Sorry…

But this site is now dormant, as you may of worked out. I have content (well, ideas) ready really, but I’m waiting on a site project to appear that I joined a while back. I’ll give that a week tops, I’ve been hanging on to the hope it will open for a while now – then I’ll bring this old site back from the dead maybe. The point of this post was nothing really, all but to stop WP from deleting my account (which I’ve been informed they do if you do not post for a while). Please continue to browse the old articles of the place, or even better, contribute one of your own by e-mail to help me get this place active again!

I’m Not Dead

Word. It’s been a while, and February has been a slow month for Team Talk. It’s been cold, miserable and erratic on many fronts but hopefully soon I’ll get back into the swing of things with a few new articles. I think in general the whole FM community has been slow as of late (in my honest opinion it has been slow for about six months) – it’s the period of transition of the FM cycle of play where no one can be bothered, as some articles on Throw In may put it – or at least I can’t, I haven’t switched on Football Manager in about a week. Well, as I said I will update as often as I can, but I also stated at the beginning sometimes I have the ideas but just can’t be bothered. These are those times. Click here if you are interested in helping my poor weary writing soul out.

Anyway, I’m not going too expand into more excuses of my laziness. But I’d be a bastard if I didn’t give you any content after all this time. I’m a bastard.

Everyones A Blogger

It’s not going to be regular event that I post up this many rather useless news pieces on my site – but sadly it is necessary to do it again. Well not sadly actually because both my pieces of news are good for the Football Manager blogging community, and therefore this site.

I’ve gone affiliate crazy and have pledged my sites name into two new projects, an ambitious new community wordpress ‘forum’ that just might work and an scene old timer trying to revive itself. So yesterday a few sites of the blog community received an e-mail containing a piece of long awaited and expected news (for the ones who read Blog FM anyway) – The Editor was starting up a new Blogging paradise, The Football Manager WordPress Community…

So, How You Doing?

This post is generally pointless and was meant to be including in an article, but it made it too long so I thought I’d inform you of some things going on separately..

Firstly, as a quick note I have two pieces of info for you today. Firstly, on Sunday thanks to a swarm of hits from TI (you’ll never guess what was the most read article..) this site has official debuted in the Top 100 list of growing WordPress Blogs at a reasonable #29. This is great and has pleased me no end, and it shows that with a little bit of advertising (cheers Cleon) you can really boost the old hit meter. So, feel free to advertise this place on any FM sites I haven’t already hit – there are plenty, and some like GK have posting limits (bah) which I can’t be bothered to abide too.

Secondly, if anyone would like to contribute to the site I’d be most grateful and all. As you can see content is going along pretty fine at the moment but there are times when I have nothing to say – really – and any assistance from the scene folk is always welcome. So don’t be tight fisted, send me any pieces you think are up to scratch and I’ll review them and post them if I think there amazingly brilliantly beautiful crafted pieces of elegant writing. In other words – give me your articles bitches. Who knows, if you’re great enough perhaps I could give you article posting privileges as long as I trust you not to fuck the place up.

Hot Topic: There All Bloody Communists Apparently…

That’s not how I would describe Throw In really – but Spike did, and has also drawn this article to the attention of TI readers, creating unnecessary controversy – causing them to dissent on the site in hordes, brimming with self confidence and annoyance, and ripping it to shreds just as I had predicted would happen merely hours ago. ‘The Damn Scene’ has already caused ripples of uproar at Throw In, causing riots and calls for protest (basically saying; why write this? and ‘you are sad’) against the site and it’s overtly critically TI article/review. This has me asking myself – could this be the single most important event of mass uproar since the beatings of Rodney King? No. A site disrespected you, get over it.

When did the scene get to the point when people got so touché – g-o-d? Why should a pointless article taking the piss out of another site aggravate such a reaction, I know it hurts to have your site insulted – but Throw In, one of the major players of the scene shouldn’t really be so overly sensitive and send there staff members attacking. Could you not just a) laugh it away but still take some of the points of the article with you or b) realise this person is obviously seems to have a bit of a grudge against the given site but yet you have the last laugh as you have thousands of more hits than them. This all sucks. Yet I bet the writer is smiling, because he has been practically handed hits on a plate, and the infuriation of Throw In might actually make him feel as if he has achieved something. The scene is too controversial for its own good nowadays. As a matter of fact, when did people start taking the piss out of peoples site for no reason; was it Fantastic at BALLS? I’m not going to sound like some preaching aging hippy telling you we should have a ‘community’ and that ‘my love is real, our love is real’ (god bless the Jackson’s) – that’s just plain embarrassing. You made the community the shit; now get yourselves out of it. Dig people, dig.

I’ll leave this little ‘jumble of mixed up words’ online overnight. By morning (hopefully) this will all be over.

48 Hours Later…

So, a wave of enthusiasm has seen this site become full with updates over my first few days here, although things will settle soon enough and I’m still waiting on the wave of visitors to dock into harbour . There is a sliver lining to this news however as a couple of the selected few remaining credible scene stars have jumped on my mini band wagon and given muchy respect to the site, with Rob, the most lavish of all praises citing my ‘I’m Out Of Touch’ (my surprising most popular article) as ‘absolutely superb’ and calling me a ‘a man after [his] own heart’. I can understand this as while looking through old accumulations of FGN main site articles I came across this piece, which was about a mini experiment Rob did which tackled a similar issue – if not in a rather more long winded way. Others have also commented on this site favourably, including smiggs calling it ‘insightful’ and Marsh commented on the design – which I chose for it’s simple let somehow smooth design. As I’ve mentioned before I’m not to into the hierarchy the scene has, think of the little guys and all that, but it is nice to get praise from people who are respected for doing things right.

Although I did receive some criticism, less than I expected (although to be fair I have advertised very minimally) from Pano, who I can tell is not one for either my style of writing or scene articles as he described the site with great profundity as ‘a little bit boring’. I could have done worse, and I fully understand his issues. I’m really masquerading this site as a Football Manager one while really so far it has acted as a place for me to vent frustrations with the scene – which does not appeal to a mass audience. But recently that is what I’ve wanted to write about, so, that’s what I wrote about. Although fear not people who do come here expecting Football Manager worded works arriving on there screen, a piece which I feel will not fail so terribly this time is on the way soon, although, as I said before – no deadlines. Well there’s no article today – just this – so, look around at older pieces or…bugger off I guess.

Say Hello To Nimf

That’s me. I run this charming off the beaten track site which you have probably stumbled across by some huge accident and has already drove you to desperately click your little red X in the top right corner of your screen. Firstly, I’m hoping this is not going to be a long term project, as I am also looking at the idea of joining a pre-existing FM site, and, as this site is never going to be exactly brimming with visitors, to transfer my work there and do more work if another site wants me! But, there is also the option that things could go well, and I’ll stick here, although I do think the former option makes more sense, as it will give me freedom on an already established site, something I have never really done before. So, back to this site you are looking at now. It’s about FM, but will probably consist largely of scene orientated ramblings, and a few off the point pieces. I will write regarding what I want to write about, when I can or want to write it, at what length I am motivated to write it at and will not put myself under unnecessary pressure to produce lacksure articles like I have been put under before. Enjoy my site, look over these pages if you’re interesting, I’ll be here, while this lasts.