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 J0E | New Meet the Manager video now live NEW Meet the Manager video I chat to Richard Clarke (aka Ricardo355), who is vying for top spot in FFS's Hall of Fame. -7 top 10,000 finishes, -2 top 500 finishes -Lowest ever finish in 12 sea… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 31 |
 Bullet Eder | 3 budget forwards? Should we consider going without a premium striker this season? Aguero is pick of the bunch IMO, and the template looks to be one big hitter up front with two under 7.0, or at least it was. Agu… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 68 |
 Geoff | Transfers in the IB Those who are Wildcarding before GW9 will likely have already pushed the button, but those who have 1 FT or 2 FTs have a harder decision. Are you planning on making your transfers early, or will y… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 41 |
Geoff | Gameweek 8 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 8 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 8 here: | 7 years, 5 months ago | 127 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 8 Breakfast Club Thanks to those that tuned into GWK 8 Breakfast Club. Don't worry if you missed it, you can watch back here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr8OUv7Xg94 Special appearance from my sofa too for t… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 1 |
 KickIt | The (non-owner) Kane Prayer... The Large sofa prayer for us Kane non-owners. Our Kane who art in Tottenham, Harry be thy name. Thy blank come. Thy will be done, in Cardiff as it is in football. Give us this day our daily re… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 27 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 8 press conference round up New Video Make sure you watch our press conference round up ahead of tonight's GWK 8 #FPL deadline Neale joins me to discuss: Man City surprise returns Spurs long injury list Illness at Arsena… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 1 |
 Gregor | Gameweek 8 Captaincy Far more deliberating going on with the captaincy this week, if you have Kane then you will surely hand him the armband, but what about those without? Given Spurs slogged out a tough game on Wedn… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 45 |
 tafrère | Top managers underplay the importance of luck I'm watching the MTM video, and it's always great to watch, not because I feel closer to FPL geniuses, but because it's always fun to add faces, voices and arguments to FPL managers. It makes the g… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 75 |
J0E | New Meet the Manager video now live New video Meet the Manager I chat to Will Thomas about his 5 top 10K OR, including 82nd and 753rd in #FPL His success in Sky. Playing multiple formats Strategies for success Why bargain hun… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 32 |
 The Left Duke #3 | Liverpool fixture swing plans What are people's plans for Lpool assets after the Int break. Massive fixture swing for one of the form teams in the league. I'm currently on Salah Mane Robertson but am worried about rotation for… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 37 |
Geoff | GW8 breakout players Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW8 and be a popular transfer in for GW9, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in our sides or some… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 68 |
 G-Whizz | GW8 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW8 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds Last week saw Manchester City (752DS) win 2-0, Arsenal (437DS) beat Watford by the same score as did Spurs (415DS) away to Huddersfield. Manchester United (295… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 39 |
 Pacer. | Best general FPL advice? If you could give out a single piece of completely generalised FPL advice right now (i.e not aimed at an individuals team), what would it be? Mine would be: Don't panic, roll your transfer and go… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 74 |
Geoff | Tottenham injuries and Kane's captaincy credentials Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic 'Alli, Eriksen, Aurier, Vertonghen and Dembélé have all been ruled out of the Barcelona match and #GW8 too. They "will not be available before the internat… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 39 |
 Shake n Bake | Members Only - Wolves assets analysis Are Wolves this year's Burnley, and is Rui Patricio the new Nick Pope? I think we can all agree that last year Burnley were exceptional value given that they kept 12 clean sheets (the most of a no… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 22 |
Geoff | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 8 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 8 Once again this year, we will have a champion representing the community to take on the Scout Picks every week with a chance to win a prize at … | 7 years, 5 months ago | 0 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 8 Captaincy New Video Best Captaincy Options for GWK 8 David and I discuss the best armband candidates for the Gameweek ahead Kane gets a mention, but there are plenty of other strong candidates this week… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 3 |
 Lone Wolf FPL | Best 3 big hitters Best 3 big hitters We have Aguero, Sterling, Kane, Salah and Hazard but if we want a balaced team only 3 can find a way to our squads. As I want to get your opinion about this I'll write how I se… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 52 |
Geoff | Gameweek 7 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 7 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 7 here: | 7 years, 5 months ago | 85 |
 The Polymath | Linking your team to your profile page Why haven't you put a link to your team on your Profile page? A) Don't know how to do it (nothing to be ashamed of) B) Too embarassed to show my team. C) My team is my business, I aint sharing i… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 47 |
 Eden Wizard | Members Only - Has Alonso become less attacking? Thanks to Bemba for creating the question, hopefully here’s the answer! Has Alonso become less attacking? I've plotted Penalty area touches : Goal attempts : Final third touches to give an indi… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 25 |
 Jealous Viper | Agüero v Kane Have been seeing the Kane vs Kun question a lot and these are my thoughts. Pros for Kun Still the highest scoring forward so far Plays for a City team that creates a boatload of chances and as we … | 7 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tuesday 9:00pm - community questions Live Scoutcast 9pm Tuesday. Each week on the Scoutcast we look at the key player, team and talking point. Which player should we discuss and why? Which team should we discuss and why? What shou… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 54 |
 Collie01 | Medium to Long term fixtures Was having a look at medium-long term fixtures and came up with some observations. - While Liverpool have a very good run of fixtures after City, only downside is that only 3 of those next 8 are … | 7 years, 5 months ago | 13 |
 CFC1990 | Which big-hitter misses out? Which big hitter misses out for you guys if you were wildcarding now?: Salah Hazard Aguero Kane For me, i would not captain Kane until GW15 against SOT, except for next GW. I am worried about Ag… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 22 |
Geoff | What to do with Salah Salah getting subbed on 66 minutes means he finishes with 2 points. He now has a goal in every home game but hasn't yet scored away. 2 of the next 3 are at home but next up is Manchester City. I… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 49 |
Gregor | Gameweek 7 Captaincy Okay, I know Aguero is a shoo-in for a lot of us this week and it’s always hard to look beyond the Argentinian in an attractive home fixture on the back of a week off. However, with his minute… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 43 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW7 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 7 Greetings from Paris! Admittedly I had no idea it’s the Ryder Cup when I booked to come here to see friends (not a golf fan!). Would explain why my flights cos… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 34 |
 stat | How teams performed v Top 6 and Bottom 14 Did some research on how teams performed against the Top 6 vs the Bottom 14 sides last season. You can find the results here: https://twitter.com/StatOnScout/status/1045738766382628865 Something … | 7 years, 5 months ago | 11 |
Gregor | Is it time to make do without Mendy? As we still have no timeline on a return for Benjamin Mendy and with Guardiola seemingly unimpressed with his general discipline and time keeping of late, what do those still holding him now plan t… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 43 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 7 press conference round up New video Press conference round up - Gameweek 7 Neale and I discuss Mendy's timekeeping Liverpool's defence Spurs' creativity West Ham's attack ...and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 6 |
Lone Wolf FPL | Friday Press conferences Todays pressers 09:00 - Bou, Cardiff 11:00 - Liv 12:00 - Hudd 12:30 - WHU 13:00 - Wolves, Arsenal 13:15 - Bur 13:30 - Chel, CP, Eve, City, MU, New 17:00 - Watford | 7 years, 5 months ago | 9 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW6 Results SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 6 RESULTS Ta-da! Caught up with the gameweeks now. ***** GAMEWEEK RESULTS ***** 1st - Woo (64pts) [3pts] Top 4% - Camara (60pts), FFS Scout, Dr mantis Toboggan (… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 0 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW5 Results SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 5 RESULTS Catching up before I get off to Paris tomorrow... GW6 results incoming too shortly. Onside 9 - I will get in touch I promise! Just busy with work lately… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 2 |
 IRBOX ⚽ | FPL manager psychology Psychology and behaviour of the best and also average FPL managers has been something on my mind of late and I have broken it down into theee separate categories. 1) Herd mentality (group think). … | 7 years, 5 months ago | 74 |
Geoff | GW7 breakout players Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic Who do you think will step up in GW7 and be a popular transfer in for GW8, and why? Do you think it will be an already-established name in our sides or some… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 45 |
G-Whizz | GW7 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds GW7 DS, Fixture and clean sheet odds Last week Liverpool (580DS) came through 3-0 against Southampton while Manchester City (457DS) cruised past Cardiff 0-5. Arsenal (443DS) continued their winnin… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 36 |
 NOMONEY | Abbreviation update needed. What do you want to see included? mods, time for an update on the common abreviations? just randomly looked at the section on glossary of terms and common abreviations (if anyone ever knew it existed..) COMMON ABBREVIATIONS: CTC… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 70 |
 Rotation's Alter Ego | Are you not enter-Kane'd? Should we be looking at Kane? We have a lot changing this week, and one player on the rise is a certain Harry Kane, who is suddenly coming back onto people's radars after his absence post World Cup… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 70 |
Geoff | Managers in danger After yesterday's loss against Lampard's Derby in the cup, Jose Mourinho is topping the odds to be the next Premier League manager to leave their club. Do you think the loss to Derby, after the dra… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 26 |
Rotation's Alter Ego | Scoutcast timestamps - EP 269 Weekly Scoutcast timestamps - Episode 269 1:43 Joe's gameweek review 2:43 David's gameweek review 4:40 Az's gameweek review 6:49 Andy's gameweek review 8:14 Rough with the Smooth 10:30 Community Q… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 8 |
Geoff | How many heavy hitting defenders do you want? AZ has answered above, but what are your thoughts to this question: With some decent budget defensive options emerging, would it be wise to move away from three premiums and pick two or even one, … | 7 years, 5 months ago | 48 |
 Legomané | Is Captaincy losing its lustre? With high ownership levels and the average FPL player more 'knowledgeable' than in season's past (i.e. generally making more 'sensible' choices, en masse), is captaincy becoming too automatic? GW6… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 74 |
Geoff | Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 7 Scout Pick Community Champion Lottery – Gameweek 7 Once again this year, we will have a champion representing the community to take on the Scout Picks every week with a chance to win a prize at … | 7 years, 5 months ago | 0 |
J0E | New Video - Gameweek 7 Captaincy New video Gameweek 7 Captaincy David and I chat about the best armband options for Gwk 7 Is Aguero the best option? What of Kane? Can Lukaku prevail again against West Ham? And could Richarlis… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 12 |
Geoff | Forward options Fantasy Football Scout Daily Hot Topic With Lacazette (4.7%), Lukaku (10.9%), and Kane (25.1%) now all on 31 points and leading the pack chasing Aguero (43 points) and Mitrovic (39 points) in the… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 78 |
J0E | Live Scoutcast Tuesday 9pm - community questions Live Scoutcast 9pm Tuesday. Each week on the Scoutcast we look at the key player, team and talking point. Which player (s) should we discuss and why? Which team (s) should we discuss and why? W… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 50 |
Geoff | Gameweek 6 Rough with the Smooth Gameweek 6 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to post your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 6 here: | 7 years, 5 months ago | 82 |
Gregor | GW6 Captain choice and why? Who is your FPL captain choice this week and why? I’m currently on Aguero. He has the form and the fixture, he’s on penalties and he’s likely to get bonus if he does score. Cardiff look ter… | 7 years, 5 months ago | 88 |