One of the great sports commentators for me. Back in the golden days of F1. Made me a bit sad this one, but 97, fair play.

Administration

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news/football-index-suspended-share-crash-b1816109.html

yeah it seemed to me a question of when the exit strategy would happen and not if. A lot of the people that used the product seem very cultish. Any criticism was shouted down. And of course the more people that signed up was better for them as the values rose. Similar parallels with some crypto bubbles here.

So my friend is obsessed with how the Swedish Corona strategy has crushed the strategy of other countries in Western Europe. He is really going down with the ship on this one.

At this point i am pretty much done with talking to him about it, but i see lots of links posted on here and people talking about Sweden in the past months.

Anybody got a link or two with a comprehensive summary of the subject from solid sources, publications that i can just send to him. Surely it is widely acknowledged by now that the Swedish method was a mistake? But i am no expert of course.

I don't think Klopp will be leaving for a good while...

For those that think financial checks are the way forward - do not be surprised or have your feelings hurt - when down the road you go into a restaurant, off license, pub or even to book a holiday and they ask to see your financial situation and if you can afford it or should you be putting that money into a pension for your old age rather than buying that bottle of gin.

Come to think of it we should ban people like me from buying racehorses and greyhounds - as very few of us see a return - then we could shut down a lot of the football clubs who if it was not for their owners and supporters, most are in deficit, rugby clubs et al - anything that will potentially lose money - shut it down.

Lets close down these investment platforms 90 percent lose their money - why do we not ban risk completely - thus no more births - no people - no risk.

Since after WW2 we have become a world that likes to introduce more regulations and rules - strange we now have more poverty - more kids cant read or write, the gap between the rich and poor has grown - for those Sci Fi readers - remember the things people laughed at (that will never happen) mobile phones - video calls - space travel - the list is endless - perhaps George Orwell was on to something.  

I don't really get your point here at all?

[Bergeroo's rebuild won't take long, by the looks of it!]

Dynasty housekeeping.



Bergeroo's rebuild won't take long, by the looks of it!

Quietly optimistic!

I've been asked about whether we should move the league from Yahoo.

I know Sheriff had this question every year and I recall Sheriff's answer being the one I'm going to give...

I'm quite happy for us to move to a different site, but can we have the same features of the league as we have in this one? 30 man rosters plus 5 IR slots? If not, it's probably going to need everyone to agree to move.

The draft is something we do on Blonde over the course of a few weeks, rather than sitting down and doing it all in one evening. If there's a way of running it all through a different site and saving the Commissioner the faff of manually drafting every roster each summer, that would be attractive. Doing the rookie draft all in one night makes mid-draft trades very tough, with a big theoretical edge to the more experienced players, so that is probably a non-starter.

I wanted to join 1 or 2 more leagues so have been checking out different platforms. Sleeper seems to have everything that yahoo has and a lot more. I just did a startup draft with an 8 hour clock that was paused overnight, so preumably can be extended to a longer period. All the draft picks trading is automatically tracked. IR slots seem to be no problem, you can customize the waiver settings and scoring settings. Roster size seems no issue. Rookie draft can have long clock too as far as I know, though I didnt do one yet. You can just roll over between seasons too.

People who joined in the last few weeks have had a nose around there and maybe a few people like Forth have played on there for a couple of years and have seen the mechanics and perhaps spot a flaw or something missing. I have found it slightly fiddly on desktop and I think it is designed best for mobile but it looks very nice.

If people wanted to do the possible superflex start up league on there then maybe they might want the original league on a different platform to differenciate or maybe would be easier better if they were both in the same place?

After opening 4 more chests all with Spin tickets - I am probably the first player to cancel their RB - after a long conversation with chat I asked them to delete all mtt tickets - spin tickets - casino bonuses - pso tickets - the works

Which after some persuasion they did Hussar - I should now be on zero RB - Hussar - 

not really sure why you would do that?

My sister just got into snooker this year. She knew nothing about it before. She was texting me during the Masters saying things like, "wow, isn't Ronnie amazing?" She literally had no idea who he was before. It was funny and kind of cool that she was just discovering this troubled genius. But even she doesn't like the speed snooker, thinking it is gimmicky and annoying. I wonder who the target audience for it is? To me it is a kind of odd novelty. Seems crazy it is for actual ranking points and it is tough on the big lads when they have to run around the table

edit for typo

Ok time for name that tune 3, at least one person has gotten a correct answer so far. But i think everyone will get this one. i might have butchered a few of the set moves and added a few moves of my own but i was kinda knackered when i did this.
#topbopping #shirtoftheday

How have I missed this? 

Agadoo.  no links to that shite, sorry.  might try the others later.

This made me laugh. Very tough! I can't see him pushing pineapple and shaking the tree though in the video, did I miss it? So I'm not sure it is agadoo.

Bonus points for the excellent shirts.

Currently reading The Lost Soul of Eamonn MaGee by Paul Gibson. Won the William Hill Sports book of the year a couple of years back.

About growing up boxing in Belfast during the troubles. Run ins with the IRA. His battles with addiction to drugs, booze and gambling. Just got to the part in 2002 where he fought a youngish Ricky Hatton. Good read so far. Very well written though MaGee comes over as quite unlikeable and a complete mess. I have no idea how he ever made it in the ring for a fight the state he was in most of the time.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Soul-Eamonn-Magee/dp/178117573X

Anyone else read it? Any other favourite boxing books?

That Sleeper site looks really good.  I can see there is a recent transactions tab on it. Once the league is set up does it automatically just stay active the whole year round?

Are you using phone or PC? On PC there is the main dialog box in the middle which has all the trades but I can't see an actual trade list. The mobile app is meant to have more feature but I haven't use it, so maybe it is on there? Overall I like it quite a lot.

I love it. The inplay stuff is class. very good piece of Software.

I did a 32 team league last season to try it out. The software is great. As for the 32 teams. Don't do it!

Eeek, what kind of starting line ups were being put out in that league?

It was rough man. I still have nightmares of the players I had to start during bye weeks. Leshaun McCoy got a few starts for me. When my QB Newton was out for a few weeks then it was desperate times.

That Sleeper site looks really good.  I can see there is a recent transactions tab on it. Once the league is set up does it automatically just stay active the whole year round?

Are you using phone or PC? On PC there is the main dialog box in the middle which has all the trades but I can't see an actual trade list. The mobile app is meant to have more feature but I haven't use it, so maybe it is on there? Overall I like it quite a lot.

I love it. The inplay stuff is class. very good piece of Software.

I did a 32 team league last season to try it out. The software is great. As for the 32 teams. Don't do it!

That Sleeper site looks really good.  I can see there is a recent transactions tab on it. Once the league is set up does it automatically just stay active the whole year round?

Are you using phone or PC? On PC there is the main dialog box in the middle which has all the trades but I can't see an actual trade list. The mobile app is meant to have more features but I haven't used it, so maybe it is on there? Overall I like it quite a lot.