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48 minutes ago, Rugster said:
No just the standard ones on Netflix - where would I be able to see the extended ones?
They're on peacocks, so maybe they'll be available over here when it launches. Otherwise, you'd have to download them from less reputable sources.
They could be on the dvd releases, I've never checked
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2 minutes ago, Rugster said:
For me one of the funniest scenes in the show (and there were fucking hundreds) was the one where Dwight had attacked the mannequin in the first aid course and put it's face on as a mask. When he turns round and does the Hannibal Lecter sucking through teeth and says "CLARICE" I nearly fucking wet myself. In fact I'm in fits just thinking about it now.
Absolutely brilliant show. Could watch it over and over.
Have you seen the extended episodes?
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4 minutes ago, JK_Queens said:
Anybody want to hazard a guess at our shape? 4-2-3-1 with Gibson at right back (miracles do happen), Irving left wing potentially and Connelly just in behind Paton?
I was thinking either 4-4-2, Lewis and Connelly wide with Paton and Irving up front, or maybe 3-5-2 with Hendrie at centre half and the two Gibsons as wingbacks.
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I'm on a mobile but I think I've fixed it
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12 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
Currie to get injured for the banter.
If he did we could bring in an emergency loan
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11 minutes ago, Slipmat said:
So, neither reserve keeper is eligible for Saturday's game but Fox leaves two days before the match by mutual consent.
A game Fox couldnt have played in anyway. Motherwell wouldnt let him get cup tied.
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On 22/11/2022 at 11:49, Fae_the_'briggs said:
Obviously I've not seen Morton as much this season but they seem to at least play with a bit of positive consistency. Queens on the other hand can fluctuate wildly between very good to absolute dross. If we can get a performance out of them like last week V Montrose or recent games V FC Embra then it could be a decent contest which could go either way, but play like we have against the likes of Falkirk, or the capitulation against Alloa, then it could be a case of how many Morton want to score. Hoping for an away win here but I'm ready with the "Ah well we can concentrate fully on League business now" cliché
Not sure yet if I'll make the game, any chance it's being streamed?
Won't be streamed in the UK, it's still covered by the blackout rule.
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4 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:4 hours ago, Homer Thompson said:Am I the only one who likes the pies? I had two on Saturday
Greedy b*****d.
I didn't have lunch. So I had one before the game and one at half time
3 hours ago, Alex Nesovic's Barmy Army said:What ones, scotch pies?
Yup, very tasty
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Am I the only one who likes the pies? I had two on Saturday
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41 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
Pretty incredible interview from WG bemoaning the lack of noise from the support yesterday. Given there was just over 900 QoS fans there (less if you believe there were 45 Montrose fans) I think he should be grateful there are fans still bloody turning up; maybe not wise to have a dig at those who are.
And Sandra's "Looking at the bigger picture, it's not that bad?". Holy f**k.There werent 45 away fans. It was 13 or 14, dont remember which. The communication has broken down somewhere between the confirmation of the crowd, it being read over the tannoy and put on the updates.
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2 hours ago, Riviera711 said:
I agree with your first paragraph but not the reasoning for playing three at the back.
I do agree that we are weak in central defence (all across the back line really). However, I don't think that throwing in another weak central defender is the correct approach and it certainly isn't making the most of the talent in our squad which, as illustrated by your post, lies in the midfield, with some attacking options.
In a broad over simplification, there are two main ways of making a team like ours harder to beat. Play more defenders to try and cover for their lack of ability or, alternatively, play more technically proficient players resulting in the team having much more possession and so reducing the burden on the defence.
I would play 4-3-3 with Todd and McGrory either side of Wilson. I'd have Lewis Gibson and Paton in more advanced roles either side of Reilly up front. LG would hold the width on the right wing getting crosses into the box, whereas Paton would more likely be cutting in from the left. I realise that it's not perfectly balanced but I think it would be a productive system.
Just my opinion, of course, but that's what a fans' chat is all about.
I think you should listen to Patons interview
I mean everyone should listen to Patons interview anyway but he talks about playing through the middle with Gav
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I can't bring any of these youngsters, as the game says I have four domestic loans... I have two plus one from England
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50 minutes ago, Flybhoy said:
Watched up to episode three, agree that the first one was a bit of a slow burner but Alan lying on the sofa with a broken leg in episode two while Colin boasts to everyone about his Tinder conquests was superb
Siobhan Redmond is excellent as well as Colin's slightly unhinged new girlfriend...... the scene where she's cleaning Michelle's blouse while everyone looks on awkwardly while Colin has an uneasy pervy look on was brilliant
Nothing against the actor but the character is fuckin awful. Totally one dimensional and not funny at all.
Still, an enjoyable series
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I'm four episodes in and finding Colins new girlfriend far more annoying than Cathy. She also looks about 20 years older than him
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30 minutes ago, QoS99 said:
Currie is also a w****r of a guy as well as being a shite goalie, been Wullie's biggest mistake (been a few) has been putting him back in the team
I dont know if he is or isnt. All I can do right now is go and tear up his contract in my Football Manager game
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2 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:
The most depressing thing about today is that I'm not remotely angry. This loser mentality is what I'm used to now and we've come to accept it. Just pish all round.
If you had witnessed that second half you would be angry
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3 minutes ago, Rjc-1988 said:
That performance totally sums up this squad of players. Playing some great one and two touch football when Alloa made the mistake of standing off us and allowing us to play. As soon as Brian Rice realised that they needed to get in our faces and start really pressing the ball our whole team fell apart from front to back.
Continually playing with 3 CBS should, in theory, give us some defensive protection but not when Messrs Currie, Hendrie and the two McKays resemble mannequins. What an utter shambles that second half was. I said after the Edinburgh match it was a mistake to deploy Lewis as a wingback expecting him to be a principal creative threat going forward and also provide some protective cover in the RB area. To ask a 17 year old to perform that dual function simply highlights how flawed the team selection actually is.As I have said repeatedly the solution at RB is staring the manager in the face but his continual absence beggars belief.
i would assume that with the impending World Cup break some Premier teams will be looking to loan out some fringe players. A GK and an experienced CB to partner East would be a good start but in all honesty the problems here are so deep rooted that it might be easier just to wait for the Peterhead and Edinburgh fixtures to come round again. Truly gutless stuff and Hendrie’s petulant behaviour at the end spares us the prospect of seeing him in action next week.
Dont think we can loan anyone in until January, can we?
What did Hendrie do? We all assumed it was dissent, but there didnt seem anything controversial about the goal at all
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Embarrassing is the only word to describe that second half performance. I get the Alloa fans are happy with the result but I wouldnt get too carried away, you will not come up against a worst defensive performance than that again this season - well maybe three more times
I dont think I've ever seen such a turn around in performance levels between one half and the other, nor such a spectacular collapse in any game I've watched.
First half we were reasonably comfortable and, after scoring early, had several good chances on the break to extend the lead. Second half, we were never, ever in the game, offered nothing up front and no control in midfield. Obviously, we were also awful defensively. The back three couldnt deal with crosses or any high ball forward and Currie did his usual line inspector impression, watching as Alloa played the ball past him. The whole defence were at fault, but surely now Currie is finished with us? Fox has to start next week and lets hope we bring Cowie back as soon as possible as back up.
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6 minutes ago, QoS99 said:
Is it a back four today I take it? And how have we played?
No, three at the back.
Alloa had a lot of the ball after we scored without doing an awful lot. We've wasted at least four good breaks forward and Alloa scored with the rebound from a corner
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1 hour ago, forameus said:
Basically because women's football is near enough a different sport. Different physical attributes that probably couldn't be modelled just by making the attributes themselves worse. Economy might be a stretch, but given more aspects of the men's game very quickly run away with themselves and tend towards the insane levels of the spectrum, having the women's game play by the same rules might lead further from realism than they'd want.
Economy is less of an issue than the match engine for me. I'd like to see them at least try and model a real game of women's football, rather than just go with the attempt (emphasis on attempt) of modelling men's football.
And the "that's what SI are doing" is literally because they've said numerous times they want to do it right. There's money in this for them, so if it was just going to be a database update, they could have released this for FM22. They're not spending 2+ years (and sounds like there was work earlier than when it was announced) doing something that a standard editor could do (with some alterations).
I think there are plenty of women who would argue against the fact that its a different sport. I know you dont mean it this way but saying so could be considered quite derogatory.
As I said, you dont need to just make the attributes worse. The fastest player in the womens game could still have speed of 20. They will only ever be compared against other women players, so how they are ranked against the men is irrelevant.
The economy issue you describes is something fundamental, not a specific issue to the womens game. As I said, I cant see how the womens economy can be significantly different to similar sized mens competitions.
Seems like what you are describing is writing a new game for womens football which fixes some of the issues in the main game. Wouldnt it be better if they just fixed the main game and made it for both? Releasing, what is in effect, two games causes all sorts of problems. What if the transfer system in the "mens" version is better? What if the match engine in the "womens" version is better? Seems like an awful lot of effort to go to just to seperate the two out and potentially cause arguments. Especially at a time where the womens game is making a lot of progress in raising the profile of the sport. "Here you go girls, we've given you your own game, cause your footballs not as good as ours" seems like a dangerous message. Although, I wouldnt put it past Miles, to be fair.
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30 minutes ago, forameus said:
I disagree. And seems SI do too, as if it was just as simple as that, they could and would have already delivered it. But if they end up delivering it like that, I'll be the first to say I was wrong, and that SI have fucked it.
So, genuine question, why would the women's game need a totally new matching engine and economy?
Eta - and for the record, using "that's what SI are doing" is not going to win any arguments
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14 minutes ago, forameus said:
But that would be the cop-out way of doing it. If they're going to do it really properly, they probably need at least a variant of the match engine, if not a completely new one*. Potentially a separate economy to handle the far lower amounts of money sloshing around. Potentially an altered attributes system so it's not just "here's a shit male player with a female name". Just chucking in the league structures in data is barely more than EA did and would just be tokenism. Luckily it seems they're doing it properly, making it more of an interesting proposition.
* A new one could also bring a lot of benefit to the existing one. Starting from a low point they can properly ask the hard design questions that they're too far gone with to ask about the current ME. Fresh ideas, smart answers, all lessons learned for working with the existing one, and ones they probably wouldn't get the opportunity to even ask.
The only changes to the match engine would be cosmetic, to add new skins for female players.
The game already copes with wildly varying finances from the EPL to lower leagues, why would womens football be any different?
Attributes is an interesting one. But, as there's no cross over, it doesn't really matter. The best women players could be graded the same as the best men. They're never playing each other or being transfered between the same clubs, so it won't matter.
So, we're rally just back to competition structure and data.
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1 minute ago, forameus said:
I'd be careful what you wish for with regards to new management. SI is still significantly behind the curve on the sort of shithousery that now seems normal in the gaming industry with regards to monetising certain aspects. They've dipped a toe with stuff on FMC, but have kept the main game clean of that. As soon as they decide to change that, they'll probably then start to funnel you towards paying. And f**k that.
I do wonder if they're keeping their powder dry for future versions. They've said women's football is coming, and if they could deliver that properly and fully featured, and also roll out some long-developed improvements elsewhere, then that would make this release slightly less of an issue. I would agree though, although there haven't been a huge number of changes in recent years, I think this is probably the least they've offered. They won't have been sitting doing nothing I'd imagine, so maybe there's more stuff further down the line (not that that really makes much difference now).
All fair points. Does feel like Miles is accepting of the current pace of change and it could do with someone to actually drive things.
Doesn't seem like women's football would be too difficult to implement. Add the league structure and data and its done. Can't see whys there would need to be any do any actual development.
Let's hope they are splitting their time and working on long term developments as well as year to year releases
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11 hours ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said:
I'm going to put it out there.
Stuff like "it needs an overhaul from the ground up" is impossible in a game released annually with a studio the size of SI. Employing more people doesn't necessarily improve quality or speed either.
If they didn't release annually they'd probably close down. Publisher will demand it as well.
I've even read comments on YouTube etc with hundreds of likes demanding staff sacked etc. The level of entitlement and delusion shown by some grown men who play games is wild
"fresh blood in the management"
Software is developed in an iterative manner so you'll get some small features that can be turned around in the period between games and you'll get longer term features that take multiple cycles.
Up until the last few years, each game was noticeably different and, with a few exceptions, better each year. They had less staff then and definitely didn't have the backing of a big player like Sega.
You're absolutely right about the iterative nature of software. However, what's annoying people is that they are being asked to pay full price again for, essentially, FM22.3. If that's how they want to work the development cycle, fine but the pricing has to match. You can't tout a new release, and charge for one, every year and not deliver.
I don't want people sacked but I actually think the series would benefit from new management.
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Falkirk v Queens
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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He played right back earlier in the season but he's been right of a back three recently with Gibson jnr at right wing back.
Depends whether Murray wants to change to a back four