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Man, I really want to look into a 3D printer now!! Looks incredible Steve, and its pretty cool how you've thought about all the detail in the garage, especially like how the vacuum/hoover, has the coil wrapped in the way that it does. How do you get the materials for a 3D printer and are they easy to program in terms of telling it 'i want a wheel', etc, so it creates it?

I personally think thats a huge achievement. Many people haven't got the drive to lose any weight even though they moan about it. You went and smashed some training, had fun in what you eat, etc and still lost a large amount of weight. Thats how I read that 🤘 I like the idea of finishing any week with this sort of stuff to help you switch from work to life mode. Make sure you share the ideas what you're thinking of getting mate! A great read and awesome to see how well you're doing! 😎

Man United are making moves and I do think they'll be up there again. There young players with another year of experience will be tough to beat if they get a good start. I think people at other clubs outside Man City and Chelsea need to have a realisation of how football is at the moment and that the instant success culture isn't helping their teams. I think the best thing these teams can do like Arsenal and Spurs are committing and sticking to a 5 year plan to try and win the league.

I can understand that. Its the cruellest way to end a game but when you can't settle it between two teams over 2 hours of playing intense football there has to be some way. I think the only challenge to this is the way we saw a pilot somewhere in the world where every 5 minutes you remove one player each so eventually you will get a winner within another 20-30 minutes hopefully. But you could still argue that's not fair either! Thats the beauty of football, it allows for the most unpredictable things to happen the most versus all other sports. It is, and not surprising either. The only way this stuff changes though is with action rather than continuing 'condemning'. Thats just words and we all know actions speak louder than words. I hope there is stuff that can be done as I want to see the World Cup here in 2030.

Great find @phil bottle, i've completed the quest just in case it comes up soon!

I believe they did volunteer as all did, however Gareth chose the line up based on training - something other managers didn't do in the past and thats why we got beat multiple times. We can believe whatever narrative we all want to believe in, I might just share a few facts to help bring context and balance for the people thinking that the line up wasn't the right choice but why Gareth (and myself) believed in it. When we beat Columbia on penalties heres the takers, and the outcome just to help: Kane scored - Aged 24 Rashford scored - Aged 20 Henderson missed - Aged 28 Trippier scored - Aged 27 Dier scored - Aged 24 And a stat based on Roy Keane's view: Regardless what happens though, we all know penalties are the cruellest way to lose. Its virtually pot luck and has no relevance to the game that was played beforehand.

Something to always remember, no matter how painful or difficult the aftermath is. Makes me proud to be from England.

Winners posted in the OP by Tom @LordBaguette

A couple of things so far we have to try to be balanced over... This is in a nutshell the positive angle to be behind. I'll keep standing by Gareth Southgate regardless of what he does now, with 2 semi finals and a final to his name. And whilst i'm excited like yourself, its about being balanced that we don't just immediately go and put the biggest pressure on a group of lads for the biggest tournament in football that is 18 months away. We have to be extremely lucky to win out of all the teams that try to go to the World Cup. I'm sure we'll give it our best shot....we have to stay grounded and getting to another semi or final would be amazing, winning it is the pinnacle. I just hope if we don't have the greatest time at the next World Cup, I hope people will see its not the biggest catastrophe on the planet (thats more attached to not qualifying for a WC, etc) - we have just been to our second final, not in 55 years, but in the whole history of football!! Once we're doing that consistently like Italy, Germany, Spain, etc we can then start to remove that stigma of anxiety and failure.

You're pretty lucky James I'm in a forgiving mood because that is an absolute clusterfuck of a post. We may not have been on top all game, specifically 2nd half but the rest is just nonsense. Like I've had to say to multiple people, grown adults too would you believe, that for once we need to stop being England Managers and remember that NONE of us could've done what they've achieved this past month. You can respectfully be confused or disagree with decisions that take place but wouldn't it be just wonderful if all English mentalities were thrown away as they remember how much goodness, relief and jubilation these players and coaches have given us instead.

HAPPEE BIRFSDAYZZZ SEBBA!! @ChaosGladiator Hope you have a cracking day!! 🎂💃❤️

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Chuckled at that for at least a good minute!! These are golden, thanks for sharing. He's superb and I think being a Northern bloke works perfectly with the series. 👌

Let's get the show of hands by voting what we think we should play tonight! A nice little warm up for a big weekend with ENGLAND!!! GGFG ❤️

What a night. Bar from the 10-15 minutes that they had and got the goal, we were on top of that game. The facts were we had over 20 shots, 60% of the possession and there was really only one team going to score, it was (thankfully) just about when we were going to. The pen was soft but a pen regardless. We'd be spitting feathers if it was against us but that is football. The Danes wouldn't have give 2 shits either. Have you ever seen an England team confidently hold the ball like they do, not panic like they do, and pass out from the back to create multiple chances like they do? I recall Souness saying, he thinks we'll win it even if its not attractive football....well, I must be blind because the patterns of passing and how they break down a team is an absolute joy to watch and behold. Sterling was incredible and they allowed Kane to float which meant he was critical to making many spaces and potential chances. Walker had a blinder too whilst i've never seen Shaw with so much energy and desire to be positive and run at defenders. No one said it was gonna be easy, we couldn't expect to batter a team that was ranked the highest in the world on our side of the draw, especially with the Eriksen momentum they had built up too. But we did it. We went and bloody did it. Surreal and special moment for the whole country. Make the most of this as Sunday will come around before you know it!! ❤️ One more thing though....this man deserved credit before we got into the final, heck even the semi-final. Mad how it needs these things to happen for him to get the credit he deserves. Enjoy these times whilst we have the best manager we have ever had for England.

I worry sometimes what game people were watching.

Says exactly what it does on the tin! Not had one of these proper showcases it feels like since The Taken King way back!

I haven't got round to this - apologies - i'll try and get it done over the weekend.

Yeah it was the case of they did enough to stay in the game to give them the chance at penalties. Not trying to think of that final though as it really is all about tonight! Kasper was right tbh, it was such a shit question asked to him. I think this squad want to prove that them as individuals are good enough. Southgate even came out yesterday and triued to help the media get facts right - we haven't got a rich history in success apart from 1 World Cup and a few semi-finals - and the fact that he has achieved 50% of those semi final results should give us the confidence to get behind him, whatever tactics he puts out there. I'm just glad its game day! Felt like forever waiting for today to come round! 😄

Got to admit, now that Wreckfest have sorted their save game file issue out and it can be ported to the PS5 version, it feels and looks so much better. Did not expect haptic feedback either and was so cool to experience it without knowing! We really are paying top whack for basically the next gen controller of all controllers. Really want to get Ratchet and Clank because of the great stories on here from Chad @Riff Machine Ghost of Tsushima upgrade with brand new DLC island to explore. That will probably look even more ridiculously gorgeous.

If thats the case with the UI i'm pretty disappointed about that. Its one of the few things that stopped me playing my Xbox One after being pro-Xbox from the OG Xbox and 360 era. It shouldn't matter too much but in the end if games are pretty similar, UI does really matter. We've seen how crap the party system was initially on PS5 and it can hurt the amount of gametime you end up having.

Awesome photos, thanks for sharing Doc! I wonder if that ol' rackety rollercoaster actually still works 😄

I'm not really available this weekend but likelihood is that I can try and be available for some timings on one of the days, dependent on what the family plans are when we get to them!

85mph?!?! Thats insane!

Seriously awesome to hear, Doc. Amazing to hear your stories and how you've got through these years. Whilst you clearly will miss those 'real cop' days, I hope that the M-F week and slightly different intensity of life will give you some additional time with the family which is what its all about. And just because you've got a promotion doesn't mean you can stop sharing your random stories from time to time 😎 Proud of you buddy, i'm sure all of FG is too ❤️