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AuthorHot TopicDateReplies

Kings of Lyon ★
Who wants to be a millionaire?

A couple of years back a ran a league called "Who wants to be a millionaire!?", the criteria for entering this league was that you must have had a overall rank over 1m after GW8 closed. Around 150 …

10 years, 7 months ago13

Railwayman
Best Norwich Midfielder?

Any Norwich fans here ? Who would be your choice, Hoolahan or Redmond ? Is Redmond really good or "lucky" so far ?

10 years, 7 months ago18

Twisted Saltergater
To wildcard, or not to wildcard?

Can we have some discussion on the first half of the season wildcard? I bet there's a fair few people holding off wildcarding but don't realise they lose it after GW19. So what are the benefits o…

10 years, 7 months ago86

Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos
Rooney's Regression

Rooney's Regression Quick look at some stats over the last two games: Goal Attempts: 2 Shots on Target: 0 Penalty Area touches: 3 Not what you expect for a £10.5m forward playing for a top team…

10 years, 7 months ago18

Malcolm Tucker for England …
Montero 2 Defenders 0. Can anyone stop him?

Watching highlights of the Jack game... What sort of a manager leave janmaat on vs Montero when even my missus could've told him there was a red coming. Even if he'd swapped sides so he wasn't mar…

10 years, 7 months ago18

J0E
UFPL Stick or Twist?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL Stick or Twist How did your team do yesterday? Who is coming in from your bench? Any successful captaincies so far. For me I'm on 27, but sadly Sakho…

10 years, 7 months ago13

Mark
Barkley - Is This The Season?

Let's start this now. Are we prepared to back Barkley? He's shown the potential to be a key Fantasy target - do we trust him to maintain this early form?

10 years, 7 months ago27

J0E
Is This the End of the Road for Rooney?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is this the end of the road for Rooney as a Fantasy Football asset? Has the writing been on the wall for a while for Rooney? Have his change in position and…

10 years, 7 months ago57

PlayON
PlayOn Latest

Killian here from PlayON, We have over £2,500 in GUARANTEED POTS on offer this week - you can see them all in our games lobby here: https://playon.co/#/enter-games Weekly: Gameweek 2 Matches: 1…

10 years, 7 months ago1

J0E
Gameweek 2 Captaincy Decision

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in Gameweek 2 and why? For me this looks to be one of the trickiest weeks. Probably Mane or Benteke for me.

10 years, 7 months ago100

@ocprodigy
Scout Picks Challenge

SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 2 (FIRST GAMEWEEK) Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you back to the place where FPL is really played. It's that time of year again - the first gameweek of its rebi…

10 years, 7 months ago83

J0E
Gwk 2's best differential

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 2's best differential Who will be this week's best differential? Either low owned or a player that is not getting much attention from the community…

10 years, 7 months ago84

Demí
Today's press conferences

Lots of Press Conferences today: 0845 - Watford - Quique Sanchez Flores 0900 - Everton - Roberto Martinez 0930 - Aston Villa - Tim Sherwood 0930 - West Ham - Slaven Bilic 1230 - Tottenham - Ma…

10 years, 7 months ago19

Bibelnissen
Walcott - stick or twist?

Fellow Walcott owners, what are you doing? I'd have no problem at all holding for another week if it wasn't for the possibility of him dropping. That will ruin my plans.

10 years, 7 months ago66

andy85wsm
Sack off Sakho?

Should we re-think Sakho as an option? As this is being discussed a lot on the site today, let's discuss the affect it might have on the player. Here's what we're talking about - http://www.thegu…

10 years, 7 months ago42

J0E
Picks Debate - Skrtel v Clyne and Is Rooney Still Captain Material?

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic A couple of discussions have arisen in our latest Scout Picks discussion. Thought it would be good to open these up to the community to discuss as well. Sk…

10 years, 7 months ago48

Francescoli
Payet vs Ayew

@ Beavis: As a Marseille fan, here's my two cents on the Andre Ayew vs. Payet debate. Ayew is a strong bodied midfielder well suited to the Premier League. He is quick, a strong finisher and reve…

10 years, 7 months ago20

QGOONER
Sanchez - will he, won't he?

Gotta mention this because this could trip up quite a few people... I've seen A LOT of people concluding that since Alexis was subbed into the match against West Ham, he will start against Crysta…

10 years, 7 months ago36

Daniel Levy- Not the Chairm…
Scoutpick community champion picks

Right lads. As this weeks community champion, I will be looking for your advice on how we can take down the "experts" scouts picks. I have compiled a list of players I am considering. GK-Pants, F…

10 years, 7 months ago16

JK - Cønt ⭐
GW1 stats stats stats

Team attacking stats GW1 http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/4249/ Team Defensive stats GW1 http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/4248/ Indiv…

10 years, 7 months ago20

invertebrate
The Yaya Option

Not many people seemed to consider Yaya Toure as an option this season. After what many considered a disappointing 2014/15 after his heroics the year before he was ignored as the Man City midfielde…

10 years, 7 months ago51

J0E
Moving On From Gwk 1's Disaster

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic How do you plan to make sure Gameweek 2 is far better than Gameweek 1? Wildcard? Hits? Leave it alone and hope your players do better? Who is in and who co…

10 years, 7 months ago62

Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
The Chelsea Blues

What is the general view on Chelski? Anybody want to bite?

10 years, 7 months ago35

J0E
Live Scoutcast Tonight - Leave Your Questions Here

Questions for the Scoutcast team. Tonight's Scoutcast will take place from 9pm to 10pm in which live on air Mark and Granville will be hoping their Man City players save them from a disastrous Ga…

10 years, 7 months ago83

RMT's Professor
FPL's Greatest Humbled By Gwk 1

Here are some crumbs of comfort: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/22442/event-history/1/ 27 1 to play http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/4231/event-history/1/ 26 1 to play http://fantasy…

10 years, 7 months ago28

J0E
Rough with the Smooth submissions wanted

The Rough with the Smooth – looking for your Gameweek 1 tales of joy and woe. We are looking for your input for our regular community article and Scoutcast feature. Called The Rough with the Smo…

10 years, 7 months ago50

J0E
Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 2

Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 2 This season we have revamped how we involve the community in our Scout Picks. Once again we are on the look out for a champion to represent the…

10 years, 7 months ago6

Lord Flashheart
Surviving the GW1 disaster

How to survive a gw1 disaster : a free guide to life in million plus rank 1 - don't panic. It gw1. Seasons are never won or lost in gw1 2 - unless your player is injured (Baines) or clearly out of…

10 years, 7 months ago17

RMT's Professor
GW1 - what have we learned?

Things I've learnt/concluded from the weekend: (Haven't watched any footage from New-Sou yet). 1.) Payet looks class (and West Ham look good to invest in right now). 2.) Chelsea are not firing on …

10 years, 7 months ago43

Mark
The Sunday UFPL Discussion

Morning all. Just a quick reminder to get your UFPL changes in. Are you sticking or twisting on the captain? I had Rooney but moving my armband to Walcott to day, in line with my FPL captaincy. …

10 years, 7 months ago17

Grounderz
15 FPL golden rules

To the new joiners, this is what you ought to know as a general rule. 15 things you need to know about FPL (just some random thoughts that might help mostly new players): 1 - taking hits is like…

10 years, 7 months ago14

J0E
UFPL Stick or Twist

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic UFPL stick or twist Which players are you substituting out, which are you bringing in? Any key players stand out for transferring in after yesterday's ma…

10 years, 7 months ago26

PlayON
Playon q&a

Killian here from PlayON - Daily Fantasy Football, As a partner of Fantasy Football Scout, we have over £2,000 in Free-Entry Games and Guaranteed Pots on offer for Gameweek 1 - you can read Tom F…

10 years, 7 months ago0

J0E
Gwk 1 captaincy

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining in Gameweek 1 and why?

10 years, 7 months ago73

Zasa
Odds on

Re-post for the DZ lads 🙂 Gw1 Paddy Power Clean Sheet Odds: Chelsea: 1.83 Arsenal: 1.83 Everton: 2.29 Man City: 2.29 Man Utd: 2.29 Leicester: 2.37 Bournemouth: 2.50 Liverpool: 2.80 Southampton:…

10 years, 7 months ago12

Magic Hamster
The FFS Template team

I’ve posted a couple of times regarding a study I have been carrying out on RMT posts to see who are the most selected players, and On the eve on the FPL season kicking off here is my final insta…

10 years, 7 months ago20

andy85wsm
Rooney back on pens?

This is going to get missed so I'll hot topic it, for anyone doubting Rooney or considering Mata. According to Alan Shearer - Rooney will be back on penalties. This was said during an interview on…

10 years, 7 months ago37

Mark
RMT Hangout Movie Now Available

Great to chat to both Tom Fenley and Simon March this evening. The Hangout broadcast is now added to the article for those who missed it. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2015/08/07/the-fan…

10 years, 7 months ago2

andy85wsm
Sky + UFPL surgery

I know that there's a RMT surgery tonight but as that's for the FPL game I wanted to remind people that we have 2 articles for Sky and UFPL RMTs/surgeries but they might have been lost as they're n…

10 years, 7 months ago0

J0E
RMT Surgery Tonight

Remember that we have a RMT surgery planned tonight from 9-11pm. A community article will be published at 8pm for you to submit your teams and from 9-11 a panel of our experts will be available to…

10 years, 7 months ago14

PlayON
PlayOn Q&A Session

Killian here from PlayON, We have today have launched our Referrals section, where you can earn 50% of the commissions generated by people you refer to PlayON. Your unique referral code is now …

10 years, 7 months ago10

GreenWindmill
GW1 Kunundrum

Ok, in my mind this is the kind of thing Hot Topics were built for. Aguero - arguments for and against having him in your GW 1 team. Go!

10 years, 7 months ago50

Mr. O'Connell
Get your Coates, you've pulled

Coates nailed http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/sunderland-defence-can-adapt-whether-it-s-younes-kaboul-or-john-o-shea-at-leicester-1-7397601

10 years, 7 months ago8

J0E
Draft Day Tales

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Draft Day Tales For those taking part in last night's draft how did it go? What targets did you get? Which players are you less confident about?

10 years, 7 months ago22

Nickofoz
Friday's Press Conference Times

Today's BPL Press conferences: 08:45: Norwich 09:00: Arsenal 09:30: Villa 10:00: Manchester United 10:00: Spurs 12:00: Sunderland 12:30: West Ham 12:45: City 13:15: West Brom 13:30: Stoke 14:00: L…

10 years, 7 months ago25

Calm
Swansea City Review

Swansea 2015/16 I'm aware this may not be interesting some people but hopefully it ends up being useful! ---DISCLAIMER--- I take no responsibility for any decisions you make. These are my thoughts…

10 years, 7 months ago24

PlayON
PlayOn Q&A Session

Killian here from PlayON, We have a new site now live at www.playon.co and today have launched our Referrals section, where you can earn 50% of the commissions generated by people you refer to Pl…

10 years, 7 months ago11

J0E
The Differentials XI

Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic The Differentials XI Yesterday I took a look at the template XI and bench, featuring FPL’s most owned players. What emerged was that very few of these pla…

10 years, 7 months ago40

BigManBakar
Vardy Overlooked?

When I came on here last week after the summer break and had a look at the RMT's, I was extremely surprised by the fact that a player who I expected to feature heavily in the RMT's had been overloo…

10 years, 7 months ago69

Diva
Countering the 'herd' myth

Herd Behaviour Ruth_NZ often challenges groupthink in FFS debate and that is healthy for the community. In that spirit, I set out to challenge Ruth_NZ's popular (+38) assertion that "The reason fo…

10 years, 7 months ago17