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15 December 2013 5516 comments
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Sunday brings the Gameweek to a close with a trio of matches featuring an array of Fantasy talent. Things get rolling with a pair of lunchtime kick-offs, as Villa host United and Swansea make the trip to Carrow Road to face Chris Hughton’s Norwich. That’s followed by the headline act, as Andre Villas-Boas looks to continue the Spurs revival against a Liverpool unit weakened by a string of injuries.

While the press will be focused on David Moyes, Fantasy managers will be more interested in Wayne Rooney’s performance. With a potential absence for Sergio Aguero looming, the United striker could make himself “essential” over the Christmas period if he can produce in the midlands. With Michu expected to earn a run-out at Norwich, we’ll have the opportunity to assess whether he can join both David Silva and Theo Walcott on our midfield Christmas list, while at 4pm, all eyes will be on Luis Suarez as he looks to overcome the absence of skipper Steven Gerrard and strike partner Daniel Sturridge against the Spurs back four.

Look to our Twitter feed for the latest teamsheet bulletins, while our Dugout Discussion chatroom is now open and will remain available throughout today’s three fixtures.

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  1. pezzerman
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 11 months ago

    Rooney captain next week no brainer..Suarez to get booked early on in an insipid 0-0 at Anfield

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    1. DRIZ ✅
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      rooney will play mid

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  2. JT's Dog
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Hopefully Nicholas will win X factor and it will be perfect day

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      1. DRIZ ✅
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        lol

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      2. joinho
        • 16 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Who cares

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    • PB-THE-VET
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      Guy with gw leading score before updates of 81 probs getting a red arrow now

      Ok. . . . . . . Maybe not

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    • The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 11 months ago

      So many people who can't count 😆

      If you captained one of the 5 pointers instead of Suarez you lost 17pts.

      5 + 44 = 49 (Roo/Aguero/Lukaku + Suarez capt)
      10 + 22 = 32 (Roo/Aguero/Lukaku capt + Suarez)

      49- 37 = 17

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      1. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        i meant straight up captain vs. captain

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        1. isacki: full casual
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Yeah but that only comes into play if you don't own both and everyone owns Suarez

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      2. JT's Dog
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Doesn't feel like it though

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        • Spin
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Yes, the difference between 22 and 5 is 17 - not exactly rocket science 🙂

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          1. FPL Daniel
            • 16 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Yeah I use that math too. People don't understand

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      3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        RVP not playing is a HUGE problem

        Lots of dead teams with vice captains yet to come in, alot probably with suarez

        Big red arrow incoming

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        1. Shifty
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          But suarez was red flagged at start of season. Most likely on Aguero vc?

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          1. PB-THE-VET
            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Walcott vc id say.

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        2. Jimmers
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Not really - Suarez was banned for first 6 games so not many of the dead teams would have him in their team

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        3. World XI
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          If you are outside the top 500k that is! most people under 500k don't even have RVP

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        4. Hibbo
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Is it really?

          Suarez wasn't playing start of the season.

          And surely these dead teams are well down the ranks.

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        5. isacki: full casual
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          What % of dead teams do you think own Suarez?

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          1. isacki: full casual
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            And why are you in competition with dead teams? 😆

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        6. rm9
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          How can you still getting beaten by dead teams in December?

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        7. Barry Woj
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Over-egging the significance of this somewhat...

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      4. Portsmouth Bubblejet
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Turkish defender prevents goal by throwing a spare ball onto the actual ball in the penalty area. No penalty!

        http://s7.directupload.net/images/131215/audjmtrn.swf

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        1. isacki: full casual
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          😆 That's not covered by the Laws is it? Probably a booking for unsportsmanlike conduct?

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        2. FPL Daniel
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          lol

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        3. potatoace
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          think his point was, the game should have been stopped the second that other ball came on the pitch

          ..oh sorry i mean, lol

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      5. aehii
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Coutinho owners, ...are you swapping for Sterling? Or having both? Or neither?

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        1. Big_Andy_GAWA
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Keeping for one more week.

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          1. Xavi Iniesta
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Same here. I'd gate myself if he produced the goods against Cardiff

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            1. Xavi Iniesta
              • 12 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              * hate

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            2. isacki: full casual
              • 14 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              As an owner I think madness is doing the same thing again and again and expect a different result; his shooting is awful, it's like owning Paulinho. I'm not expecting anything

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        2. isacki: full casual
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Keeping simply because I don't have a free transfer to sell him this week and he's against Cardiff. After that he's getting dumped.

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      6. rohan
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        60 or more for the 9th consecutive Gw and I'm gonna have my biggest red yet, this season

        Gotta love this game 😀

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      7. Smarty Pants
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        GW results with bonus points on the assumption that BPS won't change.

        Overall League:
        • average score is 55-56;

        Top 10,000 as of the start of the week:
        • average score is 77.5

        GW rank projections:
        http://fpldiscovery.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/ranks16.jpg?w=179

        GW detailed results:
        http://fpldiscovery.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/gw-16-final-results/

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        1. DRIZ ✅
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          1st

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        2. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          wow horribly high average seeing that it was 30 last night 🙁

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          1. Jimmers
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            The Suarez impact

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        3. Demí
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Thanks very much

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        4. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Cheers Smarty Pants. 🙂

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        5. isacki: full casual
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Cheers. So basically, it's alright lads.

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          1. isacki: full casual
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            I see he was captained by 35% of the top 10k. Not so bad after all. Interesting to see less people in the top 100k captained him.

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        6. mo 10 years on FFS? Join my…
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Id would like to see the stats from after the first gameday ( obviously) relative to what happened today

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          1. Smarty Pants
            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            http://wp.me/p47iV9-7M

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          2. FPL Daniel
            • 16 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Thanks man

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        7. copps
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          red arrow confirmed!

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        8. Barry Woj
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Excellent thank you, some perspective! Hopefully I'll stay in the top 5k then.

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        9. Gloria Kanchelskis
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Great analysis - to work this out you must have a view of what proportion of Suarez owners captained him? Would love to know the answer to that.

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          1. Smarty Pants
            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            chech out my blog, the answer to your question is in this post: http://fpldiscovery.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/suarez-ownership-and-captaincy-gw-16/

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            1. Gloria Kanchelskis
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 12 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              Just found it thanks. Fascinating stats on the site - great job.

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        10. Barry Woj
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          You need to apply for the FFScout writing job. These kind of stats are really interesting and not covered by the website at the moment.

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      8. winterwolf88
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Benched Walcott for Fer this week.
        Accidentally brought in Michu and Rooney for Fer and Aguero. Michu was defo a bad move I think.
        Captained Lukaku instead of Suarez, but I won't complain about this one coz I did think that Lukaku would produce more this week.

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      9. My name is an echo
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Is Vidic ever going to get a run of games?

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        1. Dr Dream
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          No...He's been doing this for years now...He's a permacroc who has no business taking a place at United.

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      10. Connor's Calling
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Come on Aguero, you're a strong lad-you have 1 week off then come back for Boxing Day.

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      11. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 16 Years
        11 years, 11 months ago

        Sean4 captained Paulinho and doesn't have Suarez.

        Cake theory blown out of the water. 😆

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        1. Shifty
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          What's this cake theory and sean4 all about? Seen alot of it today but don't get it

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            1. Shifty
              • 12 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              😯 genius

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        2. pundit of punts
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Loool

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        3. JT's Dog
            11 years, 11 months ago

            And he was boasting about captain yesterday 😆

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          • Reedy
            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            There's always next week...he'll be back 😉

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            1. Reedy
              • 15 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              with his crappy cake captain

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        4. SamH123
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          http://fpldiscovery.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/gw-16-final-results/
          average score for the top 10k is 77.5 (after bonus)

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        5. Chris_White
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Lukaku(SUN) in GW18 while Suarez has (mci)

          Just sayin' 😎

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          1. Shifty
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            That's gonna test the "always captain Suarez" theory.

            I'll probably go Lukaku 😕

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            1. Chris_White
              • 14 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              Ditto 😆

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          2. The ghost of a Pug's g…
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Haha! Are u not captaining Lukaku next week

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          3. Mílanista
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            BAN HIM

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        6. GoIrish
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Who to replace Aguero for? It would be for a -4 hit. First to 5 wins.

          A. Rooney
          B. Negredo

          Already have Suarez and Lukaku. Thanks guys.

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          1. Hurri Kane 42
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Fighter Rooney

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          2. rm9
            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Keep

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        7. DRIZ ✅
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          AVERAGE 77 FOR TOP 10K

          GOOD HEAVENS!

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          1. Xavi Iniesta
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            I got 78 😉

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        8. copps
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Anyone NOT captaining Suarez this week vs Cardiff at home?

          it is the early kickoff after all...

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          1. Xavi Iniesta
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            I have no choice in the matter. The numpties in my ML constantly captain him so it strikes the fear of God into me if I don't follow suit

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            1. copps
              • 14 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              im in a mini league of liverpool fans only. i know what you mean 😉

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          2. DRIZ ✅
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            suarez C mof

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          3. joinho
            • 16 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            I might not

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        9. Tim Canterbury
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Non-Suarez captainers have that little girl to thank. She humiliated him just before kick off. He had the last laugh. Would like it if he walked past her in the tunnel after the game and thanked her for the motivation

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          1. The ghost of a Pug's g…
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Hahaha!

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          2. Reedy
            • 15 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            This is why you should never work with kids or animals

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        10. - DC -
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Guys quick views on this?

          A) Jonny Evans + David Silva

          or

          B) Phil Jones + Samir Nasri

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          1. Bauerhaus 24
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            a by far

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            1. - DC -
              • 13 Years
              11 years, 11 months ago

              Thats what I think. But Jones is occasionally OOP. Nasri aint doing bad either.

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        11. BONZ
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          How many could have had a 100 point GW with the right captain and starting team?

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          1. Shifty
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            o/

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          2. Mílanista
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            I have 87. I could have scored 119*

            *Realistically I could have scored 104 as I wasn't going to play Flanagan and Williams over Terry and Ravel.

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          3. Leelas legs 11
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Yup I got 89 points this week and captained LukAku!
            Got to go back to Suarez though I was a nervous wreck watching today as my two nearest ml had him as captain!!

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          4. Barry Woj
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            94 would have been my highest possible score.

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        12. Alonso The Great Midfielder
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          almost a half way of premier league games, but something weird when there are only one player to score a hatrick........ thats a KING SUAREZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..........

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        13. Performance Series
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Best 4 mids till new yr... interesting topic now with aguero out. who would you guys say?

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          1. DRIZ ✅
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            S R H Y

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        14. elkunaguero
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Ravel to Sterling

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          1. - DC -
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            If you haven't got 3 Liverpool players already.

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        15. suvoneel
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          is it possible to overturn a deficit of 90 points off the top leader in my mini league??? practically ofcourse???

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          1. DRIZ ✅
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            yes of course plenty of GW left

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          2. Performance Series
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            depends who you have and he has

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          3. Shifty
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Yes. Could have shaved 20 this week had i captained Suarez...frustrated.

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          4. Podge
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            Its less than 5 a week of course it is

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        16. teddy.
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Boom! 16932 in PlayOn. Winning.

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        17. Ostrich Baby
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          None of the current top 10 have Suarez as captain.

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          1. Lao Tzu
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            There will be a new top 10 then!

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          2. Ghostface
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            yeahh

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        18. Podge
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Hard to credit but the majority of Suarez owners would be much better off if he had got sent off in the 1st minute

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          1. Barry Woj
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            lol yeah I was thinking this before the match as the only way I could win a H2H. I had visions of an unfair red card that was rescinded immediately after the game.

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        19. The ghost of a Pug's g…
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Feel it. I'm off to eat a full box of maltesers

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        20. copps
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 11 months ago

          Suarez captainers it seems horrific but its only really 17 points.

          thats a fair amount but its not the end of the world..

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          1. Ghostface
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 11 months ago

            🙁

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