Sorry, probably I used the wrong word : I simply meant "slightly annoying", but in a quite cheerful way. She looks to me like the type of person who keeps joking and giggling at you, until you run out of patience!
Today's result: Shutoku 1-0 Hiroshima Bunkyo Sakuyo 4-0 Kaishi Gakuen Osaka Gakugei 0-0 (PK 5-4) Kobe Koryo Fukui Kodai Fukui 2-1 Kamimura Daisho Gakuen 1-0 Jumonji Naruto Uzushio 1-1 (PK 5-4) Nihon Koku Matsusho Gakuen 3-2 Houou Fujieda Junshin 1-0 Hinomoto
Happy New Year. Very soon (probably within today) I am going to open the shiny new thread for year 2018. Stay tuned.
Final thought for 2017.... On April 7th 2018 Nadeshiko will march out to meet Vietnam in the first game of AFC. It will be two years to the month since the start of Takakura sans reign In April 2016 she said..."I want to adopt a style that only Japanese can play" Well...in fourteen weeks we will find out if that 'style' is successful and we can buy tickets for France 2019. Observation...two years of NT duty seem to have aged her a lot more than two years.
And after 160 pages and nearly 4.000 posts, it's time to pack up, guys, and to move to our new home, the Official Nadeshiko Japan 2018 Thread [R]! Say bye to our old house, with a little sniff (we were comfortable here, during this year, I guess), because I'll soon ask a mod to lock 2017 thread. I encourage everyone who wants to translate discussions to the new thread to quote the interesting parts (for instance Manchester Nadeshiko's post above) before the thread gets locked.