Lucas

22nd 17th

Personally feel if it didnt grab you the first time, you'll struggle to get into it again the next time. I saw Time too. I agree, it was a decent watch, though my preference is definitely for the first series with Sean Bean in.

It must be just me, infact I'm sure it probably is just me as everybody else seems to be giving it great ratings, but Bodies on Netflix has to be hands down the most confusing thing I've watched in a long time. Honestly, I really wanted to like it but ultimately it's a no from me and that's after sticking it out to the end.

Yeah, I was gonna stick with the 4 fingered inbreds, Barnsley please mate.

12th 18th

Slight gamble. Accrington Stanley to win, BTTS (v Colchester) (13/4) Chesterfield to beat Kidderminster (7/10) £10 wins £72.25

21st 36th min

If Everton do receive a points deduction, it's probably the best season for them to be hit with it, in fairness. Pretty convinced they would stay manage to up when you factor in what a shit show Sheff Utd, Burnley, Bournemouth and Luton are this season. Leicester might feel a bit robbed but let's be honest, the club on the whole will likely be in a better position than they were when they went, manager and squad wise.

Just getting passed around like a dirty whore at the moment. Would be nice to stay with a team for two weeks

What the fuck is going on at Ajax? Second bottom and away at Top of the League next week. They could genuinely hit rock bottom. Sensational really. Heads must be rolling there. That's really unacceptable stuff for their size in that league.

Rumours of Bournemouth getting twitchy on Iraolathis morning, nothing concrete yet though. You feel like Saturday's game v Burnley is a bit of a make or break one for him though.

15th 27th

More embarassing than Afghanistan that. Bowling has been toothless but the batting the last two games has been nothing short of disgraceful. We've been smashed in three of the four games. Not even nailbiters, actual drubbings. Heads need to roll.

Beauty, it worked Fair play to @Pyfish again mind, two great wins back to back.

Going to try a cross match bet builder double this week. Liverpool to win Salah to Score or Assist Both teams to receive a card - Yes -------------------------------------------------------------‐--- Man City to win Haaland to Score or Assist Both teams to receive a card - Yes £10 wins £46.96

18th 16th

Deserved loss. Two lucklustre performances and rightfully punished. You got to question the bowling at the start again and the batting just isn't quite firing at the moment like we know we can do. They were always chasing the game and never felt fully on top at any stage. They have made life very difficult for themselves now. With South Africa, Sri Lanka, India and Australia next, I think England really need to be winning three of those to stay in contention by the time that Pakistan game comes round at the end. On current form, that in itself looks a tall order. Glad for Afghanistan though and tbh, the tournament needed something like this. Too many one sided games, not enough nail biters so we needed a big shock to get things going.

22nd both

Very good shout mate, you deserve that one, fair play

Don't bother looking it up @Dan, I'll save you the hassle. Radcliffe won easy, Warrington Rylands could only draw. That's what I get for betting on pub leagues. Bet @DeadLinesman was playing for them probably

Northern Premier League Radcliffe FC (17/20) to beat Ilkeston Town 17/20 Warrington Rylands (13/10) to beat Gainsborough £10 wins £42.55

Big round that, can't believe Nakata didn't get the votes he deserved though, he was the Japanese Becks

Just thought I'd give a brief assessment of Farke and Leeds as we have played 11 games (about 25% of the season done) and can reflect on things during the International break. I have to say, the signings we've made all look like pretty good business. Ethan Ampadu has been supurb. I'm convinced he'll turn out to be a steal at his price and I can see him winning the Player of the Season award already. Just what we needed losing Tyler Adams. Joel Piroe is still finding his feet in this system with Rutter when the two of them swap but it's a change from what he was used to at Swansea so will take time. 5 goals from 8 games is a good return so far for him. And ultimately, that's what we want from him. Glen Kamara has only had 3 starts but he's looked a very tidy player in two of them. Looks extremely composed and good at breaking the lines. Seems to compliment Ampadu well and I can see him going from strength to strength Joe Rodon is an absolute warhorse at the back. Seems to head everything and loves throwing his body on the line. Been quite impressed with his pace too. Ok, got an unfortunate Red Card the other week at Hull but by and large, he's looked very solid back there and I've been impressed with his partnership with Struijk. Jaidon Anthony's had a few off the bench appearances, but definitely looks lively. Still feeling his way a bit but looks a decent squad player so far. Not really seen anything of Darlow, Spence and Gruev to judge much on yet. Of the existing players we had, I've got to give credit firstly to Georginho Rutter. All that pressure of the price tag he signed for in January and struggling to adapt to the league, he's now had a fresh start here under Farke and he's blossoming into a real threat. Already looks like a key player in our system and whilst his finishing needs major work, his build up play and assisiting is really impressive. Whilst everyone talked about Willy Gnonto pre season (only made four appearances so far due to injury) Crysensio Summerville is like lightening in this league. The fact he's the most fouled player in the division shows how skillful and quick footed he is and he should really have a couple more goals and assists to his name to show for his performances. He's got to be up there as one of the best wingers in this division. And lastly, Archie Gray, 17 years old and taking to his first season like a duck to water. Played predominantly in midfield but shifted to Right Back on Saturday, he has so much poise and composure for someone so young. What I love about him is his willingness to receive the ball and more importantly, playing the right ball. If he continues like this, he's going to the top and we'll be lucky to keep him for a couple years. With Djed Spence and Willy Gnonto to come back who you'd class as 'Starting eleven players', and Bamford as a bench option, we are looking reasonably strong. As predicted, we were always going to have a slow start after only appointing Farke four weeks before the season started, with all the unrest over the takeover, players moving out, others linked elsewhere, injuries and not being able to press ahead and make early signings. The 2nd and 3rd games at Birmingham and home to West Brom may as well have been write offs with what we had available to us to use at the time. It was extremely frustrating given how poor those sides looked. But he stayed composed, he knew it would be a challenge and it would take time. Well, we're starting to see his ideas implemented more and more now in our play and whilst we have lacked some clinicality in a few games, we are showing we're still a big threat. There's been a few games where we've won by a goal but should have put a two or three goal lead between us such was the dominance. Equally, we've had a couple games we dropped silly points again through not being clinical enough. So its been far from perfect. But, when we do get our nose infront in games, we look better for it and the confidence begins to flow. To be 5th with what we had on our plate is better than I anticipated at this stage and we've really yet to click fully. You'd like to think that maybe by the time we get to Christmas in 12 or so games time, we'll be much closer to the Top 2 assuming this side carries on progressing. I'd certainly feel disappointed if we weren't tbh, we've really only looked 2nd best in one game so far, and that was arguably only one half of football, first half at Southampton. Got some interesting games to come after the break, away at Norwich and Leicester, which look good tests for us to see where we are in the sceme of things. But so far, I'd have to rate things around the 6.5/7 out of 10 mark. Reasonably solid, flashes of brilliance, but in the main good but plenty to improve on.

26th 18th

This is a fair point. The only thing I'd say is, why can the commentator's and whoever else hear the audio but the viewer can't? I mean, we're allowed to hear it in Cricket and we can hear it in Rugby. When we do, we can make more sense of the decisions because we can hear them explain how they perceive things. Rugby has it absolutely spot on in that we, the viewer, can hear the referee all the time too. That's something our sport has alwaya lacked. I feel like the relationship between fans and officials would build more bridges if we were privy to hearing what was said at all times, not just VAR audio, but the lot.