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2 November 2017 2808 comments
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Whether it’s Pep’s rotation, Jonty’s runaway facial hair or a rogue horse in Andy’s front garden, the ScoutCast crew are decidedly spooked in this week’s Halloween episode.

Downed by a bout of Labyrinthitis – which is as nasty as it sounds – I’m forced to duck out as Jonty, Andy, Granville and Az run riot.

Your community questions help to keep them in check, forcing the quartet to once again assess City rotation, while giving views on Chelsea’s big-hitters, a Foxes revival and a slew of budget defenders.

Jonty rolls out his “ghouls imminent” table, while Andy unknowingly mocks my affliction from afar with back-to-back ear puns; in between they preview the weekend’s action to reveal their captain and transfer picks.

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  1. Miguel Sanchez
    9 years, 7 days ago

    A) Mbemba to Mee and then Zero ITB
    B) Kolasinac to Mee and 2.0m ITB to get Lukaku for Jesus in GW12

    1. We Will Klopp you
      9 years, 7 days ago

      B

    2. bigbudgie
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Other defenders are?

      1. Miguel Sanchez
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Alonso Kola Davies Jones Mbemba

        1. Ajax Hamsterdam
          9 years, 7 days ago

          Go.for be then 🙂

          1. Ajax Hamsterdam
            9 years, 7 days ago

            Meant go for B

    3. Ajax Hamsterdam
      9 years, 7 days ago

      What does your defence look like after b ?

    4. n-doggg
      9 years, 7 days ago

      B

    5. Miguel Sanchez
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Thanks all - looks likr Kola to Mee is happening but will need to sort 5th defender soon

    6. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      B

  2. Dele
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Morning lads and ladies,

    I’m just about to lock in am I G2G?

    Fabianski,
    Jones, Otamendi, Mee
    Zaha, Salah(v), Sterling, Richarlison
    Kane(c), Morata, Jesus

    Elliott, Duffy, Hunemier, Chalobah

    1. @persecuted_by_mods
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Nice team, chalobah to rlc eventually and Jesus to Sergio if possible

      1. Dele
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Thanks man, I’m thinking Jesus > Lukaku if possible.

        Unfortunately Zaha > Grob would be the makeweight to do that move.

    2. Ajax Hamsterdam
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Very very nice team !

  3. Dybala10
    9 years, 7 days ago

    One to bench?

    A) Naughton (BHA H)
    B) Mee (SOU A)
    C) Moreno (WHU A)
    D) Jones (CHE A)
    E) Duffy (SWA A)

    1. Over Midwicket
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Duffy

    2. @persecuted_by_mods
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Tough, Jones. I'm playing him but my team is shite

    3. We Will Klopp you
      9 years, 7 days ago

      E

    4. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Mee

  4. My Name Is Prince
    9 years, 7 days ago

    The last international break of this year seems to be a bit different than the other two, no? Wouldn't you think that the teams already qualified for the World Cup won't be playing competitive matches, so their players are more safe. Then there are the round 2 qualifiers, 8 European teams have two extremely competitive and important matches during the break... Eriksen is one name that comes to mind, will play twice for Denmark. Then there's Ireland and Republic of Ireland in action...

    What I'm saying is, the likes of Sane should be more safe than the likes of Eriksen... Thinking about the risks of early transfers here...

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Very true

    2. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Not necessarily. Players like Sane will be all out to try to nail down a starting place for the WC.

      1. My Name Is Prince
        9 years, 7 days ago

        A fair point!

    3. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Meh. Slightly, but still not smart to move early

      1. My Name Is Prince
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Will be having 2 FTs and using one of them early... will be priced out otherwise, especially if certain players score well during the weekend so they will definitely rise...

        1. Respect My Authoritah
          9 years, 7 days ago

          If you're priced out of a move, then by all means

    4. AnfieldLad
      9 years, 7 days ago

      This make Alli a better pick than Eriksen then?

  5. MartialMatas
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Leaning towards b atm. I could afford a much more expensive defender but I don't think I need one in a 343

    A. Naughton to Daniels
    B. Alonso and Carroll to 4.5 def and Richarlison
    C. Something else
    D. Do nothing

    Begovic Elliot
    Alonso Stones Jones Naughton Mee
    Eriksen Sane Sterling RLC Carroll
    Kane Lukaku Abraham

    2ft 1.1m itb
    wc available

    1. Stockport Hatter
      9 years, 7 days ago

      D and have 2ft after the ib

      1. Stockport Hatter
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Or A in fact to roll 2 over

    2. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      B but get Daniels, he's only 4.8

  6. lfcserg
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Jesus to Lukaku or Aguero for gwk 11-14?

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Lukaku

    2. My Name Is Prince
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Lukaku

    3. We Will Klopp you
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Aguero

  7. Afghanistanislas
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Would you play Davies (have Carroll as only playing sub) or get Mee/Moreno/Duffy with a FT?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Get Mee

  8. Legomané
    • Has Moderation Rights
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Currently on:
    A. Elliot (BOU)
    B. Ward (sou)
    C. Stones (ARS)
    D. Calvert-Lewin (WAT)

    Any bench switches?
    1. Pope (sou)
    2. Wimmer (LEI)
    3. Carroll (BHA)

    Cheers 🙂

    1. We Will Klopp you
      9 years, 7 days ago

      No

      1. Legomané
        • Has Moderation Rights
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Cheers bud, GL this w/e

  9. ZeBestee
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Play Elliot or Fabianski?

    Also have Naughton

    1. Legomané
      • Has Moderation Rights
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Fab

  10. Ajax Hamsterdam
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Pogba Might feature this week end against Chelsea. Just in time.for.lukaku s fixtures against Newcastle and brighton 🙂

  11. HD7
    9 years, 7 days ago

    GW team, right order ?

    Elliot
    Walker Jones Kola
    Sterling Atsu Eriksen Tarroll
    Kaku Kane(C) Jesus

    Subs: Fabianski, Simpson, Chalobah, Mbemba

  12. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
    9 years, 7 days ago

    On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being of most high importance, how important is it to have a full bench from GW12 onwards?

    1. lfcserg
      9 years, 7 days ago

      6.9

    2. My Name Is Prince
      9 years, 7 days ago

      8

    3. Ajax Hamsterdam
      9 years, 7 days ago

      I would have at least 2 subs playing plus the keeper playing too

    4. Pasqualinho
      9 years, 7 days ago

      I’d say 2. Even over the busy Xmas schedule I think it’s more important to have bench options 1 and 2 stronger and a non-playing 3rd than 3 2pters. You should hardly ever need the 3rd sub.

      1. Collie01
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        9 years, 7 days ago

        This. I've 2 decent cheap nailed subs and 3rd spot is cheap as I can fodder.

        1. My Name Is Prince
          9 years, 7 days ago

          Depends on your formation a bit I guess, but you only win 0.5m that way...

      2. My Name Is Prince
        9 years, 7 days ago

        This season it seems a bit more important than others with City... But yeah, I actually agree 1 and 2 should be stronger, but is that doable in reality? Two 4.5m defs seems reasonable, there are no 4.0m playing defs and 4.5m defs are the best 4.5m players in the game... Then Carroll or RLC there and you actually have a full bench... If you swap your 4.5m def to a non-playing 4.0m def, you can upgrade your Carroll or RLC to a 5.0m mid, but there's no one there whose actually stronger than RLC or Carroll...

        1. Urchin
          9 years, 7 days ago

          Thats a great point, and I have struggled so far to find anyone in 5 mil range, got Gross at 5.4, but thats almost a mil more than Carroll/RLC.....

    5. Fantasy Gold
      9 years, 7 days ago

      26%

    6. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      9 years, 7 days ago

      11

      1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        9 years, 7 days ago

        I guarantee you will need all 3 outfield subs more than once

        1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
          9 years, 7 days ago

          If you have city players you might as well just give up

          1. Pep says
            9 years, 7 days ago

            You should always have one playing sub so you should have an extra playing sub for every obvious rotation risk (city players, Spurs wing backs)

            Sané is my only obvious risk but I still aim to have a full playing bench by the end of the month.

  13. Teddy Brewski
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Who to bench?

    Daniels (new)
    Duffy (swa)
    Ward (sot)

    1. lfcserg
      9 years, 7 days ago

      duff man

    2. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Tricky. I'd say Duffy, but probably best to flip that ol' 3 sided coin

      1. Teddy Brewski
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Yeah it's a tough one. If it was just on likelihood of clean sheet I think I'd bench Daniels but he's the most likely to get attacking returns

  14. Expected Toulouse
    9 years, 7 days ago

    A. Ritchie, Morata to Salah, Abraham (-4).
    B. Chalobah, Morata to Salah, Calvert Lewin (-4).
    C. Save FT

    1. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      I'd side towards A assuming Chalobah is your 8th attacker

      1. Expected Toulouse
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Yeah he is.

    2. Kanga roo
      9 years, 7 days ago

      save

  15. The Road Dogg
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Who should I bench out of Azpi against Utd and Otamendi against Arsenal.

    Playing Bertrand and Naughton...

    1. My Name Is Prince
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Azpi, due to Chelsea form...

    2. Ajax Hamsterdam
      9 years, 7 days ago

      I wouldn't be happy benching any of these two ...if I had to choose otamendi

    3. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      I'd bench Azpi. If Kante is back, it's trickier, but Mou knows how to beat Chelsea

      1. Fantasy Gold
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Azpi

    4. Teddy Brewski
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Bench Naughton

      1. The Road Dogg
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        9 years, 7 days ago

        I feel if I don't play Naughton in this fixture then whats the point in having him at all.

        1. Royal5
          9 years, 7 days ago

          Eh, he's a 4.5 player. Azpi has 1 goal and 4 assists.

    5. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      9 years, 7 days ago

      I'd bench Naughton. I've a 'never bench premium defenders' policy.

    6. Royal5
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Naughton easily

  16. Jinswick
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Anything worth doing this week?

    Elliot
    Bavies, Cedric, Naughton
    Silva, Salah, Sterling, Choupo
    Kane(c), Jesus, Firmino

    Foster, Yoshida, RLC, Mbemba
    Bank 0.0m, 1FT, WC available

    1. Fantasy Gold
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Bavies > Daniels/Cedric

      1. Jinswick
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Already have Cedric and I’m not ditching Bavies before CPL

        1. Fantasy Gold
          9 years, 7 days ago

          High chance he won't play.

          Daniels has amazing upcoming fixtures and might be a good time to get ahead of the curve and get him in

    2. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Nope, looks good

  17. Fantasy Gold
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Is Brady (SOU A) > Gray (STO A) worth a hit you reckon?

    1. Jinswick
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Nope

      1. Fantasy Gold
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Thanks

  18. LD
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Any suggestions?

    DDG
    Cedric Mee Jones
    Carroll Richarlison Sterling Eriksen D. Silva
    Kane Lukaku

    Elliot DCL Cresswell Rangel
    2FT 0.7 ITB
    Thanks

    1. Jinswick
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Cresswell out

      1. LD
        9 years, 7 days ago

        yeah, was thinking out for Daniels

  19. ZeBestee
    9 years, 7 days ago

    can you see Chelsea scoring against Utd? Surely they will want to bounce back straight from that CL defeat

    1. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      50/50 for me

      1. Jinswick
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        9 years, 7 days ago

        Yep. I fancy a 1-0 CHE win.

    2. Garlana
      9 years, 7 days ago

      I can see a 0-0, Chelsea wanting to tighten it up after conceeding so many mid week, and utd...it's mourinho.

    3. lugs
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Utd to win 1-0 , with Lukaku getting the winner against his former club for his former manager 🙂

  20. Buck The Trent
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Bench one ?

    A Jones (che)
    B Otamendi (ARS)
    C Naughton (BHA)

    1. Fantasy Gold
      9 years, 7 days ago

      B

    2. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Jones

  21. Sbee_10
    9 years, 7 days ago

    If you had to bench one who would it be
    A) Gross
    B)Choupo

    1. Fantasy Gold
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Ouch. Not nice.

      I'd bench Choupo but I wouldn't like it

      1. Sbee_10
        9 years, 7 days ago

        yeah i dont like it all :(.. The other option I have is to get hit -8 to bring in vertonghen for lascelles and then moting for romeou or something like that

  22. Sz21
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Would you WC this team next GW?

    Fabianski.
    Kolasinac, Yoshida, Jones.
    Choupo-Moting, Richarlison, Sterling, Salah.
    Kane (c), Aguero (vc), Vardy.
    Elliot, Mee, Carroll, Mbemba.

    0ft, 0.6m in bank.

    1. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Nope. Your team is largely what many wildcards will be working towards!

    2. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      9 years, 7 days ago

      No. Just Yoshida out when you can.

  23. Catastrophe
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Any ideas chaps? Was all set on losing either/both of Jesus or Davies, but with Jesus quite likely (!) to start and Davies at home to palace don't fancy it now?

    Elliot
    Cedric, Davies, Jones
    Sterling, Salah, Silva, Carroll
    Jesus, Morata, Kane

    (Foster, Hegazi, RLC, Mariappa)

    0.2 ITB, 1 FT...

    Cheers!

  24. daitheboot
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Is it time to renounce Jesus? Who should be the next profit?

    1. Respect My Authoritah
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Aguero

  25. lfcserg
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Has anyone happend to put in Lukaku and Aguero in the comparison tool....

    1. Distinctly Average
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Yeah, why?

  26. Garlana
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Bench one:
    A) otamendi
    B)azpi
    C) Fernandez
    D)lascelles
    E)ward

    Either Elliot or pope in goal

  27. Bulldogs FC
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Elliot
    Otamendi, Jones, Davies
    Salah, Silva, Ch. Moting, Gross
    Kun, Lukaku, Morata

    Fabianski, TCarroll, Mee, Clark

    Gtg or should I make any changes/transfers?
    Thinking to save FT for the GW after the break..

  28. Kalou
    9 years, 7 days ago

    Bench one
    A.Naughton
    B.jones

    1. Gegenpress
      9 years, 7 days ago

      Naughton

  29. Gegenpress
    9 years, 7 days ago

    So Just took a hit and did the following:

    Alonso & Chuopo for Moreno & Alli.

    Gives me the below:

    (Pope) Elliot

    Jones Luiz Moreno Ward (Memba)

    Richarlison Alli Salah Sterling (RLC)

    Vardy Jesus Aguero

    Which 3 defenders should I start?

    1)Luiz (MUN)
    2)Ward (sou)
    3)Jones (che)
    4)Moreno (whu)

    1. lfcserg
      9 years, 7 days ago

      You shouldn't have taken out choupo for this week bro. Anyway, start Luiz, Jones and Moreno.

      1. Gegenpress
        9 years, 7 days ago

        I know, but as I didn't have Kane I thought I'd bring in Alli for cover!

  30. adam28193
    9 years, 7 days ago

    lukaku and Carroll > tammy and Salah -4 safe to pull the trigger?