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| Author | Hot Topic | Date | Replies |
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 J0E | Sanchez or Ozil revisited. Hmmm. How are Sanchez owners feeling? Think he'll be rested for PSG? Or does he not do rest? Is Ozil a better option now? | 9 years, 6 months ago | 39 |
J0E | Mark v Jonty - who will win? Mark and I are going head to head in FanDuel this week. Quick reminder of the scoring - only goalkeepers get clean sheets. CBI rules among defenders Chances created rule among midfielders a… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 10 |
 pundit of punts | Lukaku Can Deliver People saying that Lukaku is a terrible pick are just in denial. He scored in 7 consecutive games last season when he had good fixtures. That can't be luck. Similar situation now. I think he will… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 40 |
 Arteta | Sanchez starting role in doubt Arsène Wenger has revealed the latest team news ahead of the game against Southampton: - on team news I haven’t seen Alexis and David Ospina because they arrived late last night. Everyone looks… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 35 |
J0E | Unusual transfer situations Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Unusual transfer situations In an interview this week Mo Farah revealed that just ahead of one of his races in the Olympics he was on his phone trying to so… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 12 |
 Moin | Friday's Press Conferences Friday's Pressers: 08:30 - Stoke 09:00 - Arsenal, Hull, West Brom, Crystal Palace 13:00 - Chelsea 13:30 - Man City, Man Utd, Sunderland | 9 years, 6 months ago | 3 |
 Christina. | This B&B is overpriced Benteke & Bony are over priced by 0.5m-1m. There I've said it. Everyone is banging on about either one being capable of scoring +/-15 goals. Of course they are. Both have in the past. But they ar… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 41 |
 brianutd-why always we? 20 | Can Liverpool win the Premier League any time soon? Serious question - as Liverpool have never won the Premier League, do the community believe they can achieve the milestone in the near future or what will tip the balance in their favour? | 9 years, 6 months ago | 35 |
Christina. | Liverpool's Midfield Minefield So we have Coutinho, Firmino and Lalana. One tops the GA's, one the KP's and one the SiB milf list. Yet no one on WC owns any of them. Good luck then. | 9 years, 6 months ago | 25 |
 SwissGuinness | Zlatan's Revenge [IBRAHIMOVIC VS GUARDIOLA] You think the Manchester derby will be 0-0 ? It won't. I may even captain Ibrahimovic, and this article is the reason why : https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 20 |
J0E | Help Us To Hot Topic Just a reminder on ways to help us out in our search for hot topics among the comments each day. 1. Best way if you see a discussion thread that you think we should flag up, press the flag button… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
J0E | In search of The Iron Men and Women Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are this season's iron men and women. I'm every happy to be part of community regular Teddy's regular Iron Man competitions where we take each other on … | 9 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
 Lateriser 12 | Manchester Derby Thoughts Anyone want to give their thoughts on the Derby? From previous history, quick effective counters with fast players running against Peps defenders will be the key. I think Pep will target Bailey an… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 37 |
 TokyoRisingSun | Watch out for Champions League Rotation CL rotation for next week is a bigger factor than international minutes, imo | 9 years, 6 months ago | 9 |
Arteta | Thursday's Press Conferences Thursday's press conferences Bournemouth - 8:00 West Ham - 10:00 Spurs & Middlesbrough- 12:30 Liverpool & Leicester & Burnley - 13:30 Everton & Southampton - 14:00 Swansea - 14:15 | 9 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
 internal error | End of the Line for Ivanovic? Ivanovic is dead man walking. I cant see him being in the side for much longer | 9 years, 6 months ago | 18 |
 sminkypinky | Downbeat Transfer Market Still very few prive changes I see. Fairly difficult to increase team value this season. | 9 years, 6 months ago | 20 |
J0E | Lukaku or Trollaku? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Lukaku Who is keen to draft him in based on Everton's fixtures? Who is fearful of his poor Premier League goal less run that stretches back to March. And… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 32 |
J0E | Scout Cast 9:45pm Tonight - Leave Your Questions For The Team Here The Scoutcast is back! We are Scoutcasting tonight at 9:45pm. Feel free to leave your questions for the team here. | 9 years, 6 months ago | 162 |
J0E | Putting the Fun back into Fantasy Football Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Putting the fun back into Fantasy Football. A lot of people have been questioning my wildcard this week, wondering why after a relatively good start, with … | 9 years, 6 months ago | 42 |
J0E | Jarvish the Octochamp Congratulations to Jarvish on becoming a Countdown Octochamp - if you don't watch the show that basically means he is very very clever indeed. 🙂 https://twitter.com/FFScout/status/77283206926951… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 33 |
J0E | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 4 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 4 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, 6 months ago | 1 |
J0E | Aguero Exit Plans - The One That Got Away Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Aguero exit strategy - the one that got away. Whether wildcarding or using transfers to deal with Aguero's ban it is tough to get all the players you want.… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Alternative wildcarding Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Different Wildcard/coping without Aguero ideas For those wildcarding/or using two or more transfers to deal with Aguero's absence are you considering a di… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 22 |
 Carpe Diem | Streaky Sanchez Case for Sanchez over Ozil Reading through arguments for Ozil over Sanchez, one constant argument is how Ozil is more consistent and will likely get more points throughout the season than Sanchez … | 9 years, 6 months ago | 11 |
J0E | What are you doing with Aguero? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What are you going to do with Aguero? And how are you going to get him back in if ditching? | 9 years, 6 months ago | 49 |
J0E | Quick fire Kings New table - Quick fire Kings - most frequent and accurate shooters. Also includes fastest chance creators. Handy for wildcarders looking to compare Barkley, Lukaku, Costa, Hazard, Ozil, Sanchez e… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 14 |
 Bibelnissen | Keeping the Heat On! Just read the hot topic on Cech, and I wanted to make a case for a certain 4.5 - but it's probably not who you think. Although WBA is solid at the back, providing Foster with good CS prospects, th… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 29 |
J0E | Best Aguero replacement Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Best Aguero replacement. Yes, I know he hasn't been banned yet. But let's assume he's unsuccessful in his appeal. What I'm keen to find out from you is w… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 82 |
 FPL Virgin | What to do with Capoue? With Capoue doing well, is anyone thinking of starting him and buying a second 4.5m midfielder to warm the bench ... and, more importantly, to free up funds? If so, who? | 9 years, 6 months ago | 20 |
Carpe Diem | Sanchez doesn't do tired RP for new page All this fuss around Sanchez having a game on 7/9 before the Southampton game on 10/9. Since most international breaks are similar for the South Americans, here's Sanchez's perform… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 7 |
 Jamie_GAWA | Cech out this sleeper keeper Cech is being overlooked, in this analysis I will use Foster to compare are a few points Arsenal are defensively solid and with the additions of Mustafi and Xhaka they will be even more solid. C… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 79 |
 Yankee Toffee | Everton Post Deadline Day Thoughts on Everton: Valencia enters the team with more fantasy points than all of our strikers combined (a whopping 8 points). Sad, that. Lukaku can't buy a goal at this point. Frustrated, no co… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 59 |
 KingNidge | Pickford is safe Despite the best endeavours of both clubs, a deal has not been completed for the transfer of Mika Domingues from Boavista to Sunderland AFC. | 9 years, 7 months ago | 13 |
J0E | Transfer Deadline Day's Impact on Fantasy Football Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic What was the impact of the final transfer window deals on Fantasy Football? I thought I’d list a few of the key deals this week and assess how they may af… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 54 |
 In Like Flynn. | Big money for average players Am I alone in thinking that some very large sums of money are being paid for seriously average players? | 9 years, 7 months ago | 11 |
 RoysCallerAnne | Costa the anti-bonus striker Why doesn't Costa get BPs? Genuinely interested as I don't delve into all that stuff. I (think I) know yellow cards/ dispossession/ missed passes/ shots off target etc. come into it. I watched hi… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 20 |
Yankee Toffee | Chelsea's new defence I think Conte might play 3 at the back with Luiz, Cahill, Terry giving the wingbacks some freedom to raid. Could be gold for Azpi, Alonso/Ivano if he does. On the other hand the Matic/ Kante holdi… | 9 years, 6 months ago | 25 |
 andy85wsm | Bony v Benteke Bony (7.3m) - Next 5 fixtures = Spurs (h), Palace (a), West Brom (h), Man United (a), Sunderland (h) Benteke (7.4m) - Next 5 fixtures = Boro (a), Stoke (h), Sunderland (a), Everton (a), West Ham (… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 31 |
J0E | Who is Throwing Their Wildcard At Bans and Changing Fixtures? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic I asked whether people were wildcarding last week, back in the days when Aguero wasn't set to miss two games, Andre Gray's old tweets were still secret and A… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 38 |
 Twelve years a slave | When to Bring Aguero Back In Question for those wildcarding and bringing back Aguero in round Six What are you doing about Liverpool? They are home to Hull in GW 6 and if you have to use your free transfer to bring in Aguero … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 54 |
 sinik | Price Change Thresholds For those thinking of keeping Aguero: Remember that casuals (for lack of a better word to describe the majority of the FPL population) drive price changes. It's very early in the season so many of… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 57 |
 Diva | Rank Only Tells Part Of The Story I've just seen that post a couple of pages back recommending people link their team in their profile so they know whether to accept their advice. I don't link my team and if you can accept my thoug… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 23 |
J0E | Outstanding Transfer Deadline Day Issues Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Has all the Fantasy relevant transfer business been done? Or are there still some unresolved issues that may alter our transfer/wildcard plans. Bony to Wes… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 32 |
 Jay_ | West Ham Options Ahead of West Hams great fixtures, just my thoughts on the state of the team at the moment. ---------------------------------------Adrian/Randolph---------------------------------- Byram/Antonio… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 10 |
J0E | Aguero Possible Ban Options Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic If Aguero does received a three match ban (two in the PL) how do you plan to react and why? a) bench for two matches. You'll want him back anyway. b) ditch … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 57 |
J0E | Shoehorning Arsenal in. Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Are you planning to shoehorn an Arsenal attacker into your squad, that is likely to already include Aguero,Zlatan and possibly Hazard? If so who comes in … | 9 years, 7 months ago | 43 |
J0E | Gwk 3 captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 9 years, 7 months ago | 36 |
 @ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 3 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 3 New week, new gameweek! Gameweek 2&3 results will be presented together late next week as I'm still in Miami. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who ha… | 9 years, 7 months ago | 72 |
 Optimus. | Happy birthday Optimus It was my birthday yesterday btw, thanks again for the all cards and well wishes, I've been inundated with them | 9 years, 7 months ago | 20 |