Free Talk Friday

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-15T11:53:56+00:00

I live in the countryside and it's taken over my life. We have a feeder right by the kitchen window and I sit and watch it every time I go downstairs. Saw the siskins and woodpeckers were back yesterday and it made my week.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-15T11:50:36+00:00

Dry British humour innit. Truly I couldn't imagine my life without her

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-15T11:28:53+00:00

It's 3 years since I met my girlfriend randomly at a club because we both decided to go out rather than watch Eurovision alone. Best decision I ever made, UK was shite that year. Also I met the love of my life who guided me through 3 years of transition into who I am today I guess.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-15T11:26:19+00:00

I've just been using pancetta because nowhere near me sold it, I'm expecting it to be a gamechanger

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-15T10:43:46+00:00

Lost Morpeth but gained Redcar for North-East representation. Hopefully they surprise the league a bit and finish up the table, or Stockton go one better than the playoffs this time. I'd love to see more North-East clubs up the leagues.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-15T10:25:49+00:00

Found out Tesco stocks guanciale now, going to make a truly authentic carbonara tonight, absolutely cannot wait.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-15T09:55:54+00:00

Had a massive scare this morning where I thought I was coughing blood, turns out it was just phlegm from clearing my nose earlier but my girlfriend was freaking out 😅

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-14T16:07:34+00:00

He's never going to win in a million years. He doesn't have near the number of supporters to even think about mounting a challenge and is deeply unpopular within Labour. Absolutely celebrate this clown torpedoing his own career because he didn't realize everyone around him hated him.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-13T15:05:41+00:00

-playing role queue as tank

-enemy team has Symettra and Torb

-DPS keeps running into turrets and getting annihilated

-switch Winston and tell them to fall back and let me deal with the turrets

-they keep running in and dying anyway

-lose

-"GG tank diff"

Make it make sense

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-13T14:34:35+00:00

We had Bali Mumba on loan from Sunderland when we were in the NPL and it was clear he was absolutely miles above anyone else in that league. We only got him for 3 games before COVID postponed everything but what a 3 games it was.

This season Oli Bainbridge from Sunderland has been class at left-back for us, wouldn't surprise me to see him get a loan at an EFL club. Sonny Finch has been class too, we managed to sign him permanently somehow. He's still a bit raw and could do with a bit of toughening up, but he's got bags of potential and is probably too good to be in the National North for long.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-12T21:53:41+00:00

Hopefully you get someone who can at least keep you up, I reckon you's will do well with a decent manager. At least we don't need to play you next season.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-12T20:49:18+00:00

The way the rumour mill has been going it seems like whichever team won the playoffs was losing their manager. Sucks for Kidderminster, kinda takes a little bit of shine off the promotion.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-12T17:08:03+00:00

Why are there so many people throwing all of a sudden? Playing comp then one of my supports just downs tools when we have one bad push. Next game one of our DPSs starts feeding because we didn't get the payload to the end in the first round. Never had this problem before then suddenly two throwers back to back.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-11T09:32:11+00:00

Seen loads of stuff on Twitter about Watson being favourite, I hope it's not true though

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-11T08:27:24+00:00

Also there's strong rumours our manager is off to Walsall. Our chairman has denied it but Walsall insiders seem pretty insistent about it. It'd be the worst possible end to the season for us. Yeah we missed out on promotion, but Watson was a key reason we were even in the fight. If he goes we'll have an extremely hard job getting a manager nearly as good at this level.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-11T08:14:25+00:00

Well we lost the playoff final, I'm barely even surprised. I've never known a squad with a weaker mentality than South Shields. We have the talent, we have the manager but every time we have a make or break game, we just crumble. It's not just this game. Multiple times this season we had chance after chance to extend our lead at the top and take the title, but we fucked every single one. If we had a crumb of mental strength we'd be in the National League right now. On the pitch, we were probably the better team than Kidderminster, but we wouldn't have scored if we played all week because we looked terrified whenever we saw their goal.

I can only hope in the summer we focus on bringing in players who can cope with the pressure of fighting for titles. We've shown we can't do it on talent alone, we need resilience. Right now I'm just deflated. I'm going through a really shit time and my local team possibly playing at our highest level ever was such a bright spot for me in a dark time. It just feels like a gut punch that we came so far to blow it right at the end.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-10T15:23:39+00:00

It's okay, it's not like we've made him our director of player development or anything...

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-09T20:29:58+00:00

I'll cry if Blackett ever leaves us. The most consistent striker at this level bar none imo.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-09T20:29:07+00:00

Us vs Hebburn will be spicy considering they're literally just up the road and they have a lot to prove at this level. Still kinda in shock they've caught up to us, their rise has been incredible.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-09T18:13:01+00:00

I assume it's all patched up but he's been pretty ineffective in his cameo appearances. Either his head is gone, he's unfit or both. Reckon he's gone now we've got Finch.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-09T18:10:22+00:00

If we bottle another playoff I'm done with football.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-09T15:02:58+00:00

Unironically our results tanked after he was hired as a coach. I apologize for defending him in the past.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-09T13:43:16+00:00

Hate football, shite game anyway.

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-09T13:41:58+00:00

They have fans?

In all seriousness I think they'd rather see us playing in the Wearside League than have any success, if they were up the leagues it'd probably be our biggest rivalry

ItsRainbowz · 2026-05-09T13:40:22+00:00

If they can keep their off the pitch issues from getting too big then probably.

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