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 Footieboot | Will Salah come good? What are people smoking regarding Salah? So reactionary. He is definitely the favorite for the golden boot this season. Pretty clear that in the past few GWs being without Matip (proper CB pairing)… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 36 |
 Legomané | PRE-DGW19-DEADLINE A OR B QUESTIONS Time for the pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on chips/captaincy/transfers/bench/anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answer a few other peo… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 216 |
 Geoff | DGW19 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Maybe someone who hasn't had a double digit score in a while, has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low owner… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 26 |
 G-Whizz | DGW19 Fixtures and clean sheet odds DGW19 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/wooa4i http://prntscr.com/wooe19 Aston Villa 4/5 Draw 14/5 Newcastle 9/2 (Provided by Betbrain) BGW18 clean sheet results: MCI: 53% ✅ TO… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 13 |
 BigManBakar | GW18 Review The Review: GW 18 Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of “The Review” where I look at Bench Boost, Triple Captaincy and the upcoming double GW19 in detail: (Data taken from FFScout wit… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 20 |
 RedLightning | FFS Mini-leagues Roundup GW18 Welcome to the Gameweek 18 round-up of the Fantasy Football Scout mini-leagues and community competitions. FFSCOUT OPEN FPL LEAGUE Will Thorp is the new leader of the Fantasy Football Scout mini-… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 1 |
Geoff | Gameweek 18 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Tell us your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 18, here: | 5 years, 1 month ago | 46 |
Geoff | EVE v AVL postponed, AVL v NEW in DGW19 From Newcastle: A new date has been set for #NUFC's postponed fixture against Aston Villa. The game will now take place on Saturday, 23 January with kick-off at 8pm. It will also be broadcast live… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 17 |
Geoff | DGW19 chip plans In light of the fixture changes, have your chip plans changed? Is BB less appealing now, because there are fewer players with DGWs? Is TC less appealing because there will be future DGWs? I'm loo… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 25 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast THURS 8pm - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast tonight at 8pm! Seb and I will once again be joined by Karam, this time to look ahead to double Gameweek 19. Feel free to leave your questions here. | 5 years, 1 month ago | 17 |
G-Whizz | Villa v Newcastle update... "Premier League bosses hope to rearrange Aston Villa's match against Newcastle for the FA Cup fourth-round weekend in an attempt to clear the coronavirus fixture backlog." https://twitter.com/BenC… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 10 |
 Flair | Villa v Everton postponement requested... Aston Villa ask Premier League to postpone Sunday's match against Everton https://twitter.com/guardian_sport/status/1349425547126910976 | 5 years, 1 month ago | 3 |
G-Whizz | Leeds v Southampton postponed... Southampton v Leeds is now officially off... "Southampton v Shrewsbury Town FA cup 3rd round tie re-arranged for next Tuesday. Leeds Utd v Soton in the Premier League on Wednesday 20th postponed… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 20 |
Geoff | Pre-deadline A or B questions Time for the pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on captaincy/transfers/bench/anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answer a few other people af… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 131 |
BigManBakar | GW17 Review The Review: GW 17 Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of “The Review” where I look at Free Hit and the upcoming blank GW18 in detail: (Data taken from FFScout with consent) Before be… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 14 |
G-Whizz | The end of BB19? The end of BB19? Looks like Southampton & Leeds won't get a Double Gameweek in GW19 if Southampton/Shrewsbury could face Arsenal/Leicester/Man Utd/Spurs (and possibly Man City) in the 4th or 5th R… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 10 |
 DavidMunday815 | BGW18 Captain Poll Reset Hi guys - in light of today's fixture switcheroo, I have reset the BGW18 Captain Poll to see what impact Spurs v Fulham will have on your decisions. I've included the top 10 candidates from the ori… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 1 |
G-Whizz | BGW18 Updated clean sheet and fixture odds Fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/wl6crt BGW18 clean sheet odds: MCI: 53% TOT: 46% MNU: 45% ARS: 44% SHU: 37% WOL: 35% NEW: 31% EVE: 30% CRY: 17% BUR: 15% FUL: 13% BHA: 10% AVL: -… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
Geoff | BGW18 FH RMT thread With the updated fixture list for GW18, how are you approaching it? Specifically, let's see those FH teams! Confident? Have any spots you don't know how to fill? | 5 years, 1 month ago | 38 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 18 Fixture Switcheroo Confirmed First officially called by the Athletic, Tottenham vs Fulham (previously unscheduled) is now scheduled for Wednesday 13th in Gameweek 18 as rumoured. Aston Villa vs Tottenham (GW 18) has been post… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 19 |
Geoff | GW18 Breakout Players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Maybe someone who hasn't had a double digit score in a while, has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low owner… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 14 |
Legomané | Possible change to Spurs BGW18 fixture, And DGW19 deadline The athletic Exclusive: Aston Villa v Tottenham (Wed) in doubt because of #AVFC #COVID19 issues. Premier League in talks to postpone, replace with rearranged Tottenham v Fulham & possibly move Ful… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 20 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight (Mon) 8pm - leave your questions here Scoutcast tonight at 8pm! - looking ahead to GW18 and hopefully armed with extra info around Spurs' involvement Joining me will be @SebWassell and @KaramTayser Feel free to leave your questions … | 5 years, 1 month ago | 11 |
Geoff | Cup takeaways With lots of cup games now out of the way, what (if anything) are you taking from what we've seen? Did anyone return to fitness or form that you're interested in? Were there any benchings that sur… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 9 |
G-Whizz | GW18 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW18 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/wik4kj (Provided by Betbrain) GW17 clean sheet results: ARS: 40% ✅ CRY: 40% ✅ LEI: 40% ❌ BUR: 38% ❌ LIV: 35% ❌ BHA: 34% ❌ EVE: 3… | 5 years, 1 month ago | 19 |
Flair | Villa training ground closes following “significant” coronavirus outbreak https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1347190364281712644 Aston Villa can confirm that the Club has closed its Bodymoor Heath training ground after a significant Coronavirus outbreak. | 5 years, 1 month ago | 6 |
 andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 18 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 18 - the pick of the blanks! Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Communit… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 0 |
Geoff | Gameweek 17 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Tell us your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 17, here: | 5 years, 2 months ago | 45 |
 alfoir | Free Hit Priorities Those fiddling with FH drafts for BGW18 - who are your must-haves? | 5 years, 2 months ago | 21 |
 Old Wulfrunian | Burnley Vs Fulham Postponed Nooooooo https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein/status/1345332698253029377 | 5 years, 2 months ago | 7 |
BigManBakar | The Review : The Festive Fixtures The Review: The festive fixtures Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of “The Review” where I look at the blanks, doubles and the new fixture rescheduling in detail: (Data taken from FF… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 14 |
Geoff | Ticker updated The ticker should now be updated to reflect the added BGW18 fixture and the added DGW19 fixture! Happy planning 🙂 | 5 years, 2 months ago | 0 |
RedLightning | FFS Mini-leagues Roundup GW16 Welcome to a round-up of the Fantasy Football Scout mini-leagues and community competitions following a chaotic Gameweek 16 in which two matches were called off at short notice days after the deadl… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 3 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 18 / GW 19 fixtures added Some news hot off the press for you! Burnley vs United (originally scheduled GW 1) has been moved to GW 18 meaning neither will blank this week. Man City vs Aston Villa (also from GW 1) has been m… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 40 |
Geoff | Gameweek 16 Rough with the Smooth This could have some of the best (worst) roughs in quite a while.. How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain … | 5 years, 2 months ago | 34 |
G-Whizz | GW17 Fixtures and clean sheet odds | 5 years, 2 months ago | 10 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Spurs vs Fulham Postponed Now being reported by multiple sources so will call it as official (and HT for inevitable latecomers) The second game of the week to be postponed - Spurs vs Fulham has been called off following a … | 5 years, 2 months ago | 6 |
RedLightning | Free Hit Questions There have been a number of questions recently about the Free Hit chip. This is what the FPL website says: "After playing your Free Hit chip, at the next deadline your bank balance and squad is re… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 1 |
 Deulofail | Novelty game with an extra 5.0m to add a manager Fantasy fantasy scenario: You are given an extra 5.0m budget for the introduction of a manager slot to the FPL game. You will receive this extra cash, along with unlimited transfers, for GW19. Wh… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 32 |
andy85wsm | SCOUT PICKS CHAMPION LOTTERY - GAMEWEEK 17 We're looking for a new Community Champion for Gameweek 17. Think you have the eye to pick the differentials and form a winning team vs the Scout Picks? We need a Community Champion to represent u… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 0 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tonight (Wed) 8pm - leave your questions here LIVE SCOUTCAST TONIGHT! (WED 30th December) #FPL #FPLCommunity Looking ahead to #GW17 and trying to make sense of #GW16 Feel free to leave your questions here. | 5 years, 2 months ago | 25 |
 El Lobito 10 | How good are the top 10k? A word on this obsession with "the top 10k". There are always articles and conversation about what they're doing. While ostensibly very understandable, the truth is that most in the top 10k aren't … | 5 years, 2 months ago | 54 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Manchester City Vs Everton postponed Already mentioned above and all over, but for the sake of those arriving late Manchester City Vs Everton has been postponed following an outbreak at City. No further information regarding when it … | 5 years, 2 months ago | 14 |
RedLightning | FFS Mini-leagues Roundup GW15 Welcome to the Gameweek 15 round-up of the Fantasy Football Scout mini-leagues and community competitions. FFSCOUT OPEN-TO-ALL MINI-LEAGUE Maruf Hossain is still top of our open-to-all Fantasy Fo… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 2 |
Geoff | Surprise benchings So we'll do something a little different with the 'differentials' Hot Topic this week.. Who do you think will be benched, who is normally a starter? It certainly looks to me like we'll see some '… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 23 |
Legomané | Pre-GW16-deadline A or B Questions Time for the pre-deadline A or B thread! What are your last minute questions on captaincy/transfers/bench/anything else? Please post as an A or B question, and please answer a few other people af… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 124 |
G-Whizz | GW16 Fixtures and clean sheet odds GW16 fixture odds can be found here: http://prntscr.com/wb1m10 (Provided by Betbrain) GW15 clean sheet results: MCI: 57% ✅ LIV: 56% ❌ EVE: 37% ✅ TOT: 37% ❌ CHE: 36% ❌ AVL: 33% ✅ LEE: 3… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 12 |
Geoff | Gameweek 15 Rough with the Smooth How was your Gameweek? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return? Tell us your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 15, here: | 5 years, 2 months ago | 34 |
 rainy | Pre-deadline A or B Questions Pre-deadline A or B thread, Boxing Day edition! What are your last minute questions on captaincy/transfers/bench/gift return policies? Please post as an A or B question — and please answer a fe… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 11 |
BigManBakar | The Review : GW 14 The Review: GW 14 Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of “The Review” where I look at the upcoming blank and double gameweeks at length: (Data taken from FFScout with consent) Before… | 5 years, 2 months ago | 10 |