Because you can't motorboat personality - NSROT22

[Devil500]

This bloody site is taking this picture down a zillion times :mad:

I'm happy about : http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/4345/t4dw3.th.jpg (http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?image=t4dw3.jpg)

[kumazou]

Further translation: Dev is happy about Red Bull Arena -- future home of NY Red Bulls.

I must admit, the stadium is going to be really nice. Being accessible by PATH is huge! Too bad they are about 5 years too late for me. I'm going to have to check it out for a Sounders away match when it finally opens.

[Devil500]

Very very happy haha. I think I'm going to go mad for the next few months/year till it opens. I'm hoping for a dry winter!!!!

I wish I could do the away trip to Seattle for the first game, but it's a mid week game my luck after the LA trip I'm planning on a few road games if finances work out. And the Cup final if we make it again.

[Skizz]

Well I have been smited again by the football Gods...last training session before I was due to face off against my old team on Sunday, what happens? Over the ball tackle which pops my ankle. It didn't dislocate but I am just about walking on it. It's a race against time now to get fit for Sunday but I don't think I'm going to make it and I'm SO FECKED OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!

[red & wite army]

Thursday = Popped knee
Sunday = Full game

Sounds unlikely and dangerous mate!

[Skizz]

It weren't my knee (again lol) it was my ankle...it wasn't a full pop, more of a twinge. I strapped it up and it feels a bit better now a lot of the pain has gone. Which considering with the strapping I could still barely walk on it earlier and am now quite comfortable, seems like a lot of progress!

[red & wite army]

I was about to blame it on my reading skills, but you've done your knee so many times that you just can't blame anyone for not reading carefully after you've used the word 'popped'.:p

Well I hope the best thing happens for you - as they say - everything happens for a reason.

In the meantime, my knee still has no feeling. I went to a homeopath last week, and supposedly, after walking around for 10 hours a day on holiday, in slip slops, for 2 weeks, without my necessary insoles for arch support, I've compressed the vertabrae in my lower spine, and I now have to do back stretches until the nerve running through my leg has the swelling go down. :rolleyes:

[Skizz]

Nice! At least it's not as bad as Case's situation, whereby he torments himself purchasing expensive boots he can't play in at the moment...:p

[Case]

Say my name say my name....

Tape it up and you'll be good to go! Unless it's the same leg as the knee - my knee prolly wouldn't have gone if I didn't have my ankles taped :(

I bleep-tested to level 15 (on a treadmill mind, so no turning) and stopped because the gym shut (reckon I had another level or 2 in me), bearing in mind I've not so much as broke into a jog for over a month and really haven't done any fitness for 6... so now I'm thinking I could mebe start playing again.....

[Bonnie Lass]

Long-time lurker; promise it won't happen much ... :-\

I just HAD to go someplace where people know about shirts and bitch about how horrible BS ********ed up this jersey. This is their 'generic printing.' I don't get the option of authentic printing unless I order from Oslo. (At $175)

But even if it's generic, shouldn't the damn colors at least match? And the fonts are nowhere near the same.

Original:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9_b4-bVVRnc/SDMNmZNi0mI/AAAAAAAACQs/-n83BRc12J4/s400/landslagtroye2.jpg

What they gave me:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9_b4-bVVRnc/SUNV_TmYBWI/AAAAAAAAEpg/35gPv9SjCh0/s800/IS_Front.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9_b4-bVVRnc/SUNWB-HnPMI/AAAAAAAAEpo/S5-kW2uvRrM/s800/IS%20_Back.JPG

Since they gave me the wrong shirt (should have the flag and not the dragon) they're giving me a full refund. But if it wasn't the wrong shirt, I would have been screwed. And that's sad, because I have a generic printed shirt from 2007 via soccer.com and it looks pretty good. I feel bad because this shirt is now trash.

Lesson: I will be paying $175 next month for an authentic printed shirt from Norway. And I will never, ever order generic printing ever again.

[Skizz]

Case, I went back to playing with ZERO training. Did four hour-long sessions, had a 15 minute sub appearances then played the full game the next week. I feel ok, my legs were f#cked the day after my first session and apart from the odd over-stretch which hurt big style (the first time I did it I thought I had popped it again) I've been ok *touchwood*. The main problem I've had is getting used to the fact my knee isn't going to be the same, two weeks ago I put a proper piledriver in the bottom corner from a very awkward angle with my bad leg, and wondered why my leg ached so much afterwards...it took a while to remember that was the first time I'd hit a proper shot on it for 16 months!

redcard I don't trust printing over the internet, I've taken to doing it myself but if I can't do that I make sure I'm there in person to tell the stupid f#cker doing it exactly how I want it...maybe I should purchase a heat press machine and you lot send me your shirts to do, for a reasonable fee? :)

[Bonnie Lass]

Assuming I could find the numbers and letters, I'd definitely send my shirts out to you.

Of course, I wasn't NEARLY this anal about shirt printing until I started hanging out in these parts. Bastards. :p

[Case]

Since they gave me the wrong shirt (should have the flag and not the dragon)

So are there 2 options of the official shirt with different badges then???

[Bonnie Lass]

Well, not really. Long story short(ened), the dragon shirt debuted, the public freaked out, so they decided to go back to the flag. (Pus-ies!) But they decided to sell what they had to the public since people wanted them to collect.

BigSoccer started selling the new flag shirts right before the OLY kicked off in August. Norway's women were in some half-assed kit they threw together at the OLY since they didn't have the flag shirts ready by early August ....? Yeah, so BS gets the flag shirts before the national teams do?

It seems BigSoccer either got some of the leftover Dragon shirts mixed in with new flag shirts, or simply just got a full order of dragon shirts in the summer, then got flag shirts when they ordered more. The nat teams didn't wear the flag shirts until October.

I've ordered a size L twice now and both times have been the Dragon shirt, despite them checking the bins and assuring me it's the flag shirt. Basically, it's all FUBAR because there's dragon shirts mixed with flag shirts and no one's thought to sort them out.

And to think I busted my ass to get a dragon shirt in June from Oslo. And paid $130!! Now they're falling into my ********ing lap at $45 a pop.

Not that I'm bitter. :D

[Devil500]

I don't like the New Big Soccer Supporter crap thingy ehh to generic...

Well...Now I can show my massive hate for what is DC Shite :cool:

[red & wite army]

To Case and those who laughed at my 'home photoshoots'...

Today, I was an extra in a Nutella advert. I get there - get given official German NT apparel to wear, and walk on set, where noneother then 4 German NT players, ala Jermaine Jones, Simon Rolfes, Manuel Neuer and Tobias Weis, are kitted out!

I ended up doing nothing, but I did end up sitting at the same small lunch table as the dudes, as I explained to them how the game of cricket works, and what beers they enjoyed, and...their club football...over a free gourmet buffet! Oh, and I had to open up the bottle of Coke for Rolfes - weak!

Photo's to come!
And yes, I stole one of Jermaine Jones' socks!

[Case]

That is so many levels of genius, not least that I may be able to use "I kinda e-know this guy who was in a Nutella commercial for foreign TV" to help with a panty-cracking mission I'm currently on.....
You are plugging Coke in a Nutella ad? Badass!

Well ain't work interesting. I made a member of staff cry today, then when thought has smoothed that over as she joined for the staff seasonal meal, another employee cried because we ate an nando's....bigg I wish you'd have been there coz im pretty sure you'd slap any biatch for crying at nando's as a matter of policy..... Oh and now I'm getting fb shite from the first cryer.....good times!

[Tony Dellbird]

What's up......

[Case]

Whaddup Dellci!!!

[Shrapnac]

Well ain't work interesting. I made a member of staff cry today, then when thought has smoothed that over as she joined for the staff seasonal meal, another employee cried because we ate an nando's....bigg I wish you'd have been there coz im pretty sure you'd slap any biatch for crying at nando's as a matter of policy..... Oh and now I'm getting fb shite from the first cryer.....good times!

It's like the words are written in English but no kind of English I can actually understand and I'm usually pretty good at deciphering Britspeak, ta.