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From Antonio to Ritchie: Fantasy assets who are playing ‘out of position’

In our latest Members article, we take a look at four Premier League players who have recently been deployed in more advanced roles.

We have drawn from the Opta player data available to subscribers in our Members Area to see how these positional changes have affected their games.

What do we mean by ‘out of position’?

In Fantasy terms, ‘out of position’ (or ‘OOP’) doesn’t necessarily denote square pegs in round holes.

It doesn’t mean centre-halves deputising at full-back, players occupying a different flank from normal or a Jeff Hendrick-type (£5.4m) conversion from a central midfielder into a jobbing wide-man.

All those things are relevant when assessing a player’s worth in Fantasy Premier League, of course, as a change in roles can enhance or lessen a player’s appeal.

But by ‘out of position’, we in this context mean a Fantasy asset whose classification in FPL no longer fits.

As a rule of thumb, FPL players are grouped by the following criteria at the start of every season, with the decision heavily influenced by where they spent the bulk of their time in the previous campaign:

  • Defenders: Centre-halves, full-backs, wing-backs.
  • Midfielders: Central midfielders, ‘number tens’, wingers (either in a 4-4-2, 4-5-1 or 4-3-3).
  • Forwards: Those who spearhead a three-man frontline, are paired in a strike duo or plough a lone furrow in attack.

Occasionally there is a misstep, with John Lundstram‘s (£4.8m) classification as an FPL defender a particularly glaring error, but most players fit neatly into the categories above and are accurately bracketed.

What FPL can’t vouch for at the start of every season is changes of system during the upcoming campaign, which occasionally throws up an ‘out of position’ asset for us to consider.


The cases of Lundstram and Anthony Martial (£7.9m) are already well-documented, with those two assets playing as a midfielder and forward respectively for the entirety of 2019/20, so we instead switch our focus to four players whose ‘out of position’ statuses are more recent developments.

164 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Don Van Vliet
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 13 days ago

    Roll on Thursday.

  2. Epic Fail
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 13 days ago

    Really rolling out articles like this? 😀

    1. Bouncebackability
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Needs must.

    2. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Imagine planning FPL moves a few weeks into a global pandemic where almost every country is on lockdown 😆

    3. Soto Ayam
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      We're lucky that they write anything at all. I appreciate their effort. If you think this bad, wait until "which colour football kit has won the most games?" Appears, with appropriate data and xgc analysis to back it up

  3. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 13 days ago

    Players favourite biscuits article coming this time next week.

    Members only.

    1. FPL_Gyarados
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      They could call it The Digestive Digest

      1. Skonto Rigga
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Episode #1 - Lewis Dunk

        1. Milk, 1 Šuker
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Followed by Matt Rich-Tea!

          1. Skonto Rigga
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • Has Moderation Rights
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 13 days ago

            Zvonimir Bourbon

            1. Long ago I drew a walrus
              • 13 Years
              4 years, 13 days ago

              Jaffason Lerma

              1. panda07
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 11 Years
                4 years, 13 days ago

                Oreo Romeu

                1. Twisted Saltergater
                  • 14 Years
                  4 years, 13 days ago

                  Malted Milik

                  1. No Professionals
                    • 6 Years
                    4 years, 13 days ago

                    Kieron dyergestive

                    1. No Professionals
                      • 6 Years
                      4 years, 13 days ago

                      Leroy wafer

    2. Monkey Hanger
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Pool team with regards VAR - Jammy Dodgers. 🙂

    3. Monkey Hanger
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      KDB - Ginger Nuts.

    4. el polako
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      No prizes for guessing Leicester players favorite biscuits.

    5. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Ruel Fox(‘s biscuits)

    6. Ron_Swanson
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Kammy Dodgers

    7. lespaul
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Steve Cookie

  4. FPL_Gyarados
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 13 days ago

    I really like Antonio. Doesn't play enough though and as a result not getting many returns. I had him for a time a few years ago. Maybe if he was with a different team he might get more game time?

    1. Jimmers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      He's injury prone which is the main reason he has suffered limited game time

      1. Chill, we'll call you
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        But is he cough-prone?

  5. Skonto Rigga
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 13 days ago

    We've obviously been scaling back on FPL content given the current limbo we find ourselves in and quite a lot of what we'll publish will be COVID-related in the coming days. There'll be the occasional article like this, though; I understand some will find it bordering on the futile but we'll keep things ticking over with the odd piece for those interested, much as other websites are doing. Goes without saying that there'll be nothing in the way of GW32 planning, chip strategies or anything like that while everything is still up in the air. Hopefully the UEFA and Premier League meetings on Tuesday/Thursday will provide us with a bit more clarity, but who knows.

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Fair play. Personally think this time, particularly with many now likely to be working from home, is ideal to consider bigger data trends such as:

      - Do 'shock' results happen more often in certain months (GW periods) or with certain teams?;
      - Does rotation happen nearer international breaks, Christmas period etc. and, if so, what types of player get rotated (e.g. full-backs more than centre-backs)?
      - We know about xG, xA, xGC etc. but is there an optimal period of time over which xG, xA, xGC are effective for future prediction e.g. is using the last 6 GWs of xG data, adjusted for fixture difficulty, more predictive than 2 GWs or 10 GWs?
      - Are there certain referees who give more penalties, red cards, yellow cards or perform differently when a match is televised (e.g. Anthony Taylor)?
      - Do certain teams perform better on TV or in early kick-offs / late kick-offs?
      - How do the top / top 5 most transferred in players actually perform for FPL managers after being transferred in? Is there truth in the 'wisdom of the crowd' with respect to transfers? (can do similar for most transferred out excluding those who are not injured)
      - Is there a new manager effect and is it more likely than not worth gambling on the new manager effect when considering FPL transfers

      I would be interested in whether FFS could do articles on these items and similar, larger data, ideas.

      1. Skonto Rigga
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Thanks very much for the suggestions. Goes without saying that we'll take on board any requests for article ideas over the coming weeks (especially as I don't have any of my own).

        1. FPL Theorist
          • 4 Years
          4 years, 12 days ago

          I'd also like to see an article trying to explain why captain blanks have been so common this year, even among the top managers. Where is the community's decision-making going wrong? Too much weight placed on fixtures? Wanting to stick with someone for too long despite signs of losing form (e.g. Vardy after Christmas)?

          1. Tinkermania
            • 4 Years
            4 years, 12 days ago

            Got the data to prove there are more captain blanks? I noticed the opposite.

            1. FPL Theorist
              • 4 Years
              4 years, 12 days ago

              Scout Picks' captains have blanked 8 of the 12 GW from GW18-29 (Auba GW29, Salah GW 28/26/20, Vardy GW 23/21, Abraham GW 19, Son GW 18). Is that not a lot of blanks to you?

              It seems like most weeks the Scouts have picked the same captain as the majority/plurality of the top 10K. Maybe a few very top managers are still getting great captain returns. However, among the Great and the Good that are tracked here, the highest season average is only 13.2 captain points per week (https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/03/13/learning-from-the-great-and-the-good-19-20-gameweek-29/). You actually could have had more than this by just perma-captaining Salah with Mane VC (186*2=372 Salah points plus 26*2=52 Mane points in the weeks that he missed; (372+52)/29=14.6 points).

      2. mox81
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        This!

        Most people have more time than usual so are well up for digesting content. Yes the current season is questionably futile until further notice, but this should be an opportunity to develop and test broader strategic content with a userbase ready and willing to give any article a go!

      3. OverTinker
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        So you want to include xP for the referees? 😀

    2. SteJ
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      How about an article on biggest flops of the season?

      1. Bggz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        featuring me 🙁

    3. Dr Dream
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      UEFA and the PL have no say in any of this now...that moment has passed. I fully expect they will say nothing meaningful other than cede authority to where it already lies with a vague promise to update us with information when available.

  6. FPL Pillars
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 13 days ago

    Anyone here self isolating?

    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      I am now, for 2 weeks. My boy is off with a cough so that means I need to be too.

      1. circusmonkey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Good luck. Try boardgamearena.com. Hours of fun.

        1. Epic Fail
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Cheers. Looks a decent site. Gonna have a good look.

          Though it did remind me of this 😀

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7on1ENH08LI

          1. FPL Pillars
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 13 days ago

            Ah fair, lest in this day and age and can online if you need delivery etc but sounds like you can pop to shops quickly anyway

      2. Gnu
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Who's the boy?

        I know you don't have kids........

        1. Epic Fail
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Mark. He left this place to spend more time with me.

      3. Vinyl78LP
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        How will this work, so if you get a similar cough in say 12 days time - will your boy then need another 14 days hometime,

        Then another member of the household gets a cough on the next day 12, meaning you and the boy need yet another 14 days - even though CV not officially confirmed at any point - this could run and run !!

    2. Salah Daze
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      I'm a school teacher in England. I use a total of four buses each day to and from my workplace. I'm surrounded by hundreds of children at work each day, including ones with coughs, runny noses, sneezes etc. I now have a sore throat, aching limbs and tiredness, which is "normal" for a teacher at this time in the school term at this time of year. I'm torn between following the UK Government line of business as usual for schools and following my own instincts which are that each day I go to work poses an increasingly greater risk to my own health. It's a conundrum; day by day I suppose.....

      1. lespaul
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Buy a car?

        1. FPL price manipulators are …
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          He's a 'low skilled' teacher. They shouldn't be able to afford cars

      2. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        You are putting children at risk.

      3. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Are you for real?

  7. Rash
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 13 days ago

    Massive long shot but here goes..

    I have some error codes coming up for my citroen ds3 2012

    1AA2
    16B4
    151A
    1A9C

    Anybody familiar with diagnostic codes?

    1. Don Van Vliet
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Google?

    2. -Klaus-
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      You sunk my battleship

    3. SHOOTER MCGINN
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      Bletchley Park has a good tour as a starting point

    4. Bggz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      quick google came up with this

      d0n7.8uy @ (i1r0n

  8. circusmonkey
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 13 days ago

    Lol at the top 10k guy (girl, mutant) that used their free hit.

    1. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      You have the link? 😆

    2. StoichkovFPL
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Him/her/it could take some hits (maybe partly as a preparing for BGW31) and wanted to cancel those hits.

      1. Marmalade Forest
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        I thought that. Then I thought, FH is worth more than 4 points surely. They must have taken 12+ points before realising the week would be cancelled.

        Or then I thought, they must have played it very early to catch price changes.

    3. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Lol at top 10 OR who will never be remembered in a season that didn't exist.

      1. Party time
          4 years, 13 days ago

          😆

    4. BobB
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Next competitive football will be August. Scrap this season. Reset.

      1. bitm2007
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        My neighbour who's a Pool fan is getting very concerned, saying think like that will be just our luck.

        1. bitm2007
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          things

      2. circusmonkey
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        No Karen. Let the season finish, take as long as needed, then have a half season, play everyone once. Have odd numbers in each league, so relegate one fewer. Saves all legal issues. Although historically a West Ham fan, they don't deserve a get out clause.

        1. Epic Fail
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          I think even finishing the current season causes issues. You've got contract issues, injuries, non injuries. No matter what happens with finishing it, it won't be fair for someone. Imagine Kane tearing it up destroying teams when he shouldn't have been fit for any of these games.

      3. el polako
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Hard to say when we will see next competitive game of footie.
        We still dont know the full impact this pandemic will have on us (health, finance, etc.).

    5. circusmonkey
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      There is a WhatsApp video doing the rounds, Judd Trump lifting a trophy to an empty arena, cracked me up. Send it to every Livarpool fan you know if you can find it.

    6. lespaul
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Hmmm still 4 matches going ahead according to the ticker

    7. Checko
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Might be late asking this question, but if gameweeks are essentially going ahead, just with no games - does our FT allocation keep getting topped up?

      So if I have 2 FT's now, and use one - will it go back up to two after the next GW deadline?

      Fairly useful for those who have mediocre teams but no WC left. Assuming of course there will be a season to come back to.

      1. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Yep, nothing has changed in how the system works. Just no games.

    8. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Idriss Elba has it now

      1. FPL Pillars
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        It’s fashionable for the celebs to have it, they get the attention they crave.

        1. Ron_Swanson
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Yeah how do they get tested when nobody else can?!

        2. Fantasy Gold
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Exactly this

          1. Steve The Spud
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 4 Years
            4 years, 13 days ago

            Celebrity with no symptoms - here’s a test

            Public with symptoms - stay at home and wait it out

    9. Gazwaz80
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      More biscuit ( or food) names for footballers please, I know it’s puerile but really tickled me up 🙂

      1. FPL_Gyarados
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Klyian Mfrappé

      2. GreennRed
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Matt Rich Tea

      3. Don Van Vliet
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Glen Murray Mints

      4. panda07
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Teemu Cookie

      5. 7shadesofsmoke
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Engels Delight

        1. Gazwaz80
          • 4 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Seamus Colemans ( mustard)

          1. Monkey Hanger
            • 10 Years
            4 years, 13 days ago

            Baines on toast.

      6. Assisting the assister
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Caesar Salah

      7. Assisting the assister
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Robertson's Jam
        Dunk in donuts

        I'll get my coat

      8. lespaul
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Patrick burger

      9. No Professionals
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Fabienbien barthez

      10. No Professionals
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Oreo romeu

        1. No Professionals
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Ah someone had done that one

      11. No Professionals
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Craig shortbread

      12. Monkey Hanger
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        And after eating all that you will need some Holgate toothpaste.

        1. Don Van Vliet
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 12 days ago

          Bread Friedel
          Declan Rice
          Eggerson
          Milky Gundogan
          John Buttery
          Iheanachos

    10. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      When you click into the fpl dream team for this week you get all the cheapest players in fpl lumped into one team,i can understand that.

      But when one click into gw highest points ??? you get some random team called Premier League XV who only made one move all season which using the wildcard chip on back on the 21st of August.

      I wonder why they chose that team?

      1. No Professionals
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        So no one gets a random claim to fame

      2. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        No 1 ID and made no transfers.

      1. Ógie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Lol i just copped it.

        His has id.no.1 😆

        1. Marmalade Forest
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Makes me sick to the stomach this bloke has an ID of 1 but doesn’t actively play.

          1. BUZZBOMB
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 13 days ago

            Sick to the stomach? Seriously? 🙂

          2. Ógie
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            4 years, 13 days ago

            No way someone was that eager with the f5 button pre season in order to get i.d.1 turn out be the ultimate casual when the season got going.

            Definitely grounds for a stewards enquiry on how a causal could be allowed to hold such a coveted title in the fpl world.

          3. Nice Baps.
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 12 days ago

            Clearly FPL set a team up just before they went live. No one was ever going to get No.1

    11. dunas_dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Hard to believe only a week ago tonight since Barnes scored us owners 19 points- seems ages ago with all that has happened........

      1. Niho992
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        maybe last haul we will ever see

      2. Ógie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Strange coincidence that the gw highest score happened to be 19 during the last game that was played this season.

        There was something prophetic about that in retrospect.

    12. Niho992
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      I think some famous people are lying that they are positive on COVID 19 just because they want that other people take this seriously.

      1. Gazwaz80
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Think Barnes 19 will be embedded more in my mind 😉

      2. The Train Driver
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Ok

      3. Now I'm Panicking
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Go round their house and give them a lie detector test?

        1. Niho992
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          it s easy to fool a lie detector

      4. Gnu
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Major Pyle reporting with his latest malfunction.

      5. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        In reality those famous people have been arrested as part of an ongoing major crackdown on the child molesting elite. The elites got rid of Epstein but it was a little too late.

    13. fgdu
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Hello friends,

      What is the best front 3 at the moment?
      I'm thinking Jiminez, Vardy, DCL

      1. Bonus magnet
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Covid-19 Sars Ebola

        1. SteJ
          • 4 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Dele Adebola?

        2. OverTinker
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 12 days ago

          Deadly trio

      1. FPL Pillars
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Care to summarise

        1. diesel001
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          Basically in line with what was announced in the UK today:

          - Mitigation is not likely to be effective enough due to the pressure it will put on healthcare systems;
          - Suppression will likely be better than mitigation, but still lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths;
          - The best combination of suppression measures are social distancing of the entire population, home isolation of cases and household quarantine of their family members; and
          - The major challenge of suppression is that this type of intensive intervention package will need to be maintained until a
          vaccine becomes available (possibly up to 18 months).

          1. Iwantmorepointsthanks
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 10 Years
            4 years, 13 days ago

            Thanks for sharing.

            As I said previously, the initial strategy was flawed. Good to see they recalculated the models etc.
            Still dithering and not enforcing anything, but at least a step into the right direction.

            1. lespaul
              • 14 Years
              4 years, 13 days ago

              Thanks P.M.

        2. Marmalade Forest
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 13 days ago

          My takeaway was that having the PL and FPL back for 2020/21 season is unlikely.

    14. Warby84
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Members only?? Really??

    15. Assisting the assister
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      Still, happy days for the pools panel

      1. Assisting the assister
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 13 days ago

        Probably do it remotely

    16. Pacer.
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 13 days ago

      A members only article about OOP players from two weeks ago is 100% desolation. Imagine having to write this.

      What's happening with the site. Have they spoken to the users. Will they survive in the current form if the season is over, and continue next year?

      1. Optimus.
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        sorry mate but who cares,seriously

        1. Pacer.
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 12 days ago

          It's reasonable to wonder how the livelihoods of all those who have taken on this as a professional endeavour will be affected and this is the logical extension of asking a question about what is going to happen to this site, and whether those in charge have communicated with the users. Nobody gives a crap about fantasy football, including myself, as should be very apparent from the first paragraph. Please attempt to read between the lines before you condescend me in that way

          1. Brosstan
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 12 days ago

            This site being a "professional endeavour" for anyone is everything that is wrong with the place currently. Clickbait articles, links to gambling sites, promoting absolute scams like FanTeam etc etc. Id rather it go back to a community driven site.

    17. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      Feel a bit bad for the writers at FFS. Keep doing the work and putting on a show even though we all know its completely pointless. Like the orchestra at the Titanic.

      1. Optimus.
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Like playing snooker with a length of rope

    18. Hect.OR 98th
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      I've read Imperial College's updated report, the basis of which was behind the government's dramatic shift this evening.

      12-18 months suppression is the only way of keeping the death toll below 250k. I think it's safe to say there won't be any football for a long time, possibly not until 2021.

      1. Optimus.
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        madness stance from Boris not closing schools

        1. Marmalade Forest
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 12 days ago

          I suppose the theory is if you close schools then (lots of) people can’t work.

      2. Nice Baps.
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Yeah, I read it a 2am last night coz i couldn't sleep. Seriously scary stuff. China isn't over it - they've just achieved first wave of suppression. It's going to be a long 12-18 months. Stay safe all.

        1. CroatianHammer
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 12 days ago

          And the Aussies flooding our social media at home calling us idiots for going into lockdown before any deaths, as if they can't see Italy wasting away.
          The Brits tried to act contrary to Ireland so as to force the border closed. Once closed they'd refuse it's opening again. But they've been caught as usual. Gowls.

          1. Steve The Spud
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 4 Years
            4 years, 12 days ago

            Don't get the schools

            they know the kids will spread it like crazy, the teachers know this as well so many many will self isolate to protect themselves/relatives so whole things ends up in no mans land

    19. camarozz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      15000 cases predicted by end of this month here in Ireland... 20% will need hospital/ventilators..

      This is getting a wee bit scary...

      1. Optimus.
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Full lock down needed

      2. Ógie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        What ever hope the UK have we here in Ireland are in even more serious trouble if/when this this starts getting out of control.

        Only about 250 ventilators in operation in the republic.I was talking to a mate today whose wife is a nurse in a private hospital here in Kerry and he was saying along with his wife there is only about 2 or 3 other nurses qualified/trained to operate the only ventilator they have so if any of those nurses get knocked out even that could be in trouble.

        Years of under investment over the last recession and utter incompetence at a managment/hse level is coming home to roost.

        1. Optimus.
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 12 days ago

          I cant see anything other than a full lockdown here in the upcoming days Ogie

          1. Ógie
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            4 years, 12 days ago

            Full lockdown will bring its own problems but with the state of our health infrastructure i don't think we really have any other option Optimus.

    20. Tim Canterbury
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      Some Chinese schools re-opening. Can see things getting better by May

      1. Optimus.
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Don't believe any news coming from the Chinese

      2. Niho992
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Maybe in China. Not in Europe.

      3. Sz21
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Not sure Europe/UK is going to be as good as the Chinese were in locking down towns, cities and provinces though.

      4. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        It really looks as if they have already made unbelievable progress in containing the spread - *IF* the numbers coming out of China are true

        Covid19 on the loose since November, ultra contagious & a 3-5% mortality rate

        1.5billion population

        Yet only 80,000 cases & 3,000 deaths - that’s barely measurable against that size of population

        Either numbers coming out of China aren’t true, or the solutions we’re seeing in every country in the world are worse than the results of the virus itself

      5. jia you
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Schools are still closed indefinitely here in Shanghai despite only a couple of new cases (and that was one American and one Italian returning to SH) in the past 6-7 days.

    21. rainy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      No price changes

      1. Skid Vicious
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Thx Rainy.
        OH the wait is gonna be so boring

        1. rainy
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 12 days ago

          It really is

      2. OverTinker
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Sad

    22. Bggz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      Heres to hoping we scrap this season, I need a write off

    23. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 12 days ago

      UEFA to move the Euro's to next year or may even cancel in order for domestic Leagues to play catch up. Those are the only two scenarios for the Euro's.

      What is going to be interesting is what they decide to do with the remainder of the CL and Europa fixtures.

      1. Pap Le Cissier
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Heard a scenario yesterday, not sure if rumour or just someone’s opinion.

        They suggested having the semis and final in one city over a five day period. Not sure if that’s a good idea or not

        1. FOO FIGHTER
          • 4 Years
          4 years, 12 days ago

          Not going to happen when teams would need to travel. It is too risky.

      2. Jafalad
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        Governments still call all the shots though. All depends on the containment of the virus.

      3. bitm2007
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 12 days ago

        I've heard a rumour that the Euros will be moved to November to bring them into line with the next World Cup that is being held at that time of year. The next two domestic seasons could then be held between Christmas and early October, with this season being completed in the autumn before Euro 2020.