Wullie

I mainly play the Bet365 version, I'm hanging on in the top 1k which is £100 prize (it's £175 from 500 up then goes up and up, top prize is £50k), my wife and I have different teams but we're only a couple of points apart. I've never been so annoyed about anything for ages as my decision to bench Havertz yesterday in favour of Mateta, what the fuck was I thinking? The extra 10 points was worth about 100 places.

God I'm seething after that. The game is won, just don't do anything absolutely fucking brainless for five minutes and he can't even manage that.

Creased at the idea of a fucking quiz

I watch pretty much all of the play offs and most of them are... quite dull? Like the vast majority are instantly forgettable. And I'm probably misremembering all these classic LC semi finals but it's not something I particularly look forward to. We had this same conversation 2 years ago anyway. The proof of the pudding is here and the competition hasn't been this dull for a very long time.

Scrapping away goals shows how little those who are in charge of the game understand it. Unbelievably stupid thing to do.

Was planning to roll this week, now I'm on at least a -4 Own all of TAA, Carlos and Porro FFS. Also got Kabore in defence who is just as useless.

This strikes me as a particularly stupid decision from the FA.

Funny how some players, rather than having a particular weakness in a knee or whatever, will just pick up injuries absolutely everywhere. Kieron Dyer probably the most obvious example, Woodgate as well. Wilson definitely in that bracket.

Think he should be alright, they create an enormous amount of chances and just miss them all.

Aye that rings a bell

I'd completely forgotten Cabaye playing for Palace. Edit: wow he played more games for them than us

Aye we saw it at Seaham Red Star a couple of weeks ago as we were thoroughly confused about what the hell was going on. Been going for 5 years according to this but it was the first time I'd seen it. https://northernleaguetalkblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/sin-bin-rules-to-be-implemented-in-the-northern-league-next-season/

They've been doing this sin-bin thing in non-league for a year or two but just for dissent, a yellow for dissent means 10 mins out. As a measure to reduce dissent, I can see the merits of it even though I'd rather not but I think doing it for "cynical fouls" is dangerous territory because that's incredibly subjective.

One thing that I really can't stand in match threads after a result is the disrespect of the opponent even when it's completely unwarranted. Luton smashed the arse out of Brighton 3 days earlier but the way folk were going on you'd think we'd been playing the Dog and Duck on Saturday. Hard to complain about complacency from the team when you're being so disrespectful to the opposition yourself.