Well, well ... thought this place had died completely! My apologies for only popping my head in until now.

@Simmo ... I did find your post interesting, as of course Kurt has ripped into this in a big way - pretty sure most would have seen his video/(s) by now.

@TWS ... "Game is an utter joke". Indeed & truer words have never been spoken!!!

As much as I am wholeheartedly addicted to FUT, this weekend did it for me. On Saturday I 'had an incident' ... bunch of things were going wrong, but the final straw was a simple throw-in where I flicked to Gullit 15m in with no-one around him. As I hit the A button, it changed me to Ronaldinho who had a player marking him ... and 4/5 passes later - me desperately trying to change players - my opponent scores. I lost it ... !

So, I closed the game, uninstalled it, cancelled my '19 pre-order, removed my credit card details, and then today decided not to renew my EA Access. I was going to test '19 with the early access, but decided against that. Need to kick this habit once & for all.

Now, I do spend big on this game - something that I've done for many years as I literally don't have any other vices. EA has done a superb job, especially reading the cr@p reviews on '19 as well, to make sure I keep my money & cards in my wallet. Thank you very much EA!

Quick FYI ... kid bought himself a PS4.

Pretty cool that we all - him, the missus, the 2 girls and myself (at times) have an hilarious time with Overcooked. Fantastic little game!

No FIFA though ...

Apparently the latest weekend league trend is block all the top 100, anyone that they play on Champions Channel with a high rank and easy game your way to the top 100 or Elite 1. I guess this is what the pro's are doing now they can't I.D. each other through kits and morse code ect. The whole thing is just a complete farce really. They need to make major changes or just scrap the whole thing.

Totally agree.

What I don't get is that EA didn't allow blocking last year. Then they start hiding bits so they can't recognise them, but I'm sure the pro's whined about that.

So, they got blocking working again. WTF is up with that.

So, yep, how this is their eSport platform of choice, is ridiculous!

Kiwi did you keep Costa ??

No mate - he went into the Vieira one.

I do have an 88 that I bought though - for chem with Ronaldo. He's been really solid.

Happy New Year to all too!

Yeah Glad ... interesting one. Got to get them lobbed through balls first ...

Moving onto the DKT ... too easy. 3 comfortable wins, used a bronze team in the final, conceded and quit. Next one, another 2 easy wins.

What I would give if it was dedicated servers in seasons. Would comfortably skip the WL for it.

Yeah mate ... I'm struggling.

The defensive AI on my players is just shocking. Icon CB's 87 Desailly and 88 Ferdinand - go missing at times just like 80-rated NIF's. This game is so geared to scoring goals that the attacking AI trumps the defensive ... multiple times over.

Amount of goals I'm conceding with

I was done for the evening when the kid came through - said he'd play a game. The utter BS in the game was hilarious watching as a non-player - had to laugh. Absolutely smashes the guy, but him conceding a penalty, then his keeper going down to save only for the ball to roll over the keeper's hand. He's leading to concede another laughable goal and game goes to penalties.

I take over - dive the right way all 5 times - only for the keeper to constantly dive over it or like one, dived into the net - with the ball. Simple garbage stuff ... and that was him done for another week after that one game.

With that last loss I think the record is something like 10-9 so far. Still have the 2 full days to play so will take it easy. Not sure why I do this though ... insanity.