Saturday Dugout Discussion

FPL GW17 Scout Picks - Bus Team

Verbruggen

O’Reilly
Senesi
Hincapie

Semenyo
Saka
Wilson
Foden

Ekitiké
Haaland
Thiago

Kelleher
Rodon
Clyne
Kroupi

GW17 Chip Poll

Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Semenyo	BOU	7.5m	101.5%	Very Likely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	101.7%	Very Likely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	101.7%	Very Likely
Palmer	CHE	10.3m	101.5%	Very Likely
Wilson	FUL	5.6m	95.1%	Maybe
Bowen	WHU	7.5m	92.0%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.9m	89.6%	Unlikely
Marc Guiu	CHE	4.2m	88.4%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	84.5%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	80.5%	Unlikely
Ekitiké	LIV	8.6m	74.6%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.6m	74.7%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.8m	72.8%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	70.6%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	69.8%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	68.3%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	67.5%	Unlikely
Raya	ARS	6.0m	66.2%	Unlikely
Haaland	MCI	15.0m	65.5%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	62.8%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	61.9%	Unlikely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	61.8%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	61.0%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	58.3%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	56.4%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	56.0%	Unlikely
B.Fernandes	MUN	9.3m	50.1%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	50.3%	Unlikely
Cash	AVL	4.9m	51.2%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	50.2%	Unlikely
Romero	TOT	5.0m	50.4%	Unlikely
James	CHE	5.6m	48.5%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	48.0%	Unlikely
Flemming	BUR	5.3m	47.7%	Unlikely
L.Miley	NEW	4.4m	39.9%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	40.2%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	39.7%	Unlikely
Wilson	WHU	5.8m	39.4%	Unlikely
Leno	FUL	4.9m	38.4%	Unlikely
Cherki	MCI	6.5m	36.6%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Enzo	CHE	6.6m	118.1%	Very Likely
Lammens	MUN	5.1m	103.2%	Very Likely
Nallo	LIV	3.8m	101.7%	Very Likely
Woltemade	NEW	7.4m	99.4%	Likely
João Pedro	CHE	7.3m	100.6%	Very Likely
Elanga	NEW	6.6m	101.0%	Very Likely
Mayenda	SUN	5.3m	100.8%	Very Likely
Rodon	LEE	4.1m	100.7%	Very Likely
Muniz	FUL	5.4m	100.6%	Very Likely
Gudmundsson	LEE	3.9m	100.3%	Very Likely
Jordan	BUR	4.0m	99.5%	Maybe
Neave	NEW	4.4m	98.8%	Maybe
Irving	WHU	4.4m	95.8%	Maybe
McKenna	BOU	4.0m	94.8%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.2%	Unlikely
Piroe	LEE	5.0m	93.1%	Unlikely
Balcombe	BRE	4.0m	93.4%	Unlikely
Bentley	WOL	4.0m	93.0%	Unlikely
Sels	NFO	4.7m	92.6%	Unlikely
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	93.0%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	92.4%	Unlikely
Morgan	BRE	4.4m	92.9%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	91.9%	Unlikely
Kulusevski	TOT	6.4m	91.2%	Unlikely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	89.5%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.3m	87.5%	Unlikely
Worrall	BUR	3.9m	88.7%	Unlikely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	88.8%	Unlikely
Munetsi	WOL	5.4m	86.1%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	86.3%	Unlikely
Danso	TOT	4.3m	86.3%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	86.1%	Unlikely
Yarmoliuk	BRE	5.0m	87.1%	Unlikely
Coleman	EVE	4.3m	85.7%	Unlikely
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	86.0%	Unlikely
Gakpo	LIV	7.4m	83.9%	Unlikely
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	84.3%	Unlikely
Aina	NFO	4.7m	83.6%	Unlikely
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	84.0%	Unlikely
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	83.3%	Unlikely

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Watchlists

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Sus
Up	Kelleher	BRE	C, Vs
Down	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:16am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C, Inj
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	C
Up	Andersen	FUL	C
Up	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
Up	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:28am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	B
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
Up	Szoboszlai	LIV	C
No Change	Minteh	BHA	B
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	A
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs, Sus
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:34am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	C
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	B
Down	Welbeck	BHA	C, Rest
Down	Woltemade	NEW	B

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:43am

Site Features

17 September 2011 2286 comments

Andy

The Fantasy Games have updated and another weekend of disappointment begins now.

Missed penalties, red cards, disallowed goals and all sorts of contentious decisions – they’re all coming the way of the intrepid misbegotten Fantasy Manager. To help everyone through this hardship we’ve opened up our Saturday edition of the Dugout Discussion so like minded souls can wallow together. At least until someone turns up at five o’clock and casually mentions how they’ve got a “measly” 100 point haul.

We begin with Arsenal at Blackburn. Most notably Yakubu starts for Rovers while Theo Walcott sits out for the Gunners. Line-ups in full are…

Blackburn XI: Robinson;, Salgado, Dann, Samba, Givet; Hoilett, Nzonzi, Lowe, Rochina, Formica; Yakubu
Arsenal XI: Szczesny; Sagna, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Santos Song, Arteta, Ramsey; Gervinho, Arshavin, Van Persie

After the dust has settled on that tie we’ll have five more match-ups at three o’clock including Leighton Baines at home against Wigan, Swansea still awaiting their first ever Premier League goal and Kevin Davies and Grant Holt duking out a battle of the gargantuan strikers.

Plenty to keep you busy on a Saturday afternoon and the Dugout Discussion will be here for it all.

2,286 Comments Login to Post a Comment

BigUps
14 years, 3 months ago
Get Ramsey out of the game, he's terrible.
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1. Fernando Torres
  14 years, 3 months ago
  you are an idiot
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2. njfsdkffslkf
  14 years, 3 months ago
  stop trolling
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  1. BigUps
    14 years, 3 months ago
    Zero trolling. He was terrible today, awful.
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Boss Hogg
14 years, 3 months ago
This morning I signed Bendtner... and almost captained him.

Thankfully my hangover wasn't that bad.

Come on Bendyboots.
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dogtanion
14 years, 3 months ago
we're being bloody robbed by the refs today
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rohan
14 years, 3 months ago
4 mins added time..
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1. Somalion
  14 years, 3 months ago
  "Unless they can do something in the next 2 minutes... Arsenal are headed for another defeat" Cue another own goal 😛
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Cruicky
14 years, 3 months ago
Arsenal score 3 goals and RVP only has 1 assist...
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Rush
14 years, 3 months ago
Santos is awful. At fault for a goal and just generally poor.
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Lewis - Sky Pod
14 years, 3 months ago
2 wondrous crosses from Theo since he came on.
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1. denial
  14 years, 3 months ago
  He's really not that good I don't think.
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  1. The Finnisher
    14 years, 3 months ago
    They were still good crosses?
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    1. denial
      14 years, 3 months ago
      His decision making is just poor.
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      1. The Finnisher
        14 years, 3 months ago
        You wanted him to shoot from that position? 😉
        His decision making is normally fine, his execution sucks balls
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2. dogtanion
  14 years, 3 months ago
  Yeah, a well earned one point.
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  1. Lewis - Sky Pod
    14 years, 3 months ago
    I have him too.
    
    You've missed my point though.
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3. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
  14 years, 3 months ago
  Any cross Walcott succeeds in must be a collectors item. Walcott always reminds me of the "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Jokes. Well, Walcott doesn't understand why he crossed the road in the first place, and is just a very fast chicken 😉
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4. Attila the Bum
  14 years, 3 months ago
  Pity he was trying to shoot instead 😉
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Rush
14 years, 3 months ago
Is that where Mertesacker's been for the whole game?
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Piggs Boson
14 years, 3 months ago
I have 4pts when i just have walcott(1) at the moment ???
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1. SuarezSaurusRex
  14 years, 3 months ago
  1 point each for players who r about to play after this. see at the fixture some matches already stated 0-0 even they do not play yet.
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CFCTom
14 years, 3 months ago
Mertesacker... oh my...
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SuarezSaurusRex
14 years, 3 months ago
please rvp, score a late goal! please!!!!!!!!
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1. Somalion
  14 years, 3 months ago
  If anyone scores a late goal I think it should be gervinho with an arteta assist 😛
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2. Rush
  14 years, 3 months ago
  As much as FF is a fun distraction, there's just too much schadenfreude and comic value to be had from another Arsenal loss.
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3. @ImpressiveTackl
  14 years, 3 months ago
  ok
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gera.bostock
14 years, 3 months ago
I OFFICIALLY QUIT FPL. DAMN YOU RVP.
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1. Epic Fail
  14 years, 3 months ago
  RVP captain this week has been my most succesful captain choice all season.
  
  FML
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2. Epic Fail
  14 years, 3 months ago
  Bye.
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3. Somalion
  14 years, 3 months ago
  Bye bye.
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  1. gera.bostock
    14 years, 3 months ago
    thanks guys, see ya next season.
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Boss Hogg
14 years, 3 months ago
Ok Mr Bent.
Time to repay the faith I've kept with you.
My season starts this weekend. Let's have a hat-trick please.
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njfsdkffslkf
14 years, 3 months ago
City v Blackburn in few weeks could be a drubbing on todays defending
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Cheggers
14 years, 3 months ago
4-3 against Blackburn.

HAHA
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SOM.... This is Fellaini�…
14 years, 3 months ago
Why was that a corner?
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1. Somalion
  14 years, 3 months ago
  Because the linesmen were rubbing vaseline in their eyes.
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Waldaz
14 years, 3 months ago
Yes, a 5 point captain! Still a progress
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1. denial
  14 years, 3 months ago
  Yep. I'm not complaining. I've had a horrid run with captains.
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2. Slaps
  14 years, 3 months ago
  me too, better than last week though
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The Finnisher
14 years, 3 months ago
2 excellent crosses from Andre Santos, once he gets fitter he will be a brilliant signing
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Attila the Bum
14 years, 3 months ago
▒▓██ N █ U █ F █ C ██▓▒
Newcastle team (v Villa): Krul, Simpson, Steven Taylor, Coloccini Ryan Taylor, Obertan, Cabaye, Tiote, Gutierrez, Best, Ba
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1. Attila the Bum
  14 years, 3 months ago
  Villa team (v Newcastle): Given, Hutton, Collins, Dunne, Warnock, Bannan Petrov, Delph, N'Zogbia, Bent, Agbonlahor
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dierstraights
14 years, 3 months ago
happy roversnick
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Ninjaa
14 years, 3 months ago
never a corner
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Attila the Bum
14 years, 3 months ago
Love Ramsey's attempt at a massive Tiote style volley.

Failage.
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Nomar
14 years, 3 months ago
Shockingly bad defending from Arsenal.
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denial
14 years, 3 months ago
That was a pen to Arsenal.
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rohan
14 years, 3 months ago
crap now... rvp only 5... anyone reckons he might get a point bonus???
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Dhubanmonkey
14 years, 3 months ago
Sell everyone except Arteta.
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1. Somalion
  14 years, 3 months ago
  Pretty happy I only have Arteta!
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TommyK
14 years, 3 months ago
Good game, but Arsenal are still pretty shit.
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Bob.
14 years, 3 months ago
That was a pen!
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wuafs
14 years, 3 months ago
it is sure an exciting match! gosh.
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TommyK
14 years, 3 months ago
"14 - Only two sides (Southampton 98/99 and Derby 07/08) have ever conceded more goals after five PL games than Arsenal this season. Frosty"

Lulz. 😆
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