last year anyway! It's not even like this is all worth it.

    4. Rogue Todd
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Payment by postal order and transfers done via an 0898 telephone number?

  21. Telpuialion
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Its been 10 minutes. 80 more to go. EIGHTY! Lots to come yet, simmer down.

  22. Trae44
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Think Gray at 5.0 is going to be a good option 🙂

    1. The Royal Robin
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      How nailed is he in future though?

    2. Boss Hogg
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      If he scores his price will rocket.

      Always an early bandwagon to jump on!

    3. Make United Great Again
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      If he nails a spot down then yes. Let's see what he can do first

  23. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    This won't be easy for Leicester

    Hull not the whipping boys everyone expected

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      agreed

    2. dogtanion
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      I think it'll be very easy. comfortable 2+ win.

    3. Syd.
      • 17 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Leicester are the most effective when counter attacking. It ain't going to happen today

    4. dja81
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Very naive if you thought hull were gonna play high and let vardy and miss run in behind.

      1. dja81
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 28 days ago

        Musa

  24. Saul Gillman
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Anybody on here use an android box with kodi to watch the footie? and if so are they any use? I have Sky but its an extra 20 quid a month to get BT, Would be useful!

    1. Weasel Boy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Kodi not great for live sports.
      That's what I've found.

  25. S.Kuqi
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Why an earth did go for Mahrez instead of Hazard 😐

    1. Milner4eva
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      It's been 15 mins!! Relax

    2. Dimen
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Yeah its been 15 min of the first game. But I have both 🙂

  26. camarozz
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Is fpl down?? Can't log in..

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      oh dear, scroll back a few pages

  27. Merlin the Wraith
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Hull City top of the league according to BBC football...

  28. The Chosen One...
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Tried to get in Mahrez last minute but couldn't. Hopefully a blessing in disguise

    1. andymck
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 28 days ago

      Been quiet so far tbf.

  29. clownbot2000
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Hull starting well, might just win this ok league, fiver @ 1500/1 ?

  30. 1966 was a great year for E…
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 28 days ago

    Should have captained Jakupovic 🙁