Quote from dadge :

your defence was not as solid as you think. you want your midfeild to defend more but you also want Ronaldinho to start...this guy doesn't know how to run back and defend.

I said it is solid, but they were so sleepy last night...
I want midfield players that defend better and actually know how to play when we have the ball. Two good defensive midfielders is plenty. It's all about keeping the ball for yourself, and our midfield can't seem to do that.

Quote from dadge :

for sure. but in the first half Brazil were non-existant. ireland should of taken advantage of that. ireland need another few years to work on their stamina. robbie keane had a great game. he was everywhere. he was also controling the irish midfeild quite well and at times, Brazil didn't have an answer for him.

Please I don't mean to offend anyone here, but that's what I meant by 'boring game' and 'blame the lack of talent from the other teams'. As good as Ireland played (and they did what they could), we were actually walking all first half, and still managed to reach half-time leading the score (illegal and O/G, but not our fault).
Leave "ugly but effective" football to Italy or Germany. It's unacceptable for Brazil to play that bad.

Brazil 2-0 Ireland

Crappy line-up as usual, boring game as usual, win as usual. I'll comment on our team just because it's the one I know better.

It's quite impressive how our manager can completely ignore the best players and keep calling the ones he want. Although we're experiencing a pretty good time results-wise, the football was never brilliant and I wouldn't be surprised with a poor and/or brief participation on the World Cup. I personally blame the lack of talent from the other teams, this is hardly our best team (a good one at the best case scenario).

The defence is solid (although someone explain to me why Luisao and not Thiago Silva), maybe a little lacking on the left side.

Midfield is crap, too slow, too defensive yet doesn't defend.. the ball always reach our defence somehow. Gilberto Silva must go, I don't have enough fingers to count how many players would do better than him (and that's only considering local players). Ramires as an offensive midfielder? You gotta be kidding me.
Judging how things are going we'll have only Kaká as a real player on the World Cup, please lord don't let him get injured!

Attack is again sub-optimal, although pretty good. Nilmar should be playing over Robinho, not the other way around. Heck, little Robson shouldn't even be there! Adriano is a safe bet, but again wouldn't be on my team.

Just to finish my rant, Robinho should be banned from the universe.


How were the other friendly matches? There's more tomorrow as well, I heard...

Last edited by de Souza, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 17:58. Reason : brief, not fast

I can't make any of the other races, have fun.

We do see the purpose, we just don't enjoy it as much as you do.

Quote from benjimc :

blindness... All i can say is wow. Watch that movie!

Quote from danowat :

agreed, brilliant film.

Quote from de souza :

waiting to finish the book to watch that one.

Done and done. Great stuff! Although...

(I know this is not the "recommend a book" thread and if you're not interested in books you might want to skip to the next post. :tilt

...It just doesn't do justice to Saramago's book. And I'm not saying "oh they changed that part in the movie, how could they?!"... I'm saying: what that old man can do with words is simply out of this world, true genius. There so much to be had in those pages!
Surely there's translations for lots of languages, but I wish you guys could read it in Portuguese... by his own Portuguese, as himself asks.

Pretty bad round in my return to a Road Sport event after a looong time (guess I just raced in the first Winter season). But it's good to be back.

Had a good qualify with a PB, but both races were quite messy.

The Sprint race ended in the first lap when I forgot FZ5s brake earlier than me, tapped Fuse while braking for the chicane (sorry!), spun, rejoined in last. Did some good laps but made too many mistakes.

I enjoy long races so was looking forward to the Feature. It started ok, had a good pace but spun by myself again in the same place. Had some good and bad moments but again I felt I had the pace to be fighting with Yann but ended kinda last due to countless mistakes. Still had fun though!
Oh I had an incident with someone after the last corner (don't remember who it was.. I guess the contact was my fault so sorry about that!).

Next one will be my last, as my vacations will be over after that. See you guys there.

There's a good chance I'm able to race the next two rounds, so...

Name: Eduardo de Souza
Car Selection: RAC
Car Number: 29
Team: Sim Racing Society

Great.

@Stuff: thanks for pointing that up.

Probably, but I'd rather not do this at work.

:worried:

Oh well I'll have a better look when I can then... if no one else comes here and tell us what's wrong.

If you still want to show all users (or use a similar query to something else, or just out of curiosity), try changing from...

FROM users U, layouts L
WHERE U.id = L.user_id

to...

FROM users U
LEFT JOIN Layouts L ON U.id = L.user_id

That way, if I'm not mistaken, the two tables are joined even if the second table has no corresponding value.

@Flame

Has been a while since I don't mess with SQL but it might be something along these lines:

SELECT U.username, COUNT(L.user_id) AS number_of_layouts
FROM Users U, Layouts L
WHERE U.id = L.user_id

This "count" thing returns the number of rows that match the condition. I guess. Never used it.

Souza Racing is back for more (poor) racing!

Nice car, awful paint job, bad beer.

Trying to be as unbiased as possible here, but if you're using this as an ultimate goal to gain experience - and I believe it doesn't come down to AI alone -, you might as well go for the complete environment.

Waiting to finish the book to watch that one.

Finally for him!

Hope Sauber can build a reasonably fast car. Same for Renault, it would be too bad to see Kubica struggling with the backmarkers again.

Might as well give it another shot...

Name: Eduardo de Souza
Car Selection: RB4
Car Number: 31
Team: Sim Racing Society

Last edited by de Souza, Sat 23 Jan 2010, 14:24.

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

Moving on from the soap drama that is Liverpool, anyone watching the African Nation cup.....and anyone else, like me, hating those bloody horns that they blow for the full 90 mins. Learn some bloody songs damn it.

As if football itself wasn't bad enough these days, now we'll have the most annoying supporters ever. This one will be a tough World Cup.

@Liverpool: it's always been my favorite team outside Brazil, and I completely agree with Moose and Mackie... whatever Rafa started when he got there, it's simply not working for some time now. The team needs some sort of shaking, a change, new air, whatever. It's like he's just experimenting all the time and is never really sure what he wants.

Quote from Forbin :

I'm not sure I'd ever be able to take a film with David Caruso seriously. I'd be constantly waiting for him to pull out his sunglasses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948

Hahah.

Session 9.

Football vacations around here.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Do you really demand originality in 2010? Billions of films are made, offcourse everything is seen million times so far. But this is just awesomeness.

'Demand' might be a too strong word, but yes, certainly!
Billions of movies being made is no excuse for the 1,000,000,001st movie to be like all the others. There's always a way to make things better (or worse).

Also I don't think anyone is saying the movie ruined 2,5 hours of their lives, because it most probably didn't. All in all it's a good experience.

Don't take things too personally, gladly we don't like all the same stuff.

Quote from The Moose :

It's a good experience, but it's a crap film.

And there I was thinking about what to say. No need anymore, you already said it all on that line.

Quote from xaotik :

No shit man, I'm still buzzing about Syndey 2000 - go Cameroon!!!

Hahah