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Hallelujah! I actually managed to follow through on something I promised in my last post! I have now made some modifications to the rules, some major, others minor. However, I decided it would be much easier for me to put these rules into a forum where everyone can leave comments and suggested enhancements for each individual rule, rather than only finding out about the problems once the game avtually takes off. That forum is at

After playing in a couple of events with TFAI over the past year, I can see a few areas where the rules need to be readdressed to be really playable. Some of these are things which I can already identify and I already have ideas for how to fix them. Others won't actually show up until the game has been tested in competition. The problem is that the rules were based on an old Subbuteo rule book I found in a box set, which is nowhere near as comprehensive as the 70+ page rule book produced by F...

I've just ordered a new piece of fabric for the playable version of the pitch. This means I can finally replace the test version I made, which has several very obvious mistakes on it. The new fabric will be exactly 1600 x 1100, so it will fit the board exactly. Once I get legs on the table I'll be up and running.

Transporting it around the place is out of the question though, as it's too big to fit in the car. This means that I'll have to host any "tournaments" in my house!

Got the board today for the playable version of the game. It's 1600mm X 1100mm. I also have a piece of green baize, 1500mm X 1000mm for the pitch. I'm going to mark this out over the next few days and then fix it to the board. Once this is done, legs will be put onto the board so I will have a permanent playable surface for the games. I have a few lengths of board to use as a border on the pitch. However, I'm going to have to find a way to attach nets behind the goal to stop the ball from fly...

Just started linking this blog to my Facebook page (which means I might actually use this blog now).

Since Facebook imported the blog, it has my old posts now at the top of my list of notes. This won't be an issue in the future.

I got two books from Amazon today: one is "Model-Making Materials and Methods" and the other is "The Architectural Drawing Course". Since I know nothing whatsoever about model-making, I decided that this year I'm going to do my best to learn so that I can finally start constructing my own stands. However, I'm going to keep the Zeugo stands until such time as I manage to build something I can be proud of.

There's still a delay on getting the new table, but I have at least cle...

It's finally happened! My love for the Kerry team and Manchester United are now flying the same flag. As you probably know, United fans are taking a stand against the American owners of the club by boycotting the regular United colours and instead using the colours of Newton Heath LYR (the club which went on to become Manchester United). You may remember back in the 90s United used the old Newton Heath jersey as their away strip, which had green and gold halves. Now for the United games I can...

Due to unforeseen delays, the construction of the trable for the stadium has been delayed. At the moment, i can't say how long things will be delayed for. In the meantime, it gives me plenty of time to second- and third-guess the way I'm going to build the stadium!

Slán,

Paul

I've completed my overhaul of the homepage (I think). Some of the ramblings have been taken off and put onto a new "About" page. The plan is that the home page gets straight to the point with a brief summary of the project as a whole, leaving detail and discussion to the relevant pages.

One thing I've noticed though is, looking at the traffic stats, many of the hits I get come from search engines, mainly Google. I dropped Subbuteo from the domain name so as to avoid any cop...

Since I've now posted a list of playable rules, I decided to make a playable pitch. The soccer pitches were never done to scale (they appear to be set at 1:100 scale as opposed to the OO scale players and the oversized goals). Since many Subbuteo enthusiasts often have stadia built around their pitch, I made a pitch that would fit the exact same size as the soccer pitch. (116cm x 77cm).

The only times I deviated from this scale are in the width (it should really be 72cm) and...