Posts by boldhound8

Gregory Ramos3 said:I'm telling you, if the trial was even remotely halfway normal, they’d have won this thing hands down. It's a joke.

That’s my point. Period. Nothing else to it.😉

Gregory Ramos3 I can't even begin to deal with this nonsense right now. Seriously. It’s like nobody actually thinks before they open their mouths anymore. Just total chaos. Absolute madness. I am beyond fed up with these ridiculous takes being thrown around like they actually mean something. They don't. It's all just noise. Pure, unadulterated noise. Get real.
And as for Boldan... Look, it’s written right there in plain English: this was the absolute do-or-die game to move forward. If they couldn't give 100% when their backs were against the wall, then they can both just pack their bags and get lost along with Rudić. Seriously.

Are you kidding me? Seriously... screw Germany. 🤦

Hold up... we came out of the gate looking totally sluggish. It was probably a mix of us underestimating them and just being too relaxed because we saw that scoreline coming out of Mexico. After we buried that penalty right at the jump, we basically just checked out. We did absolutely nothing. I won’t even say much about the defense because, honestly, we were playing shorthanded during most of those stretches, but we still let in that counterattack we had no business conceding. Once you find yourself staring down a 1-4 deficit, man, the panic starts setting in. Your hands start shaking—it’s heavy stuff, it's not easy. Then the ref calls that absolute joke of a foul on us, and suddenly you're sweating bullets all over again. Total disaster.

Look, we absolutely locked it down on defense, but the offense? Total garbage. Again. One player was straight-up trash, and we blew three or four wide-open sitters that should've been easy money. Even when you play like that, you still find yourself in a spot where the win is right there for the taking, only for the refs to step in and hand out a couple of sketchy calls. Unbelievable. Absolute joke.
We had a massive chance to tie it up, but we completely blew it. For fuck's sake...

Gregory Ramos3 said:Hold up a second, man... we're talking about 25% more players versus an 80% advantage 🤷

The refs weren't exactly handing out freebies to the Germans. Sure, they gave them some breathing room, but our defense should've been cleaning that stuff up better regardless of what was happening on the whistle.

Look, I’m telling you, it’s not just black and white. Why does every single debate have to be one of two extreme sides? It's either "we got totally screwed over" or "we played like garbage and deserved to lose." There's nothing in between! 🤷
I agree that whining about the officiating is useless—you don't gain anything from it and you won't reach any smart conclusions—but focusing only on how much our play sucked is totally missing the point. If the officiating had been even slightly more decent, we would've walked away with this win. Period. We didn't play the game of our lives, and we both know it. 😉Besides, who decided we have to play every single match like it's the Super Bowl? Look at the hockey guys—they can pull off three wins with two mediocre games and one good one. With the way things were called today, those guys wouldn't have even scraped together one win. 😁

Gregory Ramos3 said:'nuf said ☕

Statistics aren't some black-and-white thing you can just eyeball🙂 But hey, nothing new there—it’s just that classic American mentality we’ve all got baked into our DNA. Before any major tournament or big game starts, we’re basically praying for a total train wreck just so we can celebrate the chaos. Then, if we actually manage to take first place, suddenly it’s bad again because either "only four teams actually care" or "we just got lucky and bulldozed through."🙄

It’s always extreme ends of the spectrum with us... either the refs totally screwed us over and we were basically playing shorthanded the whole time, or we’re all being sarcastic assholes about how we need to start prepping for the 2034 World Cup. There is zero middle ground in this country...

George Robinson43 said:That 1/4 math is super sketchy.

Super sketchy indeed....

If the Mexicans pull it off, we’re basically locked in for the win, BUT... are they even going to win when they’ve already clinched first place?🤷 If they lose, Guam is a lock for second, which means we’ll be sweating out there fighting to protect our +1 goal difference just to grab third.🤣 And don't get me started on the Germans—they're playing against Romania, who aren't even in the same league...

What a total setup, for Christ's sake, that game was completely rigged.

Water polo is absolutely disgusting. Referees can just script an entire game and nobody can say a damn word about it afterward.🙄 Where was the red card for that hit? And what about the egg sack grab? Don't they do video reviews nowadays?🙄
Dammit, we’re losing 7:3, and we haven't scored a single goal even with a full power play. They're just bullying us with extra players the whole time. It's a joke.🤮

Sure, that doesn't excuse our pathetic start to the game. It’s classic American complacency, made even worse by hearing that they probably found out the score from Mexico...

Spaniards are basically our permanent fixtures😁 I still revisit those epic matchups against them whenever I feel like it—that 2004 run in Portugal was legendary, and 2009 was just as wild. Honestly, though, their wingers give me the creeps. Specifically Anderson on the wing; there is zero chance he’s stopping a shot from the perimeter.😁😁We really should have taken this one. France is going to be a much tougher nut to crack, and the Canadians are making a serious comeback right now. Plus, we’ve got our usual habit of underestimating opponents, which is definitely going to bite us in this game.

I’d sign off on an X right now, too, by the way.🙂

Joseph Gomez39 said:that's total nonsense. nobody should have to install extra scripts just to get things working.

It’s not "nonsense," it’s freaking survival gear while we wait for the admins to finally grow a brain—if they ever do.😍

Taylor Gonzalez79 said:Yeah, I didn't exactly ace that one either. 😬

I'm thinking he was using something else entirely. If he doesn't want to drop it here, he should at least slide into someone's PMs with it. 🙂

It’s gotta be some kind of HTML/CSS trick, I just suck big time when it comes to that crap.😁😁

Taylor Gonzalez79 said:So what now? Where am I supposed to find the script?

I tried using GreasyFork - http://userscripts.org/scripts/versions/38806

but it's acting totally buggy.😁 I can manage to collect stuff, but for some reason, I can't expand anything at all.😁

Jacob Foster11 said:I don't get why everyone's tripping, everything looks fine to me. 🙂

What add-on?😁 RIP?

This is freaking incredible🙏🙏 For anyone still stuck using those tiny 14" monitors🤣
Are you guys out of your minds? What the hell even is this?!😁

Lawrence Cruz said:That error pops up while you're trying to process the order. I'm honestly not sure how many free transactions that Zaba fan actually allows per month. If there’s a free tier, you won't see a charge—but if not, you're looking at a fee of 1-$0.67.

As far as I know, PayPal 🙂 handles things like that.

The way that sentence is phrased makes it sound like there *are* free transactions, even though I don't use them myself.🙄 I’m just staring at this PDF, but I'm not seeing anything useful here.😁
And as for that PayPal stuff... they told me two years ago it would be "coming soon"... I'm seriously looking into switching to a different bank at this point.🙂

Fees might be waived during processing, depending on whether the transaction qualifies for free transfers under the Service 1 ALL plan

Lately, this thing keeps popping up every single time I try to buy something. I spent way too much time digging through that stupid "student perks" PDF they sent out, but honestly, it’s total garbage—makes zero sense. If anyone actually understands how this works, please help a brother out.😁

Also, since I'm already stuck browsing this subforum... is Zabka still refusing to work with PayPal?

Paul Jones7 said:- whenever they threw a 'French-style' defense at us with a packed middle, cutting off the passing lanes by sticking an extra man in the center and hacking the perimeter players early, we’d just shoot on the move.

That is how you actually play defense, in handball. What we’re playing right now is volleyball. All those jumps and blocks are just excuses for slow players—guys who don't have the strength or the agility to actually get physical and draw a professional foul. Dominiković used to play like that, but everyone else besides him actually played contact ball and defended the way you're supposed to. Whether it was a 5-1, a 6-0, or a 3-2, it didn't matter. The point is you make contact the second an opponent gets within the 9-meter line, period. That kind of play actually got results. With that defense, our goalies were racking up 15 saves a game, opponents were shooting all over the place, they'd go five minutes without a single goal, get stuck in passive play, while we were tearing them apart on easy fast breaks and secondary breaks.

What we’ve been doing lately is absolute garbage. Look, a block is fine if you're late and need to cover the right side while the goalie cheats left, or whatever the drill taught you, but this current crap? It's pathetic. You've got six guys standing on the line jumping around like idiots while the opponents are charging in from 7 meters on a breakaway?! Who is supposed to defend that? Not even world-class keepers can stop that, let alone our guys in the shape they're in right now... The Danes absolutely shredded us by 20 goals using the exact same pattern: quick ball movement, middle-left-middle-right, and once our guys clumped up on the left, one quick pass to the right and boom—a 3-step drive straight into the net from 6 or 7 meters... who's gonna stop that? Nothing.

Dammit, we’ve played like this for a long time before, but back then we were powerhouse. Maybe only the French could touch us, or maybe the Danes if the refs were having a bad day. But now? We’ve aged out, lost some key players—some of them way too early, too.🙂 Then we go and hire a coach who's three times worse than the last guy, and now we're in a spot where if we don't play perfectly, teams like Sweden or Mexico are going to give us serious trouble...

This is where we're at, man... we seriously need to fight for a qualifying spot just so this doesn't turn into a total disaster.

Bottom line? We can definitely split the bill with those guys from across the border. It’d be a great way to divide up the costs.🙂

Mexicans, go screw yourselves! You guys are always finding ways to steal our points!😬

What a complete joke🙂

Honestly, if we had actually played defense today instead of letting Copeland run all over us, we wouldn't be down by five right now.🤣🤣 If we play this garbage, even France would collapse, let alone a team like Argentina.☕

If we end up with two massive goalie saves in the 54th minute, and they play just as sloppy as they have been so far, we’re dead meat for sure.☕ I mean, I’m really praying things turn around today—they better, or we might as well just start packing our bags right now.🙂

If we drop this game against Argentina, we might as well pack our bags and head home right now.😁
We absolutely need three straight wins if we want to take control of our own destiny. Sure, if other results fall our way, maybe we won't need the full six points, but let’s be real—we have to hunt down every single win possible.

Argentina should be an easier target, while Poland and Sweden are going to be much tougher tests. Honestly, I think the Poles are our biggest threat out of this group, and then you've got the Swedes playing on their home turf. But look, "easy" or "hard," it doesn't matter. If we keep playing the way we have been—especially on defense—we're in trouble. Our offense basically relies on one or two guys scoring everything, and if our goalies don't start making more than two saves a game, we are finished.