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 Az | Time to go for CHO? Hudson-Odoi is looking a better option by the week. That's 3 attacking returns in 3 games for "CHO" and he also got 3 bonus points in their win against Newcastle. Anyone looking to bring him in? A… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 37 |
 Geoff | GW9 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 9 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gamew… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 58 |
 d1sable | Ings or Outs? Danny Ings: 5.9m / 2% + He's fit?! + 4 goals in 4 games in all comps + xG has historically been very high + On pens and Djenepo could be back soon (has a good record of winning pens) + Attackin… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 36 |
 VanDijksToWatchOutFor | Overlooked 'third' players Overlooked "third" players at clubs. 4 points apart but 0.3 difference in price between trent and robbo. I think there are a few of what we might call third options from clubs being overlooked, D… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 21 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast - Tuesday 8pm Feel free to leave your questions here Which players, teams and talking points do you think we should talk about? How can we hope to predict the unpredictable in #FP… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 48 |
 Sam FPLFamily | Premium Forwards - Are they worth the price tag? Are premium forwards worth their price tag? With Kane, Aguero and Firmino failing to bring returns in GW9 is it time to give up on premium strikers? Should the focus be on investing in the midfie… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 46 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW 9 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 9 First things first, apologies for gameweek 8. Some of you (especially Londoners who read the Metro daily) may have seen news about a young journalist at the BBC,… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 40 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 9 News Roundup What we learnt in the runup to Gameweek 9… Liverpool Klopp will have to see on Salah, Alisson and Matip, not giving much away on their fitness though he did say that they look better. The play… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 6 |
 avfc82 | Grealish as a differential punt? My differential pick for GW9 is Jack Grealish (5.9, 3.8% ownership). Here’s why… Following Villa’s 3-2 collapse at Arsenal in GW6, Dean Smith shuffled his midfield pack. Up until that poin… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 33 |
Geoff | GW9 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… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 40 |
 G-Whizz | GW9 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW9 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds GW8 saw Manchester City (562DS) lose 2-0 at home to Wolves (!) while Liverpool (468DS) beat Leicester 2-1. Arsenal (433DS) beat Bournemouth 1-0. https:… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 20 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 9 In a low scoring week, the Community Champion emerged victorious 48-40 over the Scout Picks but it wasn't enough to take the lead with a 16 point victory still the score to beat. During the slow, s… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 0 |
Az | Who's your captain for GW 9? Captaincy GW 9 With Liverpool against an (albeit uninspiring) United side who are posting decent defensive stats, and City struggling a bit and away against a normally decent defensive side in Cry… | 6 years, 4 months ago | 45 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast Tuesday night - 8pm Let us know the teams, players and issues you'd like us to discuss ahead of GW9 | 6 years, 5 months ago | 40 |
 Boris Bodega | Pundits Playoff Draft tonight at 9pm Pundits Playoff draft commences tonight at 9pm! At 9pm the bids will start appearing on the Bidding List tab on the Tournament Googlesheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yNMOQz9cNX9xFoB… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
 Pirlø's Pen | Pukki Problems What’s everyone’s general thoughts on Pukki? He’s still 41% owned so if you do get the decision wrong that the party’s over, you’ll be made to pay. Fixtures look fine, but then again … | 6 years, 5 months ago | 23 |
Geoff | GW8 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 8 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW8 go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Game… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 47 |
 IRBOX ⚽ | GW 8 Versus Stats Some perusals prior to GW8: 1) BHA have lost just one of their last 19 league fixtures in October. What also bodes well for the seagulls is that Tottenham have not won a single match away from ho… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 6 |
 Gregor | Gameweek 8 Captaincy Loads of good options for our armband affections again this week with a number of prime options enjoying home fixtures too. It almost seems like a perfect storm for Raheem Sterling who was benche… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 27 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 8 News Round-up What we learnt in the runup to gameweek 8… Liverpool Alisson is back in training with the first team and is now a “maybe, maybe not” to play at the weekend. Matip and Shaqiri are out but wi… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
 tuvok | Is Riyad nerfed with Kevin turfed? - KDB ruled out of GW8 Just a note on Mahrez, I went to the game on Tuesday and he was very limited. A world away from his MOTM Everton display & other previous ones. The difference? KDB's absence. KDB has been playing… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 17 |
Geoff | Members Only - Captaincy article conclusion 'Not only is Abraham second for shots in the box over the last four matches, he is top of the league both for accurate shots and big chances too.' I'm very tempted.. What stands out from the abov… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 21 |
Geoff | GW8 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… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 38 |
Boris Bodega | Pundits Playoff: The Bidding! Pundits Playoff bidding list will update at 9pm tonight, please click here to see it - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yNMOQz9cNX9xFoBUfB0gKRlUyVsYukoru-yLEArXjGE/edit?usp=sharing Some of … | 6 years, 5 months ago | 3 |
 Pep Pig | We will survive! In Gameweek 6 I was afraid, I was petrified I hit the Wildcard button and ended up with Joelinton in my side I spent so many nights thinking how I let this be I blamed Steve Bruce But it was clearl… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 19 |
avfc82 | Bernardo Silva charged - what are your City plans? Bernardo Silva has been charged with an "aggravated breach" of FA rules for his Mendy tweet. Whenever punishments have been handed out for this kind of breach in the past, it's included a ban, smal… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 25 |
 Sebastes | How will Spurs respond? Own both Son and Kane and was planning to hold both for at least a couple of weeks, but not so sure anymore. Do we think Spurs will kick back and go to Brighton determined to prove a point, or was… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 38 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | September Community Writer of the Month Vote Another new month means we ask you to vote for the Community writer that you believe has made the biggest/most important contribution in September. The winner will receive a £20 Amazon voucher fro… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 5 |
Geoff | GW7 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 7 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW7 go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Game… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 33 |
 BigManBakar | The Review - Gameweek 7 The Review : GW 7 Greetings everyone, welcome to the latest edition of The Review. Here’s an overview of how things stand in the FPL stratosphere at the moment: 1) Teemu Pukki’s points per g… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 26 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 8 Afternoon everyone, A narrow 2 point win (54 vs 52) for the Community Champion wasn't enough to push them into 1st place, but that doesn't change the bragging rights they took from winning! Gamewe… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 |
G-Whizz | GW8 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW8 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week saw Chelsea (495DS) beat Brighton 2-0 at Stamford Bridge and Tottenham (427DS) beat Southampton 2-1. Just under the radar were Liverpool (333D… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 16 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Choosing Citizens Which Manchester City players are you looking to go with? Sterling has been a pretty major feature in many teams since the start of the season, but more and more are moving away now in favour of i… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 21 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast 8pm Tues - leave your questions here Scoutcast 8pm Tuesday evening. Let us know your questions for us here. Which player, team and talking point should we discuss? | 6 years, 5 months ago | 34 |
 Rains of Castamere | Frisking The Foxes Michael Cox from The Athletic wrote this about Leicester's attacking play and James Maddison... thought it was relevant to post here: -- But there’s something strange about Leicester’s underl… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 25 |
 Meltens | Allsvenskan - GW26 plans GW26 in Fantasy Allsvenskan kicks off on Sunday at 13.00 CET. We have quite a few injury doubts as Robin Söder is facing a fight against the clock, while Nabil Bahoui looks very likely to miss out… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 9 |
Gregor | Gameweek 7 Captaincy Bit more interesting this week isn’t it. Mohammed Salah leads the Captain Poll and with his surety of minutes, full rest in midweek, likely penalty duties and a favourable fixture, he would see… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 59 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW7 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 7 Ta-da! Caught up on the other gameweeks and here we are ready for gameweek 7! May all your arrows be green. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who have… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 44 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 7 News Roundup What we learnt in the runup to Gameweek 7… (Slightly rushed this week, very, very tight on time!) Liverpool Alisson should resume full training this Sunday, whilst Mane trained normally yester… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 9 |
Geoff | GW7 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… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 49 |
 Valar(Keith) | The template currently seems very settled. I'm struggling to see where new options will pop up considering early WCers already have A 4.5 keeper from burnley in pope, the best defender in the game in TAA, an in into the city defense for che… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 68 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scouting for Differentials For any position, who do you think could be a good (below 10% owned) differential for the next few weeks, and why? | 6 years, 5 months ago | 60 |
Boris Bodega | The Pundits Playoff Update Community Tournament: the Pundits Playoff The current value for all the registered players (yes that’s you guys, if you’ve registered to take part) are up on https://docs.google.com/spreadshee… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 14 |
BigManBakar | The Review - Gameweek 6 The Review: GW 6 Greetings everyone. With a power packed Premier League weekend full of goals just gone by, there is plenty of food for thought for FPL managers to ponder over. So, without holding… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 37 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Jump on the bandwagon With a few fixture swings on the horizons, I'd be highly surprised if we don't get a larger number of bandwagons cropping up in the next few weeks, so a fair chance to earn yourself some bragging r… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 42 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 7 Morning all! Following a pretty crazy gameweek where many managers fortune went to one extreme or the other, it's no surprise to see a new leader in the Community Champion Scout Picks competition!… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 0 |
 DavidMunday815 | Neale's and Andy's accounts reinstated! Looks like we have some fantastic news this morning. Official FPL have just tweeted this statement: "Following an investigation, we are satisfied that three accounts were deleted by a malicious th… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 29 |
G-Whizz | GW7 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW7 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week Manchester City (660DS) bounced back from their shock defeat to Norwich with an 8-0 win at home to Watford. Arsenal (455DS) struggled to a 3-2… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Too rash to ditch Rahz? The top transferred out player so far this gameweek? Sterling. By a long way. Are they being hasty though? Raheem Sterling has proven time and time again that he is a fantastic FPL asset but follo… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 65 |
Geoff | GW6 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 6 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW6 go? Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Game… | 6 years, 5 months ago | 72 |