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West Ham v Palace Forest Green v Port Vale Hibs v Livingston Forfar v Stranraer 4 homes for me today, glad I got on Forfar & Hibs early before the prices shortened a bit

This also caught my attention when skimming through the fixtures last night, as did Hibs at home to Livi.

Anything new in or same stuff that they had around Xmas time?

Just weighed myself to see the damage of lockdown and it's not a pretty sight, but really looking forward to getting back into a routine again from tomorrow. I'm awful for eating out of boredom so while the gym has the obvious health benefits the routine I get from it really helps as well. Hopefully get back to boxing once I regain some kind of basic level of fitness again

Most (I think) bookies offer 'first past the post', so will pay out on the horse who finished first and then the horse who won following any disqualifications.

Quite partial to a Monster Ultra before going to the gym. Recently found the new flavour 'Ultra Fiesta', which can only be described as tasting like summer.

Tell you what, this season has been pretty shite despite strolling the league but this really is quite spectacular.

This is correct. If you've put £5 each way its a £10 bet, £5 for the horse to win and £5 for it to place. The "win part" is refunded (£5) but the place bet isn't as thats not part of the offer. Just for awareness, the money back offer is for 2nd-4th tomorrow rather than on all losing bets as it has been yesterday and today. Think I'll take a speculative punt on Shan Blue, but would expect Envoi Allen to romp it.

Struggled to get into any decent saves on FM21 so far but started a new game as Hamburg a couple of weeks back and quite enjoying it. Won Bundesliga 2 with relative ease in the first season, and went for the safe option for our first season back in the top flight and set expectations to avoid relegation. Managed to bring in a few players on pre-contracts (namely Lundstram & Fosu-Mesah), had a bit of a slow start but a great run of form saw us in and around the European places. Signed Adam Hlozek on a pre-contract in January and then agreed to pay £2m to bring him in immediately. He's been absolutely superb since signing with 11 goals & 2 assists in 16 appearances more than justifying the £2m fee. Also managed to get Alejandro Pozuelo on a free transfer after his contract with Toronto expired to help our push for European football. In the end some poor results in the last few games, including a defeat to Union Berlin and a 3-0 hammering against fellow European challengers Koln saw us settled for a place in the Europa Conference league next season. Slightly disappointed given we were in a good place to secure a place in the Europa League itself, but all in all a solid first season back in the Bundesliga. Had Gabrielle Martinelli and Emile Smith-Rowe on loan from Arsenal for the season who were both key players throughout the season, so some work to do to either attempt to bring them back in or find a replacement for them next year.

Is there any kind of 'idiots guide' to SBCs? This is the first year I've gotten into FIFA in ages, and particularly FUT, and I'm not sure if its just because I'm a bit shit but I've no idea how people are able to easily build the 85+ rated squads to trade for the rewards etc.

I tried to get him on my game but he turned me down to move to the US. Seems to have flopped over there so maybe it was for the best!

Yeah managed to get him signed up on a 3 year deal, he was really good for me last year so hopefully that continues in the Premiership. Trying to trim some of the high earners at the moment, Naismith was dreadful for me last year and I could really do without him taking up £4.5k per week for the next 3 years. Bizarrely Stoke (who have just been promoted to the Premiership) came in with an offer of £25k for Craig Wighton. Tried pushing them for more an ended up agreeing on £100k. He was shite for me and didn't seem to be showing any signs of improving so hopefully I won't regret it.

Finished my first season as Hearts with a league title and a place in the Scottish Cup final. Won the league fairly easily, was unbeaten until losing 4-1 at Morton in game 25 after the title was sealed and I rotated the squad a bit. Scottish Cup saw some bizarre results with Dundee, Dundee Utd and Dunfermline being the other 3 semi finalists. Celtic went out to Dunfermline in the quarters, Rangers lost to KIlmarnock who were then beat by Dundee and Hibs were put out early on by Cove Rangers. Ended up winning the final easily beating Dundee 6-0 in probably the best performance of the season. No money to spend and a decent enough squad to begin with so didn't sign any players until the January window. Brought in Dan N'Lundulu from Southampton on loan as back up for Boyce as I was lacking a bit of depth upfront. Boyce then went on to rupture his achilles the game after N'Lundulu signed so he ended up becoming my first choice striker for latter part of the season. Managed to get a last minute loan deal for Jahmal Hector-Ingram from Derby to then give me a bit more depth. Not much activity in terms of players leaving, tried to get rid of a few of the higher earners but without much luck. Will hopefully offload Damour, Berra and a couple of others who are on decent salaries to help with returning. Hoping that I'll at least have a bit of cash to spend next year, but signed up Ginnelly (who was on loan this season) and Stuart Finlay on pre-contracts to start with building a squad good enough to target a top half finish next year. Will probably try to bring N'Lundulu back on loan as well if I can.

Yeah I'm still struggling with which views to have on it, as well as trying to get used to the player fitness ratings rather than percentages.

I started with a few Rivals games with Arsenal to get used to the game and really liked their 5-2-3 formation. Tried the same thing in FUT and found that I was getting torn apart on the counter a little too often, but maybe one to use once I have the players to better fit that formation.

Hoping you cashed out before that Israel equaliser...

Raucous for me

They have the offer on 2 races today, the opener (money back 2nd & 3rd) and the Ebor (2nd-5th) I picked out Dark Vision for the opener earlier in the week after in Montatham won. Dark Vision finished a neck behind him a couple of races back, currently @ 5s. I’m sticking with Godolphin in the Ebor too and going with Ghostwatch @ 10s.

They still offer BOG, just not on the races where they're doing this offer. Had a tenner on Chil Chil as well, but only got 3s. Think it went off at 7/2.

Offer on again today in the 13:55 at Ascot. I was swithering between Bomb Proof and Mountain Peak but opted for the latter.

Got Naval Crown at 4s last night, now back in to 11/4. Guaranteed to finish outside of the top 3 now.

An Edinburgh treble for me today: Hibs v St Mirren St Johnstone v Hearts Edinburgh City v Stirling Paying around 6/1

The benefits of mystery benefactors

Dunfermline, Inverness, Dumbarton & Edin City pays around 5/1. Surely?