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Any recommendations, especially for going midweek. Trying to get out the rut of the same old places

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I`m about to buy a new one. I`ve had a Ping G10 with a 10,5 loft and stiff shaft for almost two years now, but after trying out my mates newly bought Taylormade R11 with a regular shaft I understand its time for a change as my accuracy and distance was much better with my mates driver than my own. At the moment I`m a high medium handicaper on my way down and I`ve been told I would earn some distance if I had a regular shaft instead of a stiff shaft on my G10, but how much can I expect to improve in distance just by getting a regular compared to a stiff shaft instead of buying this Taylormade R11 I know from experience will earn me around 20-30 meter more in distance on average. My next question is if anyone have tried the R11 and know if there is much of a difference between that and the Burner apart from the possibility to adjust the R11?

He's re-joined Labour as an advisor, thoughts from lefties, middles and cunts please...

Call me a boring cunt but things seem different now. I'm not even old and I can see a change It used to be about supporting Liverpool Football Club and loving doing so. Being proud of our history, enjoying the present and looking forward to the future. Reading internet forums and it now seems that everybody wants to be educated and intellectual when it comes to footall. But we all just come across as opiniated know it alls who have a repetitive point and agenda that we love to drone. I do it myself even when I go to bed thinking about tactics. The truth is that whoever is in control of the footballing side of our club has more know how about the game than any of us. It's why they're were they are and we are sat at our computers on an internet forum in between our last wank and our next. Whether that be Rafa, Hodgson (yes), Kenny or Rodgers. Maybe it's just this place, I don't know. I've been away from home for 12 months so this is my first port of call when it comes to being amongst fellow reds. But it just doesn't feel like that anymore. It feels a constant knock on the head. Maybe it's just because we're shit at the moment, maybe it started with Hicks and Gillette, maybe it's the realisation that you need oil rich owners to compete or maybe it's just me. The reason for this thread is to see whether anybody else shares these views. But also, and most importantly, I just wanted to get my thoughts into words. I'm not going to say we have an exciting season ahead of us because I really don't know. I'm not a football pundit, a coach or even a player. I'm just a supporter of Liverpool. And that's what I'm going to remind myself and continue to enjoy. I'll show faith in the club, the manager and whatever players we happen to have come the first game of the season. Of course I'll have opinions on things we do, but nothing will get in the way of my love for this game and this club. I have the memories of being part of this from what I've seen on the pitch and experienced off it. Whatever got you into Liverpool just remember why you're here, and just take a moment. Don't think about it too much, just enjoy it. We are supporters. I've had a few beers tonight and typing this on an i pad so I apologise if nis wasn't needed. Just been watching old Istanbul clips and was remembering tha whatever happens between now and when we pass, nothing and nobody can take that away from us.

I have just started playing World of Tanks, and I am addicted. I think the game is brilliant, and I also find the fact that you can play against people on the other side of the world fucking mind blowing. World of Tanks is free to play, but you can buy gold and use it to upgrade your tanks with armour and for buying tanks. What other MMO's are there whether free to play or not, i heard there is a Star Wars one, what is that like.

BBC3 10 pm tonight. It's not an exaggeration! Here I am, 32 years of age, I've been a professional footballer for half of my life yet I've never talked to my Dad about his days within the game. The truth is I'm kind of glad that I hadn't. My dad left school with the dream of being a footballer but only managed to play at semi-professional level at his peak, despite his widely acknowledged ability. It was his experiences as a black player in the Preston and District leagues that alarmed me. When BBC Three approached me to present Is Football Racist? I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to gain a real understanding about this very emotive issue, one that I regularly speak about in my capacity at the at the Professional Footballers' Association. Clarke Carlisle I expected to hear some differing experiences to my own but not really anything to challenge my personal beliefs around the issue. In making the documentary I asked my Dad for the first time about his experience of football culture in the 70s and 80s. The emotions it brought up on camera took us both by surprise. "Kicked, punched, head-butted, stamped on", and that was ON the pitch. My Dad could barely bring himself to recall the details of events OFF the pitch. He kept going back every week, to the terraces and to the pitch, because he loves football, but I'm not sure I would've been the same. Maybe it's because of the different eras. Dad was used to the abuse and prejudice in daily life so it wasn't unusual for him. Why should it be any different at the football? Despite our shared passion for football Dad decided never to take me to a game when I was a kid. He didn't want me to be in that atmosphere in the stands. I've grown up in a different time and if I encountered now any of what he experienced then I'd be horrified. I often wonder if I'd love the game as much if I had known Dad's story. The truth is that I probably would. Once the conversation got going we went on to talk about how much he wanted to be a footballer, what it would've meant. Of how Viv Anderson playing for England was a real "wow" moment, not just for him but for the black man in England. Clarke talks to his dad about his experiences of racism on the pitch So when we reflected on what it meant to us for me to pull on an England shirt we both broke down! The realisation of a dream for father and son. Dad consciously sheltered me from what he knew was out there, he'd experienced it first-hand. I appreciate him doing that because it gave me the freedom to pursue goals without pre-conceived fears of 'potential' barriers. I will do the same for my kids too. I don't want to burden them with what 'might' be a problem in life. I want to empower them. I want them to believe that they can achieve anything if they work hard enough, not program them to see barriers. Making this film has helped me to see football's problem: it's made up of humans. Football is no different to society. It's comprised of young men from local estates up and down the country. Football is not the elixir to cure society's ills, if things need to change then we all have to change them. Football can, however, lead the way by setting an example that is watched by hundreds of millions of people across all ages, faiths and cultures on a weekly basis. Its influence is unparalleled. Clarke Carlisle is the presenter of Is Football Racist? Is Football Racist? is on Monday, 16 July at 9pm on BBC Three. For further programme times, please see the episode guide.

This was on C4 the other night and was an absolute fascinating examination by Michael Johnson about the possible effects of the (un)natural genetic selection of black Americans by slavery to leave them genetically predisposed to speed. It's potentially highly controversial stuff and it remains difficult to prove as it's hard to separate the clear evidence of an effect on the gene pool of black Americans from the social factors at play in a culture that is highly focused on sporting success. However, leaving that whole focus of the programme aside, it was still incredible simply as a review of the worst excesses of slavery and its impact on the people who were its victims. Johnson traced his own genealogy to reveal his own slave antecedents and it was occasionally moving stuff. Check it out on 4seven or 4OD; it's well worth a watch.

Bascome said in the football echo today that he signed for a Uraguyan club in January on a pre-contract and we had to pay them a fee to sign him. I thought wed got him on a free, hes still a decent signing though.