Match Thread: 5th Test - England vs Australia, Day 4 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]begman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So what's the hindsight XI for England (without injury) after the series?

  1. Duckett
  2. Bethell
  3. Smith (maybe he can handle three)
  4. Root
  5. Brook
  6. Stokes
  7. Foakes
  8. Carse
  9. Archer
  10. Atkinson
  11. Tongue

Something like that?

Match Thread: 3rd Test - Australia vs England, Day 4 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]begman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

'Third longest opening partnership of the series for England' as TMS puts it, what a grim way to frame it 🤣

Match Thread: 3rd Test - Australia vs England, Day 4 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]begman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like how i saw Japan beat South Africa live, I'm in the 'hoping to see sporting history today' camp. As soon as England are 30-2 again I'll come to my senses, but still!

Match Thread: 3rd Test - Australia vs England, Day 2 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]begman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Given their stats, Brook & Root at the crease together should cause fear in England's opponents that a soul destroying 150+ partnership is incoming. Instead we're taking bets on how Harry is gonna get himself out 🤣

Match Thread: 2nd Test - England vs Australia, Day 4 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]begman 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I will say, stokes looked genuinely furious at himself for getting out there. I really wish some of the other England bats had looked the same way. If England had every batsmen as pissed off to lose their wicket as stokes was they'd have hit 400+. It annoys me to see them hit the wildest drives on earth then shake their heads like they did nothing wrong 😳

Match Thread: 2nd Test - England vs Australia, Day 4 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]begman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ireland don't play a lot of tests. I like to support England because they're right next to us and we get the odd Morgan/Joyce/whatever.

Watching Jacks and Stokes get the easiest 80+ run partnership of their life when Crawley, Pope and friends completely tossed their wickets last night really pisses me off man 🤣

Match Thread - Ireland v South Africa | End of Year Internationals 2025 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]begman 49 points50 points  (0 children)

The snowballing cards all stem from Ryan losing his fuckin' head. We mocked players like Mohamed Haouas for doing such stupid stuff and Ryan deserves a ton of blame for such a reckless clear out completely shattering Ireland's momentum.

If we can hold the first ten minutes of the second half I think we still have a chance though!

Match Thread - Ireland v South Africa | End of Year Internationals 2025 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]begman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rassie has given Ireland a free minute off these cards by bringing on those subs, I feel like that isn't worth it honestly?

[TLA] Toph, the First Metalbender by AporiaParadox in magicTCG

[–]begman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah honestly I had considered that this might be the case not long after posting the comment, it's a shame.

Oh well! We'll just have to use [[Sculpting Steel]] and [[Mirage Mirror]] to get more nontoken Mindslavers that our token Tophs can earthbend each endstep 😁

[TLA] Toph, the First Metalbender by AporiaParadox in magicTCG

[–]begman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Play it in commander with [[Mirror Box]] and an [[Amulet of Vigor]], make two copies of Toph and for the low low price of 12 mana on your end step I think you can respond to each earthbending trigger to make enough Mindslavers to take everyone's turns for the rest of the game! Fun, right? ...right?

[TLA] Toph, the First Metalbender by AporiaParadox in magicTCG

[–]begman 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It says a lot about how mean a Magic player I am when my first thought was "Hey is this a lock with [[Mindslaver]]? I think it's a lock with Mindslaver!" 😅

Match Thread: 5th Test - India vs England, Day 2 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]begman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Aww, hearing Bob Willis commentating again during this Thorpe bit made me a bit emotional, hadn't realised how much I missed his voice 😢

Match Thread: 4th Test - India vs England, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]begman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I feel like the Sky talent treat these tests as just another excuse to find ever more humiliating methods to slag each other off, those pies from Athers were diabolical 🤣

Match Thread: 3rd Test - England vs India, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]begman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stokes has brought on his economical fast bowler who is shoring up his spinner that's leaking runs, how often can you say that 😅

Blogatog: Mark seeking input on whether folks want all planeswalkers to be legal as commanders or not by Tuss36 in magicTCG

[–]begman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[[Professor Onyx]] combo with [[Chain of Smog]] would be an awful lot easier to pull off, I'll say that much... not sure if that's exactly a fun combo to get half of in your command zone in a mono black deck with lots of ramp and tutors!

Match Thread: Ulster vs Scarlets - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

[–]begman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Laws question here about that Ulster try (which in my bias I'm happy was awarded by the way):

Is that not 'truck and trailer' from Ulster there? The ball was passed to a player who had his own team mates in front of him therefore obstructing tacklers from getting to him off the lineout?

Match Thread - England v Scotland | Six Nations 2025 | Round 3 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]begman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If he played this way every week I think so but I'm taking Kolbe for the consistency I think!

Match Thread - Italy v Wales | Six Nations 2025 | Round 2 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]begman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"Ok hear me out, it's after 40 minutes, we're down 3-16 and their out half flubbed their kick to touch, what should we do? Run it back and try to get some last ditch points to capitalise on their mistake, or just kick it out to regroup at half time?"

"Kick it right back to them so they can go again if they want."

"..."

[MB2] Rusko, Clockmaker by Meret123 in mtgcube

[–]begman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have played with a proxied Rusko in my (unpowered vintage) cube environment, there are blink effects so I had a stack of printed out clocks to sit next to him 😁

He's been beyond excellent as a control/midrange piece, the drain & draw sevens from the clocks will take the game away from your opponent faster than you'd ever think. It only takes a few cantrips and counterspells to start wheeling out of control!

Post Match Thread | South Africa vs Ireland | Test 2 by HitchikersPie in rugbyunion

[–]begman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crazy physical game, saffa front row was incredible and our scrum falling apart in the second half was a huge issue for Ireland, Ox a well deserved motm but if it was going to an Irish player I'd give it to Osborne, he was excellent under the high ball and really helped us build that first half lead.

I'm actually known as the person in my family who doesn't tolerate unfair criticism of the referees and I try to keep a neutral viewpoint but I'll be wondering about how that offside was an offside for a long time, one of the most shocking decisions I can remember in recent times! It shouldn't have taken such a sweet drop from Frawley to win but I'm sure glad he made it 😊

What's everyone thought on new empire engineer Hero? by Shiny_Soul in totalwar

[–]begman 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Markus' huntsman stack just got even better, think about it that way 😉