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 Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 25 News Roundup What we learnt in the buildup to gameweek 25: Pogba is expected to be fit for the Leicester game, as is Martial. https://twitter.com/samuelluckhurst/status/1091256127512289280?s=19 Eddie Howe con… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 26 |
 FredtheRed | How many DGW players do you have? Go on then. Tell us how many players you are going into this DGW with? I have 4: Ederson | Digne | Sane | Richarlison. I don't know what to do about Digne as he will play this week in one of the … | 7 years, 1 month ago | 56 |
 Geoff | GW25 breakout players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in many of our sides or someone who is a major differential? Have y… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 28 |
 rainy | Friday's Press Conferences Solskjaer - "I don't think there's anything with Paul" Howe - "Callum Wilson is definitely out" Warnock - 10:45am Pochettino - 12:30pm Pellegrini - 12:30pm Emery - 1pm Sarri - 1pm Nuno - 1pm Hodgso… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 3 |
rainy | New Players Added New players added to the game Peter Crouch (BUR) FOR £4.5m Leandro Bacuna (CAR) DEF £4.5m Karlan Grant (HUD) FOR £5.0m Youri Tielemans (LEI) MID £6.0m Miguel Almiron (NEW) MID £6.0m Antonio B… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 15 |
 G-Whizz | GW25 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW25 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Last week saw Arsenal (503DS) beat Cardiff 2-1 at the Emirates, Manchester City (481DS) lost to Newcastle 2-1 away and Liverpool (455DS) could only man… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 15 |
 MINUS FOUR | Chip Strategy Chip Strategy: for those of you planning to Free Hit in DGW32, have you actually looked closely at the potential blanks in GW31 and how far away your current team is to a decent team for that GW? Y… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 62 |
 Pep Pig | What is the case for a City DGW25 Triple Captain? I think there could be a case for TC this double GW. I believe City will bounce back against Arsenal and if they win, I think the Pep roulette could calm down for the Wednesday night game against… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 43 |
 Hutch_James | FFScout Fantasy Six Nations league on Superbru Here are details of the FFScout Fantasy Six Nations league on Superbru, for those that are interested in the oval ball: https://www.superbru.com/sixnationsfantasy/pool.php?p=11969012 Just follow … | 7 years, 1 month ago | 2 |
Geoff | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 25 Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 25 Once again, one champion representing the community will take on the Scout Picks this week with a chance to win a prize at the end of the sea… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
Geoff | Gameweek 24 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 24 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW24 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… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 59 |
 Legomané | The Sarri-Bawl Effect.. After yesterday's Alonso benching, 4-0 defeat to Bournemouth, and reported post-match 45-minute dressing room - dressing down...what next for your Chelsea assets? | 7 years, 1 month ago | 22 |
 Jealous Viper | What's going on with Man City? Fantasy aside, what do we think is the reason behind City's fall from grace. Astonishing that a team being hailed as being the best ever and on course to go unbeaten look so fragile now | 7 years, 1 month ago | 31 |
 FPL ZB | Penalty Penalising Do you think the current FPL rules for pens are alright? With Pogba, Salah and Auba all benefitting big time at the moment, and the introduction of VAR coming in in future seasons, do you think pen… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 47 |
Geoff | City performance and DGW25 City looked uninspired yesterday, and a team that usually would see a first goal as motivation to go get 5 more looked to fall back and not attack like we expect them to. Their defence looked weak … | 7 years, 1 month ago | 44 |
 J0E | Live Scoutcast Thursday at 9:30pm - Leave your questions here Live Scoutcast 9:30pm Thursday Each week we look at the key player, team and talking point Which player(s) should we discuss & why? Which team(s) should we discuss & why? What should our ta… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 34 |
FPL ZB | GW24 - Behind the Sofa In what is hoping to become a weekly pre-deadline feature/panic session - Who are you most scared of this gameweek? Who’s name could pop up as a scorer or assister and fill you with dread? | 7 years, 1 month ago | 43 |
 Gregor | Gameweek 24 Captaincy As I watched Wolves tearing the Leicester City defence apart 10 days ago, my immediate thought was ‘wow, imagine what captain Salah might do to these in the next gameweek!’ The point still stan… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 27 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | GW 24 News Summary A quick roundup of sourced news that has emerged over this last week and a bit. Would people like this to be a regular thing? Mendy returned to first team football on Wednesday, but Guardiola was … | 7 years, 1 month ago | 15 |
 Olivier Bernards watch | Projected points tool LONG POST WARNING!!! I've been wanting to construct a simple `expected utility' or `projected points' model of captaincy choice for a while, and since this is a week where a lot of people are stru… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 18 |
Geoff | GW24 breakout players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in many of our sides or someone who is a major differential? Have y… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 38 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW24 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 24 Ta-da! GW24 time 😀 GW22 results: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/19778213 GW23 results: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/19778464… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 22 |
Gregor | Triple Captaincy Thoughts With Leroy Sané and Raheem Sterling both completely rested over Manchester City’s last two games and double gameweek 25 now on the horizon, could this be the optimum time to wield our Triple Cap… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 50 |
Geoff | What are your DGW25 plans? Which DGW25 players are you looking to have and why? There is likely going to be significant rotation with City. Who do you like most and who are most likely to play both games? Those with Evert… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 37 |
@ocprodigy | Scoutpicks Challenge - GW23 Results SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 23 RESULTS Once again a huge thank you to Mince n Tatties for reminding me to post this one! GW23 wouldn't have gone ahead without him! GW23 entries: https://www… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
@ocprodigy | Scoutpicks Challenge - GW22 Results SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 22 RESULTS Dum dum dum! GW22 results, with GW23 to follow tomorrow (or today if I can make the effort on this train ride while studying!) GW22 entries: https://ww… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 2 |
Legomané | DGW 25 confirmed for Manchester City and Everton DGW 25 here we come 😯 MCI v [ARS eve] EVE v [WOL MCI] Who do you have? Who will you get? How does this impact your BGW27 strategy? https://twitter.com/mancity/status/1089508321193672704?s=… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 27 |
 WesMantooth | Meet The Manager Musings MTM with Sean Tobin *Like Joe did, I also found it refreshing how he credited some of his achievements to having friends who's also good players. Can't remember any others on the series mentioning … | 7 years, 1 month ago | 9 |
G-Whizz | GW24 DS stats, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW24 DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds Big thanks to Doosra for agreeing for these to be published each week again. I for one have missed them very much! ARS: 503 BOU: -227 BHA: -4 BUR: -3… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 11 |
Geoff | Son: out of the Asian Cup and returning to Spurs With Son looks to be coming back to the PL sooner than he might have, are you thinking about getting him in? Or are you looking to save a FT, to help prepare for a possible DGW25? What about Son… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 41 |
WesMantooth | Meet The Manager Musings MTM with Aleksander Våge Nilsen Trying to make HT's after MTM-videos a "thing". Would be nice to try and collect people's thoughts on what he videos are offering us in terms of insight. Some thi… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 56 |
Geoff | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 24 Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 24 Once again, one champion representing the community will take on the Scout Picks this week with a chance to win a prize at the end of the sea… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 0 |
 Messiah Hazard | No pain, No Higuain? Has Higuain already been added to FPL? How many plan to get him in? If he's priced less than 10, it may be worth bringing him in and moving Hazard out. | 7 years, 1 month ago | 33 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Growing Midfield Conundrum All of a sudden, midfield has got a bit uninspiring for me. Most teams at this stage have Salah and Pogba, but that leaves 3 spots in our midfields to fill, and there’s not a huge number of stan… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 64 |
 Deulofail | Mo’s Midfield Maths Since I put the work in, I'll post on it's own thread if you're interested. I have no angle here, just putting the information out there. As a midfielder, Salah has scored 16pts more from goal po… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 34 |
 Richd | Who are your differentials? Who are your differentials ? Players like Rashford Pogba Salah becoming very boring as everyone has them. same defenders.. Mine are Sterling and Firmino and feel good with them. Firm is highly ow… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 81 |
FPL ZB | HTAFC: Still a no? Or will you Siewert happens? With Huddersfield appointing Jan Siewert from BVB as their new manager, does this make any of their players more appealing? Will you be considering them at all in the run in? | 7 years, 1 month ago | 25 |
Gregor | The Eye Test - GW23 The Eye Test - Did any players catch your eye during any games or highlights that you’ve seen over the last gameweek. Diogo Jota was being hotly tipped in the summer after 17 goals for Wolves i… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 32 |
Geoff | Gameweek 23 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 23 Rough with the Smooth How did your GW23 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… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 82 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tuesday at 9:30pm - 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… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 26 |
Gregor | Gameweek 23 Captaincy We’re all Salah aren’t we? With the Liverpool man’s price rising again overnight, his ownership now stands at a chunky 48.2% and his leadership in the Captains Poll an even weightier 10% ab… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 27 |
@ocprodigy | SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE GW23 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 23 Mince n Tatties saved me missing this gameweek....! Cheers for the reminder! GW22 results soon tomorrow. ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven'… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 22 |
Geoff | GW23 breakout players Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in many of our sides or someone who is a major differential? Have y… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 33 |
 FeverPitch | Aguero's away form this season Aguero away form this season (prem unless stated): Arsenal - blank Wolves - blank Lyon - blank (played 27 mins) Cardiff - 1 goal Hoffenheim (Champions League) - 1 goal Liverpool - blank Spurs - bl… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 6 |
Geoff | What are your DGW, BGW, chip, and WC plans? The first of our DGW articles was posted yesterday: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2019/01/17/when-are-the-fpl-blank-and-double-gameweeks-likely-to-happen/ After reading this, what are you… | 7 years, 1 month ago | 31 |
Deulofail | Budget forward options RP. Any more thoughts on which fodders you have and want? Midfield or Forward? My biggest dilemma right now is what to do with Kamara. I want 3 outfield players with a blank in GW27 to hopefully … | 7 years, 1 month ago | 12 |
Geoff | Manchester City - fixture proof, rotation risks, and a blank GW It seems that City attacking assets are almost fixture proof. With Huddersfield and Newcastle away in the next two they have strong short term fixtures; however after that they have ARS, CHE, bef… | 7 years, 2 months ago | 58 |
 Ajax Hamsterdam | Auba for GW27 - is he part of your planning? On top of city having a blank in gw27 and either spurs or Chelsea also not playing , man utd are playing Liverpool. Auba is the stand out captain option that gw. Should that be taken in considerati… | 7 years, 2 months ago | 23 |
Geoff | Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 23 Scout Picks Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 23 Once again, one champion representing the community will take on the Scout Picks this week with a chance to win a prize at the end of the sea… | 7 years, 2 months ago | 0 |
G-Whizz | GW23 ODR, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW23 ODR, Fixtures and clean sheet odds Starting with GW22 Results and Opposition Difficulty Ratings: West Ham 1 Arsenal 0 Brighton 0 Liverpool 1 Burnley 2 Fulham 1 Cardiff 0 Huddersfield 0 Cryst… | 7 years, 2 months ago | 25 |