Right, online was a lot better for me last night, there has been maintainace done on the servers for xbox, but also on my router i have now properly opened all the ports, given the xbox a static ip, turned on upnp and disabled the router firewall! it tok me bloody ages!, but the results were, started 15 games, finished 13, won 6, drew 5 and lost 2!. it made the game so much more enjoyable.