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All good now. He was struggling to breathe for a bit and coughing sound like a dog barking. Gave him some oral steroids and sorted him right out. Got in about 2:30 this morning. I’d only got in at 10:30 from a full 11 a side game and was straight back out. Fucking knackered now

I really, really don't understand how someone can beat a person into a coma and not spend a single day in prison. I just read the article, and the main attacker is apparently an experience martial artist, which makes it even worse. To add to that, they even attacked his family, including women. Absolute scum.

Hope the public prosecutor lodge an appeal, and the sentence will be exacerbated.

Nothing new but I have been playing a lot more. Band is back in town so we met up last weekend to chalk out some stuff we want to do and we're back in a room this weekend to try and start things off again. There's a bit of a discussion about doing weddings and I am all for it if we can make it happen.

That’s @MUFC mate.

Not really - I think my last purchase was a few months ago, a Neural DSP amp sim for the computer (the John Petrucci one) after a few months of me trying out the Gojira one (which is a 5150 with EL34 valves - very nice). Between those 2 plugins I basically have all the tones and effects I'd really use. I sold my ESP because it wasn't getting much use now that I've got my Jackson, my JEM (both in standard tuning), the cheap Ibanez that I've modded the fuck out of (tuned to D standard), and my SG (this one gets it's tuning changed constantly because it doesn't have a trem so it's easy as fuck to set up in different tunings). And when I play with other people, I think my pedalboard doesn't really need any additions - I use all the pedals I have (except the phaser), perhaps a better delay pedal would be nice... but I honestly just mostly use the delay+reverb setting on my reverb pedal for my leads now and I'm well happy with that. I've mostly just been doing a shitload of boring exercises to make my technique better with a metronome. And writing/recording riffs. Haven't really recorded any solos at all yet because every time I record my lead playing, I end up hearing it back and cringing and deleting it Oh actually scratch that, I bought the EZ Drummer 3 update a couple weeks ago. Pretty significant upgrade on what was already really great midi drum software. I've not really used it all that much lately, but I've got some plans to with some of the riffs I record.

Good signing!

It's why you will never curb violent crime... Most times people get a slap on the wrist with some small inconvenience to their lives where the person who gets hurt may endure a lifetime of changes, whether that be physical or emotional

Probably... It's never been an easy job but with onside monitors and VAR in use at least if they make an informed decision and it's right a ref would be respected for that even if the losing side are not happy with the result, As it stands though they still come in for criticism for having all that technology and not using it properly...

Maybe it's just me, but there's something absolutely hilarious about him roasting Hamilton and then trying to spin it into a sympathetic observation with 'because that's so important to Lewis'.

Clear and obvious was laid out at the beginning but for some reason over here at least we have reduced it to millimetres to make decisions... Giving refs microphones could be a way forward like they do in Rugby or at the very least have both the ref and whoever is looking after VAR be available at the end of the match to discuss the decision making behind it. All the time they are not being challenged they are effectively being given a free pass to carry on as they see fit and as we know from experience this leads to erratic calls from one game to another.. I don't know how well implemented it is in other leagues around the world regarding the offside rule?? Is it the same or does it vary from league to league?? I appreciate that in European competition it has to be the same across the board for fairness but in the respective leagues it may be being managed differently... I don't watch enough Spanish/German/French football to comment in that regard..

The Honest Trailer for Top Gun is still the best of the series.

Yeah, nobody asked for every offside decision to be put under a microscope. It's the obviously wrong decisions that we could see on replay that had people annoyed and is where people thought referees could use the help and extra pair of eyes. A player's left nipple possibly being off by .01mm when the rest of him is on is not something anybody should have ever possibly contemplated with VAR... yet that's where we've seen officials focus. FIFA probably need to come in and give referees a set standard of what "clear and obvious" is meant to mean all around the world. Referees should be mic'd up, because even if people disagree with them... we should at least know the reasoning behind some of their decisions as it might make them more forgivable (we all make mistakes after all, if we can understand the rationale we can at least understand why a mistake was made in the first place). VAR was brought in to make their hard job easier - to provide assistance to the officials. Instead it's taken away my confidence in officials being able to make consistent decisions even with technological assistance.

Fake news.... That's just a Red Herring, It's the minions entrance This is the front door... They will need to shout though because the doorbells not working at the moment..

@Bluewolf, think they found the secret entrance to your villain's lair on Mars

I certainly don't think it's improved at all.... I would expect there to be issues in the beginning but season on season you would expect improvements no matter how small they are but some of the decisions or lack of in some cases are baffling... Also these elbow/toe offsides need to go as it does nothing for the good flow of football... clear and obvious should be clear and obvious, not 5 minutes of running a line down the screen to prove an attacker had his earlobe in an offside position...

Definitely. I dont want to excuse the officiating we've seen for the previous three seasons since VAR was introduced as its clearly been abysmal but the amount of rule changes he has made has only added to the problem by complicating officiating to the stage where nobody seems capable of memorising everything every season.

Well what a surprise...

Apparently Gravenberch and Mazraoui will be announced soon. heard nothing new on Laimer but now theres this @nudge

No they've been awful this season, I dunno if it's any worse than previous seasons but it's certainly not better. I still think there's no saving the officials in this country until Mike Riley has been loaded into a spaceship and shot into the sun. It's not hard to imagine why the referees are so poor when literally one of the worst top flight referees in our lifetimes is at the head of the officials in our country.

That was literally my first thought after reading John's post

I can imagine...

Nice, looks like a very solid transfer. Also gets bonus points for being called Amos!

9.. Did you get lot's of hand me downs???

of course the left in America is looking for anything to cling to, today's flavour of the month is the buffalo shooter who as it turns out hates conservatives and moderates, is more a Bernie boy and likes anarcho socialism. he believes Israel is controlling the world and is a neo Nazi. he wrote that when he grows up he wants to commit murder suicide, people said he was mentally not right yet he was released from a mental facility a year ago after threatening mass violance. of course president slomo and the left propaganda machine labelled him a conservative and blames fox, tucker, Shapiro, Peterson, the Easter bunny. fun fact he was a very liberal white supremacist who's actions are that of a demented person the stare released and his actions do not represent people on the left or the right. president slomo lied about unifying, the goal is identity politics to create fear, make people act irrationally in their fear and give absolute power to you. I've seen this movie it's called V for Vendetta. america is becoming a massive threat to the world, radical people are in control of one of the world's nuclear powers and are he'll bent on identity divisive agenda to tear down Western Civilization and push a Globalist agenda

Dangerous assault is a degree of assault, the most serious one, in German juristical terms.

Glad the wee man's ok and I guess it's worth being knackered for, put a couple of matchsticks under your eyes and knock back a few pints

A clear out might be too strong a term but some players will need to go and some will need to come in, yes. Conte has bought well in the Jan window but most of the success is that due to his quality of manager, he's been getting the absolute most out of the players he has which Nuno and Mourinho couldn't do. I think Doherty has earned a reprieve (although he needs competition) and Davies is a brilliant professional for the club but around four of five may need to be moved on. We don't get top four without Conte, basically, he's extracted everything that team has and a lot more to do it. Kulusevski and Romero will sign for us (they have been on loan) and we will probably end up with around four more. A lot of made of the money we spend but the biggest problem is who we spend it on. Romero and the two in the Jan window have worked out but a lot of players we sign for a big fees, we're looking to move on a year or so later and that is a terrible way to run a club. It's not good just haphazardly throwing things at a wall and hoping they stick, our signings have to be planned out. I think they will be this time. The CL (providing no ridiculous result on Sunday) is a massive, massive thing just in terms of this.

Everything ok buddy? just noticed this.

Hope all is okay @DeadLinesman

Hope hes alright mate

I think that’s how he lost his hair

So I kinda blew up last week.. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/angels/2022/05/12/uk-based-angels-fan-witnesses-reid-detmers-historic-no-hitter/9736390002/

Just reading that Dennis Waterman has passed away age 74 RIP.. The 'Sweeney' and 'Minder' were two of my favourite shows...

Apparently Nico was not holding back against Lewis all weekend.

Got an early birthday present. And no its not the bass its Marshall behind it.

Makes a change from them using thicker officials.

I don't think I've commented on this for a while. I think you just keep it with a few small changes: - Referee/linesman needs to commit to an on field decision before going to VAR. If 60 seconds isn't enough to find evidence to overturn the decision then it isn't clear and obvious and the on field decision stands. - Keep using VAR for offsides but get rid of the geometry kit. Pause the replay at the point where the pass is released and if it's visible to the human eye that the on field decision is incorrect then overturn it. - Sack off the screen beside the pitch. If the VAR official can't tell the referee the on field decision needs to be overturned without the referee having a second look himself then it isn't clear and obvious, get on with the game. Taking this approach removes the effort to go from 95% refereeing accuracy without replay assistance to 100%, and replaces it with an effort to get 98-99% of decisions right and eliminate the absolute howlers. This is what VAR was supposed to be in the first place, and yet we've never seen them try to implement it this way. Outside of VAR you still need to look at handball rules and, if anyone aside from me is still remotely arsed, simulation, which remains the biggest form of blatant cheating in football yet is actually punished more leniently over time rather than more harshly. Don't dare to have both arms in tact while defending in the area and having the ball twatted at you from 2 yards away or collide with someone on the turn whilst being 1cm closer to your own goal than your closest team mate though.

He believed his own hype. All about him. Used to think he was good too but he's as bad as it gets these days, just wants to be a personality

Not much faith in Ten Hag then?

7 girls and me and my brother, I was the 3rd youngest, always said to people he was a navy man, go away for a year or 2, come back and sewed his oats and fucked off again for a year or 2, come back...

My old man was a King Kong then, he gave my mum 9 of us.

That violent Schalke scum, that beat a Man City fan to coma at their CL meeting in 2019 has been sentenced to 2 years on parole and 35k personal injury compensation. The sentence is comparatively mild, because the court only found him guilty of dangerous assault instead of attempted murder as the public prosecutor demanded.

I’m sat in A&E with Dex. Croup. Nightmare.