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Mark Mark
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Christmas is all about family. About sharing. About goodwill to all men.

I do a bit of that, though my day also involves points hits, rotation concerns and whether Harry is going to blank at Wembley.

I don’t wish this on you but, deep down, I know it’s too late. You’re just as lost in this as I am.

So that only leaves me to thank you for reading this and, of course, on this special day, for all your support for what we do here at Fantasy Football Scout.

Having this link to thousands of like-minded folk, similarly happy to burn hours contemplating budget strikers, is a comfort and a massive gift in itself. So thank you.

While I urge you to rejoin your friends and family, or at least find a channel showing Die Hard or Escape to Victory, I should also remind you that our Scout Picks and Captain Sensible articles will be with you later today.

Eat well, drink relatively sensibly and enjoy the day.

Merry Christmas and thanks again.

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

  1. Old Wulfrunian
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Happy Christmas everyone!Have a nice day!

  2. Tcheco
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    This should be a members article

    1. FPL.team
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Scrooge

  3. Chenku╰☆╮
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Kane (C) at home vs SOU really? Case against.. Forster is a good keeper.. Yosh/Stephens are good CBs (imo better without VVD who is ok only in the air), good DM... need i say more? Oh wait.. Playing at home (remember Kane at home with so called weaker teams?)..

    1. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Sorry you lost me at Forster is a good keeper

      1. Pep Roulette
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Hahaha exactly!

    2. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Lol @ this post

      1. Chenku╰☆╮
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        lets see who has the lols shall we? wait one more day.

    3. The Son Haz got Atsu on
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      forster is a good keeper? You must have opened your Christmas crackers early

      1. Fantasy Gold
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        He’s definitely cracked open the hard liquor early.

        Forster is in top 3 worst keepers in the league

    4. Tcheco
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Kane playing vs. a team that can't keep a clean sheet while looking to break a record or 2. If one player scores in this game it's going to be Kane

    5. The Son Haz got Atsu on
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      ignore my reply actually this is clearly a wind up post from our truthfully challenged friend

    6. FPL.team
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Pope is a good keeper... Burnley are a better defensive unit that Southampton... He just scored 3 past them.

    7. Smurf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Straw clutching if I’ve ever seen it.

  4. SMOOTH
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    best def under 4.7 to replace tark - have west ham and brighton already

    A. Zanka
    B. Robertson
    C. Kenny

    1. Oven Glover
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Robertson. Looks very attacking with decent CS potential. Rested most of this season, no serious competition for the lb spot as long as Moreno is out. Milner possibly but Rob should be first choice most of the time.

  5. agueroooooney
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Any updates on Moreno, Kiko or Smalling injuries?

    1. The Son Haz got Atsu on
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      yeah pressers at 12

      1. agueroooooney
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        12 today? Didn't think there'd be any today

        1. BbBb
          • 11 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Paha, I thought they were after the queen speech

  6. Tim Canterbury
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    So yeah tomorrow games...

  7. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    My TV is crap. £101.5m. But my OR is 2.5k. Surely I should be OR 500k with a TV like that?

    1. Butcher
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      My OR is 1.5m. Taken 70 odd points in hits. Just shows TV isn't everything

    2. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      You obviously hit the nail on the head early on with good picks and not changed too much? My tv is 105.5 ranked 280k 5 hits

    3. The Son Haz got Atsu on
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      there's not enough wrapping paper left to wrap your ego

    4. RoysCallerAnne
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      You should link your team.

    5. Fpldonny
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Apparantly not!

    6. FPL.team
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Why? Do you get points for TV? If so, I'd be top, but I'm not and I would take a 100m TV for a better rank right now.

    7. _figu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Yep, lucky casual.

    8. The Overthinker
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      TV 103.6
      Rank 1.8k

      Matches well?

    9. The Red Devil
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Or your OR could be 500k

    10. The Red Devil
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Casual

    11. No Luck
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      It's only half the season, you'll probably end up around there

    12. BbBb
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      TV 104.8
      OR 404th

      A Christmas brag is allowed right!?

      1. The Overthinker
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Bad luck in the cup 😮

        1. BbBb
          • 11 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Ha I know right! Wasn't you who knocked me out was it!?

          1. The Overthinker
            • 9 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Nah 😀
            I got knocked out by a ghost team in first week itself .
            Now I'll concentrate on the league only 😉

    13. Root
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      TV 101m
      OR 12k

      meh

  8. Dušan Citizen
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Get Smalling or Jones?

    1. Butcher
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Jones

    2. RoysCallerAnne
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Smalling is injured.

      1. Dušan Citizen
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Serious injury?

    3. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      The one that isn't injured. So neither? 😆

    4. The Overthinker
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Lindelof

    5. _figu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Smalling probably won't play.

    6. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I'd avoid for now DDG only 1 worth keeping

    7. Dušan Citizen
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Smalling's injury seems serious?

      1. Pep Roulette
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        I don't think so! I have him and I am keeping him for now!

  9. Tcheco
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Captain Kane or Hazard?

    1. The Overthinker
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Azza

    2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Kane - imagine he hattricks again, very possible, he may just have activated beast mode properly

  10. Hochoki
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    best combo of fwd and def within 10.8??

    Foster
    Otamendi Christensen Mee
    Hazard Salah Coutinho Sane Sterling
    Lacazette Quaner

    Elliot Austin Dunk Simpson

    1. The Overthinker
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Austin to dcl?

  11. BIG TONES
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Want rid of Foster as my starting keeper. Think Pickford -4 will pay itself back fairly quickly right?

    1. The Son Haz got Atsu on
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      see above. Forster is great

  12. Old Wulfrunian
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    #Celtic accept bid from @OfficialBHAFC for striker Moussa Dembélé - clubs reach agreement on transfer fee of £18 million

    1. Ode
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Great signing

    2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Should be interesting to see how he does... very young but a lot of potential

    3. Pep Roulette
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Great signing! Great deal!

    4. BbBb
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      This would be great, but not sure about him as a fantasy asset

  13. RoysCallerAnne
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Happy Christmas Kanexiters.

    You got that one soooo wrong 😆

    1. Dušan Citizen
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I prefer my team without Kane. And I am doing perfectly well without him, had 92 pts.

      Will only get him on free hit in gw 22

      1. RoysCallerAnne
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        lol ok

    2. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Yep backfired massively considering I kept morata over him..

    3. Sailboats
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      lol @ Kane sellers

      1. RoysCallerAnne
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Mee and Long are the new Cannavarro and Materazzi.
        I thought everybody knew that.

        1. The Son Haz got Atsu on
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          on abother day Alli gets his 2nd yellow for simulation and 10man spurs limp to a 0-0. No need to be smug just coz you the right side of the tombola

          1. RoysCallerAnne
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 15 Years
            8 years, 1 month ago

            Sorry bout that.

    4. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I still can't get over the scoutcast - you really couldn't make it up. FPL Messiah takes -12 point hit to selling kane, Groß, RLC... who score 33 points between them... replaces them with Bony, Silva, Richarlison who score 3 between them.

      It perfectly sums up FPL - no-one has a clue what they're doing no matter how high their OR, it's all guesswork at the end of the day.

      1. RoysCallerAnne
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        He has great hair though.

        1. The Overthinker
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          This

      2. Kiwivillan
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        If you looked at Burnley opponents at home all season Kane was easy C choice

    5. Weasel51
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Strange

    6. Old Wulfrunian
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Better achievement is that you still have Solomon.

      1. RoysCallerAnne
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Cheers. He's great ain't he.

        1. Old Wulfrunian
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 1 month ago

          Essential but i sold him.

    7. Gaffers
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Will bring in for the double, but I was still outscoring my rivals who had Kane last week, even with his hatty.
      Spend the money wisely and the gameweek doesn't rely on one player.

  14. JurgenRodgers
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Breaking... Celtic accept bid from Brighton for striker Moussa Dembélé. Two clubs have reached agreement on transfer fee of £18 million

    As a Celtic fan this is an absolute bargain...

    Could be a great 3rd striker option

    1. Ode
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I'm happy that he chose Brighton where he can get regular game time and didn't go to a bigger club only to sit on the bench

      1. Rash
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Everton should be where he goes

    2. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Wow. Big signing for Brighton

      1. JurgenRodgers
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Groß to Dembele could be a nice combo..

  15. _Gunner
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Pick one:

    A- Masuaku
    B- Ogbonna

    Captain one:

    1- Kane
    2- Salah
    3- Hazard

    1. Meinhoff
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      A1

    2. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      B1

  16. Dušan Citizen
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Where is the guy with the pressers?

    1. La Roja
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Ozil*

      There isn’t any today though

  17. Weeb Kakashi
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Merry and a Christmas everyone on here!

  18. Toblerone52 - Zlatan Ibra-H…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Merry xmas All!
    Who do we think is due a rest for next gameweek? Salah? Sterling?

    1. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Hopefully neither

  19. Qaiss
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Just quickly wanna wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Hope you all have a lovely day with your family and friends,

  20. -SB-
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Pope

    Jones Otamendi Christensen

    Richarlison Pogba Sterling Salah Son

    Kane Rooney

    Subs: Elliot - Mee - Quaner - Hunemeier
    Bank: 1.8

    G2G?

    1. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Considering -4 for Rich out. Tired of his wayward shooting

  21. Weasel51
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Pigs in blankets >> Turkey -4??

    1. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Gaviscon-8

      1. Weasel51
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Worth it

    2. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Yeah keep Rooney away from the cold

  22. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 15 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Which is essential?

    A. Stuffing
    B. Gravy
    C. Cranberry sauce

    A& B for me, but C also important

    1. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      B most important

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 15 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Definitely agree

  23. Geezer
    • 15 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Pope to Lloris a good move? Play Elliot in his blank, and then got him for the double

    1. Merlinsnose
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      That’s what I’m going to do, goalkeepers are rotation proof.

      Who is the most nailed defender?

      Ta

    2. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Not paying 5.5m for a keeper I don't want long term because of DGW. Don't think they'll get 2 CS anyway

      1. Merlinsnose
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        True, but I don’t want a Spurs defender either. Plus the keeper is more likely to play both games.

        I’ll sell and get Elliot back after the DGW.

        What are your plans?

  24. Merlinsnose
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Play Richarlison or Depoitre.

    I can’t decide - what you guys think?

    Thanks

  25. MFFista
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Merry Christmas FPL-friends,

    One more extra day of rest for City, Can Pep continue to ignore Kuns brilliance for Jesus? Looks to me like Kun more and more seems like a more certain starter then alternating with Jesus. Is this just my mind playing games or do u agree?

    My christmas team:
    Krul(Pope)
    Alonso-Otamendi-Christiansen-Gomez(Ogbonna)
    Hazard-Salah(c)-Sterling - Coutinho-Lingard
    Kun(DCL-Okazaki

    How many minutes will following players get:

    A) Salah
    B) Coutinho
    C) Kun
    D) Lindgard

    1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Nice team, you could do very well from that setup.

      1. MFFista
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Thanks! -8

  26. iamNwB
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    What 3 defenders should i play please???
    Robertson (liv) vs swansea
    Kenny (eve) vs west brom
    Jones (man u) vs burnley
    Davies (spurs) vs southampton

    1. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      1st 3 as I think Davies will be rested

      1. iamNwB
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 1 month ago

        Also my thinking - Thanks Rash

  27. Mind över Mata
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Best vice captain?

    A) Hazard
    B) Morata
    C) Salah

    Thanks!

    1. The Overthinker
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      B

    2. Sailboats
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      c

    3. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      I'm going Kane so VC irrelevant

    4. Big Sum
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Morata for sure

    5. Yozzer
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Somone who will defiantly play i guess

  28. JasonG123
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Play Pope (mun) or Speroni (ARS)?

  29. BBC_TF
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Option 1/ Naughton + Niasse -> Phile Jones + Calvert-Lewin (-4)

    Option 2/ Naugton + Richarlison -> Schindler + Pogba (-4)

    I need to strenghen my team to fight rotation risk. Feels like 1/ is safer but that 2/ has more upside. Any gut feeling?

  30. Weeb Kakashi
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 1 month ago

    Pick one

    A Kun > Kane and Risk not having a bench for Gw21

    B Kun> Morata for now and then get Kane for the dgw.

    1. Rash
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Id stick and then bring Kane in for the double

    2. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      Don't rate Morata personally

    3. JasonG123
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 1 month ago

      B, with a plan to get Kane back for the double.