I like the Peter Crouch comparison. Eder can definitely be useful if they find the right role for him, but he’ll never really lead the way like a number 9.

I don’t actually have a spouse, I was just being cheeky.

Why?

I was generally pretty impressed with Portugal’s young players.

What if your spouse is an organist? how much still applies?

I hadn’t seen Pogba play much before the tournament because I don’t get what ever channel carries Serie A, but he was disappointing from the get go. His attitude is awful and reminds me way too much of Balotelli, just bratty and petulant. Hopefully he outgrows it.

I didn’t say you had to agree with me. I’m not a big LOTR fan, so the games lore and setting didn’t do enough for me to make up for it’s shortcomings.

I think the big take away is that France completely let off after he went out. They were rampant for 20' and then it was gone, never to return.

I live in a city now, so I’m not likely to take it up again. It was fun though.

I actually was really disappointed in Shadow of Mordor. I thought it was really repetitive and stopped playing without finishing the game.

I used to practice in my backyard, which undoubtedly unsettled the neighbors. I got pretty good at it too, but eventually the hatchet broke and I never got another one.

You could say fargin anything and I’d give you a star with that username. :)

I think loosing the tip sounds painful, but I’m clearly less adventurous than you. lol

I learned to throw hatchets when I was a kid, it’s way easier than most people would imagine so long as the hatchet is well balanced.

They don’t have any kind of aerodynamic stabilization though ( tail fins... etc ), so they have to be thrown perfectly straight in order to not rotate around the COM. I also doubt that any thrower could apply enough spin to stabilize it that way either.

Atlatls are amazingly effective force multipliers. I would assume they’re really tough to master, or they’d have been much more widely used in the pre-gunpowder world.

Yeah, same here. Aside from soccer and ice hockey I don’t follow any Olympic sports.

That might not be good enough if, say, everyone else is throwing 210'.

I think they have to have their legs and body moving to generate sufficient power because the velocity of the thrower would be transferred to the thrown object. Drag on a javelin can’t be very significant either, so every little bit of velocity helps.

Watching Portugal win this tournament was like having really bad sex for way too long and not being able to finish.