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Congrats @Harry on the second. I'm still on the first, but we have briefly discussed #2. Here are some recent photos of my little one, the wife, and myself.

Baby #2 due 10th January!

The gift that keeps on giving is Brian. Crying over people’s rep levels

Worth the investment given Messi plays for free

Interesting, we should try swapping Darmian+Jones for Messi.

No Chris, this wasn't taken by me, but it's from a sun and moon bear sanctuary in my local wildlife rescue center. Over 120 rescued sun and moon bears are being cared for here, among other animals. Some are just tiny cubs... I'm sponsoring a clouded leopard and one of the community ranger stations monthly, they are doing a really great job rescuing animals and protecting the rainforest against poachers and illegal loggers ...

New season same old shit...but it's good to have football back and good to have Brentford back. I've not been this excited for a season since we went up...obviously last season looked like it could have been a good one for us at the beginning when we still had Jota in the side, but he left, so did Colin and Dean. We struggled to adapt but once we did we performed comfortably like a play-off team for the rest of the season, just couldn't make up on the lost ground from the beginning. Transfers In: Ezri Konsa - £2.57m Julian Jeanvier - £1.80m Said Benrahma - £2.60m Marcus Forss - Promoted from B Team Transfers Out: John Egan - £4m Florian Jozefzoon - £2.79m-£3m Konstantin Kerschbaumer - £900k Andrea Bjelland - Free Ilias Chatzitheodoridis - Free Maupay/Watkins/Forss Watkins/Benrahma - Sawyers/Marcondes - Canos/Ogbene/Judge McEachran/Yennaris - Mokotjo/Macleod Henry/Barbet - Jeanvier/Konsa - Mepham/Sorensen - Dalsgard/Clarke Bentley/Daniels This team is probably one of the most complete teams we've ever had, considering most of our shelf life has been League 1 and League 2....it's probably a stronger squad than what got us to the play-offs. We lost two centre backs, Bjelland to a free and Egan for a cushty fee...have brought in an England youth international in Konsa and supposedly experienced and "highly rated" defender in Jeanvier. We are expected to have to put up a fight to keep Chris Mepham with Leicester and Bournemouth both interested, but even if we lose him that brings us down to 4 centre backs so I think we're prepared. I've not included Woods into the above because he's definitely expected to leave, but he'd generally be a first team who'd rotate on busy weeks with Nico, Kamo and McEachran. Expect to see Macleod in a more advanced position throughout the season. If there was a season to put money on us it'll be this season, we're buying well now and selling even better. Egan for £4m, Woods for £7m and Watkins and Mepham if they do go to go for £15m a piece. We're don't have any proven, get out of this division 20+ goal forwards. But Maupay, Watkins, Marcondes, and Sawyers are all coming off of the back of promising seasons with more development in them and then the likes of Canos, Judge and Benrahma all seem to have the talent, just need to find the consistency. I'm not sure automatics will be on the cards for us this season as I think we'll end up in the play offs, but I think we'll go through periods where everything clicks and we blow whoever is infront of us away.

And here's me with the other one

Does anyone still plays SNES games on emulator

I have never seen or heard of them before, either! Haha I really don't do much at all, just donate a few dollars monthly here and there, and take part in a nature photographer's club of sorts... Love having the options though, the nature here is so abundant and fascinating. EDIT: you and Chris both should come and take a tour

Well I have never seen or heard of one of them before.... Very striking colours.. Love that name.. Golden Moon Bear, sounds very mystical Good for you.... If I had never had the commitments I have I would have been happy to dump the daily grind and the money and go and do something wildlife related somewhere in the world...

It's a golden Moon bear, an extremely rare genetic colour phase, her name is Brandy She was rescued from a forested area which was due to be converted to a palm oil plantation some twenty years ago, and then was brought to the sanctuary.

Like that idiot who thought it would be a good idea to get out of his car and try take a selfie with one then gets mauled to death.... What is that a bear??? looks like some genetic mix up with a Lion... nice picture though

I haven't paid for a haircut in over 6 years.

How about this one?

Think Fekir will be used as a #9 the more I think about it. Especially if Batshuayi goes. Nonetheless, even if we don't get him its been a pretty good window for our standards. Kovacic/Barkley--------------Kante/Loftus-Cheek/Fabregas Jorginho/Fabregas/Ampadu

Yeah I think if you call someone a melt, say they're making themselves look like a twat and that you hope they live on the streets I'd be getting pretty touchy too but that's just my opinion.

How does someone come out with shit like this unprovoked against an admin then complain he gets picked on by the staff?

Kovačić is a high energy midfielder which will compliment the two (Jorginho and Kanté)... It's what Napoli were missing with the Jorginho, Allen and Hamšik midfield. Allen didn't have the quality necessary to make it all a clean middle of the park.

He looked like a child but outclassed the men, did look decent!

How much does everyone pay for their hair cut? I only pay a tenner and been with same hairdressers since I was a kid. I bet @SirBalon goes for a blow and dry and that isn't only a haircut. Can imagine he pays about 100 quid for the privilege...

Puig looks like a child, definitely needs some of Messi's growth hormones. There was a moment against AC Milan where someone's arm rubbed Puig's face and he went down to the floor and done about 10 rolls before mustering the strength to get up off the ground, definitely has that Barce DNA.

£18.9m I believe.

IGN, you cheeky fuckers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/08/07/ign-investigating-dead-cells-review-allegedly-plagiarized-by-its-nintendo-editor/#db807b1422e6

My thoughts on WWE since WrestleMania: Raw sucks and no sign of it getting better, SmackDown is okay and could get a lot better. Raw - I've never liked Braun Strowman, Alexa Bliss has been boring for a long time, they still won't try something different with Reigns, Lashley is ten times worse than Reigns, they've ruined Sasha Banks and Bayley, Kurt Angle is an idiot, Lesnar should've lost the title long ago and the whole main event has suffered because he hasn't, their tag division is laughably bad, they've made Kevin Owens into a complete joke, same with Sami Zayn, don't care about Corbin, Balor is dead, Matt Hardy is dead, Bray Wyatt is dead, their commentary team is fucking annoying with the 3 just arguing with each other none stop BUT maybe they'll have Seth Rollins save the main event, hopefully McIntyre is set for a big push and Rousey is actually entertaining when she's beating people up. SmackDown - Carmella shouldn't be champion, they've ruined Asuka BUT Becky Lynch seems set to win the women's title, Nakamura as a heel is great, The Miz vs. Daniel Bryan has started, AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe set to happen (hopefully), Andrade Cien Almas push will be interesting, Orton being a crazy heel again will be fun, Rusev is always entertaining, and there's a lot they can do with the tag division if they wanted to with the Bludgeon Brothers, Usos, New Day, Sheamus&Cesaro, The Club & Sanity. In the words of Matt Hardy, Raw should be.... DELETED!

TBH mate the only major press we've had has been about not being able to hold onto a lead and that happened at the QPR game which was actually quite a while after we gave up so many leads. People generally expect us to get relegated more than anything. Though you are spot on about our recruitment process and if we lose Woods it will be a blow but also I expect us to replace him (and sell for big money too). I think we'll lose Woods and Mepham (walks this division and he's not even played a full season yet) to Premier League clubs, Mepham definitely. The one I really hope we keep is Romaine Sawyers, he is just too good. Florian Jozefzoon will have a year on his contract and has been one of our better players, so he's another I'd like to see stay. I think we could be making in the £15m-£25m bracket per player this Summer, Mepham I think will go for £20m at least. Ha lucky bastard.