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FPL managers expect win and clean sheet for Man United against Newcastle

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Paul Pogba (£8.1m) will be the Fantasy Premier League focus of Saturday’s late kick-off, amid rumours over manager Jose Mourinho’s future.

The Manchester United midfielder is the most popular player in the fixture as Newcastle United visit Old Trafford. He is currently in 14.7% of squads.

He recently overtook Romelu Lukaku (£11.0m) whose ownership suffered from the switch to Harry Kane (£12.5m) for Gameweek 8, who blanked in a 1-0 win over Cardiff.

Meanwhile, there will be interest in the Man United defence with Newcastle’s recent struggles in front of goal.

David De Gea (£5.9m) remains the most fashionable Red Devil defensive asset, in 19.8% of squads, but Luke Shaw (£5.1m) may prove the more effective.

He has 10.5% backing from the Fantasy community and looks like he could also pull in some attacking returns.

Newcastle are still a club for the Fantasy hipsters, with no player boasting more than Joselu‘s (£5.0m) 4.8%. However, the striker has not started the match with Ayoze Pérez (£6.1m) and Yoshinori Muto (£5.7m) preferred up front.

MANCHESTER UNITED XI (4-2-3-1): De Gea; Shaw, Smalling, Bailly, Young; Matic, McTominay; Martial, Pogba, Rashford; Lukaku

NEWCASTLE UNITED XI (4-4-2): Dubravka; Manquillo, Fernandez, Lascelles, Yedlin; Kenedy, Diamé, Shelvey, Ritchie; Pérez, Muto.

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  1. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Even Sanchez scores more goals than Kane in GW8 😀

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  2. jayzico
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    My inspired hit:

    Wilson>Anie
    Fraser>Maddison
    Kn>KAne

    Fee l like chucking it in once and for all.

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    1. Camzy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Oh dear. Ouch.

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  3. Syd.
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    GOAT

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  4. SPorting
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    At least the article title is half right now.

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    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Looking forward to tomorrow's:

      'Some FPL managers are expecting Aguero to blank at his bogey ground Anfield. Meanwhile the roast dinner at my mom's was soured by the news that Morata started ahead of Giroud, thus limiting Hazard.'

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  5. Hooky
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Sanchez is the new Mark Robins

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    1. Syd.
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      World domination lies ahead

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    2. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      This

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    3. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Nice reference.

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  6. ★Kuntheman★
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Mou has to stay now...if they get this comeback win and he gets sacked it would be a travesty

    🙂

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    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      😀 😀

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    2. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      The fact that they have to come back is his fault. Let him go.

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      1. tisza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        that defence put them 2-0 down not Mourinho.

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    3. XabiAlonso
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      They should add a few years to his contract

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  7. Four Hit Wonder
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Utd fans, why didn't Alexis start today? Do you expect him to start the next game after this winning goal?

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    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Depends who the manager is.

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      1. Four Hit Wonder
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Lol, good one

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    2. Respect My Authoritah
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      He's been poor.

      Nope, wouldn't expect it. But could happen

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    3. Demel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      He had served my draft team well this week.

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  8. Hy liverpool
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    You have to be sorry for those Lukaku owners

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    1. Syd.
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      No you don’t

      I was smart and got rid of him for Kane 😎

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      1. RÏɠBY
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        haha

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      2. Camzy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Dumped for Vardy so... not much better

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      3. mocky666
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        yea a bad punt indeed, gone he is for Murray!

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  9. The Cherry Picker
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Doherty first on my bench.
    Is there any chance that David Luiz doesn’t play tomorrow?

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    1. Sweetboi
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Barring injury, no.

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    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Luiz nailed

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    3. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      1%

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    4. MTPockets
        5 years, 8 months ago

        not realistically

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    5. Jolly Good
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Put £100 on new castle after they went 2-0 up.... was pretty smug at 70 mins...didn’t expect this 🙁

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      1. Respect My Authoritah
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Lol, did the opposite. Over the moon 🙂

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        1. HamezMace
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          United were only 4/1 to win at half time on sky

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          1. Respect My Authoritah
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 8 months ago

            Sky are literally the worst bookies in existence

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            1. HamezMace
              • 9 Years
              5 years, 8 months ago

              Whose the best?

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      2. Zladan
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        You basically deserved that. Who places bets like that?

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      3. Volley127
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Why? The odds must have been trash too

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        1. G-Whizz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          I saw 5/6 at the time...

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      4. Alex_thekid
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Absolutely ridiculous bet

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    6. pundit of punts
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      At least Kane ➡ Lukaku didn't hurt me. 😀

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      1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        ??

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      2. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        The other way round of course.

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      3. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        What about last GW?

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        1. pundit of punts
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          Only lost 7 Points as it would have needed a hit to bring Kane in. No big deal.

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    7. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Lukaku blanks while United score three!

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      1. RÏɠBY
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        his header miss that alexis scored was hilarious

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    8. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Top 6 could be nice soon. Bournemouth stinking it up at the moment, but hopefully Utd will take their place.

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      1. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Bournemouth are gonna do a Leicester.

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      2. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Strange...

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      3. RÏɠBY
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        oh dear..

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    9. Demel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      50 points with just Hazard and Alonso to go. I started the week in 9k. How far will I fall?

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      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        LOL

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      2. XabiAlonso
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Will fall upwards

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        1. Demel
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          Really? Lots of Liverpool and Chelsea assets still to go!

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          1. TorresMagic™
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • Has Moderation Rights
            • 14 Years
            5 years, 8 months ago

            You own the Chelsea ones.

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            1. Demel
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 8 months ago

              But not the Liverpool ones and I captained Kane. Sofa for me.

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      3. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Huh

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      4. socho
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        someone ban this guy please

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      5. Alex_thekid
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        I've dropped from 4k to 350k in the last 3 weeks

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        1. Alex_thekid
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          Make that 300k

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      6. Deus
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Rude

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    10. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Top 10k: 29-ish
      Overall: 19-ish

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      1. Pierce34
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        12 here. Take that, top 10k.

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      2. Demel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Must be a lot of Chelsea and Liverpool to go.

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      3. Sweetboi
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Post baps?

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        1. SADIO SANÉ
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          yeah

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          1. Sweetboi
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 8 months ago

            Thanks

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      4. S.Kuqi
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Top 1k ?

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      5. Rash
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        That's really low 😯

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    11. ★Kuntheman★
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      I love how everyone who doesn't like United is rooting Mourinho on, they talk so much about the ABUs but we're all aboard the Jose wagon

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    12. XabiAlonso
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Can anyone beat my two transfers in this week Kane and Arnie 1 point each

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      1. Bunk Moreland
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        King > Arnie?

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        1. XabiAlonso
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          Aguero and ings

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    13. HamezMace
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      What’s the little finger gesture about?

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    14. Kuqi Monster
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Never in doubt that.

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    15. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Hello everyone, it is Jawahar Dhingra. Go Manchester United! Go Mourinho! Best club in the PL

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      1. HamezMace
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Weren’t you the guy....never mind 🙂

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        1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          😉

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      2. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Hey it you.

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      3. Rash
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Welcome back to the red half

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    16. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Alaves last second winner v Real

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      1. Zladan
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Such little interest in La Liga now Ronaldo left.

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    17. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Kane is a massive troll, wow

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      1. XabiAlonso
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Yep can't trust him as captain in easy home games. He's annoyingly been like this for a few years it's why I didn't get him this season, until I flapped and got him in this week

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      2. Jafalad
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        You were warned.

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    18. ★Kuntheman★
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      On the real though, Ed Woodward would have the biggest pair of balls ever to sack Mourinho after this game. It's totally what United need and he would come under so much scrutiny for doing it 😆

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    19. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Real Madrid just lost the game in extra time

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      1. Ghost Gooner
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Can't see the manager lasting long

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    20. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      so hazard captain next week with mourinho still in charge next week???

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      1. ZeBestee
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Kun

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      2. GinjaWhinja
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Alonso looking essential

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    21. pundit of punts
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      41 Points.

      47k ➡ ❓

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      1. ZeBestee
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        37k

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      2. XabiAlonso
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        18k?

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      3. S.Kuqi
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        46,9k

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    22. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      New manager.

      New Sanchez.

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    23. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Sanchez essential

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    24. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Alexis winning goal BPS to take the BAP from Pogba.

      Martial - 3
      Mata - 2
      Alexis - 1

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      1. Demel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Ffs

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    25. ★Kuntheman★
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Also, not to be captain hindsight here but I didn't really see Kane going off against Cardiff. I don't see the rush to bring in Tottenham players personally. They haven't been very good this season, sort of in the same bracket of Arsenal performances this season. Perfectly content with just Trippier and maybe not even that. Liverpool, City, Chelsea (heck even Bournemouth) look much more devastating on the attack.

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      1. Jafalad
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Same. Something's not quite right at TOT and I have advised to stay clear.

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      2. Pierce34
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Same. I was more worried about Tottenham defenders than Kane, who I really didn't see scoring more than 1 goal. Of course in the end no goals and a YC was better 😛

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      3. MTPockets
          5 years, 8 months ago

          Yep. It's not captain hindsight if took a pass.

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