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The best FPL defenders and goalkeepers to buy or include on a BGW29 Free Hit

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Defenders and goalkeepers come under the spotlight as we assess the best players to bring in for Blank Gameweek 29.

With only four fixtures and a tricky set of match-ups to navigate, we have picked out the top options for all Fantasy Premier League budgets, highlighting options for Free Hit inclusion or free-transfer targets.

Can Brighton’s defence finally deliver on its expected goals conceded (xGC) rating? Is Emiliano Martinez (£5.4m) still the best goalkeeper in FPL? We assess all options in the article below…

As this uses extensive data from the Fantasy Football Scout Premium Members Area, only those with a valid subscription can access it in full.

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  1. HD7
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Have 2 Ft, mates...
    Which 2 players would you add to this bunch for GW29?
    Would you advice me to take a hit for -4?

    Martinez
    Reguilon
    Son*
    Kane
    Bamford*

    Add-ons:
    Strujik
    Bissouma

    Wildcarding in 30,31

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    1. kennethrhcp
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      bale is out as 3 spurs
      maybe JLingz/Antonio/Creswell
      Auba if you think he starts

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    2. tom2224
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Trossard (c)

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  2. kennethrhcp
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    need help on a starting point for my 29 transfers. It depends on City really

    currently have Stones, Dias & Gundogan

    A: stick with these 3
    B: Sell stones for gmwk29 player & get KDB as 3rd city post 29

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    1. WVA
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Same boat here, sorry but no idea

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      1. kennethrhcp
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        it a hard1

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    2. CapK
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      It really is impossible to tell with city whos playing..... but Kevin captain Vs Leeds is appealing and I feel theres more value in attack for city vs defence over the next few game weeks

      Up to you if you think its worth the punt, but if you dont do that I would do City def > Chelsea def for GW30 onwards

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      1. kennethrhcp
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        cheers 😉 I'll prob switch Stones out & get KDB

        i'll look at Chesea from 30

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    3. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      I’m doing B. Stones to Dunk. Will miss the frequent Stones hauls however

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      1. kennethrhcp
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        thats the fear

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  3. Isca Extremadura
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    The top 5/6 players in the Cap poll are popular
    Wait on Son news too

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  4. Slitherene
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Okay to take another hit?

    Martinez | Forster
    Reguilon Veltman Coufal
    Son* Auba* Saka* Lingard
    Kane Bamford* Antonio
    ¦ Holding Cancelo Bruno

    1.0 ITB

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    1. WVA
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      What's wrong with Auba?

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      1. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        He is always late. Has been also before Ars.

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  5. OLD Rafiki
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    why is it hard for people holding salah refuse to accept the reality that he's no longer who he was .

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    1. WVA
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Who is he now? The leagues top scorer?

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    2. Nanoelektronicar
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Salah still is who he was: undervalued Serie A signing, reinvented playing narrow in front three, best suited for counter attacking football with pressing up front. It's about Liverpool not being who they were, 2 or 3 years ago. End even when playing style doesn't suit him, he still finds a way to get 20 goals a season, although with penalties.

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    3. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      I don’t think he’s fully declined, just very off form at the moment

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      1. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        And had he gotten that pass one second earlier, this discussion would be off.

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  6. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone else watching on BT getting jerky picture?

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    1. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      City or Real? Assuming City, mine seems to be fine

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      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Yep, City. It seems to intermittently go into soap mode

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        1. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          should add that I’m watching on a laptop with BT.com

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          1. Wild Rover
            • 13 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            Cheers. I’m watching via Sky Q box

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            1. Baps hunter
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 6 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              C More here 😉

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            2. Gross Blank Point
              • 3 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              Watching on Virgin and it's fine

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    2. The Mandalorian
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      I'm watching BT on an illegal stream and it's perfect, I even get a free drink at half time.

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  7. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Son could be back for villa? Anyone see that news ?

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    1. The Ilfordian
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      That would be great. Where’s that news?

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      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        In the tweets

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        1. The Ilfordian
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Thanks that’s really good news

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  8. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Dunk or Tierney?

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  9. Isca Extremadura
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/son-heung-min-injury-villa-20190970

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    1. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Let's go Son

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  10. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Pick 2 out of these 3 for BGW29 and beyond:
    A. Antonio (got Lingard & Cresswell)
    B. Bale (got Kane)
    C. Dunk/Veltman (no BHA yet)

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    1. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      B & C, got to spread the possibility

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      1. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Ta, that's I am at atm

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  11. HD7
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    2 Ft, mates…
    Which 2 players would you add to this bunch for GW29? Lingard and Cresswell/Dunk?

    Martinez, Reguilon, Son*, Kane, Bamford*

    Add-ons:
    Strujik, Bissouma

    Wildcarding in 30,31

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    1. tom2224
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      I like Trossard

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      1. HD7
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Good idea. Maybe Lingard and Trossard then. The names dont look fancy but are in form. And at the moment its the only thing that counts. Would have bought Auba, but Its risky?

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  12. Champ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    My efforts to move up the FPL ranks this season feels like coming out of a night club at 3am fully steamed. Despite my best efforts to go forward i end up staggering backwards, then bizarrely sideways across the street into a load of rubbish bins and tumbling down a set of basement steps.

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    1. Gross Blank Point
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Don't pish yourself!!!

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    2. OLD Rafiki
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      I can relate

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    3. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Where do you find yourself next morning?

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    4. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Yep, and then instead of ending up with a nice green arrow you wake up next to a big fat red one

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  13. Isco Disco
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ramos 2-0 Atalanta

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  14. tom2224
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Team currently looks like this after using my 2FT.

    Martinez
    Coufal Dallas
    Raphinha Trossard Lingard Lookman
    Bamford Kane
    ---------------------------------

    Pope Fernandes Shaw Ings

    I'll be using my WC next week so can afford to gamble.
    Worth a hit to bring anyone else in?

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    1. tom2224
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Also got Stones and Dias who aren't playing

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  15. Isca Extremadura
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Lol But still captaining Salah afterwards, & Kebab in hand !

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  16. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Stones hits the back of the net

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    1. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Stones in goal 🙂

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  17. Isca Extremadura
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Was a Cancelo YC

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  18. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Sheffield United would beat this gladbach team. They are hopeless.

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    1. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      It would be 0-0 atm tbh.

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      1. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Okay, perhaps without that imminent Brewster brace 😉

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  19. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Sterling on. Gundogan off.

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  20. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Football Index scandal

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56420577

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    1. Now I'm Panicking
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Surprised those words haven't been put on the swear filter on here as part of operation "Sweep Under the Carpet" yet.

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    2. Boss Hogg
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Bunch of spivs and chancers.

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  21. Isca Extremadura
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Pep thinking of Everton on Sat

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  22. Fergiesarmy
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    not a fan of taking too many hits but am I right in thinking it makes sense for a BGW?

    Currently only 5 playing. Surely it makes sense to take a hit for attackers? Maybe less so for GK/Def as you are banking on a clean sheet to justify?

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    1. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      What’s the difference between banking on a def getting a cs or a mid/fwd getting attacking points?

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      1. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Higher ceiling, Raphinha is more likely to score a hattie than Dunk?!?

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        1. Now I'm Panicking
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Raphinha is 425-1 to score a hat-trick, Dunk 750-1.

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          1. 'Broadsword Calling Da…
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            That's my life savings taken out now, 1.3k on Dunk and 2.3k on Raph, a £million each if they score a hat-trick, if both do it, double bubble...easy money...can't wait, thanks for the info 🙂

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            1. Now I'm Panicking
              • 9 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              See you in the Bahamas!

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              1. 'Broadsword Calling Da…
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 7 Years
                3 years, 1 month ago

                hehe, see you there. Infact I could be buying the Bahamas as my parents are selling the house and putting it all on Dunk hattie :)) Sipping cocktails on the white sand with a new wife, oh it's going to be good :))

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                1. 'Broadsword Calling Da…
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 7 Years
                  3 years, 1 month ago

                  ...this time next week infact. No more office job for me!

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                2. Baps hunter
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 6 Years
                  3 years, 1 month ago

                  Should they accept your bet, your chances to get your money out if you win are as good as... let us say from Football Index?

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            2. Baps hunter
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 6 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              Ayling 2001. You can save most of your money and still win as much!

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          2. Baps hunter
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            Yes, and betting companies making money with these low odds 😉 You just proved my point, thx! 🙂

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      2. Geenn
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        When the defender has conceded it is definitely over. When the attacker hasn’t scored he still always have a chance to score. And the attackers can score more goals/assists than one clean sheet. Therefore attackers are more valuable than defenders in this game.

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        1. Gandalf
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Defenders can get attacking returns

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          1. Jimmers
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            .... but on long odds

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            1. Gandalf
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 13 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              Not that long odds, in any case if selected a good attacking defender it's definitely not over when concede

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            2. Baps hunter
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 6 Years
              3 years, 1 month ago

              Joelinton to score 7.5
              Lewis Dunk 9.5

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        2. Baps hunter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          TAA, Robbo and Alonso (last seasons) say Hi.

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          1. Jimmers
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            3 years, 1 month ago

            Not many similar this season

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        3. BeaversWithAttitude
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          "Not definitely over" once a defender has conceded. They can still score (like Dunk did this week), and some defenders are on corners, direct free kicks, and sometimes pens (like gold mine Leighton Baines, once upon a time). Their attacking returns score higher in the game. But it is true, obviously, that for mids and forwards attacking returns are the 'bread and butter' of their performance, and therefore have more potential to score big.

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    2. FPL_Crisis
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Simplistically, let’s say average gameweek score is around 60 points across 10 games, so 6 points per game.

      One would expect the average then to be around 24 points in gw29 with only 4 fixtures.

      A couple of injuries are making it tough for those with 5-7 players but I don’t really see the upside in taking too many hits this week, unless those players are for the next few games and/or you don’t have a wildcard left to play

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      1. Pipermaru
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Finally somebody with a voice of reason.

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  23. Isca Extremadura
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Fear factor of losing in 1st minute !
    Nice if a chance both ends of pitch like Dunk for eg

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    1. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      The other fear factor is losing cs during last minutes.

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  24. Isca Extremadura
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve never seen Kane misspelt like that before !

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  25. FPL Pillars
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    “All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gambling Related Harm estimate that Football Index punters have lost £3,000 each on average.“

    Still no official comment yet :/

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    1. ragonian
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Also a distinct lack of coverage on talk sport, the platform that promoted FI for quite a while as I recall. People happy to take the ad money without too many questions I guess...

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      1. Boss Hogg
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        TallkSport would sell your children if it meant more revenue.

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    2. Boss Hogg
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Psst, wanna buy some bitcoin?

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    3. FPL DONKEY
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Did this Football Index thing come out of the blue or would people have seen this coming with a bit of due diligence?

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      1. Boss Hogg
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Tighter regulation around how this cr&p can be promoted would certainly have helped.

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        1. The Orienteer - find me in …
          • 12 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          Too much advertising of betting on here!

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      2. Now I'm Panicking
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Mis-read that as "due intelligence" - a Freudian slip of the brain.

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      3. Alberto Tomba
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        Very predictable. Ponzi scheme red flags all over it. Posted it on here a couple of times but noone took interest. Company which should have been FCA regulated instead wrongly obtained consent as a betting company. Both betting and investment regulators had missed what was fairly obvious had they noticed the business.

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        1. Alberto Tomba
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          If you need help falling asleep I explain it a little:

          https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2021/03/16/the-scout-networks-favourite-bgw29-assets/?hc_page=5&hc_sort_by=comment_date#hc_comment_23605724

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        2. Boss Hogg
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          100% this.

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        3. FPL Pillars
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 1 month ago

          I always always against it, every time they posted about it I gave my opinion on it. Hoping to put off anyone thinking of it. I actually once invested through Quidco years ago, made money and got cash back and withdrew it all for a profit but it was only a matter of time before it crumbled

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  26. Fernandito
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Pick 3:
    A Bale
    B Odegaard
    C Lingard
    D Trossard
    E Dallas
    F Dunk

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    1. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Cef

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    2. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      ACD

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

      ACE

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  27. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Sterling not at the races.

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    1. Now I'm Panicking
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      No crowds at Cheltenham

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  28. seanie3
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Why hasn’t pep taken kdb off? Surely take him off after 65-70 mins ...

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    1. Now I'm Panicking
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Lining him up for an international injury

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  29. Isca Extremadura
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Loving those odds,
    Maybe an OOP is the answer ( Dallas )

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  30. Isca Extremadura
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Wary of Brighton defenders
    After that DGW debacle 2 years ago

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