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Good grief, that would have sailed in if not for the deflection

Not sure why Walker got carded there and not the Croatia player. Should have been both or neither

Kane hard done by there but maybe his reputation is starting to precede him

Rebic must have made like 5 fouls by now without being carded

Yeah, not being clinical enough. Should have scored a lot more than 1 in that first half. But this has kind of been an issue in every game except for Panama.

In an alternative world we are back home right now with Sam Allardyce lamenting the fact that lumping the long ball up to Andy Carroll didn't work

I think that was more on them playing it back to him under pressure than him being at fault.

Also what a difference not having a dodgy keeper makes. How many times in recent memory has our keeper made a critical blunder. Seems like it has happened to us lots

That's how he plays for us in the premier league too tbf

Of course they could have taken it all. They are literally playing in a semi-final right now. Not sure how you can say that isn't the case

Lord that was a great last ditch tackle

Not sure how that is offside. I mean he didn't score anyway but it wasn't offside and the flag was ridiculously late

I'm actually surprised by the number of anti-england comments we've had through these topics given how many England fans we have in the football topics year round. People always seem to hate us even when we haven't been a threat for years.

Right. If you want to go that route then France also looked like complete shit in most of their wins.

They weren't being called a bad side when they smashed Argentina 3-0 and topped their group with 3 wins

Fucking get in there!

They're testing the fire alarms and sprinklers in every apartment in my complex starting now. Meaning the fire alarm is going to be going off for the next few hours.

Why are you doing this to me?!

Surprisingly I'm not as nervous about this game as I have been about other games in the past despite it being the biggest game we've had since 96. I'm sure that will change once kick-off comes

Welp. Magic GM says we are very likely done adding through free agency this year. He did at least specify free agency so a trade remains on the table but that's still disappointing. We have the MLE and apparently we're just going to sit on it despite our guard situation being pretty bad.

I have to assume they actually see something in Jerian Grant as unless they trade for a PG then him and Augustin are going to be playing a lot of minutes.

Managed to blast through enough events and story to get stones to trigger the freebie summon on the other banner

These are what I got. I don't think I got anything as good as previous pulls though?

SSR TEQ SSJ3 Vegeta
SSR TEQ Masked Saiyan
SSR AGL SSJ2 Gohan Youth
SSR PHY Vegeta (The banner one)
SSR TEQ SSG SS Goku
SSR STR SSJ2 Gohan Youth
SSR PHY Borgos (Great Ape)
SSR AGL SSG Vegeta (Dupe)
SSR TEQ Android 18 (Dupe)

I was super excited by the SSJ2 Gohan Youth one thinking it was the LR one judging from the picture but apparently it isn't. Shame as Gohan is my favorite character

Is anything in there good?

I'd feel more sympathy if he hadn't been anti-England at every given opportunity for the entire tournament for apparently no reason whatsoever.

The reason you can't do it that way is for every team it helps like it would have helped Belgium here, it punishes teams who did their jobs too. How would it be fair on a 'lesser' team to take care of business and top a group over a higher ranked team to then be punished by a bigger team opting to swap into their side of the bracket whilst the team coming second gets to go on the now easier side?

I'm also not sure how you would juggle the logistics either. It's set up that way to avoid same group teams meeting each other. If the 1 seed swaps placement they now match against a group winner instead of a second place. So that 1 seed also has to swap now to avoid them being punished for winning their group but what if they don't want to swap and prefer that side of the bracket?

The fairer way would be to do it like a CL draw and do a fresh draw for the next round but then you run into logistics issues regarding number of rest days between matches. Like maybe you could split the draw somehow to be fairer into 4 1st who played Day 1/2, 4 1st who played Day 3/4 and then do the same for the 2nd place teams. And then since there is rest days after that you would be less restricted for the next round and anybody could meet anybody. You'd have to draw in advance for future rounds due to travelling though.

Who should I buy from Babas store with my God dragon stone?

I also got an SSR PHY SSJ Triumphant Light Goku but I don't think he's any good?

Ok so here's what I got in addition to the above

SSR TEQ Android 18
SSR PHY Bergamo
SSR PHY SSJ Kefla
SSR STR Gotenks (Dupe)
SSR PHY Syn Shenron

Kefla and Shenron are ok right? Least I think they were when I briefly played last time

I have no idea what is good anymore. This is what I got on my first pull. I have 70 stones left but I'm sure I could get 20 more stones to trigger the free summon on the other banner

SSR TEQ SS4 Gogeta
SSR INT Super Janemba
SSR STR Great Ape Raditz

Also got 2 of the SR AGL Janemba if that matters

Should I keep pulling on that banner or is that a good enough pull to switch to the other banner? I don't know what the big ticket pulls on each banner are

Which of the current banners is best to pull on?

Man, you have higher tolerance than me. Usually I just walk out and get a refund and grab a hotel elsewhere

Like last month my work put me in a hotel that when I arrived had chicken bones on the floor of the room. The shower head was hanging out of the wall with the hole plugged in by kitchen roll. There was black marks all over the kitchen area, not mold but definitely not good. I found out the room at that hotel only qualified for housekeeping if you stayed for more than 3 nights which wouldn't normally be an issue for me but it clearly didn't get cleaned between guests either. I just instantly checked out and got another hotel down the road.

Aaron Gordon still has plenty of time to kick on too. Even though he's been in the league for 4 years already, he is still only 22. So his 17.6/7.9 last year is pretty good considering his age.

So our main core is 22/20/20. We aren't expecting to be any good for a few years.

PG aside, it's not that bad to be honest.

We are clearly hoping our young core of Gordon, Isaac and Bamba are the future but Fournier and Vuc are still pretty good. Not all stars but at that level just below that I think. Simmons is also a pretty good rotational piece. Ross and Augustin are ok as bench players, below average if playing significant minutes.

I think Isaac is going to surprise a lot of people if he stays healthy. He was outstanding in the games he played last year, the problem being he only played 25 games. If he stays healthy I have no doubt in my mind he will be an all star in the next few years. He may even potentially be a DPOY candidate down the line. Hopefully he develops some offense but just on defense alone he's really really good.

Bamba I have no idea what to expect. Didn't see his college stuff and all I know about him is he's huge but needs to pile on some weight

Going to give this a bump or two since I know the was at least a few people who played.

I think the Magic still get someone as free agency drags on as we have the full MLE available and it might be a Simmons type deal like last year where we grab someone due to nobody else having cash available.

We still look short at PG, SG, SF. Right now our depth chart is:

PG
Augustin
Grant
Briscoe

SG
Fournier
Iwundu
Purvis

SF
Simmons
Ross

PF
Gordon
Isaac

C
Vucevic
Bamba
Birch
Mozgov

I know Ross plays SG and so does Grant. Plus Isaac will play SF too. But it still feels we are 1 body light as I expect Briscoe and Purvis to spend time in the G-league

I feel like we need either a backup SF/PF (with Ross then playing more minutes as SG) or another combo guard as I don't feel great about Augustin/Grant playing that many minutes. Preferably the guard option but there's not much out there. I feel like we should at least make the Celtics match an offer on Smart. Same with Jabari Parker

Edit: I forgot about our second round picks Melvin Frazier and Justin Jackson but they look like G league players too right now. Frazier looked so so in summer league and Jackson not played minutes. We should've taken Bates Diop who was pretty good last year and has looked good in summer league (but I'm biased as a Buckeyes fan)

I know a few people used to play. I still have an existing high level character on Ragnarok but I also started a brand new character on Famfrit this week along with my girlfriend due to some work friends being on that server.

So if anyone wanted to jump in completely fresh again, we could all start on the same server.

Figure nobody will want to due to having existing characters but thought I'd throw it out there anyway

I found Madden 06 in the mall. I want to buy it except my PS2 is PAL so won't play it

Week 3 byes are the worst. Especially when you have no meaningful injuries.

Also said it in chat last night but will say it in here too. Ravens are going to walk away with the AFC North this year. This is what they are doing with a depleted O-line and missing QB.

Isaiah Thomas not coming to Magic. Apparently the medical report on the hip scared the front office off. They think he would end up sitting most of year

The Magic managed to trade Bismarck Biyombo away!

For Mozgov and Jerian Grant -_-

Problem with playing until you get a winner is the massive disadvantage it puts teams at if it goes long.

Maybe you could do something like removing players over time to increase open space and encourage goalscoring. Tactics then also plays into it too

Just saw that Aaron Gordon's contract was way friendlier than expected

It had been reported as 4 years 84m. It's actually 4 years 76m with no options and it starts at 21.5m with annual decreases so becomes better for us over time. That's a great job by the front office for a change

Match day hype whilst there's still hope for the season!

Good grief Pickford!

Oh God we might actually make a world cup semi final. This is happening

Fucking get in there!

No wrestling at a corner, what a novel idea and oh look it actually makes a difference

I thought it was a fairly even contest where Brazil were very wasteful with their chances.

I doubt it, reports said Parker picked Hornets because he was going to get a significant role behind Kemba.

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Jesus fucking fuck. I'm just fucking fucked man. That fucking game. Fuck.

Imagine having De Bruyne, Lukaku and Hazard in one team. Mental. We were so organized defensively, in a way I didn't expect or think we could be. Gotta give props to Martinez for this.

Chelsea had that for 3 years!

Tony Parker signing with the Hornets seems so weird

I hope we get Neymar crying at match end if they lose

Well that makes things interesting

I've seen a few friends on Facebook post about doing this and I always wondered about how you communicated with the people you were teaching without speaking the language. I guess they already have a decent grasp of the basics?

Until I saw my friends doing it, I always assumed you had to be multi-lingual.