The ScoutCast – Episode 218 – Three Kings

Of the above I only own Lukaku, Mane and Aguero with Alli very likely to come in.

That’s just four out of 12 potential ranking plungers. Obviously I have to hope my relative differentials of Coleman, King, Carroll, Sigurdsson and Alonso can off set any hauls. But ultimately I guess that is the story of the season – you can’t have them all. 🙂

I think we have good enough differentials plus these players to not much worry about anyone else . All of Them scoring well do make it hard to climb the rankings though .

Good post Jonty, not (c) Lukaku last week killed me and I was well set up going into the gw (10 players), saying that if he blanked and my alternative strategy of (c) Mane worked-I was laughing, but these are the risks we take when it comes to ownership.

Defoe to do the damage this weekend buoyed by Eng call up. Gwan Jermain

I own Luka, Sanchez, Costa, jaku, Walker, Alonso. Worried about Mane and Alli. I hope my relative differential called Sterling pays off against his former team.

Only Lukaku and Mane from your list, Jonty. Oh, and just did Kane ➡ Costa.

Not too concerned about Sanchez atm really, and think I might get him in for gw31.
Will definitely get spurs & utd def in the coming weeks. Reluctant to take hits atm as I'm ranked 601 and constantly sweating 🙂

Own Lukaku, Costa, Aguero and Mane. Alli, Hazard and Sanchez are my main concerns.

Don't have hazard,Costa,Alli,kun ,spurs ,man u def
Not afraid of Chelsea attackers as stoke won't concede much,have good alternative defs
Alli and kun the only ones I am afraid of

I have owned Brunt for quite a while, so McAuley is the one that upsets most when he gets these lucky goals. Arsenal definitely a good candidate for enabling him to shine again... Though changing him into Valencia this week so also cancels the De Gea fear.

Forward, I have been punished by Defoe, the england team call might very much boost his motivation this weekend. Aguero as well could punish sellers (am one of them)!

Sanchez the scary one missing for me. But it is an informed, balanced choice and I'm happy with the alternatives. It's just that if he goes crazy, I'm left with a big Sanchez-shaped hole in my team.

ML rival has Sanchez so he's my big fear but I'm resolutely rolling the ft this week. She fears my Kaku and Mane more I suspect

For CS I fear MU and Spurs. I haven't HD a MU defender all season!
For attackers I fear Alli, Hazard and Sanchez the most but can't have em all! I hope my Kun, Coleman, King and Eriksen go nuts however.

Early doors HT!

Erm, yeah i purposefully only have Coleman, Kun and Kaku of those, plus Jaku OTB.

I always fear not owning Costa but it's not possible right now without a few hits.

I hope Kun and Coleman do the business this weekend, Kaku © I'm sure will be hygeine in my ML so it'll be about differentials​.

I'd also add I'm discomfitted by no Alli, have had to go Eriksen as ML rival I'm chasing has Dele and we have a few others in common.

My WC Team active for this weekend:

Pickford (Japukovic)
Alonso/Ben Davies/Valencia (Fernandez/Stephens)
Hazard/Sanchez/Mane/Alli/Son
Lukaku/Deeney (Barnes

Weak bench but I have no BB so I'm relatively happy with that. Will be bringing in Citeh players for GW32 onwards with FTs...

I have 5 of your highly owned players so happy with that.

Anyone want to RMWCT? 😉 Cheers

I own Walker, Mane, Lukaku & Aguero.. I m always ready for a hit a week.. But this international break is such a spoiler. Thinking of a rare Save the transfer this week. Will monitor Spurs mids and gametime/fatigue/Jetlag of long distance fliers. Mostly will get 2 or 3 of Sanchez, Alli/Son/Pedro & Defoe/Costa next GW.

I fear Sanchez and Kun the most, though now King has joined their ranks. Not very owned overall, but a lot of the top1000 and my closest ML rivals own him.

Walker and McAuley are others I don't own but I don't expect huge hauls from them.

Chelsea attack, Spurs attack, Sanchez, Man U defence, Spurs defence...

Yeah I'm fooked

E is a very good point

Hmm. The wildcard is a really good chip though, and it would be a shame if its wasted on a gw37 dgw that didn't work out. Might make up a lot of ground from say gw 31-32-33 if you use it by then. Maybe even more valuable than fielding 13-14-15 dgw'ers.

I'm undecided though. Initial plan was wc gw26, but the above arguments may make me play it earlier.

Like your thinking. Would you play WC with my current team?

Foster, Jaku
Williams, Alonso, Yoshida, Brunt, Ward
Siggy, Capoue, Lallana, Phillips, Snoddy
Costa, Lukaku, Kane

I feel like I need to....

Yeah I have to agree with this.

Depending on how your team looks some people may need to play it GW34 for the first doubles.

Assuming we here about the doubles shortly though we should be able to use or free transfers to stock up for GW34 with it being a small double.

Certainly think waiting as long as possible is the best way.

WC 36, BB 37 is what I've had in mind all season, however I may move this forward a GW if Arsenal and Southampton have a DGW35. Three players from each of those sides should be easy to incorporate into our squads, given that there is no blank GW between then and the end of the season.

Luck is going to have a lot do with it. If the earlier WCers are lucky with injuries, suspension, rotation, and have players who end up having decent and meaningful fixtures in DGW37, they are probably going to be quids in.

The fixtures announcement is going to dictate a lot.

But with possible 2dgw by that time you will may loose some points in between.
AD.A Kun is needed from gw34 either way, so as Ibra. That can planned in Gw30 with no problem. His change for Jesus is even easier then.
Ad.B Conte is not going to rotate his squad with 360 degrees as he has winning mentality despite the circumstances.
AD.C don't see that as a factor when it comes to top6 battling for UCL.
AD.D Eriksen, Costa, Spurs def, Che def, Sanchez are examples of consistent source of points. You just need to reduce the risk.
AD.E I disagree. Defenders and 5th mids having at least on dgw like Yoshida, Holebas, Capoue, Kante, Romeu are safe picks.
So as Pickford, Valdes or Deeney.
Some budget options already can be selected with low probability of being out of favour.
Injury risk is always a factor. FT should do the job.

wait for fixtures release then i decide... probably still will wildcard in gw31 or gw32. Is when my team have a change of fixtures

When would you play it if you didn't have the BB? That's the best question.

If your BB dictates when you wildcard then in my opinion the tail is wagging the dog.

all down to when the other DGWs fall and what the actual fixtures are for GW 37.
there may well be more games in GW37 but there are some pretty unattractive options for these games e.g. top sides playing each other, weaker sides (those where many bench players would probably come from) away at top sides etc.

Good points, seems obvious and it's suprising that many have changed their view on this over the last week or so. I think people are overthinking things again, like with recent captain picks on here such as Siggy a few weeks ago and Mane last week.

I played the wildcard in January last year and it worked a treat, but surely if you have waited this long and your team is in reasonable shape you may as well wait.

I used my BB a GWs back as I felt my whole squad had decent fixtures and form. It didn't work to the magnitude that I'd hoped it would, admittedly, but I did gain me green arrows and that's the desired effect, no?

My WC is active now and I'm setting up for the long haul. I've drafted in players that have form, fixtures and DGWs approaching. I have a few planned transfers ready for GW32 (No points for guessing which team I have in mind!)

I think people place a lot of faith in a WC before a BB DGW when you'd get near enough the same amount of points if you used it it any other DGW or SGW to be honest. Luck has a huge part to play also.

I'm in my WC at the moment. I'm 4 points down in my ML and I caught up 30 points last week as my rival did not prepare and had already used his WC. But now I want Spurs, Chelsea etc and my defense was rubbish. So using my WC now lets me set myself up for the coming weeks. If I have to take a -12 or so to maximise my BB in GW 37 so be it, but I'm confident I'll have benefited a lot more than that by using my WC now. No right or wrong time to WC in my opinion. If you're happy with your team now, then save it. To each their own.

I agree that WC 36 for BB 37 still looks best. I think perhaps some people are basing a strategy to WC early on last year's failings such as Liverpool rotation. I suspect the solution is to pick players who as you say have something definite to play for - relegation battlers in particular for me - and make sure you have the greatest chance of getting 15 DGWers . I also like the fact that a late WC allows you to essentially forget about it now and concentrate transfers on getting the most out of the period before GW36.

This would be true if the teams who have doubles didn't have decent fixtures up until GW37. Arsenal is a prime example, decent fixtures until the end of the season and a DGW guaranteed so there's no need not to hold 3 Arsenal players going forward. The same case can be made for Man Utd, Spurs and to a lesser extent Southampton

If people hold their wild cards that late I think the most that can be gained would be 20 points.

As an early wild carder, I will make transfer moves to load up on DGW players in the short term and then take hits galore to field the absolute best teams for all of the DGWs so I can maximize all of them. For DGW 37, if it is as big as it seems it might be, with a -12 or -16 I will be able to match the number of DGW players a late wild carder will have. The other advantage for them would be one extra FT in GW37 if they wild card GW36, hence 20 points maximum. A few Bench Boosted differentials and that gap can certainly be narrowed.

I am of the opinion that shrewd hits can more than offset the advantage of a late wild carder, especially if they avoid fixing SGW problems in their team between now and then.