Spoonie

Shirt packaging means wearing a shirt with have of the clips still on it because you've not located them all yet. Binjuice.

Watched series 2 of Narcos. Excellent stuff. Now back for the five millionth re-watch of Band of Brothers

I'd considered starting off on my football coaching journey over the past few years and finally signed up to do my first SFA coaching course on Sunday 2 October at Hibs training ground. Will be my first experience of a non-AF coaching course so really looking forward to it. I've been trying to dig into a variety of different coaching resources since I signed up, because its apparent to me that despite having watched the game for my whole life, that viewing has been as a spectator rather than in any sort of technical way and so I don't really have a great grasp of the technical or strategic background of the game! All recommendations of reading/watching material is welcome!

Giants squeeze out a second win in a row - really nice to see us finding a way to win, even if the OL is a bit suspect. Also nice to see us not getting 50 points pumped past us by the Saints!

Is the current topic "list five people, at least four of whom Spoonie has never heard of"?

Ryan has never had a great rep as far as disciplined teams go. Looked like a good game tho and the Bills outfits looked sweet!

Finished some old books on dealing with people by Les Gilbin and now going back to Inverting the Pyramid which I started a while back and never finished,

Ace - thank you! I noticed with the emulator that they had in Mousetrap that the list of games had exactly that - a tonne of versions of the same things from different countries

There's a pub in Leith called Mousetrap who have an emulator set up on one of the Rasberry Pi things, with emulators for all the old consoles and millions of games. Anyone have any experience of building or designing that kind of thing?

Bomberman multi player is as good as gaming gets. So simple in concept but absolutely magic. Just enough of an element of luck to level the playing field a bit, without removing the skill. I've long considered a Bomberman tattoo based on the versions of the characters in that game.

Great topic! These are the five that stick with me most fondly 1. Mega Bomberman (Mega Drive) 2. Tetris (GameBoy) 3. Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament Edition (Mega Drive) 4. Super Mario Land 3 - Wario Land (GameBoy) 5. Halo (Xbox)

Didn't Busta Rhymes have a similar video at one point?

If you get a chance, check out the OU/Houston game from this weekend past. Opening weekend of the NCAA season. Awesome game of football!

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Really enjoyed both Don't Think of an Elephant and Steven Kotler's The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance. The latter is a discussion about how huge leaps have been made in relatively short time in adventure and extreme sports and uses some great case studies like Danny Way, Shaun McConkey, Laird Hamilton, etc and uses the idea of a 'flow state' to explain their success and progress. Well worth a read just for the stories and anecdotes. Currently reading Michael Lewis' Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour which is effectively a follow-up from The Big Short where he visits the countries worst affected by the financial crisis and discuses what they did and some of the historic reasons why, and then looks at the outcomes. Very well written as always and some terrifying stuff.

Been off the pace still this year but 30 read so far: 1: William McIlvanney - Docherty 2: William McIlvanney - The Kiln 3: Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy 4: Simon Sinek - Start With Why 5: Chris Fore - Building Championship Caliber Football Programmes 6: George Samuel Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon 7: William Golding - Lord of the Flies 8: James Vint - Installing Explosive RPO Concepts Into Any Offense 9: John B. Arden - Improving your memory for dummies 10: Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way 11: Irvine Welsh - Crime 12: Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist 13: Tim Layden - Blood, Sweat and Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today's Game 14: Steve Williams - The Successful Coach - Become the Coach who Creates Champions 15: Mike Mitchell - Mindfulness: Mindfulness for Anxiety Relief 16: Partick Easton Ellis - American Psycho 17: Matt Zeigler - College Football Schemes and Techniques 18: Roger Steare - Ethicability: How to decide what's right and what's wrong 19: Michael Francis - Guvnors: The Autobiography of a Football Hooligan Gang Leader 20: Jon Gordon - The Energy Bus 21: Chip Heath and Dan Heath - Switch: How to change things when change is hard 22: David Halberstam - The Education of a Coach 23: Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die 24: Les Giblin - Skill With People 25: Les Giblin - The Art of Dealing with People 26: Armin A. Brott - The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year 27: Russ Roberts - How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness 28: George Lakoff - The All New Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate 29: Steve Boseley - Die, Blossom, Bloom 30: Steven Kotler - The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance Don't think of an Elephant and The Rise of Superman are both excellent reads

We went down to Worcester on 27/8 for the final at Sixways Stadium. The Exiles took a 6-0 lead but we hit back fast to go 8-6 ahead, a lead which we held for most of the game. We dominated possession, field position and yardage but couldn't convert again and they hit us with a sucker punch right at the end to take the title 14-8. It was the closest Junior final in ten years and we should have taken home the gold but it's still been a hell of a year. And on Saturday just past, our u17 team which had just won their first ever Scottish title, went on to lift the British title too! Not a bad year for the Pirates, despite a 6-4 record at senior.

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It's a great read tho!

Manchester Titans won their division and so were our hosts for the Northern Championship game yesterday. We travelled down, gave the best performance I've ever seen our team give, and beat them 16-0 to earn a place in the British final on Saturday 27th! An awesome season just took another step and now we are one more game away from the most unbelievable turnaround! Personally, it was the best game I've ever coached and I found myself not only as prepared and organised as I've ever been but completely in the moment on the sideline. Really proud of our boys and everything they've achieved so far this season!

Just finished Russ Roberts - How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness which I really enjoyed. I'm a big fan of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments and this was a great take on it. Now I'm onto George Lakoff - The All New Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate. It's about how Conservatives in the US frame debates and arguments better than Progressives and how o turn the tide on that. only 7% into it but enjoyable so far. Can't remember where I heard about it from but I think it was a news article linked on Facebook.

Had a slow period in the middle of the year where I didn't read as much as I'd have liked but been getting back into it with some great stuff recently. Here's where I am in mid August 1: William McIlvanney - Docherty 2: William McIlvanney - The Kiln 3: Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy 4: Simon Sinek - Start With Why 5: Chris Fore - Building Championship Caliber Football Programmes 6: George Samuel Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon 7: William Golding - Lord of the Flies 8: James Vint - Installing Explosive RPO Concepts Into Any Offense 9: John B. Arden - Improving your memory for dummies 10: Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way 11: Irvine Welsh - Crime 12: Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist 13: Tim Layden - Blood, Sweat and Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today's Game 14: Steve Williams - The Successful Coach - Become the Coach who Creates Champions 15: Mike Mitchell - Mindfulness: Mindfulness for Anxiety Relief 16: Partick Easton Ellis - American Psycho 17: Matt Zeigler - College Football Schemes and Techniques 18: Roger Steare - Ethicability: How to decide what's right and what's wrong 19: Michael Francis - Guvnors: The Autobiography of a Football Hooligan Gang Leader 20: Jon Gordon - The Energy Bus 21: Chip Heath and Dan Heath - Switch: How to change things when change is hard 22: David Halberstam - The Education of a Coach 23: Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die 24: Les Giblin - Skill With People 25: Les Giblin - The Art of Dealing with People 26: Armin A. Brott - The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year 27: Russ Roberts - How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

It really is. The football and the intensity of the game and training is excellent, but these kids are totally hopeless. When you turn up to a class without a pencil or notebook, what chance have you got of being able to hold onto anything but the most basic of jobs?

Watching Last Chance U on Netflix at the moment - a documentary about East Mississippi Junior College's (American) football team where a lot of Division 1 dropouts end up. It's interesting stuff and a good watch, if depressing looking at adults whose education level is absolutely rock bottom and who have an 'academic advisor' is essentially employed to follow them about, making sure they go to class, have a pencil and a notebook, complete any assignments, so that they maintain their academic eligibility to be able to play football. It's a pretty good portrait of what happens to talented sportsmen in the US who are allowed to get away with anything because of their talent, when their behaviour catches up with them.

Those are brutal - and nowadays it seems like the actual story doesn't really need to have much to do with the clickbait headline. You pose a question and then the article doesn't answer it. Total nonsense.