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 Zep | Glen Johnson: Is he worth it ? Got burned last year by GJ in that Liverpool DGW, where JE stole the show... so don't think I will ever get him this year... even for the bargain price of 5.7... For all the hype surrounding him, … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 11 |
 DÏLKS | The case for Suarez or Sturridge (C) Interesting facts for the Suarez (C) argument. - There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 14 of Liverpool's last 16 away games in the Premier League. - There have been over 2.5 goals scored in New… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 9 |
 PlayON | The PlayON Q&A Killian here from PlayON, If you have any questions about the article above or about PlayON in general, just add them as replies below and I'll answer them all. Thanks | 12 years, 4 months ago | 25 |
 Hobo | Have a whirl on Schurrle The Schurrle Punt Schurrle had a great time against Sweden which has seen interest grow in his FPL potential and some have been suggesting a Schurrle punt for this week. I think its a pretty good … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 6 |
 J0E | Best cheap midfielder Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic So just who is the best cheap/fifth midfielder to own for the next few weeks? Do you agree with Granville's adoration of Ravel Morrison? What about Jan..Jan… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 18 |
 Viper | Everton v Hull stats Game 1 - Everton vs. Hull No side has currently gone longer without losing at home in the Barclays Premier League than Everton (12 games - W9 D3). Hull have not conceded a goal in the Barclays Pr… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 2 |
Viper | Saints v Man Utd stats Manchester United have not lost successive Barclays Premier League home games since May 8, 2002. Southampton have conceded just two goals in their seven Barclays Premier League games in 2013-14; f… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 6 |
J0E | Sneaky Peak At the Scout Picks Committee Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Thought I'd open up the windows of our Scout Picks Committee a tiny bit for this hot topic and reveal some of the key decisions we are mulling over. Feel fre… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 19 |
 maxi - REAL ENGLISH FAN | A celebration of English football Lost at bottom of last page What's everyones favourite thing about ENGLISH football? Pick three things. 1. Fighting spirit - we get stuck in no matter what. No stupid scarves in winter, no gloves… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 42 |
 Kudo Warrior | Injury update Latest on Benteke: "Benteke is set to return to the Villa line up on Sunday against Spurs after recovering from a hip injury." But to be honest I still think it's a doubt for now. Watch the press r… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 14 |
 joinho | Best time to say goodbye to a player? What are peoples thoughts on holding on to players for too long? i.e. players who's prices have risen massively since you bought them; holding on to them for fear that if you get rid and then want … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 10 |
J0E | Will international form be replicated this weekend? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Have this week's internationals influenced your team selection for gameweek 8? Anyone now tempted to switch the armband to Rooney, or even draft him in? An… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 14 |
 Dangerous Dave | The Power 3 Spending all my money on defense this year instead of midfield. Could be looking at a power 3. | 12 years, 4 months ago | 18 |
J0E | Which international players are set for a gwk8 bench role? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic Which players do you fear/expect will be rested after their international commitments this week? Does anyone have any examples of managers being more keen to… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 48 |
 The Sarjeant | All midweek European games until X-mas Champions League & Europa League Fixtures: In-between Gameweek 8 & 9: Tuesday 22nd October Arsenal v Borussia Dortmund Schalke 04 v Chelsea Wednesday 23rd October CSKA Moscow v Man City Man Utd … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 16 |
 tm245 | European spanners in the works? Most of the supposed Strong here are playing in Europe as well -- will be interesting to see the impact on how well they actually do over the next six. This is one of the trickiest times to measur… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 6 |
 Camp No No | Which Liverpool striker? This has been discussed in some RTM's and transfer questions, but now for this one and only subject: Which Liverpool striker? I want your arguments on this subject, and yes, I have an interest in… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 26 |
J0E | Who will break the template? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Following on from our breaking the template article yesterday ( http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2013/10/13/breaking-the-template-part-two/ ) which play… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 14 |
The Sarjeant | 2013/14 sheets really are cleaner I posted this on the last article, just before this was posted! I'm on holiday and at night there's not much to do apart from drink and analyse football statistics! So here's something to consid… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 5 |
J0E | Next 6 GWK Dream Team Here we go.... Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Following on from The Sarjeant’s excellent recent long term planning hot topic (see side bar to the right) I thought I’d have a look at t… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 65 |
 Evs | FPL All Time Select XV As it's boring international window time, little question.... What would be your fpl ALL TIME dream team ? But you can only pick those players you have selected during your fpl history (e.g. I ca… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 84 |
 Piggs Boson | EPL XI v La Liga XI La Liga XI Vs EPL XI ..............Courtois Adriano Varane Martinez Marcelo ..........Xavi Koke Iniesta ..Ronaldo...Costa......Messi ....Rooney....RVP.....Suarez ............Ozil.Yaya.Mata Baines… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 37 |
 The3rdTurd | Template team discussion I’m not sure I entirely buy the premise of this article, or perhaps I’ve not quite understood it. Forming any conclusions from the top 10 teams out of 3 million at such an early stage is alway… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 16 |
J0E | Best defence and gk line up? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic What is your ideal five man defence and goalkeeper lineup? Would Baines be there? Is Chelsea defensive cover essential? What about goalkeepers; is Mignolet… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 17 |
 Rossamous | The Chester Return Conundrum Is Rosenior or Faye likely to drop out once Chester returns? | 12 years, 4 months ago | 32 |
The Sarjeant | Pre-January Wildcard Planning Hey guys! I posted this last night in the Dead Zone, I thought I'd re-post in case you missed it, and for the fact it took me 5/6 hours to write, and I wrote it all on my phone! My hands were dead … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 17 |
 Caine & Co. | Coleman's Potential Questioned How many of you have Coleman? Happy keeping or tempted to get rid? His GW1 score was flukey imo so I wanted to make a defenders chart excluding GW1 score, here it is: 1.Baines 42 2.Fonte 40 3.Lovr… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 47 |
J0E | Has the BPS altered your player selection? Fantasy football scout daily hot topic In what ways has the new BPS altered your decisions around which players to transfer in? For me I've gone for Yaya this year as the BPS rewards his all roun… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 43 |
 Kostja | Front 2 or Lone Striker? Something we already discussed yesterday regarding RVP, Rooney, Sturridge and Suarez. All of them probably essential in fantasy when playing up front on their own unless they are 14 mil like RVP. … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 26 |
 Dr Dream | Falling stars update Sorry for the repost...managed to get it at the end of the last topic.... Falling stars First the blurb…sandwiched between the knee jerk and the coming GW falling stars is a fictitous squad/te… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 10 |
J0E | Post international break surprise stars Fantasy football scout daily hot topic The first match back after an international break always seems to bring unusual results and even more unusual points scorers. The last game back after an int… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 17 |
 d1sable | Most frustrating players Ok i want to know which 2 players that are widely considered viable options in Fantasy football frustrate you the most, not just this season but over the course of many seasons even. The kind of pl… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 22 |
 wood is good | Is Team Value Really That Important? here's a question for you all: the guy with the highest value team is ranked at 303,000 with a total of 374 points and a combined team value of 109.4m im ranked at 143,00 with a total of 390 poin… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 33 |
J0E | FFS Uefa beach soccer article FFS Uefa beach soccer tournament article now published http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2013/10/09/ffs-uefa-beach-soccer-tournament-2013/ Please use this article from now on for tournament c… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 2 |
 Stats King-@football2space | Moyes's Young Guns Research Long Post Alert! In light of huge interest in Adnan Januzaj & the related game time risk, i researched a bit on the PL Debuts of wonderkids given by Moyes (at Everton) & their subsequent appearance… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 21 |
 Guy Demel's SH | West Ham Analysis I'm not sure exactly how much appetite there is for the below information, but I'm bored during the Intl break and thought I would share my thoughts on West Ham's early season developments in respe… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 14 |
J0E | FFS UEFA Beach Soccer Tournament Chat - Wed FFS UEFA Beach Soccer Tournament Chat Here's a fresh hot topic for today for this tournament. If you can direct all chat about the tournament here from now on that'll be great. The previous hot … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 40 |
J0E | Top 3 Strikers Over Next 4 Weeks? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic this is a regular hot topic, but with fixtures changing and players coming back from injury its worth asking again. Which are the top three strikers to own … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 39 |
 thetinkerman | Calling first time posters @ Lurkers (in other words, people who log onto the site but rarely/never comment): What would encourage you to switch from a passive user of this site to an active member of the community (or at l… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 224 |
 GlasgowFF | Conflict of interest As someone who doesn't support an EPL team I would be interested to know whether people that do support a team are conflicted when they play teams that you have fantasy players in. Does real life … | 12 years, 4 months ago | 15 |
 FORCA INTER | Captains' points tally how manny pts your Capitans has scored this season Hazard-16 Sturridge-16 Silva-6 Soldado-4 Soldado-2 Giroud-10 Giroud-4 58pts in total pathetic really | 12 years, 4 months ago | 109 |
Dr Dream | Price risers and fallers by team So far this season, despite our best efforts, the FPL game has seen fit to start driving the game ever onwards to the template...or be it a little less template than last year….So An additional b… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 16 |
J0E | Can we learn from the FPL's overall top 10? Can we learn anything from those who are currently in the top ten. If so what? If not, why not and which players should we be learning from? This is a joint hot topic from myself and Deme'l' God b… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 20 |
J0E | FFS UEFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2013 Chat FFS UEFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2013 Daily Hot Topic To help those taking part in this competition easily find out about latest comings and goings we have created a daily hot topic. Please look at… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 244 |
J0E | Best Player of the Season so far Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who has been the best player of the season so far for you? It could be that they provided you with a welcome captaincy haul? Or perhaps a player that has com… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 18 |
 The one who has a knock | Knowing when to get rid I have been thinking about the factors that weigh into a decision to dump a player. I kept soldado for 3 blanks before dumping, Rooney and hba kicked to the curb after one blank. A lot still have R… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 11 |
 Scoredelario | Is it wrong to double up on Strikers? Re people not doubling up on liverpool strikers... Why? I've seen it said time and time again. I do not understand the logic at all. I heard someone say "they won't both score every week"... Indee… | 12 years, 4 months ago | 47 |
Dr Dream | Falling stars update Falling stars...update You know the drill...A fictitous squad posted every Thursday made up of fallers and crocs from the red side of TotalFPL...every player valued less than their opening GW valu… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 7 |
J0E | Bad week? Tempted to give it all up? Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Has a string of bad gameweeks ever tempted you to give up playing Fantasy Football? Have you ever deleted an account or deliberately ruined your team through… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 47 |
Stats King-@football2space | FPL Management Strengths and Weaknesses State ur Strengths & Weaknesses as a FPL manager ? Mine r: + Spotting & picking players at the right time + Assembling players with proper coverage of most top teams & teams wid good fixtures - P… | 12 years, 5 months ago | 24 |