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 Captain Shirokov | The best three forwards to pick on the wildcard are...? What are people's WC forward lines? I'm on Aguero and Giroud atm, not sure who else to get. | 11 years, 1 month ago | 29 |
 J0E | Dealing with the Costa fall out Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Dealing with the Costa fall out. How are Costa owners dealing with the fall out of his likely three game suspension for stamping on Emre Can. With the very … | 11 years, 1 month ago | 28 |
 Hasselbaink Forever | Today's Press Conference Times Today's Pressers - 09:00 GMT - Everton 09:30 - West Ham 13:00 - Newcastle & West Brom 13:15 - Burnley 14:00 - Liverpool & Crystal Palace 14:30 - Leicester | 11 years, 1 month ago | 3 |
 Lallana_ | Top Three Managers of All Time? Top 3 managers of all time? For me it's: 1) Clough 2) Ferguson 3) Not sure Mourinho is creeping up to 3. | 11 years, 1 month ago | 120 |
 Saint Steve-O (@EliteFPL) | Poll's Position A quick note on the Costa situation (based on what Graham Poll has just said) The decision of retrospective action will be decided/acted upon by 6pm today He also concludes that he will probably… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 28 |
J0E | Navigating the Double Gameweeks and Blanks Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Double gameweeks and blanks How do you plan to cope with our first blank and impending double gameweek of the season. Which Chelsea players will you hang… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 36 |
 sinik | Are Costa or Aguero Essential? with Bony at City and Chelsea's midfield..who is more essential (hate that word): Costa or Aguero | 11 years, 1 month ago | 40 |
J0E | When Did You Become a Fantasy Football Addict? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Addicted to Fantasy Football. What was the point when you knew you were addicted to fantasy football? Be interested to read your responses. Last time I as… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 69 |
 Trading Bear | kane vs defoe Kane vs. Defoe Price: Kane = 5.9m Defoe = 6.0m Ownership Top 10k (GW22): Kane = 91.9% Defoe = 00.1% Fixtures: Kane = wba, ARS, liv, WHM, *qpr, SWA, mun, LEI Defoe = BUR, swa, QPR, WBA, mun, h… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 11 |
 Ruth_NZ | What are your weaknesses? What are your weaknesses as a FPL manager? I think mine are mainly to do with prejudice against certain clubs or players. For example I don't like Sturridge as a player at all having seen him pla… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 43 |
J0E | Which Arsenal Trio To Go For? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which Arsenal trio to go for? Or is it worth tripling up? Personally when a team has good form and fixtures I like to triple up. Its worked for me this seas… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 27 |
J0E | Where have all the bargain midfielders gone? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Where have all the good bargain priced midfielders gone. By bargain priced I don't necessarily mean George Boyd, I'm talking about those excellent value mid… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 22 |
Ruth_NZ | Time to avoid United attack? Genuine question... Can a case really be made for having anyone apart from DDG and/or Jones from Man Utd in a FPL squad? ADM is world class but who knows what position he'll play in and LVG's ref… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 13 |
 Nomar | Golden WILDCARD RULES TO FOLLOW For all wildcarders: Golden Rule of FPL. If you have to ask if a player's nailed on you shouldn't be looking at getting him in. Anyone else have any other 'golden rules' to follow when WC'ing? | 11 years, 1 month ago | 14 |
J0E | Best and Worst FA Cup Memories Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic FA Cup Memories What are your best and worst FA Cup memories? Here's mine: Best - 1983 Cup Final Brighton v ManU..."and Smith must score." Worst - 1983 C… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 45 |
J0E | Second Half of the Season Stars Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Second half of the season stars Top five goal scorers last season from Gameweeks 23 to 38 were Sturridge Dzeko Suarez Bony Yaya Toure Of these Toure, S… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 14 |
 Patio Kev | Double Gameweek Drought Whilst it is quiet, I thought I would look at the DGW possibilities as I am seeing regular comments about 'saving my original wildcard for a DGW' So far, every team has played 22 games, there has… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 12 |
J0E | Top Tips For Climbing The Rankings Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Top Tips For Climbing The Rankings Following Triggerlips recent article about climing up the rankings post January I thought I’d use this morning’s dai… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 89 |
 Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos | Wildcard: Cheap defensive rotations Hi Everyone, For those of you on your WC or are planning to next week, take a look at the below. I have compiled a list of cheap defensive rotations which rotate near perfectly until the end of t… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 25 |
 Villan | kane on the wane? Is Kane going to regress? His stats aren't very impressive and he has an extremely high conversion record, will he be an anomaly like Yaya last year or is he just in a hot streak? Yes he offers g… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 35 |
J0E | Latest wildcard defences Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Latest wildcard defences The template wildcard defences seem to be a Chelsea and Southampton defender with either three cheap rotating options or an Arsenal… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 38 |
 toaster | The arsenal defence Arsenal Defence Have been thinking about this as I've seen a lot of Koscielny and Bellerin's in WC teams. Here's what I think in terms of how nailed on they all are: RB Debuchy - Out for three m… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 19 |
 Ludo | Ranking the league's best defences This may be of use to some wildcarders - the table I've been using to rank the league's best defences over the course of the season, updated after this weekend's matches. It's ordered by each side'… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 31 |
J0E | Unsteady Eddies Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Unsteady eddies Jason Puncheon proved great in Gameweek 22, but it could have been different. For much of the game he was ineffective until a change of form… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 11 |
 Walsh | The role of Puncheon Just a little post regarding Puncheon and his prospects moving forward...... Pardew lined up Palace in a 442 away with Sanogo and Gayle up top and we got thoroughly battered in the beginning of th… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 15 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout picks challenge gw21 delayed results SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 21 FINAL RESULTS Apologies for the delay in GW21 - I have had it calculated but limited access to my laptop has made it difficult for me to do the league calculati… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
 Rupert The Horse | Costa with aguero = what midfield? Top 5, top fixtures. City and Chelsea get out of the traps a little slow fixture wise over this coming period, simply as they face each other next game week. I realise this is treading on the toes… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 33 |
 Fiona B | Monday morning miffed What is currently grinding your fantasy gears? mine (1) Aguero's constant price rise before the Hull game (2) Dead teams with (C)osta causing me to fall to 700k OR despite a respectable 51 point… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 28 |
 Ice | Is bellerin on your radar? Think that Bellerin is a great punt. He could be nailed seeing as Arsenal have kept the first two clean sheets in a long time with him and Kosh playing. I've taken out Hutton for him and even if he… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 19 |
J0E | The 4th Midfielder revisited Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The 4th Midfielder revisited Earlier this month Kroos Kontrol wrote an excellent community article looking at the so called fourth midfielder. This is a pla… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 17 |
 Ibracadabra´s Spell | Wildcard Must Haves Terry, Saints defender, Hazard, Sánchez, Costa, Aguero e Kane are must haves to WC?? | 11 years, 1 month ago | 24 |
 Portsmouth Bubblejet | Asset or eliability? I'm surprised to see Eljero Elia being put in so many wildcard teams. Yes, he scored two goals against Newcastle, but the full picture is a little different. Elia has really only had one and a hal… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 14 |
 rozzo | Should the Costa-Less Reconsider? Are the one without Costa still going without him or looking to bring him in in the near future? I have three Chelsea already, will take a huge effort to get him in. Got Terry, Hazard and Fab, sur… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 25 |
J0E | UFPL Stick or Twist? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL Stick or Twist Which players failed for you yesterday and which players do you have coming in? Any Costa captainers? Guessing you are sticking. What a… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 12 |
J0E | Gwk 22 Capt Decisions Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this week and why? | 11 years, 1 month ago | 28 |
@ocprodigy | Scout picks challenge gw22 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 22 **** spreadsheet new format delayed (haven't had enough time to play with it this gameweek **** Gameweek 20 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comm… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 43 |
 d1sable | Wildcard differentials Which players do you think could emerge as good differentials for WC and onwards and why? Perfect for those of us that don't want to have a team that's too template. Here's a few of mine i think co… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 29 |
 samcro | Your worst buy of the season? Azpilicueta is up there with my worst buy of the season. | 11 years, 1 month ago | 62 |
 LOCO ABREU | AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS FF ANYONE? Acon Fantasy guys! 😎 http://en.fantasy.cafonline.com/ Official fantasy, nice for the next 15 days break after this weekend. Starts tomorow! | 11 years, 1 month ago | 14 |
J0E | Is Aguero Essential? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is Aguero essential? Is he fixture prood and essential for this week? Or is it better to wait until fixtures improve. More than 100K have drafted him in al… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 16 |
 Davros | Cause for optimism in the Saints defensive ranks A lot of concern about the Southampton defence without. Let's look at the stats: Southampton have kept 10 clean sheets in 21 games (42% of the time) When wanyama has played: kept 9 clean sheets i… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 19 |
J0E | Gwk 22's best punt Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 22's best differential/punt? | 11 years, 1 month ago | 39 |
Hasselbaink Forever | today's press conferences Pressers today - Newcastle 13:00 GMT West Brom 13:00 Aston Villa 13:30 Crystal Palace 14:00 Liverpool 14:00 Swansea 14:00 Leicester 14:30 Stoke 14:30 Burnley 16:00. | 11 years, 1 month ago | 4 |
 Pepin - RIP Absinthe | The fallacy of "form" On the issue of 'form' - it's one of the most misused terms in sports. A player - in any sport - goes through a few games scoring well and pundits, journalists and fantasy aficionados are quick … | 11 years, 1 month ago | 48 |
 Will - Fantasy Football Hub | Templatetastic As a casual I get annoyed at people who comment on teams being to template. They are template for a reason – because they are good players and top managers own them. A common reply to this is t… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 47 |
J0E | Your Wildcards Update Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Your Wildcards update Who has already wildcarded- do you regret it, how did it perform at the weekend? Who is playing it this week - if so what key players… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 53 |
 Kings of Lyon ★ | Capital One Cup permutations Shameless repost as I think this needs some visibility As discussed on the previous thread there will be blanks in GW27 (weekend of March 1st) due to the Capital One Cup Final. While we will know… | 11 years, 1 month ago | 36 |
 Woy | More Wildcard Differentials Options To wildcarders: So who are you looking at getting as differentials if anyone? I've looked at the following as potentials but not set on anything yet. Stoke: Bojan, ShawX/Cameron, Crouch even? Pal… | 11 years, 2 months ago | 57 |
J0E | The tricky search for differentials Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Where Will The Differentials Be? By the time all the winter wildcards are played at the start of next month most credible teams are set to have a raft of si… | 11 years, 2 months ago | 59 |
Ludo | Costa vs Fabregas for Chelsea coverage It seems that choosing the three best Chelsea players is the key wildcard decision; this is my extended take on it as things stand. After much deliberation, I've changed my mind, and decided that I… | 11 years, 2 months ago | 90 |