Hi there and welcome to off the bench. I'm Sam from FPL family. I'm Andy, also known as

Sonaldo from FF Scout. Andy, Game Week

9 was a weekend of Hatrix. We had Trossard, we had Harlem, we have Foden, all taking home

the match ball this time around. We had amazing performances from the likes of Jarrah Bowen and Madison,

and the performances of Manchester City and Arsenal have left many managers in a bit of a quandary.

Do you take them, buy them, invest in them knowing that they blank in Game Week 12?

Do you hope that they don't return in the next few weeks when you own them?

It is a little bit difficult to manage right now in terms of FPL.

But how did things go for you in Game Week 9?

Surprisingly, Sam, Game Week 9 weren't really well.

You know, prior to the game week, just on paper, it seemed like the fixtures were going to be very tough.

But we came out with three hat tricks, which is crazy, two hatchicks in one game.

A lot of hurt managers in terms of non-Hallin captains, as well as very happy managers and

Halen captains. So very interesting that you mentioned the blank in Game Week 12, because

navigating the next three game weeks is going to be very difficult moving forward.

Yeah, I mean, I had a big decision to make over the international break as to whether

I was going to play my wild card or not. And eventually I settled on a strategy of rolling through and holding that until game

week 13. And in part that was to do with the Manchester City and the Arsenal assets.

I was looking at two derbies for them, thinking those are actually normally games, even though

difficult on paper, where there can be a lot of goals. And they're games where I often

really want to invest in players from those matches because there's that extra drive, passion,

determination that comes out of them. So going into that week, I had a lot of players kind of

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