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 Gregor | Speculating on Spurs Many of us are still holding Tottenham players after the recent double gameweek and favourable looking fixtures, but given the unconvincing performance at home to Ajax last night and with injuries … | 6 years, 10 months ago | 76 |
 G-Whizz | GW37 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW37 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week with a season high DS of 946 saw Liverpool thrash already relegated Huddersfield at Anfield 5-0. Manchester City (545DS) come in second place… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
 Geoff | Warning against deliberately misleading pre-deadline posts As many here know, we've had trouble lately with some users posting comments just before the deadline making claims about teamsheets that aren't true. These comments often take the shape of '[playe… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 90 |
 Jafalad | Are you considering Hazard? I see Hazard is trailing in the captaincy poll already. He looks an incredible differential right now for those playing catch up. Low ownership and sure to go out with a bang in Chelski’s last … | 6 years, 10 months ago | 18 |
 Pras (FPL) | How have you done in Chip Season? How did you do since chip season started? Would be interesting to see how many points people got over the period and what strategy they used BGW31 - GW36. For me: - Strategy - FH32, WC33, BB35, TC… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 65 |
Gregor | Third Strikers How do we feel about third strikers as the season comes to a close then? Andre Gray looks to have served his purpose now and I did have an eye on Rashford but he’s now a doubt with a shoulder inj… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 35 |
Geoff | Live Scoutcast 9:30pm Tuesday - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 9:30pm Tuesday Each week we look at the key player, team, and talking point. Which player should we discuss & why? Which team should we discuss & why? What should our talking po… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 34 |
Geoff | Gameweek 36 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 36 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW36 go? Did your transfers pay off? Did a hit turn out badly? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gamewee… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 62 |
 rainy | Price Changes Price Changes - 29th April 2019 🔺 Alexander-Arnold (5.7), Salah (13.3) 🔻 Aubameyang (10.8), Ibe (4.9), Alonso (6.2), Kanté (4.9), Gündogan (5.4) | 6 years, 10 months ago | 7 |
 Meltens | Allsvenskan - GW6 plans What was your transfer this gameweek? Who are you looking to captain? Paulinho/Jeremejeff at home to AFC Eskilstuna seems interesting, but perhaps Linus Hallenius at home to Falkenberg could be the… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 18 |
 Brosstan | It's not easy to finish regularly in the top 10k How many members are in the FFS members leagues? Seems to me people underestimate how many managers there are who play seriously now. You're not entitled to 10k just because you spend a lot of time… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 96 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW36 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 36 I still owe GW33-35, sorry guys! Today is the deadline day for one of my firm's biggest engagements that's been on-going since November, so after this I plan to… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 12 |
Gregor | Gameweek 36 Captaincy With league hopefuls Liverpool hosting already relegated Huddersfield tonight, it looks to be a case of which red will you backing and for those with the Triple Captaincy chip still intact, does th… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 38 |
Geoff | GW36 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, who has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low o… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 40 |
Geoff | Gameweek 35 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 35 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW35 go? Did your transfers pay off? Did a hit turn out badly? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gamewee… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 71 |
 Tommyg | 'Must have' players Who are the 'must have' players for the next three games? | 6 years, 10 months ago | 23 |
G-Whizz | GW36 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW36 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week of the teams which had a SGW Liverpool (615DS) saw off Carfiff 0-2 meanwhile Chelsea (520DS) and Bournemouth (416DS) both had surprising resu… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 10 |
 HollywoodXI | Get well soon Joe Massive get well wishes to the legend that is Joe (formerly Jonty) who just posted this on his Twitter account: “Bleed on brain. Focusing all energy on getting better.” | 6 years, 10 months ago | 198 |
 Tsssst | Are you looking at Pogba? anyone still got Pogba planning on getting rid of him? i know he's been pretty poor but his next 3 cant be ignored, can they? Chelsea love to concede as they have shown v Slavia and Burnley. then … | 6 years, 10 months ago | 16 |
 HamezMace | How is your GW so far? So close to triple Brighton defence euphoria...that Eriksen goal was tough to take, but still pretty happy with them in general. Where is everyone at so far, and with how many left to play tonight… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 102 |
 Legomané | Time to collect your party bags? Time to sell Vardy? Arguably one of the most in-form players right now with 8 goals in his last 8 PL matches, coinciding with the appointment of Brendan Rodgers GW28. With Arsenal(H), City(A) and… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 17 |
Legomané | The last chip The last chip - how will you spend yours? For me (and I imagine many others) it's the Triple-Captain chip. There are a few juicy options over the remaining 3 gameweeks. Link to a handy captaincy … | 6 years, 10 months ago | 23 |
Geoff | Eliteserien: GW4 plans Eliteserien deadline is fast approaching.. How is your team looking? Who will you captain and what are your transfers? | 6 years, 10 months ago | 22 |
Geoff | Liverpool strategy First, a reminder to everyone to upvote comments you think are useful and to flag comments you think should be Hot Topics! Second, Liverpool assets. With only HUD, new, WOL now to close the seas… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 34 |
Gregor | Gameweek 35 Captaincy It’s a tough call on the captaincy this week with another double gameweek on our hands but a lack of real standout players with the ideal scenario of a pair of attractive looking fixtures whilst … | 6 years, 10 months ago | 55 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW35 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 35 Work is a nightmare, I'm so sorry! Behind on GW32-34, but will produce the results this bank holiday weekend for certain! Frustrating me as much as it may be yo… | 6 years, 10 months ago | 13 |
Geoff | GW35 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, who has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low o… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 43 |
G-Whizz | DGW35 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds DGW35 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week Spurs (608DS) beat Huddersfield 4-0. Manchester City (426DS) beat Crystal Palace 3-1 and Liverpool (418DS) beat Chelsea 2-0. Just under the … | 6 years, 11 months ago | 9 |
Geoff | Gameweek 34 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 34 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW34 go? Did your transfers pay off? Did a hit turn out badly? How did your bench perform? Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gamewee… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 57 |
 The Polymath | Is DGW35 still the best week to Bench Boost? Is DGW35 still the best week to Bench Boost? What are the Pros and Cons? | 6 years, 11 months ago | 39 |
Geoff | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 35 As usual, we're looking for a Community Champion this week! The Community Champion picks a team to go up against our Scout Picks, within a budget of 83.5m and in a playable FPL formation. If you'… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 0 |
Geoff | Deeney transfer plans For those who own Deeney, does his red and three match ban significantly change your post-wildcard plans? Who are the options you're looking at for replacing Deeney? What are the pros and cons of … | 6 years, 11 months ago | 37 |
 Rupert The Horse | Anfield report Was at Anfield yesterday, thought I'd jot a few things down. - Liverpool set out playing a very high line and VVD marshalled the back line wonderfully. I have never seen such a dominant display fr… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 24 |
Geoff | Wildcard regrets For me, there are at least two important ways to judge FPL decisions: 1. Did my decision result in points? 2. Was my decision one that I can look back on happily, knowing that I decided to do it fo… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 98 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast 9:30pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 9:30pm Tuesday Each week we look at the key player, team and talking point Which player should we discuss & why? Which team should we discuss & why? What should our talking poi… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 26 |
Geoff | A or B final decisions I don't usually do this kind of Hot Topic but, with one hour to the deadline and lots of us on our WC, let's hear your last minute dilemmas in 'A or B' format. Keep them simple, with the options c… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 161 |
Gregor | Gameweek 34 Captaincy Never captain a defender. Never captain a single gameweek player in a double gameweek. The unwritten rules of fantasy football look set to be shattered this week as Spurs’ Heung-min Son and B… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 55 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 34 News Roundup What we learnt in the runup to gameweek 34… Liverpool Gomez will be needed according to Klopp, with some choices needing to be made over who makes a good fit for each game. Klopp will have to c… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 5 |
Geoff | Eliteserien: GW3 plans With GW3 set to kick off tonight (Friday deadline), how is your Eliteserien squad looking? What are your transfers for this week? Who are you looking to captain? | 6 years, 11 months ago | 13 |
Geoff | Final WC decisions For most of us, our WC teams will be coming together nicely; but up until the deadline we're likely to have a few spots that we can't decide on. What are those spots for you? Can you not decide on… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 34 |
Geoff | GW34 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, who has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low o… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 27 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW34 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 34 Good evening from the big apple! Having been in Chicago, Kansas City and now New York this week I haven't had the time to complete GW32 and GW33 results unfortu… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 15 |
Geoff | Allsvenskan - GW3 plans Friday deadline in Allsvenskan this week! How is your team looking? Who are you looking to transfer in? Who will your captain be? | 6 years, 11 months ago | 15 |
Geoff | Kane injured - what's your Spurs WC plan? How has the Kane injury affected your WC plans? Which Spurs assets are you looking at now? What is your heavy hitter strategy? | 6 years, 11 months ago | 25 |
G-Whizz | GW34 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds (some DGW35 included) GW34 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week saw Liverpool (457DS) beat Southampton 1-3 and Chelsea (420DS) eased past West Ham 2-0. ARS: 38 BOU: -144 BHA: 144 & 183 BUR: 155 CAR: -155 … | 6 years, 11 months ago | 20 |
Geoff | WC planning: which teams are you tripling on? Thanks again for submitting the above Community Article! For those on their Wildcard, which teams will you have 3 players from? My current draft has tripled on City, Spurs, Brighton, Wolves, and … | 6 years, 11 months ago | 21 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Get your Arsenal in gear One second they’re all the rage, now they’re out in the cold – but that’s not a surprise when they concede 23 shots against Everton to their 7. The question remains - which Arsenal players … | 6 years, 11 months ago | 23 |
 Jedi_Reed | Salah for GW36 - what is your plan? How are players planning on bringing Salah back in GW36? It seems to be the main question of my WC team. It means downgrading the likes of Lloris and JWP, so I can make sure I can upgrade Eriksen… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 45 |
Geoff | Gameweek 33 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 33 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW33 go? Did your transfers pay off? Did a hit turn out badly? How did your bench perform? Did your FH work? Feel free to post your tales of joy an… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 42 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast 9:30pm Tues - leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 9:30pm Tuesday Each week we look at the key player, team and talking point Which player should we discuss & why? Which team should we discuss & why? What should our talking point b… | 6 years, 11 months ago | 54 |