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Sunday Dugout Discussion – Gameweek 1

19 August 2012 2555 comments
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We were treated to goals and clean sheets aplenty in yesterday’s season opener but, for most fantasy managers, today holds higher hopes for a points bonanza. The Dugout Discussion opens as both the champions of England and the champions of Europe take to the stage. The former host Premier League new boys Southampton at 4pm, which is straight after Chelsea’s trip to Wigan. The team news from the DW Stadium is in…

Wigan XI: Al-Habsi, Caldwell, Alcaraz, Ramis, Boyce, Figueroa, McArthur, McCarthy, Moses, Maloney, Di Santo.

Chelsea XI: Cech, Ivanovic, David Luiz, Terry, Cole, Lampard, Mikel, Hazard, Mata, Bertrand, Torres.

Kicking-off his side’s double Gameweek, Roberto Di Matteo is forced to leave out Ramires due to illness, giving Ryan Bertrand an out-of-position start. The rest is as expected, with David Luiz getting the nod ahead of Gary Cahill, and Eden Hazard handed a league debut.

As for the home side, Roberto Martinez can call upon the services of James McArthur after the Scottish midfielder recovered from a knee injury. Elsewhere, Jean Beausejour misses out with Antolin Alcaraz starting in defence. That will likely see Maynor Figueroa pushed up into midfield if Martinez sticks to his 3-4-3 formation.

The Dugout Discussion will remain open until the dust has settled from the game at the Etihad, and can be accessed right here.

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  1. Billy Gilmore
    • 13 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Come on Chelsea!

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    1. Akers
      • 16 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Come on my Chelsea players, and Wigan!

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      1. Billy Gilmore
        • 13 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Wigan to score at least 1.

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        1. Grimmaldi - Send in the Clo…
          • 15 Years
          13 years, 5 months ago

          Hopefully so! Wouldn't mind a Chelsea loss as long as it was a fairly high scoring game.

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      2. The Stock
        • 15 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Agreed.

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  2. Bubbles
    • 16 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Please Fernando, don't go breaking my FPL heart again.

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    1. The Stock
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Cuidado, es mi corazon.

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    2. Elniñorules
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      BELIEVE.

      (Where is Scroobius Mac's song when you need him?!)

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  3. JoeySamSam
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Come on Hazard!

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    1. OPTA FPL
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      hopefully a new backheel trick

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  4. PB-THE-VET
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Come on kilkenny!

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    1. Red20
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Would love a Gal - KK final!

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      1. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
        • 16 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        The Dublin minor hurlers are the big draw... 🙂

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    2. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Up Tipp

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      1. simplysuarez
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        + millions

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  5. theevilking
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Is Bertrand playing on the left wing?

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  6. OPTA FPL
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    where is Bertrand playing?

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    1. Elniñorules
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      LAM

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      1. OPTA FPL
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        you also double on Swansea power as me 🙂

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  7. Bøwstring The Carp
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    I didn't think I'd be saying this year but "Come on Chelsea!"

    Also didn't expect to be captaining Torres in GW1 😛

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  8. Heisenberg:Crystal Meth Pal…
    • 13 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Torres Hatrick
    Mata 3 Assists
    Lampard red card
    Wigan win 4-3.

    That would make my day 😀

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    1. Bøwstring The Carp
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      That'd be some odds in the bookies 😛

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    2. Billy Gilmore
      • 13 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Mine too.

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    3. Jax
      • 16 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      dreamland

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    4. Gavin - Gers in turmoil!!!
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      don't forget Hazard sending off as well and Torres 5 goals

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    5. McDog
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      This would go down nicely.

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      1. Tim Cahill
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        +1000000

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    6. Captain Berbarossa - arrrrr…
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      I would love this

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  9. Scotch Jock
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Lost at the end of the last post:
    Sorry if this has been asked already, but how come my massive 13 points make me position 1,136,023 for Gameweek 1, but 1,136,027 Overall? Can I ask for a recount?

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    1. Cheggers
      • 16 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      -4 places overall for being scottish

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      1. Scotch Jock
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        What makes you think I'm Scottish?

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    2. Grimmaldi - Send in the Clo…
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      X amount of players have joined but only from gw2

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      1. Pork Pie Sausage Roll
        • 15 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        How could they have any points though?

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        1. Grimmaldi - Send in the Clo…
          • 15 Years
          13 years, 5 months ago

          Ah yah fair point, didn't notice he was lower overall thank for gw1. Mystery then!

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    3. Pork Pie Sausage Roll
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      I think it means that some people have got -ve points in GW1, combined with some people joining GW2

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      1. Pork Pie Sausage Roll
        • 15 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        actually, that still wouldn't work. God knows

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  10. Ginkapo FPL
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Thats a point, It will be hilarious if Wigan are playing 4-4-2 again having fooled everyone into playing 3 at the back.

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    1. Billy Gilmore
      • 13 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Noooo. I want Boyce OOP.

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    2. FPL Emu
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      If they do I suppose Boyce is OOP?

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      1. Ginkapo FPL
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Yup

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  11. HONY TIBBERT
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    COME ON EL NINO! 🙂 🙂

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  12. Oliver Reed
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    gary neville has an arse between his eyebrows..

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    1. Limbo
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Haha

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  13. little_wizard123
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    The match analysis in the members area is brilliant. Just checking out average positions, to make sure Graham wasn't playing at left-back. Hoilett's average positions was pretty interesting as well, with both Hoilett and Taarabt having an average position further forward than Cisse.

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    1. Ginkapo FPL
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Which also explains why Dyer was able to run around in the QPR half so much

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    2. OPTA FPL
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      how about Michu?

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    3. Lateriser 12
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      What about Graham and Michus position?

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      1. little_wizard123
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Where you'd expect, really. Michu just behind the half way line, Graham in his own six yard box (just past the half way line).

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    4. Valar(Keith)
      • 16 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Graham still looks pretty good. just bad luck

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  14. SPorting
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    i didn't pick Torres so lets hope he repays my faith in him by returning a two point haul.

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    1. PB-THE-VET
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Cue hattrick

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      1. SPorting
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        probably.

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  15. OPTA FPL
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Maloney bandwagon officially starts? is he playing LFW?

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  16. Jax
    • 16 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    3-1 chelsea. lamps pen, torres and hazard

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    1. Podge
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      I'd take that now

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      1. ColeHole
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        I think we all would.

        We'd be a lot less impressed with McCarthy (Pen 88). 0-1

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  17. Pork Pie Sausage Roll
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Thank took Mata starts

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  18. Cheggers
    • 16 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Dont think this Wigan formation is going to work without Diame.

    McArthur is half the player.

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    1. SOM.... This is Fellaini�…
      • 16 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Well it did for the majority of last season when they used it...

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      1. Cheggers
        • 16 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Yea but Diame played in that team - thats the point im making

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        1. SOM.... This is Fellaini�…
          • 16 Years
          13 years, 5 months ago

          No, he didn't. He lost his place towards the end of the season. He didn't start any of their last 14 games.

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  19. Scribe
    • 13 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    No Ramieres

    Doh!

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    1. SPorting
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      he'll play in the next game.....for 2 points

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      1. Limbo
        • 15 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Left out for illness apparently

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  20. Lateriser 12
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Will not mind a nil nil. At all! Or maybe just a 1-1 with an Ivanovic goal. Or a Chelsea loss.

    And yes, i do have Torres (C) but bah.

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    1. ManofKent
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      0-0 would suit me fine. sodding Ramires...

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    2. Billy Gilmore
      • 13 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      No wigan must score.

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  21. Doolittle
    • 13 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Took Ramires out of my team the other day. Today is already better than yesterday.

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    1. beric
      • 13 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Yep, me too 🙂

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  22. Pork Pie Sausage Roll
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Guys, my rival is 8 points ahead with 37.5 GWs left. Can I catch him?

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    1. King Eric, in America
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      You'll need a squad of differentials ... (c) Bertrand or Brunt, ftw.

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    2. Podge
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      If you wildcard you might

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    3. McDog
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      No chance, he's just way too far ahead.

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    4. FPL Emu
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      No, it's a sprint, not a marathon

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    5. ColeHole
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      I'd focus on getting it right next season. Bad luck.

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    6. Akers
      • 16 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Ha ha!

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  23. SPorting
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    "Ramires has not travelled due to illness"

    stuck on a toilet somewhere. nice.

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    1. OPTA FPL
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      hoping he plays next game

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      1. SPorting
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        yes, for two points.

        great.

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    2. tangtastic
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Ramiers: Famous for his quick runs.

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      1. ColeHole
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        an actual, literal LOL there. well done.

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  24. Oliver Reed
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    opted for rvp over torres, squeaky bum time..

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    1. Cheggers
      • 16 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      lolz. I did Torres and 3m in the bank. Looking at Uniteds defence for Monday night - think Everton might win

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      1. Oliver Reed
        • 15 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        im confident nando will do f all to be fare

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  25. Messimerized- Join My FPL L…
    • 13 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    - Italian reports suggest Manchester City have agreed terms with Roma midfielder Daniele de Rossi, and he will earn £190k-a-week at City.(TNC)

    - Tottenham have approached Chelsea about signing both striker Daniel Sturridge and midfielder Raul Meireles.

    - Swansea are in talks with Celtic over signing Ki Sung-yueng, a target for Arsenal & QPR.

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    1. Billy Gilmore
      • 13 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Maybe Chelsea should replace Sturridge with a midfielder. They need a few more of those...

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      1. Messimerized- Join My FPL L…
        • 13 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        If Chelsea do sell Sturridge(which I don't see happening), who will be the backup to Torres? 😕

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        1. Namtab Nomolos
          • 15 Years
          13 years, 5 months ago

          It's the only way to give him confidence. Just remove all other strikers from the club. Spain kept all strikers off the pitch and he was top scorer.

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  26. Elniñorules
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    What's going on?

    China Mag just mailed me

    "ENR!! Help! Just come on the site for a moment, and see that somebody has been using my user name and gravator! And now some random team is linked to my name!! Got to go out now, will be back later. But can you do me a favour and let people know that there is a china mag impersonator!!"

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    1. tangtastic
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40

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      1. King Eric, in America
        • 15 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        😆

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    2. beric
      • 13 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      No way!

      Maybe this is the basis of his excuse for suggesting Marveaux was a good pick...

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      1. Elniñorules
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Care to explain what's going on, Beric?

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        1. beric
          • 13 Years
          13 years, 5 months ago

          No idea mate!

          I was just pointing out that China Mag has been bigging up Marveaux, and he wasn't een on the bench.

          I have seen China Mag on today, I didn't notice anything weird.

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          1. beric
            • 13 Years
            13 years, 5 months ago

            even*

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        2. Ginkapo FPL
          • 14 Years
          13 years, 5 months ago

          Someone was impersonating him, and when he came on to say that he was being impersonated but this was the real him, he had the wrong link it his name. But it was him and I can prove it.

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          1. Elniñorules
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            13 years, 5 months ago

            Someone (real China Mag?) should let the Scouts know then?

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    3. Red-United
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Feck knows...that e-mail was probably from the fake China-mag too

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      1. Ginkapo FPL
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        No it was the real China Mag

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    4. SPorting
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      not sure.

      "he" was here earlier saying the same thing. surely he has control over his FFS account to link his own team.

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    5. King Eric, in America
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Did you just give him your mail this morning?

      Frankly, that doesn't sound like the CM I know ...

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      1. Elniñorules
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        NO!

        From last season.

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    6. ColeHole
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      I think the fake chinamag has a "funny" email address, starting with 1.... If it's from his old address, it *Should* be the real Chinamag.

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      1. Elniñorules
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Long time ColeHole.

        You're back! 🙂

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        1. ColeHole
          • 14 Years
          13 years, 5 months ago

          Hi Elnino, hope you're keeping well.

          I'm really very sorry and feel a total douche for the bailing. I had to go for personal reasons but could have handled it loads better.

          Feels good to be back 😀 I didn't pick the best time for that either!! Right before deadline.

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  27. HippY
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Need a goal from Torres today, i'd be quite happy with 1 in each game 🙂

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  28. Red-United
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    Lampard, if you are reading this before kick-off, I expect at least 1 or 2 goals today, cheers mate.

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    1. Our Man Charlie
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      +42 lol

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  29. waitinginthelonggrass
    • 15 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    I updated my link to my team yet it is still showing up that I am still some Alex Kenny, what is going on?!

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    1. waitinginthelonggrass
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Actually it seems fixed now.

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    2. Red-United
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      You need to update your link again, copy and paste.

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    3. DLL18
      • 13 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Says Daniel Blake for me.

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  30. Ginkapo FPL
    • 14 Years
    13 years, 5 months ago

    That was the real China Mag on the over page.

    Watch this http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2012/08/19/scout-notes-gameweek-1-saturday/comment-page-8/#comment-3672479 for grav updates to the troll

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    1. Somalion
      • 16 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Far too hungover to know what has been going on!

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    2. Ginkapo FPL
      • 14 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Compare to

      http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2012/08/19/scout-notes-gameweek-1-saturday/comment-page-11/#comment-3672998

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    3. beric
      • 13 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      Pretty boring trolling, he was just acting normal.

      This is weird.

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      1. ColeHole
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Lame phishing attempt.

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    4. King Eric, in America
      • 15 Years
      13 years, 5 months ago

      BOOM goes the dynamite ...

      Wonder what he wanted the e-mails for ... perhaps he has the secret to male virility.

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      1. Ginkapo FPL
        • 14 Years
        13 years, 5 months ago

        Dont know but he is now CR7 grav

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