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Sunday’s Dugout Discussion

3 October 2010 1954 comments
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After a reasonably low-scoring Saturday (for me at least), we have three remaining Sunday afternoon fixtures to increase our tallies. And with the four most selected captains in action today, according to our poll, we have every chance.

The first of two televised games sees Roberto’s Mancini’s Manchester City play host to Newcastle United. The headline team news for the 1:30pm game is that Newcastle leave striker, and fantasy favourite, Andy Carroll on the bench for the first time this season. For Man City, Jerome Boateng starts his first league game and Adam Johnson is once again on the bench, despite scoring mid-week…

Man City: Hart, Boateng, Toure, Kompany, Lescott, De Jong, Barry, Silva, Toure Yaya, Milner, Tevez

Newcastle: Krul, Perch, Williamson, Coloccini, Jose Enrique, Ben Arfa, Nolan, Tiote, Barton, Gutierrez, Ameobi

Then, on the other channel, Arsenal travel to Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea at 4pm, where both clubs are looking to bounce back from defeats last week. Elsewhere, and not on the box, 18th-placed Liverpool take on 16th-placed Blackpool at 3pm.

As always, the Dugout Discussion will be with you throughout the day. Enjoy.

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  1. Gaz Downright
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    • 15 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    green arrow and up 30k places... approaching 4000 digit standings

    and to think that somebody almost talked me into playing carroll and foley over AJ and elmo

    confidence boost grande

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  2. Big Dunc
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    How ironic. The highest scoring player in my team was Seamus Coleman. Bit of a shocker all round really....

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    1. Andy
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Told you I was going to catch you ...at the lofty pace of a point week.

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  3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    what an eventful sunday afternoon 🙂

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  4. Abstruse
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    Green arrow up 364 places, not a huge one but a green arrow is a green arrow

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    1. TommyK
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      • 16 Years
      15 years, 3 months ago

      Is it just me who always starts thinking of darts whenever people mention green and red arrows on here?

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      1. Brightside
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        yes.

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      2. Safety First
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        Ye-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-sssss (game shot and the maaaaatch....)

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  5. dierstraights
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    wow, amazed i didnt plummet further after that week

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    1. NotoriousDRE
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      u up there where the air is rare...hope u bounce back next GW bro!

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      1. dierstraights
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        cheers dre, mental note, never ever bank on liverpool players again

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    2. Camzy
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Sorry about your Torres captaincy.

      That sucked, but I would have captained him if I had him if that's any consolation.

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      1. NotoriousDRE
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        great ranking Camzy!

        yeah Roversnick, tough one with Torres.

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      2. dierstraights
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        yeah torres let me down, but never mind, i knew the risks when i picked him and i had planned it weeks ago
        fabregas & berbatov in for arshavin & torres next gameweek

        bet you are gutted that carroll came on!!!

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  6. BMox81
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    60 all out for me this week.

    What a beautiful big Brazillian beast that Alex is.

    Europe winning, Chelsea winning and Liverpool in a relegation dogfight.

    All in all, a good weekend!

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  7. threeputt
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    test

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    1. Be
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      tist ?

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  8. Be
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    Whoever decided Cole or Drogs didnt deserve bps, may well get a letter from Mr Angry in Leicester....

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  9. njfsdkffslkf
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    To keep Malouda or Not?

    If only Vdv's Fixtures were better.

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    1. The Bandit
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Never in the field of human fantasy has so much been owed by so few to one man!

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    2. DickFranDyke
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Malouda looked dangerous today, probably keep for now.

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      1. njfsdkffslkf
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        How do you plan to get Fabs?

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    3. RoysBrotherJohnson- Irish p…
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      youve tried to start that no about 8 times. Noones interested, the international break is only starting, and it's therefore pointless speculating.

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      1. njfsdkffslkf
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        Just stop.

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    4. NotoriousDRE
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      u lucky u Alex didnt make that decision for you - Malouda wont have been out for a bit!

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      1. njfsdkffslkf
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        What?

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  10. Sean
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    any idea about average ffs score?

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    1. BoobyZ
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      40

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  11. TommyK
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hooray- looks like my qualification (and subsequent first round elimination) in the FFS cup is assured...

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  12. For Fuchs Sake
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    51, up 73,000 places 🙂

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  13. Wingnut
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    The dude who has not made a single change is still maintaining 1st place overall!!

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    1. Be
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      sickening..

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    2. Camzy
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Adam Johnson saved him there.

      He's pretty amazing all the same!

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  14. Gaz Downright
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    • 15 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    Bone Thugs N'mohamady

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    1. RoysBrotherJohnson- Irish p…
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      what happened to that ramires guarantted 3 bonii Gazza?...

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  15. Zidane
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    mummy or coleman guys?

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    1. DickFranDyke
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      I'm leaning towards mummy until Coleman's place is assured.

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  16. Spoiler
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    thinking for gw8

    bale -> nzog
    arshavin -> fabs

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    1. Lev
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      yeah, trying to decide between Bale to:

      NZOG
      ADAM
      Martin PETROV

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  17. andy85wsm
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    I cant decide to stick to 3-4-3 or change my team over the course of a few weeks to 3-5-2.

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  18. JC
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    Stupid Torres and not playing Adam gives me a red arrow and probably wont qualify for FFS cup now 🙁

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    1. BoobyZ
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Stupid Torres but playing Adam game me a decent green arrow and probably will qualify for the FFS cup

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  19. Athila
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    From 41,334 to 4,126, 422pts. Chuffed!

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    1. BoobyZ
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Damn you

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    2. DickFranDyke
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Nice work Athila, 39k to 5k for me. High fives fella.

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      1. Athila
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        pretty good for you also. high five.

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  20. Drip Doctor
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    I am really pondering with the idea of doing Malouda to A.Cole. I dont think there will be a huge point difference between them come the end of the season. Both will get similar bonus points. Malouda will get goals but Cole will get clean sheets and is bagging assists aswell. The extra 2.0 could get me VDV in. Good idea?

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    1. andy85wsm
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      I'm considering dropping malouda to get VDV but I'm going to wait. Malouda has a good set of fixtures coming up

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      1. njfsdkffslkf
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        Jamsiep made a good point last week re Malouda and rotation.

        Wolves game which is one you would want Malouda for comes in between a big trip abroad in CL. Malouda could be and I say could be rested there like he was last time CL away game.

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        1. Michael_I_Young
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          15 years, 3 months ago

          Good advice. I'm going to avoid from my wc I think.

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          1. njfsdkffslkf
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            15 years, 3 months ago

            I wouldnt rule him out completely yet but keep it in mind,

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    2. diz
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      I's say there will be a significant points difference... as a guess 210 to 160. Still might be worth getting VDV for though!

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      1. Drip Doctor
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        They are pretty level right now. Malouda is scoring big in a few games but cole is consistently scoring.

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  21. Duckbill
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    took a 8 pt hit last week and none this week and managed to get same points. Make what you want of that, looks like i,ll be doing another 8pt hit next week: torress, bale and stockdale have to go.

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    1. RoysBrotherJohnson- Irish p…
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      theres nothing to make of it, they're completely unrelated.

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      1. Michael_I_Young
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        +1

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  22. Jairzinho
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    Up 4 places this week...

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  23. Kingston
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    the guy whos made no changes to his side from day 1 is still top overall

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  24. diz
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    Jumped from 12k yesterday to 15k today with 22 points from today's matches, confused at that but can't complain at the week overall.

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    1. TommyK
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      why change a winning team?

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      1. TommyK
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        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        Reply fail- @ kingston

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        1. Kingston
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          15 years, 3 months ago

          Makes a mockery of the whole thing!!

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  25. dierstraights
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    does anybody know if arshavin will drop tonight?
    fiso says yes (149%) totalfpl doesn't even list him

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    1. NotoriousDRE
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      totalfpl has him at -61% (-701 NTI)

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  26. ViperStripes
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    Alex bandwagon starting NTI 1 hour ago was 155, now it's 994

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    1. njfsdkffslkf
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Prediction:

      He will conceede and be rested in next 2 games. Il be avoiding.

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      1. Christina.
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        +1

        Did he not come off injured? Time to wave him goodbye.

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        1. njfsdkffslkf
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          15 years, 3 months ago

          He should be fine. It was cramp they have reported.

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          1. Christina.
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            15 years, 3 months ago

            thks Db. Idea was to dowmgrade him anyway and cash in the profit i made. All in the name of Fab.

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    2. DickFranDyke
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Buy buy buy!

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      1. Manilaman
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        Everyone must own him.

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      2. ViperStripes
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        15 years, 3 months ago

        I'm goin to wildcard, so bring him in until night before next GW deadline and hope for a 0.2 rise

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    3. For Fuchs Sake
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      How do you know that?

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      1. ViperStripes
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        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        Fantasytools

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      2. ViperStripes
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        • 16 Years
        15 years, 3 months ago

        Using Fantasytools

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  27. Sean
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 3 months ago

    Liverpool back where they belong.the relegation zone

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    1. TommyK
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      Anyone want to put money on blackpool finishing higher than liverpool?

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  28. diz
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    I'm going to predict that 45 points after hits will get you in the cup.

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    1. Michael_I_Young
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      15 years, 3 months ago

      I hope so. I'm wc so expecting to get too last 256 if I qualify

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  29. dz1984
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    Into the top 25k now 🙂 Im happy with that so far.

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  30. Michael_I_Young
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    15 years, 3 months ago

    So whats the ffs cup cut off point. I'm on 51 which I expect is bang on it!

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