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 PvA | Will Boro be able to stop Ibra? Middlesbrough's record vs the current top 6: Tottenham (H): 1-2 Arsenal (A): 0-0 Man City (A): 1-1 Chelsea (H): 0-1 Liverpool (H): 0-3 Games: 5 Goals scored: 2 Goals conceded: 7 Apart from the L… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 11 |
 J0E | Scout Pick Lottery - GWK 19 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 19 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Key Boxing Day Lessons Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What key lessons did you learn from the Boxing Day fixtures? Was it Zlatan’s essential status? Or was it that Hazard can now be trusted again with the a… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 37 |
 TopMarx | What the Hof's it all about! Top 5 HOF update Evening all, what the top five FPL managers over the past few seasons did last week, the highlight being that all five sold Costa for Ibrahimovic as an early transfer! First here'… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 16 |
J0E | Gwk 18 captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 9 years, 3 months ago | 48 |
 Dino | Are market forces ruining the game? Long post alert I like a lot of my buddies am losing interest in the game fast. We got hooked because we love football and liked the idea of picking players we thought would do well due to the … | 9 years, 3 months ago | 80 |
 @ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 18 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 18 Gameweek 17 now overdue, sorry. Festive period and all that. Working on getting the results released tonight for you all. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those … | 9 years, 3 months ago | 41 |
J0E | Your Christmas Fantasy Football Wish List Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What Fantasy Football present do you want Santa to bring you over the festive fixtures? | 9 years, 3 months ago | 56 |
 Abel Xavier | The high cost of falling value As above then, some analysis of price changes, this season so far. I don't have previous years to compare to unfortunately. These were the bits I found most interesting. 1640 price changes, 78% ha… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 6 |
J0E | Your festive benches Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How are your festive benches? Are they full of injury and suspension doubts or do you have enough to carry you through xmas and the new year? | 9 years, 3 months ago | 53 |
 Team Cruel | Palace assets - not so crystal clear? Club Statement – 22nd December 2016 Crystal Palace F.C. have today asked Alan Pardew to step down as Manager of the Club. Club Chairman Steve Parish said, “I would like to put on record our s… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 35 |
J0E | Gameweek 18's best differential Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 18's best differential in what promises to be a set of fixtures where rotation may present some surprising team sheet names? | 9 years, 3 months ago | 49 |
 fusen | FPL Statistico Dead zone stuff For anyone who used it last season, spent the day getting FPL Statistico (gargatron on steroids) working again https://anewpla.net/fpl/report/ Fairly sure it's all back to normal… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 38 |
 A.T | Transfer latest: Ups, downs & casuals All aboard This weeks top transfers in and out In Ibra 304k, no suprise Negredo 94k, casuals Lallana 66k, oh yes Lukaku 55k, I can see why, bad idea though. Zaha 53k, casuals Out Costa 329k,… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 28 |
 MrMaverick | Benteke v Rondon Benteke is not worth 7.7m. Penalty merchant. Rondon at 6.6 has way more goal attempts in the box. | 9 years, 3 months ago | 23 |
J0E | Aguero Re-Hiring Plans Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Aguero rehiring plans Who plans to draft Aguero straight back in once his suspension ends. Is he still essential, especially with Burnley at home in Gamewee… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 77 |
 Pochecinno | Points lost through overthinking Don't get: a) Costa - He's on 4YC b) Mane - He's going to AFCON c) Walcott - He's not nailed d) Walker/Rose - Rotation risks The list goes on. No need to overthink. Get the player you want and wa… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 33 |
J0E | Scout Pick Lottery - GWK 18 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 18 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 1 |
J0E | What is 16/17's elusive secret of success? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What is the elusive secret of success this season? I’ve read a few posts over the last few days about FPL needing to change its rules or alter how prices … | 9 years, 3 months ago | 93 |
@ocprodigy | Scout picks challenge latest SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 15 RESULTS Doing GW16 results now too. ***** GAMEWEEK RESULTS ***** Scores on the doors; 1st - Lahi (86pts) [3pts] Top 4% - Scratch (70pts), Slippin' Jimmy (67p… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 3 |
J0E | Four Strikers of the Festive Apocalypse Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Four strikers of the Apocalypse. The four in question are Costa, Ibrahimovic, Aguero and Kane. All hugely expensive, all capable of big hauls and in all cas… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 82 |
 ktk_interista | Counting the Costa of 3-4-3 Chelsea are no longer blowing teams away and scoring loads of goals and are now settling for 1-0 wins (the Italian way). Conte recently said 3-4-3 has lost its fear factor and teams are finding the… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 12 |
 TorresMagic™ | Suspension News Suspension news Costa suspended for GW18 Ibrahimovic is NOT suspended. He already had 5 yellow cards early in the season including a League Cup yellow card. | 9 years, 3 months ago | 18 |
 THE REAL RON ⚽ | Captaincy - Kane v Eriksen Has anyone come up with a CONVINCING argument about Kane vs Eriksen for (c)...? 🙂 Can only see it as 50/50 myself... 😕 | 9 years, 3 months ago | 39 |
J0E | Gwk 17 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 9 years, 3 months ago | 78 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 17 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 17 I know I'm behind on GW15 and 16. They are coming tomorrow (promise). ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, ever… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 48 |
 Gorky | Who's the bar steward in the black? Hi guys, Below is a brief analysis of the 5 referees with the highest penalties/games ratio from Premier League games this season as well as the games they're in charge of over the festive period.… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 10 |
J0E | GWK 17's Best Differential Will Be... Fantasy Football Scoutr daily hot topic Who will be GWK 17's best differential? I think the WHU v HUL game has some great options. Carroll of course. Noble for penalties and Lanzini as well. fo… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 37 |
J0E | Jarvish Marches On In Countdown Countdown Latest Red Lightning tells me that.... ..for those that don't know Martin Hurst (Jarvish), who is the top seed on C4's Countdown show, convincingly won the first quarter-final of the S… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 11 |
 Arteta | today's press conferences Today's press conferences Mike Phelan, Mark Hughes - 8:30 Arsene Wenger, Alan Pardew, Eddie Howe, Tony Pulis - 9:00 Sean Dyche - 11:00 Jose Mourinho, Aitor Karanka, Ronald Koeman, Mauricio Pochet… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 7 |
 Deano | Points and Team Value What is this amazing obsession with TV and SV? If you pick the right players that score then by definition, their value will increase. This game is about choosing the players that score points: … | 9 years, 3 months ago | 96 |
 Licious Lizard | Hazard Sellers - What On Earth Are You Playing At? Am I the only one crazy enough to hold on to Hazard and Cedric until further information is released? Both looks like falling in price tonight and tomorrow respectively - both causing me a loss :… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 65 |
J0E | Rough with the Smooth - Gameweek 16 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Rough with the Smooth - Gameweek 16. Let's hear your tales of woe and joy about the midweek fixtures. | 9 years, 3 months ago | 111 |
 Parm | Origi for the long haul Origi is anything but a short term pick, I think it's his spot to lose with Mané leaving for ACON just as Coutinho returns. | 9 years, 3 months ago | 16 |
Dino | The Firmino Firesale Firmino sales gather pace. Have we learned nothing from selling hazard, sanchez and aguero this season? To hold your head when all about you are losing theirs is how to do well at this game. I mu… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 34 |
 Musicholic | 3rd Forward Options Under 7m Third Striker Dilemma: So after giving 2 GWs to Iheanacho, I am finally replacing him simply cause of the fact that if Pep won't play him against Watford, he has no chance of making it to the game… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 29 |
 Jafooli | Shakespearean Fantasy Football Okay gents, time to take the intellectual level of FFS up a notch or two. Let's be having your Shakespearean based footballer puns..... | 9 years, 3 months ago | 144 |
J0E | Scout Pick Lottery - GWK 17 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 17 Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the community to take on the Scout Picks and win the chance of a prize. If you… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 4 |
J0E | The Hazard of a poor bench Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Hazard owners - who comes in for you now the Belgian is out? Does this show the need for a stronger bench over Christmas? Who are you looking to draft in … | 9 years, 3 months ago | 77 |
 Dr Dream | Falling Stars Falling stars. After last weeks mass debate about TV and early transfers I've decided to resurrect my Falling stars article for the week. For those not around I used to post a fictitious squad/ar… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 14 |
@ocprodigy | Scoutpicks Challenge - GW16 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 16 Gameweek 15 results LATER TODAY. GW14 results: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/14631055 ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't b… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 49 |
 Cruiser23 | Payet vs Eriksen It is interesting to see the main argument being put forward against Payet. It seems Payet v Eriksen seems prominent at the moment, some advocate Erkisen because he's on a better team, West Ham str… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 28 |
Parm | Why Firmino is failing I think this Firmino thing is less about positioning and more about the personnel around him and their inability to function without Coutinho's presence. Even if Firmino lines up as the 'false nine… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 47 |
 Your Mum's Athletic | What the fixtures & form say - Gwk 16 Capt What The Fixtures, Form and Clean sheets are saying – GW16 Quick turnaround this week! Didn’t have time unfortunately to crunch the numbers for 10 options and get them all into the tables but … | 9 years, 3 months ago | 37 |
 Geoff | 3rd striker options Hey Mods can we have a Hot Topic on of the many posts about third strikers as an updated version of Andy's from last gameweek? Austin/Ihea > ? 1. Origi 2. Llorente 3. Benteke 4. Defoe 5. Carroll … | 9 years, 3 months ago | 34 |
J0E | Cherry Picking Defenders Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic In defence of Bournemouth With four clean sheets the Cherries are joint fourth in terms of shut outs this season, with only Chelsea, Tottenham and Southampt… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 44 |
 Somalion | Dropping like a stone John Stones is simply dreadful. | 9 years, 3 months ago | 27 |
 joersherman | Does Pep Really Hate Strikers? Was Nacho a failed punt and should I transfer out? | 9 years, 3 months ago | 45 |
 Worzel Gummidge | Sour cream with Nacho Come on Nacho owners. You can't seriously say you think he will start next GW can you? Nolito just scored and more chance Pep plays him or a false 9 IMO. There is a chance admittedly but just ge… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 17 |
 Gargamel | Gargatron Website Hello, friends. Some of you will remember an extension to Google Chrome I made a few years ago that showed some stats and ranking information for an FPL team. It hasn't worked this season, because… | 9 years, 3 months ago | 40 |