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The ScoutCast – Episode 226 – Beached

Excess baggage checked in, deckchairs reserved and sun block applied – the Scoutcast team are all ready to hit the beach.

Smack in the middle of Gameweek 37, with points flowing from all angles, not even Hal Robson Kanu’s late goal can upset the pre-vacation mood.

Stringing five men across the midfield, Luke and Az join Jonty, Andy and myself for a bumper end of season episode as we tackle another volley of questions from you, the community.

We conduct a post-mortem on the flurry of chips, weigh up the Gameweek 38 punts, put together our final day Wildcard XI and take a look back on our own personal highs and lows of a topsy-turvy season.

After 128 minutes of that lot and sunstroke already setting in, we even forget to chat captains and transfers come the end, only to make amends later.

This ScoutCast was first beamed live via our YouTube channel on Tuesday night. Be sure to subscribe to get notice of future live episodes.

If you’re a traditional type, you can acquire the mp3 audio version via this link on the first player below, or take in the full visual experience via the second player below.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. Coaly
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    RP

    a) Haz to Cout
    b) Caballero to Mignolet

    1. krehbieh1
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      A, clean sheets very fragile....

    2. Clintymints
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Yay

      Nay

      Clean sheets an extra super lottery bonus in the last gw

      Anyone/No one can show up

  2. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Up 19 places tonight

  3. Heavy Data
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Now then, who to captain. Kane? Sanchez? Coutinho? Jesus? Chasing ML leader by 16 points. Play safe and go for Kane? Or take a punt on someone else?

    1. Coaly
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      I think Sanchez is the safest bet

      1. TaiwanHC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        I'm on Kane

    2. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Still think Sanchez is the best choice.

  4. nkhoughton
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    OR updated from 13k to 13k

    Kane did not help me rise at all

    1. Petr Cech the Table
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      But did Jesus?

    2. TLF
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      At least he prevented you from dropping

      1. nkhoughton
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        I owned Kane San(C) hez and jesus

        I was 15 points off 10k annoyed I couldn't climb at all

        1. TLF
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 11 days ago

          Still one week left....good luck

    3. tutankamun
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      It's a team game

  5. Swan - Villa Proud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Kane and Davioes hauls helped me make up a 50pt deficit on 2nd place in my ML. We go into GW38 on level terms with 110 quid difference in money from 2-3. Each with 1 FT

    Willy, DDG
    Alonso, Monreal, Holding, Yoshida, Davies
    Hazard, Sanchez, Erikssen, Sane, JWP
    Kane, Jesus, Gabby
    0.1M ITB

    I'm thinking Gabby to Origi, Vokes or Llorente.Ormaybe , Fab and Couts for Haz and JWP (3-5-2). Rival doesn't have Kane and lacks the cash to swap Costa for him straight up. Thoughts?

    1. Jamin
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      I like the 352 option. Not sold on origi

    2. Kane Toads
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      I'd go Fab + Couts. That's what I am looking to do.

  6. Kevtheotter
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Hey guys have 2 FT and AOA remaining

    Caballero
    Cahill Davies Montreal
    Hazard Sanchez Eriksen King Pedro
    Kane Jesus

    Pickford Yoshida Stephens Anichebe 0.0 ITB

    Hazard and Anichebe --> Coutinho and Llorente for free?

    1. Swan - Villa Proud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Looks good

  7. St. Joseph
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Gw 38 = my highest point ever in fpl
    Yay!

    1. St. Joseph
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      37*

  8. Rhodes your boat
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Happy to be back in top 100k after my horror run of 10 red arrows in twelve weeks

  9. CloudSky
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Who to bench:

    A: Monreal
    B: Stephens
    C: Vertonghen

    1: Cech
    2: Caballero

    Currently benching B2 but a Soton cleanie will hurt.

    1. Petr Cech the Table
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      A2

      1. CloudSky
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Cheers!

    2. Hakchak
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Don't bench monreal with kos back he will be full back and there he can do some real damage

  10. paza12
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Alli, Sanchez or Hazard to Coutinho? Cheers.

  11. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Please choose:

    1) Haz to Coutinho
    2) Alli to Son

    Have a feeling Eriksen might come in for Alli on Sunday and Chelsea might play with the title winning first choice squad on the final day.

    1. Henry FB
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Alli to Coutinho is also an option

      1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Also want to do Gabbi to Giroud...Alli to Cout wont leave me with the funds.

  12. ashkroft
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Wow, increased 1 OR after kane. Went from 2759 to 2758 after tonights game 8)

    1. nkhoughton
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      I barely rose all and I own kane

      1. ashkroft
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        that was the thing tho, i had kane, and rose 1 rank :p

    2. Royal5
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Congratulations 🙂

  13. Henry FB
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Who to sell for Coutinho:

    a) Alli
    b) Hazard

    Cheers

  14. Deulofail
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Inside 100k GR for 5 weeks in a row. Up 1,050,000 OR in those 5GWs. Reduced ML deficit by 92 in that time too.

    But I think the extra 82pts is a bit too much to make up. Game overrrrr

  15. George James
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Which pair score the most points?

    A) Coutinho + Giroud
    B) Coutinho + Origi
    C) Pedro/Fab/Willian + Sturridge

    1. Coaly
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      A

  16. VDiesel26
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    35 - Ranked 209k
    36 - TC Sanchez & 109 points
    37 - BB for 192 points to Rank 40k

    Never been above OR 150k until now lol was only hoping for a sub 100k finish. Some minor miracle there

  17. Petr Cech the Table
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Best replacement under £6.5 million for the Southampton striker who missed the penalty yesterday?

    1. Football Weekender
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Llorente

  18. The Overthinker
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    I am 21 points behind 100k .

    - is finishing below 100k achievable?

    - which players should be my target for 38? Playing AOA

    1. Sterling is £11Mill..…
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      How many points is 100k?

      1. The Overthinker
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        2092

    2. Bruno Bruno!!
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      its hard but not impossible, you will some differentials that arent highly owned

      1. The Overthinker
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        I am looking at hazard to lallana and anichebe to llorente or vokes

        1. Bruno Bruno!!
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 11 days ago

          not bad shouts at all

    3. HashAttack
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      25 points for me ... I hope so

      I think Alli is my weakest midfielder ... so tempted to try Siggy or King
      Have already done Hazard to Coutinho

  19. Bruno Bruno!!
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    With a 29 point lead in my mini league barring a plague of some sort to my team I should win right?

  20. Arctic monkeys
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Soundgarden' Chris Cornel killed himself.
    RIP 🙁

    1. TLF
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      I heard that on the news earlier, sad news

    2. Dr Dream
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Never heard of him or them...

      1. UnitedFan
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Big part of the grunge movement along with Nirvana (please tell me you've heard of them at least 😉 )

      2. Arctic monkeys
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        A good 90s grunge rock band, and a great vocalsit.

    3. UnitedFan
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      My favourtie rock vocalist. RIP

      1. UnitedFan
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        *favourite

    4. Atwood
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Very sad, played Superunknown earlier

    5. Springbank
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Fav rock singer so sad

  21. RedMarks 赤的
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    According gargatron.com, my rank is 25 points behind top 10000. Need big differential right?

    1. Dr Dream
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      What's top 10k pts?

      1. RedMarks 赤的
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Approximately 2219

  22. Clintymints
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    68 points up in the mini now :-O

  23. Atwood
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Thoughts all? 1FT. 1.4 in the bank.
    Lack of Coutinho and Gabbiadini my main problems I guess.

    Caballero
    Monreal - Alonso - Holding
    Redmond - Pedro - Sanchez - Sane
    Gabbiadini - Jesus - Kane

    Pickford - Vertonghen - Stephens - Albrighton

  24. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Non Kane owner grey arrow.

    OR 5,528 to 5,574.

    3.1K OR high during the mayhem, I hardly knew ya...

  25. SuperMane Returns
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Did a -16 hit for 5 transfers. My ML rival laughed and said I already had an uphill battle before I started. Got 183 in the end but 168 after the hit. Technically just from 13 players as Gabbi 0 and Benalouane 1. Gone up 180k since end of GW36 - 373k to 193k! 17k in the GW too. Well chuffed! Thank you Kane San(c)hez and Jesus - got me over a 100 Pts between them! I'm still gutted I didn't get a 200 but 183 (-16) is ok right?

    1. SuperMane Returns
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      167 after the hit sorry

  26. Lizard Lips
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    OR dropped despite owning Kane, jeez.

    1. Legomane
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Same, 24 places TBEx

    2. Springbank
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      I've dropped from within 10k to 11 something with Kane Vert and Eriksen :/

  27. @ocprodigy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 36 RESULTS

    GW37 results tomorrow as I have a weekend indoors following a dislocated knee 😎
    Mince n Tatties also had an additional point added, my bad on GW35 mess up!

    ***** GAMEWEEK RESULTS *****

    Scores on the doors;

    1st - FFS Scout (80pts) [3pts]
    Top 4% - AA33 (65pts), The Snazzy Viking (64pts) [2pts]
    Top 10% - Scratch, D3BUG (60pts), Ziro (58pts), LordKippe (53pts), IanP1970 (49pts) [1pt]

    with Reedy missing out on 48pts!

    Clearly no bonus this week guys 🙁

    ***** THE STANDINGS *****

    Stop your clocks...IanP1970 will now finish as this year's victor of the Scouts Picks Challenge! Came from behind to score mammothly week after week, so a massive congratulations is in order!

    Your top three;

    1st - IanP1970 (35pts)
    2nd - Slippin' Jimmy, A Manager Has No Name (23pts)

    Spreadsheet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oyuz31n7ppeccuu/Scout%20Picks%20Challenge.xlsm?dl

    1. AA33
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 10 days ago

      Congratulations IanP1970! 🙂

  28. andy85wsm
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Im actually in a position where I might make no transfers this week

    1. Dr Dream
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      reported.

    2. Henry FB
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Easy on, Andy. Someone will start preaching about your hits again

    3. SuperMane Returns
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      What did you get Andy in the end?

    4. Ryan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Likewise. It has to be about getting a supposed better player for an already good player. Or possibly risk waiting for lineups and try and make a move if necessary in that 30 second window.

    5. tutankamun
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Agree, the best I can come up with is Ali to Coutinho

    6. Pep says
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      @Andy and you said a few hours ago the gw was over. What a difference a game makes

      1. andy85wsm
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Did i?

        1. Pep says
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 11 days ago

          Maybe not. Someone else with a in noted jersey.. Apologies

    7. XabiAlonso
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Save it for the week after

    8. Petr Cech the Table
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Save it for next season 😉

    9. dogtanion
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Same..only ones I'm contemplating are Ozil or Alli to Coutinho but not sure I'll bother even doing it

    10. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Why not get Mignolet if you need a nominal transfer?

      1. Dr Dream
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Quite a good shout that is...

      2. andy85wsm
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Have looked at that, might be the best move I can make. Shame Heaton is so expensive

    11. HurriKane
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Andy are you not doing Hazard --> Coutinho ?

      - Form: Coutinho 6 goals 2 assists in last 8
      - Fixture: Boro
      - Motivation: Fighting for top 4
      - At Home

      Coutinho really ticks all the boxes . Meanwhile Hazard Off form and with epl wrapped up likely to be rested for cup final

      1. andy85wsm
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Still deciding on that. If i think Hazard starts I probably keep

        1. Mighty
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          7 years, 11 days ago

          Unless Conte hints otherwise I'm keeping Hazard. I think Chelsea could score 6+ in this type of game.

    12. TLF
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      What about that extra hit you were planning to take....

      1. andy85wsm
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Not sure I need to!

        1. TLF
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 11 days ago

          Your team is looking good, you convinced Hazard is going to start though ?

    13. Legomane
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      The ultimate FPL Zen. Difficult with nothing ITB. Caballero > Heaton would've been nice. Struggling here too.

    14. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      If players are level on points, fewer transfers mean a higher OR. If you don't feel you're improving your team (including the bench), then not doing anything could give you an extra boost in rank.

  29. AFC49
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    Top of the ML by 2 points, first time this season. Unreal ☺

    1. Sterling is £11Mill..…
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Nice good luck in 38

  30. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 11 days ago

    josh king must be licking his lips at the thought of that leicester joke of a defence

    1. Legomane
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Indeed

      1. Legomane
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 11 days ago

        Very much missing Wes

    2. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 11 days ago

      Ah. Didn't think of that.
      Was planning king to cout this week