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 G-Whizz | GW3 Fixture and clean sheet odds GW3 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/1qh2byi (Provided by Betbrain) GW2 clean sheet results: MCI: 58% ✅ LIV: 57% ✅ BHA: 45% ✅ CHE: 40% ✅ MNU: 38% ❌ TOT: 36% ✅ AVL: 35… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 9 |
 RedLightning | GW2 Rough with the Smooth Rough with the Smooth, Gameweek 2. How did your Gameweek go? Did you get a big green red arrow? Did you make any transfers or use any chips? Did your differential captain outscore the favourites?… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 23 |
RedLightning | GW2 Mini-League Leaders Mini-League Leaders, Gameweek 2. This is a report on the leaders of various Fantasy Football Scout FPL mini-leagues and community competitions after Gameweek 2, another high-scoring one despite th… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 0 |
 Eze Really? | Template tedium? Just looked at my ML. 2 sides identical. I wonder if Andy has something to do with it? Shame. Not for content creators, the cheating sheep who follow him. Maybe it is time to put some rules in plac… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 104 |
 Boris Bodega | FPL Community Competition Applications to enter the greatest FPL Community Competition there is are now open, link below to the article where you can sign up. https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2021/08/20/community-tou… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 3 |
G-Whizz | Ollie Watkins: What to do now? Ollie Watkins: What now? Dean Smith said he "doesn't expect" Ollie Watkins to play this weekend, while Bertrand Traoré has suffered a hamstring injury and will be out until just after the interna… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 24 |
 Sterling Archer | Press Conference Times... bbc sport delivering on the presser times!!....... Fifteen of the 20 Premier League managers will be speaking to the media today. We'll bring you the latest from those news conferences as we get i… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 4 |
 Camzy | Bruno (C) or Salah (C)? Bruno vs Salah (c)... Here's my take on it. Overall, stats favor Mo Salah. He plays higher up, he shoots a lot, everything seems to align on him being objectively better. But there's another angle… | 4 years, 9 months ago | 60 |
 Piggs Boson | Gündogan trained as normal... The Gundog has trained as normal. https://twitter.com/City_Xtra/status/1428044746640007178?s=19 | 4 years, 10 months ago | 17 |
G-Whizz | Add Antonio to the GW4 missing list? Antonio could be playing for Jamaica in the International Break... https://twitter.com/Football_LDN/status/1427982362034413574?s=20 | 4 years, 10 months ago | 18 |
 Az | TRANSFER PLANNER: HAVE YOU GOT YOURS? Hey all, Thanks to the 4,000+ people that have requested a transfer planner, and apologies if it took a while to get to you. James and Rob who built the planner encountered numerous obstacles fro… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 11 |
 dunas_dog | Chances of Lingard to West Ham? Does the fact Lingard may rejoin West Ham put you off Benrahma? | 4 years, 10 months ago | 16 |
G-Whizz | GW2 Fixture and clean sheet odds GW2 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/1pz9zys (Provided by Betbrain) GW1 clean sheet results: CHE: 52% ✅ LEI: 45% ✅ LIV: 41% ✅ MCI: 39% ❌ BHA: 37% ❌ EVE: 35% ❌ MNU: 35… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 42 |
Az | Any questions for Matt Holland? I'm going to be having a chat with former Ipswich and Charlton midfielder Matt Holland! He's a big FPL player, and was a keen supporter of Fantasy Champ man last season. Any questions you want me… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 11 |
 Rupert The Horse | Gündogan owners, what's the move now? Its probably been discussed but the Gundo injury is a problem, it always hurts more when your pick blanks and gets injured and the other picks you had in a number of drafts like Greenwood, Jota and… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 35 |
Az | Live Q & A today at 12 Morning guys! Sam and I will be live on YouTube at 12.00 for a Q&A. Any questions you'd like us to answer ahead of Gameweek 2? If so, just drop them in the comments below. https://youtu.be/r-A9… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 17 |
 Collie01 | GW1 Observations A few thoughts on GW1 as a whole. Very small sample sizes disclaimer. - The big takeaway for me is that home advantage is back. 7 out of 10 home teams won. I would personally categorise 4 of the … | 4 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
RedLightning | GW1 Rough with the Smooth Rough with the Smooth, Gameweek 1. How did your Gameweek go? Did you score your first century of the season? Did you use any chips? Did you have a differential captain failure? Did you leave big … | 4 years, 10 months ago | 56 |
RedLightning | GW1 Mini-league leaders Mini-League Leaders, Gameweek 1: This is a report on the leaders of various Fantasy Football Scout FPL mini-leagues and community competitions after a high-scoring Gameweek 1 (if you owned Salah a… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 2 |
 The Train Driver | New Players added... New players added to FPL Thomas (DEF) BUR £4.0m Richardson (FWD) BUR £4.5m Karbownik (DEF) BHA £4.0m Caicedo (MID) BHA £4.5m Richards (MID) BHA £4.5m Zeqiri (FWD) BHA £4.5m Hannam (DEF… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 6 |
 potatoace | Thoughts on Toney? I thought he had a good game. Skysports man of the match. Some lovely weighted through balls, got space and should have been picked out on at least 2 occasions. Could have had 2 assists also. All … | 4 years, 10 months ago | 16 |
 Meltens | Allsvenskan Fantasy GW15 - Scout picks and players to watch Scout Picks for GW15: https://allsvenskan.se/fantasy/scout-picks-gw15 Thanks Gerardo for your continued contributions, always a good read and very appreciated! How are you looking ahead of GW15? … | 4 years, 10 months ago | 4 |
 Freshy | Membership Renewal questions... Any management onboard? Is there a link for members to renew at today's discount? Or is it not available for existing members? | 4 years, 10 months ago | 11 |
 Zimo | LMS League code... 6dcode | 4 years, 10 months ago | 0 |
G-Whizz | Pre-Deadline A or B questions! Time for the pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on captaincy, transfers, bench or even anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answer a few other… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 85 |
 ffs casual | Buendia states he's fit... Looks promising https://twitter.com/EM10Buendia/status/1425938696814186503 | 4 years, 10 months ago | 0 |
Collie01 | Whipping boys! Who's yours to target? Early doors, there seems to be many potential whipping boys. By this, I mean teams that could potentially concede multiple times a game on a pretty regular basis. In no particular order: - Norwic… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 15 |
 diesel001 | Lukaku price revealed, you going for him? Lukaku!!!!! £11.5m - yay or nay for your FPL team? | 4 years, 10 months ago | 20 |
G-Whizz | GW1 Fixture and clean sheet odds (updated) GW1 Fixture and clean sheet odds (updated) https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/23925066 | 4 years, 10 months ago | 0 |
 jia you | The Case for BB GW1 7 reasons why an early BB could work out well for the non-expert FPL manager: 1. It gets it out of the way and allows you to focus your transfers on your first XI after your first WC and for the m… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 45 |
 DAZZ | Jota vs Greenwood A huge talking point and one the more popular decisions people seem to be making, is Jota v Greenwood. Both the same price. Who are you going with if any, and why? | 4 years, 10 months ago | 24 |
 Stormbringer22 | Is Tsimikas worth it? The more I think about it, the more I lean towards Tsimikas not being worth it. While I appreciate that over the course of GW1 and GW2 Tsimikas + Raphina + Ings likely score more points than Ayling… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 42 |
The Train Driver | 28 new players added 28 New Players added to FPL: Cutrone FOR Wolves £5.0m Coventry MID West Ham £4.5m Alves DEF West Ham £4.0m Scarlett FOR Spurs £4.5m Long FOR Southampton £5.5m Broja FOR Southampton £5.0… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 7 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery - Gameweek 1 It's a new season and after AA33 stormed to the title last year, Scout Picks Community Champion is back for another year. For the uninitiated among you, each week the Scouts pick a team of pl… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 0 |
 Too Many Tacos | Fellowship of the 4.0 One 4.0 to rule them all... My internal debate around Tsimikas is reaching Council of Elrond proportions: "It is a gift. Why not use this 4.0?" "You cannot field him. None of us can. Not without l… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
 Rainer | Robertson update Andy Robertson update from Jurgen Klopp. Seems it will 2/3 games absence “I think we got lucky,” said Klopp. “It could have been much worse. It will not be too long. I’m not sure if it wil… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 19 |
 MYNAMEISBigtopmark.sman | Potential Liverpool Targets Liverpool fpl review: Attackers: Salah should be in everyone's team regardless of a slow pre season. He had one last year and belted in a hat trick in gw 1. Talk of decline is grossly exaggerated … | 4 years, 10 months ago | 18 |
 Witty Pun: Not good at this… | Iheanacho warning PSA to anyone still holding on to Iheanacho: Rodgers seems to be happily returning to four at the back. This change unfortunately means Iheanacho is very unlikely to start much, at least to begin … | 4 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
Az | Don’t miss Mark Sutherns’ (Members only) video If you're a Premium Member of FFS, don't forget to check out Mark Sutherns and Andy as they talk how real like transfers could impact on their sections and the sharing of their current drafts ahead… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 0 |
 Avery | Will you own Lukaku? Will you be fitting Lukaku into your team? | 4 years, 10 months ago | 14 |
Meltens | Allsvenskan Fantasy GW14 - Scout Picks & Captains GW14 is just around the corner with a kickoff time of 15.30 CET! If we are lucky we might get some team news ahead of the deadline. A tricky week for captaincy, who are you placing the armband on? | 4 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
Az | FFS TRANSFER PLANNER Hey guys, Just dropping a note to say I am absolutely PSYCHED about the new FFS Transfer Planner. I've been working on it for the last few months with the brains behind the Championship Manager F… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 20 |
G-Whizz | GW1 Fixture and clean sheet odds (updated) GW1 fixture odds can be found here: https://www.betbrain.com/football/england/premier-league/ GW1 clean sheet odds: CHE: 56% (+4) LEI: 44% (-1) LIV: 43% MCI: 39% BHA: 38% (+1) MNU: 36% (+1) ARS: … | 4 years, 10 months ago | 16 |
 Geoff | Fofana injury - budget defenders Following Fofana's injury, who is your pick for the best budget defender? Why? Looks to be a difficult choice now with no one standout option. Who is on your watchlist? | 4 years, 10 months ago | 24 |
 ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐ | Danny Ings to Aston Villa Ings to villa done | 4 years, 10 months ago | 14 |
 Rasping Drive | Are Community Shield line-ups a good guide for GW1? Are Community Shield lineups a reliable guide for GW1? A common assumption is that the lineups in the CS are a good guide as to which players will feature in GW1. I spent a bit of time to find out… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 9 |
 Ginkapo FPL | Impact of refereeing changes Hot Topic - What do we anticipate to be the impact of refereeing changes? Penalties: "Referees will look for contact and establish clear contact, then ask themselves the question: does that conta… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 33 |
Rasping Drive | Is Jota worth the risk? Is Diogo Jota worth the risk? Using last season as a guide we can see that: Jota was available for selection for 19 gameweeks over the whole season. Starts: 12 (63% of total) Featured as sub: 7 (3… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 17 |
 Athletic Nasherbo | Is double Liverpool defence justifiable? Surprised more of the FPL community have not mobilised to explain why Liverpool defensive assets aren’t as good as we might think! Negatives: - TAA + Robbo priced at 7.5 + 7.0 respectively. T… | 4 years, 10 months ago | 27 |
Meltens | Allsvenskan Fantasy - Scout Picks BGW13 https://allsvenskan.se/fantasy/scout-picks-gw13 Scout Picks for Blank GW13! Will you be able to fit a full 11 without taking a hit? Who are you looking to captain this tricky week with Hammarby … | 4 years, 10 months ago | 8 |