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Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What has been your biggest regret so far this season? This was asked on last night's scoutcast but thought it would be good to find out your regrets over th…

Re Pogba on the last page. I agree that he is a good player in real life but can't see him being a FPL pick in any way at 8.5m.

Rough With the Smooth Feel free to leave your tales of woe and joy here from GWK 2 Remember its what you did do not what you didn't.

Scoutcast Tonight - feel free to leave your questions for the team here. Looking to get underway at 9:45pm.

Srsly why the avoid Snodgrass? http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/public-stats-tables/view/15942/ http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/public-stats-tables/view/1373/ Compare Snodgra…

If anyone is interested, I (real name Martin Hurst) am appearing as a contestant on the TV quiz show Countdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show) on Thursday this week – 3:10pm o…

Here's my latest view on Boro's attacking options: Strikers Negredo - Nailed, no more to be said on that front. BUY/HOLD Stuani - A favourite of Karanka's. Always plays wide right and before chri…

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 3 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How patient are you? Do you have a set time or criteria for a player that is underperforming to be shown the exit? I ask this as many of those with a stro…

ICT - Top 10s - GW2 Threat Lallana*** - 109 Aguero*** - 77 Antonio - 61 Janssen - 57 S Cook - 55 Barry - 54 Januzaj - 53 Llorente*** - 52 A Hernandez - 52 Lens - 52 Nolito -52 McCauley - 52 Cr…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who is in your optimal five man midfield? And given the cost of Aguero and Ibra is this a good season to cut down on midfield premium options?

This week's knee-jerks... Vardy to Ibra is the big forward move. Ibra has 37k transfers in so far (in less than a day) and Vardy 13k transfers out. Kane is also being switched out for Ibra. The…

Good time to repost this. Its a beautiful Ibra Land. Mourinho Main Men FC Porto 2003/2004 - Benni McCarthy (Top Goalscorer - 20 goals in 23 games. Won the Golden Boot.) Chelsea 2004/2005 - Fran…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is this season already shaping up to being the Aguero and Ibrahimovic show, with both in most teams? If so how do we manage that? Select captaincy between t…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining and why?

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 2 Return of the Mack (Come on)... Return of the Mack (Oh my God)... You know that I'll be back (Here I am) Ladies and gentlemen, we are back with Scouts Picks Chal…

FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION Welcome to the Froggy Five Competition! I'm doing this on my own so if you ever see a mistake, or just want to suggest an improvement, please drop me an email or…

For those worried about not having Liverpool coverage vs Burnley in GW2. So, i've had a look at Burnley's home record last time out in the premier league (2014/15) vs the Top 7 of that season - vs …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is there such a thing as a good or bad fixture at this stage of the season? Last season Leicester was seen as an easy fixture at this stage - turns out faci…

4.0 Defender Watch... JORDI AMAT - Still in pole position for the 4.0s. Nothing to suggest he'll lose his place until Swansea sign a new CB. Verdit: Safe for now STEPHEN KINGSLEY - http://goo.gl/…

A heads up, we've just made a major update to Rate My Team and Projections. Apologies for the issues with the Build my Team facility - we're now up and running and tonight we added the new probab…

Breakdown of Pep's Man City setup: Like everyone else, I've been intrigued by Manchester City's setup under Pep Guardiola. It's a system that seems to produce amazing attacking plays and catastrop…

would like to talk coutinho. so he seems to have 2 main reputations that work against him. 1) he loves a long-shot! as soon as he sees that semi-circle on the edge of the area it's like his right f…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How much do price changes effect your transfer moves. With Coutinho rising and non players like Yaya Toure falling already we are seeing the value of jump…

Aguero vs Ibrahimovic captaincy musings I had planned on roatating Ibrahimovic and Aguero home and away for captaincy this season but this week I think im going to go for Aguero. - Southampton a…

What is your worst memory from playing Fantasy Football? I remember getting Walters off the bench in the two-own-goals-and-a-missed-penalty performance for Stoke against Chelsea.

Scoutcast tonight! Feel free to leave your questions for the team here ahead of tonight's 10pm Scoutcast via our Youtube channel.

Gameweek 1 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to leave your tales of woe and joy here. If you can put your Gameweek score and one particular player that either let you down or saved your gameweek tha…

ICT - Over 50 ICT Threat Rondon - 89 Aguero - 81 Rooney - 79 Llorente - 78 Mane - 65 Redmond - 58 Lallana 57 Tadic 54 E Valencia - 53 Mata - 50 ICT Creativity Tadic - 94.5 Gardner - 74.8 Routl…

Just airing my thoughts. After yesterday, the urge to kneejerk a few players in is unbearable, I know the feeling. I went with Firmino, and everyone but him did something. Likewise those with Alex…

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 2 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you …

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Keep or ditch? Of those being transferred out this week, who do you think should be ditched and who should be given more time? Vardy – 23,000 FPL manager…

Is Lamela the real deal for Spurs? Or a flash like his rabona last year.

CITY UPDATE Now this update is gonna be a biggy coz I'm gonna include everything I know about the Joe Hart situation, from the moment I was originally told up to now! But first I'll get the other …

First goals imminent table of the season. http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/6070/ I own three of the early season almost scored crew. How many do you own?

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Gameweek 1 Day 1 Pluses and Minuses After spending weeks putting your Gameweek 1 squad together yesterday you found out whether your players were starters o…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in gwk 1 and why?

FROGGY FIVE PREDICTION COMPETITION Welcome to the Froggy Five Competition - new and improved for the 2016/17 season! I will be releasing a spreadsheet to keep up with everyone's results that will …

Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who is 'your player'? This is the player that for a few seasons now you keep turning to, whose game playe, personality and FPL performance best suit yours? …

Forget about Brexit, forget about England Euro 2016 exit, let's talk about: DEXIT - Daniel FPL and FFS exit. I mean it has been almost a decade together, but when your last touch of the game and…

Tracking The Fantasy Football Veterans Final Reminder: There are already more than 90 applications for 15 veteran spots. If you have at least two top 10k finishes, and at least five season experie…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Scoutcast is back! Tune in tonight at 10pm via our Youtube channel to hear the team mull over the Gameweek 1 options and find out how their squads are …

With Spurs having a decent run of fixtures to start the season, their midfield attacking three of Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli and Erik Lamela are all popular picks. But which is the best option? H…

Here's a look at FPL ownership as things stand - it's easy to be swept up by the 'FFS Template', losing sight of how typical your picks really are. Rather than focusing on ownership of individual…

Shameless repost from a few thousand comments ago but hopefully it helps people who are unsure of their picks... Probable Starters 2016/17 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B03D_KnVF1fRTHpmcEpuV2…

Are some options not being overlooked? - If people fancy Hazard to do well, then surely Costa will also do well? His goalscoring record is exceptional for Chelsea, he's the target man, will undou…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With the departures of Andre Ayew, who has already left for West Ham, and Ashley Williams, who is on his way to Everton, are Swansea as good as relegated? …

Seen a lottttttttt of people ask if Stones will play GW1. He will. 🙂 Here's why: HE'S FIT: City have played just three pre-season games, keeping no clean sheets and playing players out of positio…

Liverpool – the forehead perspective. Goalkeepers: New boy Loris Karius (£5m) has a broken hand and will miss 6-10 weeks, paving way for Simon Mignolet (£5m) to start the season. Nice and e…

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Will you be considering Pogba? What price would you like him to be? Could he be another Yaya Toure and get amongst the goals and assists? Or will he be the…