Nick

@fpldinner It is lazy just having the same ones both halves.

@NickTriggerlips I expected more from Mark. It’s very underwhelming.

Fpl chips are so boring, why have the same ones first and second half? Plus we all know it means woldcard week efore double, benchboost double, everykne has same team, utter yawnfest

@JamesLucasIT So what was the Roman method?

For decades, the greatest church in Florence stood open to the sky. There was a hole at its centre, forty-five metres across, and nobody alive knew how to close it… They had done it on purpose. A model approved in 1367 called for a dome wider than any built since ancient Rome, and the Florentines put up the walls anyway, leaving the problem to whoever came next. The Roman method had been lost for a thousand years. Every dome since had been raised on centering, an enormous wooden scaffold built underneath to hold the masonry until it set. For a span this size, no forest in Tuscany could supply the timber. So the cathedral waited, with rain falling into it… In 1418 the city announced a competition. A goldsmith named Filippo Brunelleschi told them he would build the dome with no centering at all. The masonry would hold itself up as it rose. Many of his contemporaries decided he was a lunatic. One rival, Giovanni da Prato, wrote a public sonnet calling him a "dark, deep wellspring of ignorance" and a "miserable and imbecile beast," and rashly promised to kill himself if the plan ever worked. Brunelleschi answered with a sonnet of his own, advising him to destroy his poems, "lest they sound ridiculous when all the dancing starts, in celebration of that which he now thinks impossible." It took sixteen years. Over four million bricks, laid in a herringbone pattern so each ring locked and carried itself, in two shells, one inside the other, weighing something over twenty-five thousand tons. He designed the hoists that lifted the materials, machines Leonardo da Vinci would later sit and copy into his notebooks. It was finished in 1436. Six hundred years later it is still the largest masonry dome on earth… The director Franco Zeffirelli, a Florentine, once said what that dome does to a person who looks up at it: "When I feel depression creeping in, I return to Florence to gaze at Brunelleschi's dome. If human genius was able to achieve something so great, then I too can and must try to create, to act, to live."

@fplblackbox_az The entire squad is B Team

“England has a DNA problem” Plays the B team in a World Cup game. Mans got to go.

@NZFPL1 At least benching de cuyper didnt hurt, good goal by Just, someone should snap him up

@NickTriggerlips Mate we so bad even Lukaku can score against us

Has anyone else forgot to make subs in this tournament, or am i the only idiot Troosard and de cuyper firmly on the bench Tournament over

@NZFPL1 Gutting as was doing quite well, and de cuyper and trossard both in the money Trying not to give myself a slap 🤣😂 it just slipped my mind, need to set alarms

@NickTriggerlips Ouch yeah easily done aye with games so often

@fplblackbox_az You have to concentrate, no half watching. Pays to have a notebook and write down who everyone is as other wise you might end up confused

About to start Dark S1E1, worth it?

FPL Community reaction to the Fixtures for 26/27 youtu.be/6Uk_XOFoKXg?si… via @YouTube

@RobertoHollis9 is doing his World Cup predictions live now. youtube.com/live/ViuhiTmkt…

Why FPL needs the scouting bonus youtu.be/vpIklhC_n14?si… via @YouTube

World cup fantasy, looks great youtu.be/EhspKV5BJ00?si… via @YouTube

World cup fantasy is open, it like FPL except better rules and not full of solvers. Should be fun

FPL GW 38 REVIEW youtu.be/Fj_hPkYTiWM?si… via @YouTube

@FPL_Marcello That team is not winning anything this summer

Name a player you would replace and I'll tell you why that shouldn't happen

A Reflection on EPL & FPL in 2026: The modern Premier League is facing a massive tactical crisis. The beautiful game is being replaced by a hyper optimized, elite low block. Teams have realized they don't need to take a risk and play open, expansive football when defending as a unit is the ultimate weapon. Open play goals are plummeting as a result, turning matches that used to be wide open thrillers into slow burn chess games won entirely on dead ball situations. We honestly have to congratulate Arsenal here. You have to be happy for them, they fundamentally altered the tactical DNA of English football. They looked at the league and decided to weaponize structure. Between a suffocating defensive shape and weaponizing corner kicks, they've mastered a way to win without needing to take too much risk. It is a mechanical, brilliant masterclass from Arteta. However, let's be completely real, is it fun to watch? I don't even watch the first half of Arsenal games anymore because it'll only be 0-0 or 1-0 by the 50th minute anyway, so I wouldn't have missed much! 🤷‍♂️ This tactical shift is completely breaking Fantasy Premier League. Since Prem managers are turning ultra defensive and the FPL points system now gives extra points for Defensive Contributions (DEFCON), the temptation to play more than two strikers is basically dead (maybe it was dying anyway). Literally only three strikers have 15 plus goals this season (Haaland, Thiago and Joao Pedro). There just aren't many reliable forward assets who easily drop 15 plus goals a season anymore like we used to rely on. We essentially have to buy into the DEFCON points machine and breathe it in. If you can't beat them, join them. FPL is evolving and becoming more optimal, so you gotta adjust too! If this points structure is here to stay next year, which only @FFScout_Mark would know, the data algorithms are getting a massive, permanent advantage over the average FPL manager. The entire world of the game is changing around us. FPL is becoming completely algorithmic and optimal. Set piece takers, DEFCON merchants, 90 minute defensive floors... this is exactly what the data models crave, and it's created a completely rigid, optimal way to play the game. Look at the space now. @LetsTalk_FPL has basically become a model review merchant and @FPLFocal exactly the same. @Pras_fpl has his own affiliate website following these trends with @SolioAnalytics too. I'm sure other CCs will follow suit, as these guys are the best! All the best FPL managers in the world are obsessed with these predictive models to remain hyper optimal. Who can even blame them, if it's giving good results? Of course, xmins predictions will always be the skill, but this isn't the game that I used to love. I loved FPL for its fun and chaos. In addition, the average FPL player is just much more informed, meaning the actual edge you get from using these models yourself is going to rapidly decrease. The content creators will just pump out the exact data from whatever models they use directly to the masses next season, if they haven't been doing it already this year. Are we trapped in a permanent era where football and FPL are just about whoever holds the best defensive solidity? Only time will tell. All I know is this version of FPL isn't the one that I love. FPL is so concerned about creating a game that helps market the Premier League, so at the core of it, the engaged fanbase isn't its target market. So they don't care about us. How long am I going to put up with playing a game that I love and I've filmed on multiple YouTube channels and posted thousands of tweets about, but I'm losing the fun and enjoyment over? Yes, green arrows are fun, but I remember wanting to own attacking differentials to climb the ranks, but now it'll be defensive beasts and DEFCON merchants that will be key to FPL success. Are you really going to watch Premier League football and want to watch a DEFCON merchant from a below average team just to get his DEFCON points? Where's the enjoyment in watching that? I don't get it. I used to love FPL, but it's changing and I think it's changing for the worse. Regardless, I have 1 conclusion. The advancement of AI has impacted every industry, including FPL, so wake up and smell the coffee. If you're not leveraging AI in your day-to-day, you are really falling behind and that goes as well for FPL. I just didn't want the 1 game that I love to change, and maybe I'm just a FPL romantic or maybe I'm just getting older now, but I loved the way things used to be. Now there's less enjoyment. FPL is becoming boring and I only played FPL so I could get more enjoyment from watching the football. Sooo... I think next season will be my last FPL season. I just know there are diminishing returns in terms of how much time I invest into this game, so I don't think it's worth the effort and energy to look for differentials to beat the template because I just don't think it's worth the risk anymore. I don't even ENJOY it. I used to love watching differential assets like Raphinha at Leeds or Mane at Liverpool and waiting for a good fixture run so I could double up with Bamford + Raphinha or Salah + Mane, but I just don't know if this is optimal FPL anymore. It is just sad and I think it might be my last season next year. Maybe I'm over-exaggerating? Maybe I will still continue to play the game, but the time and effort I spend on it will be cut by 50% every year until it's once again worth putting more effort in. At the end of the day, we play a game to enjoy it, but I just haven't been enjoying it that much this season.

@FPL_Jordi @FPLNightmare @FPLD_Unit Parrot is winning big cup

Cracking watch Gents. Thank you for all your positivity and showing this game is about having fun. Good luck in the cup final @FPLNightmare 🤞. Great work Gary. You and the boys do a great job 👏 @FPLD_Unit @NickTriggerlips 👍

Please join us at 6pm on Wednesday where myself, @NickTriggerlips, @FPLNightmare and @FPLD_Unit will be discussing the best GW38 differentials and revealing our teams and transfer plans in the race to avoid the dreaded FPL Pubcast Wooden spoon! 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=8Ig9N_…

FPL GW 37 review youtu.be/X6Cqb-pSvqE?si… via @YouTube

@rebekkarnold Sunderland followed by Brentford and Tottenham are the obvious ones, much more unlikely than Bournemouth