Does Toon/Fulham Really Constitute a Double?

My inclination is to say "NO" emphatically. Now, if Souey promised to play Robert for all 90 minutes of both games, there might be something to get excited about but the prospect of rolling out any combination of Shearer, Amiobi, Milner, Ambrose et al. even getting two games to everyone else's one just doesn't get me too excited. I'm as big a fan of probability and risk mitigation as anyone but my gut is telling me that they're all bad bets. This is the moral equivalent of splitting 5s in blackjack - you can do it and, theoretically, you have more chances to win, but no one that knows anything about blackjack does it.

That said, here we go on line-ups for the week:

Strikers
Boa Morte - Hoping Fulham scores in both games (which is always a doubt) and LBM has at least one good game in two. Might switch to AJ
Roonaldo - Even when he doesn't score a miraculous goal, he's putting up lots of phantom points which is good because the only way ManYoo is scoring these days is via miracle goals
FAS Dean Ashton - Hello Southampton...

Midfielders
Lampard - no brainer
Cahill - I like the Fulham match-up
Downing - Liverpool have been terrible so far after mid-week games and they will undoubtedly be resting up the studs for the Tuesday rematch with Chelsea
MGP - the late season hero?

Defenders
Cole - vs. WBA seems like a good bet
Quedrue - see Downing above
Nelsen - no reason to stop now

Keeper
Lehman - see Cole, Ashley although Jones from Middlesboro is an intriguing option as well - I'm sure I'll waffle between the two freqently over the next 12 hours

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