Andrew

Well, FM20 is out and isn't very good. I mean, it's still FM and all that but the match engine this year, whatever they've changed, is awful. 1 on 1s are not chances to score, neither are penalties. Wingers don't cross, they either shoot from insane angles into the side netting or do nothing when they get to a position, literally just standing there til they get tackled. On my save the "club vision" has bugged somehow making it largely impossible to hold onto my job as the board want me to finish in two different league positions. If you've not bought it yet I'd wait for a few patches before taking the plunge.

I miss leazes mag

Bale speaks perfect Spanish, he just doesn't speak much in general and is quiet in the dressing room according to Alvaro Odriozola. I also don't see whats particularly wrong about a top level pro athlete having a schedule and sticking to it, going to bed at 11pm isn't exactly outrageous, Toni Kroos didn't go to that dinner either. I honestly don't get the hate here, people just regurgitating sun level "outrage" about a bloke.

Perhaps, but hes been given very little respect by Real Madrid and their fans since they signed him, and particularly in the last couple of years.

Yeah, but he's taking the piss out of Real Madrid. Which is fine. It's their own fault he's still on their books anyway.

Have fun.

It is indeed! ex-demo and therefore so inexpensive that it cost me a few hundred quid less to buy it, ship it here and pay the import on it than to buy one new in NZ. Cheers I don't post much on there, its entirely guitars and pictures of my wife. As for the guitars, early signs were a bit shite tbh, I got it out of the box and a string immediately popped out of the tuner which had not chance of getting back in, and of course I had no spares. Quick trip to the nearest shop before they closed, restring and the setup was terrible buzzing on every string for the first 5 frets or so. I was concerned. Bit of setting up to get it going (Its still not perfect, needs a truss rod tweak and some more adjustments) and my worries fell away. Frets are massive, ebony fret board is super smooth, neck is big but "modern" profiled, there is plenty of girth there but it has a nice flat feeling back, not too round or too thin. Locking tuners are great, restring took no time at all. The EMGs are Hetfields signature set, which is nice, no lower cost gubbins like some of the secondary brand guitars can have. I tried one in a shop when I went up to Auckland a month or so ago and loved the feel of it but it sounded like shit, which I suspected was due to the Orange crush something-or-other they plugged me into. I was right. The Kraken and this get on incredibly well, my modified Squier with the dimarzios sounds great through that setup but this has just got so much power in it. Surprisingly I can go from full high gain chug on the bridge pickup to a rolled back (two volume controls, no tone) neck pickup and it actually cleans up staggeringly well, I wasn't expecting quite such a range from these based on my experience of active EMGs before, I was expecting all grunt all the way until the volume went off. Its good.

Oh it is definitely a turd

New day, new seating for Tom to enjoy!

I disagree

Just made a slightly silly order from GuitarGuitar which their quite ambitious shipping estimator reckons will be in New Zealand on Friday. So I guess we'll see

To give credit where its due our form has really improved since Steve Bruce admitted his own tactics didn't work and that he'd have to revert back to Benitezs style of play. 10 points from 15 available since then where prior to that we'd managed 5 from 21 including getting smashed by Leicester, losing to the team currently rooted to the foot of the table and been knocked out of the cup.

Its definitely VAR thats done it, not total footballing apathy KD is right anyway, VAR at the world cup and in europe is doing fine, the PL (initials a coincidence? I think NOT!) have implemented it in a nonsensical way.

1. Wyki has nailed that one. 2. Hes shite, we're shite, we're less than the sum of our parts with him in charge while we were more under Rafa. There is no "yet you have beaten spurs..." point to be made, Spurs are all over the place this season and we were lucky, failing to win since is the norm based on our manager and our performances. 3. If you think "news of a takeover" means we're going to be taken over you haven't been paying attention. It is interesting actually if that question is a window into the minds of other clubs fans. This is the 4th "takeover" in 18 months and all any of them have done is provided ashley with an excuse not to spend any money. he has no intention of selling to anything less than a total lunatic who will give him a fortune and let him keep his grubby hands in on advertising his shit brands and retail. 4. Ideally our new owner could somehow take us slightly back in time and get hold of the wildly successful manager we had last season. Failing that I've no idea, as Wyki says, avoid the jobs for the cunts old british manager merry-go-round and I'll be happy enough. 5. Under a manager with a plan I'd have been gutted to see him go and see us miss out on a talented midfielder, under this melted wax faced prick it I'd be desperate to get out if I were him, if hes here beyond this season hes finished as a "prospect" and will stay at his current level. If he goes somewhere where he gets well coached and gets games he'll comfortably be an international. 6. Pointless, couldn't care less. 7. I actually can't pick one from the time before Ashley, there were a lot. Since then I'd say beating you 3-0 in 11/12. That season was a fun ride, manager and owner both wankers but we had such a good team to watch. I really enjoyed us beating Rodgers swansea that season too, they were the least interesting team to watch in the world, passing sideways with god knows how much possession for the whole match and never made a chance. 8. Under current management, none of them. As individuals on their own merits, Schar is our best player (imo) Maximin seems fun and Almiron may eventually get a bit of luck and start doing something. 9. You'll be lucky to be in europe next season, we'll be lucky to be in this league. 10. Honestly don't care. 11. You're sort of crap, but we're really crap. We'll make you look good.

Seems a simple question, did he answer it?

Good talk, catch up soon. *makes mental note never to come back to this tesco*

Ah not bad you know, how you doing? Been up to much?

And the front cover has Rondon, Perez and Schar on it.

I see we're being taken over again

8 months? Is that all?

Michael Owen doesn’t understand that team sport isn’t all about him, what coaches are, what coaching is for or what preseason is. No wonder his career evaporated when his natural attributes deserted him.

He had a lot of injuries from 17 years old to 20 which I guess have ruined his development.

Anyone able to photoshop out the SD signs on Diegos picture? Might make a nicer keepsake without the tat.