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Puddin coming on well, ordered this for our daughter as a present for the kitten.

Fuck FSG, I was a lot more tolerant of them being greedy dickheads up until they tried to fuck up European football with the Super League. They’ve got a long way to go before they’re forgiven and that’s forgotten.

Buddy the Gecko having her afternoon stroll, the daughter let her out of her glass air-conditioned enclosured to stretch her legs plus she is shedding her old skin, she will soon have a playmate with wee Puddin when he arrives. She even likes watching tv.

Imagine defending FSG after the Super League debacle. Astounding.

I know you've got your annual 'I hate FSG' hat on, but haven't you learnt anything over the past few years? We have consistently signed players under the radar..Fabinho.. Jota... for example. I wouldn't be cry arsing about lack of signings just yet! You also presumably know that Anfield is being expanded as we speak? Money for that doesn't grow on trees! FSG have sanctioned bumper new deals for the core of our top players, which again.. doesn't come cheap. Every summer we have this and every autumn most people are happy with our business. I'll say again.. we are not Manchester City or Chelsea where money is no object.

Always. Great first event last week, it’s well worth it. 1.99 is insane, it will go up eventually and I’ll still subscribe. They have some decent content on there. Fight Camp in Matchroom Square Garden is brilliant. Best promotional team in the world. Agree about UFC, but you can never write Lewis off with what he’s come back from.

If you like Among Us... the next time we've got a new mafia game going in the games part of the forum, you should definitely give that a try. It's a bit like "old school Among Us" - it's very fun though.

Badass.

I've not been involved in any leadership roles because I've never thought to apply really, never wanted that from my career so far, but I've been involved in roles where I've been a trainer/the most experienced in a team. When I think about leadership I think about the worst bosses I've had, the middle of the road and the best. The worst have without doubt had no people skills whatsoever, just been really good at their job and are really productive but can talk to you like shit in an instant. The middle of the road bosses have been easy to work with, not stressful but also don't really get things done/seem to linger with your development. I would say in my working life so far, and all the jobs I've done, I've probably had 2 absolute genuinely great bosses and a couple after that, that are up there but not the best I've had. The main points about their leadership though is this: they're extremely honest and don't lead you on, they're genuinely interested in your life and you as a person (had one boss that went out of his way to essentially say good morning/good afternoon/have a chat with close to 100 people every day, because he genuinely wanted people to feel like the workplace was a good place to be), they treat you like adults, tell you what you're doing wrong as it needs to be said in a calm and concise way and have an action plan for you to turn it around...essentially they're not like a teacher with students, because some bosses can be really patronising and will talk down to you without you realising it.

My first bet of the season, a fiver on this. I expect West Brom and Ipswich to go well and the others should all be capable of the rest.

Definitely. I need to keep reminding myself of that as well, that it's a learning curve. I'm an Area Housing Manager. So now managing a team of 5 Housing Officers. Before I joined a lot of current managers and colleagues said that most of management is now what you know but just managing people and expectations. Definitely feeling that at the moment. In our general department it's absolutely manic right now - people off on sick, leave, family emergencies etc. In what is already a very busy environment, it's made worse when just a few people go off for any reason. Exacerbated a lot by pretty my triple that usual amount and some of it sudden. Times like this you just need to pull together and get through it. Hopefully come out the other side at some point not feeling too dead

Wait. They were separate members?

Interesting move by Turkey in Afghanistan, insisting on retaining a 600 force in Kabul airport. Most probably has something to do with pleasing and back deals with U. S. amid the deteriorating relations recently. U. S. was reaching out to all neighboring countries for bases and support but all denied. Taliban have categorically denied they won't accept presence of any NATO troops including Turkey. Turkey also has sound relations with warlord/ex President Dostum so probably want to keep their future interests in the region.

Such a shame what happened. RIP.

Galahad, Wardley, Babic, Bridges all by KO. PS there’s a boxing topic mate

End of a brilliant career...