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A great day of football yesterday. Czechs looked like they were going to score at some point for me before the sending off so it always felt like the right result. A cracking game between Belgium and Portugal too, especially the second half. End to end stuff and nice to see Belgium hold on. Portugal should concentrate on their game rather than falling over and surrounding the ref. Nice to see a number of refs this tournament not take all the shit from players diving and moaning. He stuck to his guns last night when Pepe tried to blow the game up as per usual.

Whilst I love how Tom plays Spiderman, I'm not sure that his demeanor is one that can become a leader. Thats just my view but if you look at the previous lot of Marvel characters I think Iron Man became the leader because of how Robert Downey Jr played the character. Quite a lot has to change for me, esepcially growing up out of the kiddy phase he always seems to be stuck in.

He feels like the new centerpiece for Phase 4 doesn't he? Can't see many others taking the mantle on.

Yep, agreed @J4MES OX4D and @phil bottle. Good first Round of 16 matches to watch. I was gutted for Austria as they really gave it all, not just for 90 mins either. Italy though still look dangerous. If you can win not on your best day, then this will help to wake them up for the Quarters.

Nice one Tom! I think this is fast-becoming my favourite Marvel to look forward to. It'll be very interesting to see how the rings are so key to Phase 4 of the Marvel series.

I have great difficulty with these types of things when mentioned tbh, because I think you've done exactly what our English mentality is all about. There's many points that really show this but i'll just pick a few out. - Gareth Southgate can't pick his opposition, his job is to beat what is in front of him. - Its actually extremely rare we come up against top ranked teams. Its virtually impossible because we have a high ranking now and much across history (We're 4th in the world only bettered by Belgium, France and Brazil) - When we do come against one (Croatia) then most people knock them down immediately saying 'we're supposed to win, these are past it'. They are 14th in the world. They were the highest seeds in our group. Current World Cup finalists. We played them off the park. - His major objectives outside of this Euros on his performance record is; Qualify for WC, Qualify for Euros, Qualify as high and try and win Nations League. He has qualified for all tournaments so far with great records. He got England to the Semi Final of the World Cup. Only 2 managers have done that for us, ever. He managed to get us into the finals of the Nations League and also beat Belgium in the last Nations League in Nov 2020, ranked number 1 in the world. Other managers in the past didn't really play any big teams either, and when they did, they got beat. Robson - West Germany, Venables - Germany, Erikssen - Brazil & Portugal, Hoddle - Argentina. I want us to win so much on Tuesday but more so for Gareth because he's proven that even when it doesn't look quite right or we all get abit nervous, he doesn't and stays the course, playing people mostly on form, playing different formations to what we're used to, playing effective tactical game plans. He deserves to beat Germany so people can stop going for the negative as their first response. You can see why I'm saying it's not you James, its the whole of English culture. Change ourt mindsets like he has. Its what other countries do but for some reason, we are totally shit at it 🤣 As for Venables he is up there for me but even i have to play devils advocate with my own thoughts and remember his short stint was when we didn't have to do any qualification campaign and we had a home tournament. And then the ol' English mentality would also try to say, he only beat Holland really, the other teams were crap and mostly draws - just like when people have a go at our WC campaign in 2018 to the final (and Robson's journey in 1990 was virtually identical).

Typically went footy training and the best night of football so far! I actually always felt like Hungary and France could nick the wins, and for most of the night it seems like that was the case. I think its a great draw for us. Let's face it, we needed to meet a big gun at an early stage at a tournament at some point so why not now. The draw also has opened up for us so I think if people get behind the team we have a super chance and beating ze Germans. Tactically, we look very solid so we should take that positivity into the game and give them a bloody good game. I've said it online but no so far on here but I am adamant that Gareth Southgate is the best manager we've had since Bobby Robson but even a close second to Alf Ramsay. I don't think people will understand this until 10-20 years have passed but he is essentially suited to International football. He does things that go against our thinking as English fans but its paid off time and time and time again. For once, we should praise his ability to be different and make England something different to try and win tournaments.

Sea of Thieves probably won of the best reveals at E3 if I'm honest with this amazing crossover they now have in game as of yesterday! When I first watched this, I literally couldn't believe they've managed to keep this quiet and release it so soon after the trailer! This is always the game that I want to get back into every time I see it, but its all about lining up a crew to be around. Its hilarious as hell, and more intense than you realise because of how the crew have to work together to even just get the ship to the right island. I've always struggled though with how to find the next steps to the quests or Tall Tales as they are called I believe. Any help is greatly appreciated because this has been well received and a permanent change to the game. Anyone else interested? Apparently you can now make an alliance between ships and crews so arguably you can have more than 4 people on working towards similar or the same loot/goals.

Yeah, it got abit weird at one stage but it was still a goundbreaking game due to all the parkour in it. I'm looking forward to seeing how slick this one will be, maybe one for the Xmas Wishlist from Santa 😄

If we had enough people buying an xbox i'd love to look into it one day but whilst it looks amazing and its not enough to buy a new series X for me!

Some great pics there, Steve. Looks like a very peaceful and relaxing trip away from the world. Was it a stereotypical little American Motel in the middle of nowhere mate?

Good question....i haven't worked it out for me either! I think we have completely delete and do a full reinstall. I might try that later if I can get my PS5 on straight after work. Once we've done that, then either of us can try to send John an invite.

Luckily he didn't but clearly he knew you mentioned it so he decided to score just cos innit 😜 I think it was a really solid performance. I could see people really wanted to have a go because at times it probably wasn't as exciting as people wanted it to be, but lets face it, who cares if were winning! 3 clean sheets against the supposedly 'weak link' in our team and it sets us up nicely to face one of the big ones which we need to beat anyway so lets face them now....or you never know, might spidey senses are thinking France and Hungary could win tonight and then we'd be playing Hungary! 😄 Saka and Grealish were great. Kane on a pitch that wasn't rain-sodden was much more composed and unlucky not to get his goal but you can see the patterns they do really do make us very assured. Whilst others hate we slow it down, clearly we like to reset and play out through the back. It showed last night that even though Mings hasn't put a foot wrong, Maguire definitely does give more stature in there as he also can drive with the ball forward which i'm a fan of.

Creating your own games right at the end of that video looks bloody fantastic. Was Forza 4 like this btw? I n particular I mean did it have a campaign like that as its very VERY different. Reminds me of GTA Online if i'm honest.

I can still find its still going though, so do you mean that its just far less prize money for OWL?

Would this be then 2 maps in rotation or is it just one huge zone?

Please tell me you were thee for about a month, as if that was a daily update per line i'd be frickin shattered Doc! How close can you get to this btw? I've always seen pics from afar.

I'm the same as above...I suppose i'm not totally in the 'Heck Yeah' column, but more so if we wanna try it some time i'm open for it 😄

I spoke to Macca last night so hopefully we can make a move on this stuff this week from everyone 😄

I thought I responded to this but clearly I hadn't! Its great news we now have some transparency - I always feel thats the best way forward. Yep, its disappointing to not get all 4 but hardly surprising to hear that. All I hope is that we will get a significant bunch of new stuff to see in the Hearth & Home update because I wanted to fiddle and tinker with stuff but also hope Mistlands can be updated before the end of the year with new items to find and new areas to explore. I need to get back on our server, as I've got out of sync with my PC gaming of late. I think we should think of some ideas to have group gatherings on the game and help some of the newer players that haven't experienced this game as much to see what we can do. It would be ace if we can get the update in a month's time as thats in Q3!!! WIshful thinking, I know 😄

I might go back to this at some point but I did feel like Phil as him being far older impacted the first few episodes I watched.

Essentially anyone with 4 points after 2 games is through but they didn't too badly against the second string Italian side. Italy are showing everyone how to perform so far, that's for sure.

Yep, I'm having to be happy that its at least 8 whereas most games these days are going for 3 or 4 players max which is a killer. 8 should be pretty fun actually and it all depends on how many pick the game up in the first place. Oh mate, yes it was! @Findmartin and I over the years just used to smash the shit out of our controllers trying to get the World Records on everything. I wish they could've brought back lots more athletics sports in the games like Triple Jump, High Jump, Pole Vault and even longer distance things too. I actually think if someone just revamped Athens 2004 video game it would be insane due to how many great sports were in that one too! This one is clearly a little more arcadey, give it has football and rugby in it 🤦‍♂️ but there should be enough for us to have a real good laugh at.

This game is out in a few days and only £27 from The Game Collection, so at that price i'm hoping we can get a lot of us on this over the coming days and weeks!

Its funny how very quickly English fans will turn. I've got so much on my mind to say on the matter but I'm in a very small minority when it comes to England. Totallyin agreement we underperformed but to say Southgate Out and we were absolutely awful is a little too far in my book. It was more lacklustre than anything. Scotland played and celebrated it like it was their World Cup Final - and it was a 0-0 draw. Don't overthink it. Its a competition in the early stages and we have 4 points, undefeated with 2 clean sheets. I think if I worte this before yesterday's results i'd have slammed but arguably just goes to show. France, the world beating favourites? Draw with one of the worst teams in the tournament? Sounds familiar. Followed by Portugal surely are going to dominate with the best talented team of names ever versus the 'hasbeen' Germans....yeah, okay. Italy have been the best based on performance and results. I think everyone else, including England are all in the mix. I'd rather us underperform in a group game than a knockout game. Let's keep the faith as its a cracking tournament so far.