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Well this year has been quite something. My wife and I recently lost our 3rd baby during pregnancy, and had to give birth to our child at 22 weeks. Funeral is next week. I'm not sure I have the bandwidth for Mafia Wars this year sadly.

I completely forgot about that. Then there was the Trump auto correct to something about Barking Spiders

Against Brighton I saw two distinct patterns I'd really like to see more of this season, 4-1-4-1 off the ball, where Gallagher was alongside Chukwuemeka pressing opposition defenders. That looks like goals potential for a midfielder who can finish. Then there was the 3-2-4-1 with Cucu tucking into a double pivot. I think there's going to be some serious invention from this side this season. Newcastle struggled to keep up with the position changes.

The ending just didn't make sense to me, I won't spoil it but it had lazy Vince writing all over it.

Apologies for being awol for so long, I had to deal with a few health niggles and then I was completely blindsided by the news that my Father had been fighting pancreatic cancer for 8 months and hadn't told me. Two weeks after I was informed he died. Literally 36 hours after I saw him for the last time. So all in all 2023 has been a bit of a mixed bag. I'm hoping to be more active and even resurrect Mafia Wars.

John O’Shea hilariously suggested on Sky Rodgers would be a good fit for Spurs

I see Rodgers is finally gone

Maddison looked right off it yesterday, is it the system, carrying an injury or is he feeling the pressure of having to carry a team that ownership and manager has lost interest in?

Time will tell, but I don't think it's going to be a bad thing. Our experiment with Discord showed that there are some things that work better here and some things that work better on Discord. If you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail, so I'm inclined to believe that having two options for connecting depending on need isn't going to be a problem. I don't think it has to be a one or the other. There is some content that works that much better here however matchdays, F1 race days, responsive competitions work that much better on Discord. The two platforms will become complimentary to each other.

It's good to be home! Mafia Wars will continue to be hosted on our Discord server - unless the majority choose to switch it back here. Discord isn't the forum, but Mafia Wars was that much more responsive on Discord as the last iteration showed.

https://discord.gg/nvrhuBmpAT is the Discord server.

Hi all, sadly the forum is closing down. We're moving to Discord. https://discord.gg/nvrhuBmpAT is the Discord server. Thanks for all the support, hopefully see you all on the Discord.

RIP talkfootball365.com, 6 years to the day

A few hours at best

Long story short, staying here isn't possible anymore due to our server host. The link should be in your DMs. If it's not just shout.

There are so many euphemisms here I just can't keep up. There's another one!

First episode was pretty solid, I used to play a lot of Fallout so a fucked up future has always been an interesting narrative vehicle. I haven't played the game of The Last Of Us, so this should temper my expectations.

I didn't know it was on? I'm a married man don't you know!

You should have emailed with some success, he might have responded

Where did she post these? Asking for a friend.

So despite Vince having left WWE, he still has a 80% decision right majority with them. He's trying to force his way back into WWE claiming he got 'bad advice' to quit over allegations he left over. I cannot believe he'd be so insane to do this given it's already hit WWE share prices.

Matt Smith does look like one of those Christmas Island rock faces as a human being, which is curiously distracting. I don't think his performance as Daemon is all that bad to be honest, he's a decent actor. The issue for Matt when he plays a villain is that he lacks menace.

I’m a boring old bastard with limited patience. Have a good night. See you tomorrow.

Someone fancies sitting on Ice for 24 hours I see.