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As a neutral this is a fantastic game. 

On 21/01/2024 at 19:48, Jonesy7211 said:

Does anybody find incoming transfer bids random? Into my 4th season, and every year I'll get loads of offers for one player that is well below market value. This season it's Kamara. His value is around £80-90mil, but Real Madrid and Liverpool keep making offers of £38 mil. Happened the season before with Dougie too. I've checked the transfer status page and the value is not specified, like most players. 4 years on his contract too. However most players that are first team I'll sell for more than they're worth. Arsenal took McGinn for £64 mil, and I signed Tierney in the 2nd season, end of the season Al-Hilal took him for £90mil.

Just seems too random.

There are a lot of issues with transfers for me. Especially with low rated players I could get 15-20 offers for a player in the one transfer window and he rejects everyone of them.

Sometimes when I negotiate for players I offered slightly below their value and they turn around and massively increase their prize. Fir instance I offer 2.75 million for a 3 million player and they come back and tell me they cant take lower than 17 million.

And finally negotiate a new contract with a player and he accepts it but it doesnt update and he leaves on a free transfer.

2 minutes ago, KAZZAM said:

Surely that's a yellow atleast. 

I dont know where the ref saw the wrap he mentioned twice there at the end. A big slice of luck there for Wales.

As a neutral I think the ref has been a bit one sided at times towards South Africa. Couple of descisions they've been allowed.

The red card being a huge one.

5 hours ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

I've been playing Overcooked with my lad and it's an infuriating game lol

Same here. Especially when hes doing something daft.

I have to remember i m playing the game for him then.

33 minutes ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

It looks awful. 1st rule of Space is always,  don't know,  touch it.

I liked the way she stopped just before the glass at the start upside down in a place with no friction or gravity.  A Marvel in its self.

Who do they want to see this film,  this is going to bomb bad IMO.

The CGI and backdrops,  Red Dwarf Series 2 looked a lot better.

I agree I didnt really want to say it but it looks terrible. Sort of like a kids comedy.

On 11/04/2023 at 14:08, Chindie said:

 

Very mixed on this. Looks almost to much of a comedy.

Sadly this looks dead in the water.

Saying that it didnt look very inspiring at all.

Again brilliant listen. Comes across as a really likeable and genuine bloke.

Was really extremely badly treated by Villa for all the loyalty he showed them.

A nice little discussion on the acadamey on the For the Love of Paul McGrath podcast this week.

4 hours ago, duke313 said:

Don't know how he saved that header from Collins in the last few minutes.

Why couldnt they have kept Loris as number 1 for a few more games.

Very strange descions in the game to.

Ederson gets away with a clear foul 2 foot in front of the ref and then Grealish with a terrible dive in the box no booking.

Thats never a red. He pushes him first on the shoulder.

I d be livid if a player on our team got sent off for that.

On 20/02/2023 at 10:58, TheMelvillan said:

Servant season 4 now on Apple. Love this show but gonna wait til all released before diving in

Also, if anyone watched the comedy Party Down a few years ago a new series of it is - unexpectedly - coming out soon

Binged the Servant last week and now have to wait till the series to finish. Enjoyed it.

Hes under a lot of pressure already

Just now, Rustibrooks said:

Uruguay are chasing the ref down smh 

In fairness there were some strange penalty descisions.

Terrible reffing at the end. Just why would you do that.

1 hour ago, GarethRDR said:

Transfer deadline day has been pointless/broken for selling players since it's implementation however many iterations ago.  Unless you have offers accepted with at least 6 hours to go, you're not selling anyone.  It happens to be full-on broken for American/South American Leagues as well, every player sale I've ever agreed during January deadline day playing in those leagues falls through without fail.

And it should be a simple fix to get rid of it but it theres year after year.

I always invest heavily in my scouts but rarely pays dividends while i m using a decent team like Villa. The players take years to even get to the basic level of the team you have. There should be the odd rough diamond if your scouting set up is good enough.

As a player who only plays career mode a lot of the same annoying broken things still carry over.

Trying to sell a weaker player in my team and I have accepted about 10 bids already and the negotiations between the player constantly break down.

Getting a load of offers for my players the day after the transfer window closes.

Players looking for a new contract but you cant offer them one due to their age (Ashley young in my case). So constant reminders and messages from the board and the player and there's nothing you can do. 

Some effort from Ireland so far . Hopefully we can keep it up.

On 14/07/2022 at 23:33, StewieGriffin said:

Mini bump...

Currently reading The Wheel of Time series - I assume others here have read them based on the comments I've seen on the rubbish Amazon adaptation, so rather than start a thread I thought Id come here. Im currently on book 4, Shadow Rising, so preferably no spoilers beyond that, but they are old books so I wont be too annoyed...

Is there a more irritating character in the whole series than Nynaeve? Christ what a moany trout she is. She thinks she's better than all the Emond's Field lot (and Elayne) for no reason other than she's older and therefore knows best despite the fact she cant even channel properly (although Im assuming that'll be resolved in time for her to save a major character). I'm assuming she has a big redemption arc at some point, but the mention of her name in a chapter fills me with annoyance. Id argue this is one of the few things Amazon got farly right, as her presence on screen annoyed me too.

At this stage (2/3 of the way through book 4) Id probably say Perrin, Matt, Moiraine and Thom are my favourite characters, and Lanfear sounds like an absolute pleasure to be turned to the Shadow by...

On the whole I'm enjoying it so far, although I do have reservations that 14 books is a lot - I already find myself switching off at points and missing a couple of things (I had to read parts of the chapter where Rand is in Rhuidean having his history lesson three times).

I ve read the series several times and on rereads there are a lot of sections I skip. Some of the middle books do drag a bit.

I m not sure Nynaeve changes that much over all. She can be a very annoying character at times. I found Egwene swayed that way as well.

Still a great series with some great scenes in it. Its a terrible pity he never got to finish it. I wasnt in love with Sandersons writing in the last few books.

What has happened to his pace. There was a moment in the first half he had a good ten yards on the defender but was caught.

I can’t remember the last time he properly skinned someone with speed. Is it a hangover from his injury or something more?

Ireland cruising at 2-0. Armenia drag it back to 2-2.

A 90th min Var penalty to Ireland. Two Armenians red carded in protest. 3-2 to Ireland.

A Scott Hogan star appearance and messing up a 1 on 1. Callum Robinson, Connor Hourihane all the villa classics.

International Football doesnt come better or worse than this.

Had some decent spells when he came on. Had a great effort to score well saved. Faded as the game went on as did most of Irelands players.

Tyreik Wright played at left back and was poor. Was exposed defensively a few times and took a terrible penalty in the shootout.

5 minutes ago, sheepyvillian said:

Whose "we"?

We the United Peoples front of Aston Villa.