u/TD003

Other than filling in for a mate’s team here and there I’ve only ever played 11 a side football my whole career. Hung up the boots 2 years ago in my 30s and recently decided to get into it again, but opted for casual small sided football - haven’t got the time to commit to a club and play 11 a side with work, kids etc these days.

Two games in and I’m finding it pretty underwhelming. It’s just 60 minutes of having the ball blasted at you from 6 yards away, under substandard floodlights. You don’t ever really get to make a save in the way I remember goalkeeping from my 11 a side days. Just one on ones and point blank blocks all night. Feel like at these “casual” sessions a lot of players also take advantage of the fact that no one is going to lay a proper tackle and will dribble it in to point blank range before shooting.

Anyone else had a similar experience? Did you adjust? Did small sided football start to grow on you after a while?

I'm wondering whether my dream use case for my HX Stomp XL is achievable.

In short, I'm chasing a setup with:

- 4 different amp tones (clean, breakup, distortion, hi gain), each with a standalone footswitch

- standalone footswitches for delay, phaser, and maybe one other effect

In other words, a mixture of preset and stomp modes.

Is this achievable in any way?