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 Numb | TC Failure - Not the end of the world I think this "TC fail, my season is over" stuff on here is a bit overblown. If you think about it, the TC chip is not actually "worth" a huge amount of points. You're probably going to use it on … | 8 years, 2 months ago | 24 |
 J0E | Festive Rough with the Smooth Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Festive Rough with the Smooth With the festive four game mini-season now over I thought it’d be good to do a special rough with the smooth this time aro… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 130 |
 Ludo | Otamendi v Stones Nice piece, and it’s worth considering that whilst Stones is yet to score in the league this season, he has 3 goals in the Champions League. Otamendi has scored 5 goals in 26 games in all competi… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 22 |
J0E | Is it time to shift funds back into defence? Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Is it time to shift funds back into defence? Three trends have emerged over the festive period that indicate it may be time to start investing more in defen… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 103 |
 Make United Great Again | Tosun's FPL valuation BREAKING: @Everton agree fee of £27m with Besiktas for striker Cenk Tosun - Sky sources. #SSN How much do you think he’ll cost on FPL? | 8 years, 2 months ago | 25 |
 samaael | Aguero v Alonso With the current shift in landscape, who is more vital to FPl teams? Aguero vs Alonso The Jesus injury has put a little spanner in the works and gives a nice upgrade from Morata/ Lacazette (in m… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 35 |
 Pierce34 | Best time for free hit chip With the free hit chip, I'm genuinely more excited about a potential big blank GW than by a bumper DGW with bench boost! Nothing better than a starting XI from sh!t teams with no consequences hit-w… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 56 |
 Salarrivederci | Time to break free of Salah? Has the time finally come to ditch Salah and break free from the flock? I want to point out, that this first and foremost addresses the 9% of the managers who got rid of Salah before this GW. Sal… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 109 |
 Jigger & Pony | Aguero Planning Are you planning to get Aguero after the Pool - City game? If yes, how will you accommodate him? A. Kane - Aguero - Firmino B. Sell Kane for his tough fixtures C. Sell Firmino D. Not getting Ague… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 69 |
 gunner 2727 | Solving the Controversial Assist Conundrum CONTROVERSIAL ASSIST SOLUTION It really is a big annoyance to a lot of FPL players. Mainly because it is such a big difference in say if you've captained Kane last night or kdb... ie a big swing i… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 122 |
J0E | Top differentials for the New Year Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Top differentials for the new year. Looking at FPL’s ownership statistics it struck me that there are plenty of excellent low owned players about (in le… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 67 |
 Sánchez | What is each chip worth? How valuable is each chip? Assuming you maximise each. TC: assuming you TC a dgw player like Kane this week. You get 2 extra sets of points over what you have if you just regular captain him. Thou… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 33 |
 FPL ZB | Festive Fixtures - Too Much of a Good Thing I've actually found FPL exhausting over the Xmas period. Can barely focus at work today thinking about the next few days matches, the FA cup will be a relief for once | 8 years, 2 months ago | 72 |
J0E | Gameweek 23 Early Planning Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 23 early planning With many of our teams focused on the current double Gameweek it can be easy to forget the coming Gameweek. Some have played F… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 69 |
 Mark | Today's Site Issues Massive apologies for the issues with the site this morning. We made some changes to our server structure a month ago but only now, under increased traffic, has it become an issue. We spotted t… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 32 |
J0E | Dgwk 22 captaincy plans Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Happy new year everyone Who are you captaining this Double Gameweek and why? And is anyone using the Triple Captain chip? | 8 years, 2 months ago | 43 |
 noquarternt | Warning for Dgwk 22 free hitters Free Hitters Have you really thought this through? Have a quick look at the GW31 fixtures, now remember that the FA Cup quarters are played on the same weekend, requiring a rescheduling for any te… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 57 |
 @ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW 22 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 22 In Poland and I didn’t realise next GW is tomorrow... I know results are behind, it’ll be caught up shortly - sorry! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those o… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 37 |
J0E | Finalising your DGWK 22 Plans Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Finalising your DGWK plans By tomorrow's deadline we have to finalise our DGWK 22 side. There's not much time left to make changes and get our plans in pla… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 111 |
J0E | Gameweek 21 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 8 years, 2 months ago | 80 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW 21 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 21 Two GWs behind but will catch up.. apologies! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you who haven't been around or aren't aware, every evening prior to the s… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 36 |
J0E | Kane illness Kane illness Has the Kane illness news altered your Gameweek 22 plans. Will you reconsider triple captaining him? Are non owners considering shunning him? | 8 years, 2 months ago | 63 |
J0E | Gameweek 20 Rough with the Smooth Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 20 Rough with the Smooth Let's hear your tales of woe and joy here. | 8 years, 2 months ago | 72 |
 A.T | Friday pressers 08:30 - Hughes 09:00 - Allardyce and Howe 12:30 - Pochettino 13:00 - Wagner 13:15 - Conte 13:30 - Guardiola, Mourinho, Silva, Klopp, Pardew, Benitez and Moyes | 8 years, 2 months ago | 11 |
 G-Whizz | GW21 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds GW21 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week saw Liverpool (506DS) beat Swansea 5-0, Chelsea (461DS) beat Brighton 2-0, Manchester City (416DS) beat Newcastle 1-0 with Tottenham (395DS) … | 8 years, 2 months ago | 16 |
A.T | Thursday's Press Conferences Thursday pressers 1200 - Jurgen Klopp 1315 - Sean Dyche 1330 - Claude Puel 1400 - Mauricio Pellegrino 1400 - Chris Hughton 1400 - Leon Britton | 8 years, 2 months ago | 4 |
J0E | Best Spurs Mids for DGWK 22 Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Which Spurs midfielders do you think are the best to own for DGWK 22 and why? Given Kane is likely to be in most sides, will you be looking to treble up on… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 75 |
 ChelseaGuy | Effective Ownership explained Thought I'd write about this as there are quite some people on here who doesn't fully understand the concept What is Effective Ownership? It's just the Total ownership of a player taking into acco… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 33 |
 Bolivian Seaman | January Window Wishlist January transfer window What do you expect to see? All 'Pool fans are expecting Coutinho to leave but the papers think it will be in January What happens to Ozil and Sanchez? Will it be a quiet … | 8 years, 2 months ago | 34 |
 IRBOX ⚽ | Ditching Eden is Hazardous The irony of FPL points. I have seen a lot of posts slating Hazard for his recent performances. 2 of his ‘blanks’ actually earned him man of the man honours and was incredibly unlucky for his e… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 48 |
J0E | Gameweek 20 Lessons So Far Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 20 Lessons Learned So Far What key lessons have you learned so far in Gameweek 20. Here’s a few to get the discussion started Kanexit regrets… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 42 |
Ludo | Kane in numbers Harry Kane's 2017 (excluding his one sub appearance after an injury): 35 starts 39 goals 7 assists 44 bonus 284 FPL points 8.1 PPG He scored 10 points or more in fourteen matches - 40% of the tim… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 33 |
J0E | Gameweek 20 captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are captaining this Gameweek and why? | 8 years, 2 months ago | 69 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge - GW 20 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 20 As you can probably imagine due to holiday season GW19 results aren’t currently available, but will be tomorrow! ****** WHAT IS IT? ****** For those of you… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 33 |
 Pochecinno | Record Breaker Kane Relentless? Cannot look beyond Kane for the captaincy. Has everyone forgotten how crazy he went at the end of last season in his quest for the golden boot? (The very reason, I might add, why he was priced so h… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 24 |
 TopMarx | Kanexit examined (Top 5 Career Hall of Fame GW19 Review) I've written a Gameweek 19 review, you can read it here http://bit.ly/2ptVEqK hope you find it interesting 🙂 Have a wonderful Christmas! | 8 years, 2 months ago | 28 |
Ludo | A safe pair of hands to hammer home your dgw With West Ham's defence improving generally under David Moyes (despite yesterday's setback), and a DGW on the horizon, there's been plenty of investment in their defence by fantasy managers. In pa… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 13 |
G-Whizz | Doosra's Festive Stat Attack GW20 DS Stats, Clean Sheet and Fixture Odds. Last week there was only one fixture that stood out and with a towering DS of 542 Manchester City duly beat Leicester City 4-1 http://www.fantasyfootb… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 42 |
ChelseaGuy | GW20 Captains Assessed Looking at the main Captain Options - GW20 Sterling form - 11.3 ppg form (A) - 8 ppg Aguero form - 7.66 ppg form (A) - 8 ppg 6Goals in last 2 PL matches vs Newcastle Loves Newcastle - 11G in 9 ap… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 28 |
 Billfred | DGWK 22 Shopping List Which Spurs and West Ham players is everyone looking for the DGW? I’ve already got Kane and Masuaku and am looking at getting a Spurs defender and midfielder with no points hits. I think a centr… | 8 years, 2 months ago | 52 |
J0E | Gameweek 19 Rough with the Smooth Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Gameweek 19 Rough with the Smooth Feel free to share your tales of woe and joy here. | 8 years, 2 months ago | 117 |
J0E | Gameweek 20 Planning Gameweek 20 Planning What are you key plans for Gameweek 20? Should all your players come through Gameweek 19 unscathed - who will you be bringing in, or moving out? And who will you be captai… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 46 |
@ocprodigy | Scout Picks Challenge GW19 SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 19 It happened. It took awhile...but we're caught up on results people! Although sorry this is opening a bit later than usual... GW15: http://www.fantasyfootballs… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 31 |
 Your Mum's Athletic | Scouting Manchester United I was at Bristol City vs Manchester United (I'm a Manc fan) on Wednesday and as I'm bored at work, thought I'd share some of my thoughts: - Romero - was fairly solid but at 1-1 the ball comes to h… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 54 |
J0E | Gameweek 19 Captaincy Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who are you captaining this Gameweek and why? | 8 years, 3 months ago | 57 |
 Twisted Saltergater | Kanexit revisited Fantasy football is clearly a game of opinions and there's still the camp that is holding Kane until the double GW22. I've looked at it and have trouble understanding why you would keep Kane for t… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 58 |
J0E | Gameweek 19's Best Differentials Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Who will be Gameweek 19's best differential and why? | 8 years, 3 months ago | 83 |
 TorresMagic™ | Morata - Keep Or Sell? Morata : Keep or Sell? | 8 years, 3 months ago | 61 |
IRBOX ⚽ | The Case for Kane (c) v Burnley Seriously is nobody considering Kane captaincy? Burnley will be weak at the back and are always vulnerable with the way they sit back defensively. Yes they are structured but they concede a lot of … | 8 years, 3 months ago | 48 |
J0E | Kanexit v Kaneremaining Fantasy Football Scout daily hot topic Kanexit v Kaneremaining With 61,000 transfers out Harry Kane is among the top ten most unpopular players in FPL’s market this week. Are you are Kanexiter… | 8 years, 3 months ago | 153 |