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 pjomara | Arsenal: Fixture v Form Arsenal are dead in the water and there's no point getting any Arsenal players, right? | 8 years, 3 months ago | 20 |
 The Left Duke #3 | Advice for those who 'can't catch a break' Feel like I can't catch a break lately...anyone else feeling the same? Any punt I bring in isn't doing squat....Wilson, Daniels, Walcott and now Deulofeu. Didn't go Shaqiri as rival has him and i'… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 71 |
 J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 29 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 29 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… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Gameweek 28 Rough with the Smooth Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth - Gameweek 28 so far.... Feel free to let us know your highs and lows of the week so far. Particularly keen to hear from anyone who… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 70 |
J0E | Gameweek 28 Lessons Learned So Far…. Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 28 Lessons Learned So Far…. What lessons have you learned from the matches so far. Here’s a few to get the discussion started Captain Salah… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 64 |
 emyoueffsee | Is FPL’s bonus system fair? I'm sure I'm the millionth person to say this but the Bonus point system is a joke. Why do we even need bps? | 8 years, 3 months ago | 60 |
 Duffy Dunk | The Gameweek 31 defence trap Earlier I said that after today's results, with just 1 clean sheet out of 14 teams that played, I wouldn't have high hopes from any defenders from the available teams in GW31. From the top 6 only L… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 8 |
 Viper | Gwk 29 Captaincy: Kane v Salah Imagine Salah was actually really really clinical, he'd have about 40 PL goals already. Could have had four today. It's going to be hard to not captain him again next week despite Kane at home to … | 8 years, 3 months ago | 38 |
 TopMarx | Career Hall of Fame Top 5 - Gameweek 27 Review Guys, my belated Gameweek 27 review of the Top Five & Gameweek 28 Preview http://bit.ly/2ovVFqz Right, off to play football now 🙂 | 8 years, 3 months ago | 1 |
J0E | Gameweek 28 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 8 years, 3 months ago | 49 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW28 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 28 Both missing GWs out tomorrow. Guaranteed. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening prior to the star… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 28 |
 Mark | Ref is Mili's Friend vs Spurs Following my cock-up in this thread... https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/02/23/the-weekend-team-news-240/?hc_page=2#hc_comment_17708147 ...the outlook has flipped for Milivojević owner… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 31 |
J0E | Gameweek 28's best differential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 28's best differential and why? | 8 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
 G-Whizz | GW28 Odds/Stats GW28 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week Manchester City (DS 539) beat Leicester 5-1, Chelsea (531DS) beat West Brom 3-0 and confirming my ignorane of stats below 350, Manchester Uni… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 35 |
J0E | New Ideas For Chips New ideas for chips The Norwegian Fantasy Eliteserien competition gets underway soon. This is based on FPL's gameplay but with some key differences - most notably it does not have FH, BB or TC … | 8 years, 3 months ago | 78 |
J0E | Are Man Utd Worth Bothering With? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Are Manchester United worth bothering with? Manchester United may have potentially two double Gameweeks but there recent attacking form has been atrocious.… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 36 |
 Team Cruel | Fantasy Eliteserien back for a second season Fantasy Eliteserien (Norwegian league) is back for a second season! Link: https://fantasy.eliteserien.no/ For those that are unaware, Fantasy Eliteserien is the closest thing to FPL. The concept, … | 8 years, 3 months ago | 13 |
J0E | Defensive changes Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Defensive changes Whether free hitting, wildcarding or holding back your chips over the coming Gameweeks is it now time to refresh our backlines? Tricky f… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 39 |
 Benster | Gameweek 38's Wealth of Options Just been looking ahead to the GW38 finale, and I can see everything coming down to who you pick on that day. Get it right and you could be in for a massive haul. The biggest problem is picking the… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 20 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight Feel free to leave your questions here. As well as looking ahead to Gameweek 28 we will also consider the latest regarding blanks, double Gameweeks and chips. | 8 years, 3 months ago | 159 |
J0E | Live Hall of Fame Updated Live Hall of Fame Updated Members can see where they are here https://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/hall-of-fame/live/ | 8 years, 3 months ago | 12 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 28 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 28 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… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Is it worth getting in players blanking in GWK 31? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is it worth getting in players blanking in GWK 31? For those not using their free hit or wildcard chip for Gameweek 31 are you still tempted to get in play… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 32 |
J0E | Your perfect Gameweek 31 side Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Your perfect Gameweek 31 side We now know that, barring an incredible result from Rochdale against Spurs today, there will be four fixtures taking place i… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 59 |
 ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️ | Bgwk 31: Mane v Liv defender I think Mane is such a great differential for the upcoming weeks. With essentially Salah and Firmino canceled out due to such high ownership the only downfall with owning Mane is missing out on Liv… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 28 |
 Rainer | FA Cup QF draw perfect for GWK 35 FH Chip PERFECT!!! draw for GW35 Free Hit! | 8 years, 4 months ago | 26 |
 TorresMagic™ | Free hit chip - best week to use For those with the Free Hit chip, when are you currently thinking of using it? a) BGW31 b) DGW34 c) BGW35 d) DGW37 e) GW38 f) another GW | 8 years, 4 months ago | 39 |
 agueroooooney | The Free Hit Chip Double Gameweek Strategy How come there's been no mention of a strategy involving using the FH chip in a double gameweek? People are covering every eventuality with the fixtures but I haven't even seen this mentioned. Her… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Time to bail on Chelsea? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Time to bail on Chelsea? Given their tough fixtures and blank Gameweek 31 is it time to start ditching Chelsea assets. Are you Alongo or Alonstay? What o… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 44 |
J0E | Wildcard GWK 32 v 33 I was thinking of playing my wildcard in Gameweek 33 as it is closer to Gameweek 34 when I can use a bench boost. Using it in GWK 33 rather than GWK 32 would in theory give me extra information re … | 8 years, 4 months ago | 97 |
 matzi11a | Server and Backend Upgrades Hi all, we are performing some upgrades to the site over the next hour. Everything *should* continue working as normal during this period but you may need to do an occasional reload. | 8 years, 4 months ago | 11 |
J0E | Targeting the Gunners Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which Arsenal assets? Given a Gameweek 31 fixture for Arsenal looks unlikely many will be shunning their players. But with bags of creativity in midfield, … | 8 years, 4 months ago | 23 |
J0E | Best Liverpool Assets Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best Liverpool Assets With strong form, excellent fixtures and a guaranteed match in Gameweek 31, investing in Livepool assets looks key over the coming w… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 51 |
 IRBOX ⚽ | Top 10K Chip Use Top 10k. Anyone got the stats on % used FH and WC? | 8 years, 4 months ago | 17 |
J0E | FA Cup results wish list Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic FA Cup Wish List What outcomes are you looking for this weekend and Monday’s FA Cup games, given that those that progress will miss Gameweek 31? A lot … | 8 years, 4 months ago | 62 |
 Individual | Quality v Quantity in planning for blanks Hi all I've written a short piece on quality v quantity in our planning for the blanks, based on my experience last year http://whogottheassist.com/quality-v-quantity-for-the-bgw-a-cautionary-tale… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 37 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight 9:30pm- Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight at 9:30pm Feel free to leave your questions here | 8 years, 4 months ago | 151 |
J0E | Gameweek 27 Rough with the Smooth Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 27 Rough with the Smooth Let's hear your tales of woe and joy here. Particularly keen to hear from anyone with Alonso (c) and an incredible vic… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 115 |
J0E | Holding out for a hero Who have been your heroes this season? And what heroes would you recommend for the coming Gameweeks? This is something Mark got in touch with earlier after realizing that he’s still holding out… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 97 |
J0E | Targeting the relegation scrappers Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic With most of the relegation embattled teams doing well over the weekend should we perhaps be targeting some of their assets, particularly as cheap options i… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 31 |
 FPL Virgin | Free hit chip: gwk 31 v gwk 35 14 teams are projected to play in GW35. Are you telling me that a Wildcard team for GW34 won't be able to get a decent team out for GW35? Are we assuming all 15 players will be from those 3 fixtu… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 119 |
 Deus | Time for a top heavy front three? Shall we consider heavy top3 with Kane Kun and Firmino now? | 8 years, 4 months ago | 38 |
 Numb | Scoutcast feedback Feedback on the ScoutCast (seeing as Mark is around 😉 ) Things I like: Banter between them especially when Granville is involved Talking about their teams and plans When they have guests to mix … | 8 years, 4 months ago | 126 |
J0E | Gwk 27 lessons learned so far Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 27 lessons learned so far Kanexit 2 a success This was the final round in the second Kanexit move, before spurs fixtures ease and City’s get m… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 31 |
 Granville | ‘Unedifying’ scoutcast criticism It's really unedifying to see the FFS community having a good old pile-on Mark and the scoutcast team for criticising Aguero at a time when he was struggling a little. I just wonder how they would … | 8 years, 4 months ago | 175 |
 diesel001 | Kanexit 2 - Rough with the Smooth Kanexit. Share your tales of joy or woe. Mine: GW24 did Kane and Gross to KDB and Firmino. Kane and Gross since GW24 = 39pts. KDB and Firmino = 47pts with Firmino having a game to play. What that … | 8 years, 4 months ago | 20 |
J0E | Gameweek 27 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 8 years, 4 months ago | 107 |
 Twisted Saltergater | DGWK planning for the wildcardless For those who’ve played their second WC already but still have the FHC for blank GW31, is the best tactic now to load up on potential DGW’ers? So, in other words, get in players who don’t pla… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 20 |
 How I met your Mata | The Kane (c) early kick off conundrum Really want to captain Kane but due to his 12:30 kick off it's putting me off | 8 years, 4 months ago | 14 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW27 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 27 Gameweek results will be tomorrow sorry I’m really behind! On holiday next week. Been working 50+ hour weeks.. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you wh… | 8 years, 4 months ago | 27 |