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I've never ben a royalist, but the news about Price Phillip has really upset me. 

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

Agreed. They’ve been utterly shit regarding enforcement of rules when it came to our ground situation. 

The list of neglectful acts they have done to clubs going through rocky times is shameful. Even where it's been the club officials themselves that have caused the issues(Bolton, Bury, Blackpool etc), they still have blood on their hands for letting the chancers take control in the first place.

They don't give a shit though. As long as they are being thrown scraps from the Premier League money train and get to claim their huge expenses for visits to the worlds biggest football matches, they are happy to turn a blind eye. 

20 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

So the embargo will be lifted next month when the accounts are filed when they’re supposed to be. The EFL are fucking terrible. 

It just shows you how shit the EFL is. I get that some of the 10 clubs have genuinely fucked up and have a history of missing the filing date, so need the embargo applying. The clubs that are simply taking advantage of a legal extension to help them through the COVID pandemic have just had a shit more stress put on them.  

2 minutes ago, Daaaaaad! said:

I'm hoping we pull off the impossible and go up to leave said party. Don't even care if the board spend money while up there and we go back down, as the money from the one season and parachute money should keep the club healthy for 15 to 20 years if they are smart...

Sorry for the double post!

Jest been sent a link to an article on the Mail(sorry1), where it says 10 Championship clubs were hit with a transfer embargo last month(Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Cardiff City, Coventry City, Derby County, Huddersfield Town, Luton Town, Reading, Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke City). I think Huddersfield's has been removed, but still. Nearly half of the second tier being barred from signing players.

There is going to be a massive financial shit-show coming soon...

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Seems like 3(Huddersfield, Stoke and Luton) are just victims of the EFL rules not being "in sync" with the governments rules. The EFL have not changed their rules to take into account the 3 month extension that is available for publishing accounts, and it's tripped the 3 clubs up. 

13 minutes ago, PowerButchi said:

Yeah, they've been fined 40k, but are refusing to pay it as they'll go bust. They're docked 12 points next season too.

It's a bit of a backwards rule to fine teams that are skint in the first place, but I suppose it's there as a deterrent to other clubs doing the same. 

11 minutes ago, PowerButchi said:

Dover have refused to fulfil their remaining fixtures due to financial issues brought on my COVID-19 so in the interest of fairness all their results for the season were expunged.

Are they expecting any fines for it? I remember seeing something about their Chairman quitting the National League board or something, is that related?

Barnsley did the most Barnsley thing possible today. Conceding from our own penalty! Held on though, and that 6 consecutive away wins for the first time in the club's history!

@PowerButchi, what has happened in the National League for Dover to have all their results wiped?

Let's go all out for Northern independence. In fact, I want to go a step further and create the Peoples Republic of Yorkshire, but not include Leeds, Sheffield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Rotherham or Hull. So just the Republic of Barnsley then, with a flag consisting of Billy Casper sticking two fingers up, on a solid red background. Sounds magic!

Never been an Easter egg fan, personally. Much prefer the things that come out especially for easter, like Creme Eggs and Mini Eggs. I have a massive addiction to Cadbury's Caramel Eggs at the minute, and I'm going though boxfuls of them

As for the actual eggs, I've always preferred to just get a big bar of chocolate. Saying that, I've never tried any of the "luxury" ones, like the special ones Thorntons and Hotel Chocolate do, so I may be missing out there.

As for what would be my perfect Easter egg? It would have to be a big, fuck off egg shaped Thornton's Vianesse Truffle one. Its my favourite chocolate of all time and I could just see me breaking the chocolate shell, and eating the truffle with a big spoon...

This is a great little thread!

Although it wasn't a title change, but something along the same lines, I was at a show I attended at the Sheffield Arena back in the 90's. I don't remember much about it(the date, card etc), but I do remember that it must have been recorded for a VHS release as they had commentators there(remember Heenan being booed out of the building when introduced before the matches). The big thing that stood out though, was Jim Duggan nocking Yokozuna off his feet with his American Football tackle, right in the middle of the gimmick they were doing where nobody could take Yoko off his feet.

I remember going to school after and telling everyone about it, but then got called a lier as they were still claiming he's never been taken off his feet on all the TV shows.

2 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Agreed, the whole "Vince filtered the bad ideas" narrative can be disproved by any number of Beaver Cleavage shaped arguments. The fact was, Russo wasn't booking the stuff that mattered. Russo hard carte blanche over all sorts of stuff but the big characters, the big angles and the biggest storyline wasn't him.

Russo isn't a good booker and isn't worth studying. He was the right guy and the right time when Vince needed a push to modernise. He does deserve credit for that. He had his finger on the pulse and created an environment of the time. He wasn't booking though. I'm not sure quite what he was doing but it wasn't booking. And the reason I think he's a worthless study is because he's proven himself that outside of that right place and right time, he's no good and also his influence as a "writer" has seen the company devolve year on year into a 206th rate TV show rather than a wrestling promotion.

I've always considered him a glorified writer for the WWF, in the same way they now have a team full of writers that we all like to complain about. And just like todays writers, some of his ideas would have got the green light, some ill have been tweaked to be more of McMahon's taste and some will have been binned. so I say you're completely right when you say he was not the booker during his time in WWF, and when he did get the chance to do the role of a booker in WCW, he shit the bed big time and it exposed him for what he is...

22 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Makes me wonder why they couldn't do the same with Earthquake. Sure, the gimmick would've need changing, but just give him the old One-Man Gang look updated for the 90s. Given the culture of the time, they'd have probably just called him 'Quake, or maybe "Earthquake" John Tenta.. Either way, given how solid he was as a hand, could have really good matches with the right opponent, and wasn't actually that old, I'm surprised the most they ever gave him after wCw was Golga. Can't help but feel like we may have missed out a little. He wasn't going to set the world alight, but he'd have enhanced the storylines of the time, much more than some of the shite they had through their doors.

They could have used the old Canadian Earthquake name, and do a classing USA vs evil foreigner feud. No idea what they would have done with his look though, as he looked so old and I can't see what they could change to make him look younger. 

On 3/20/2021 at 11:17 PM, BrodyGraham said:

Well Newcastle are fucked. 9 games left and I think we've got 6 of the top ten left. Getting battered off Brighton properly fucks us. I reckon we save Fulham by virtue of being shit.

No club who get in excess of 50k fans consistently should be as mediocre(at best) as Newcastle have been since they had that brilliant team with the likes of Ginola(still one of my favourite players of all time!)and Ferdinand. Wonder how different their futures would have been if Keegan could keep the form going and they won the league?  The big fanbase should have ensured they fared better than Blackburn, who won it thanks to Jack Walker pumping mega bucks(for the time) into them and didn't have the core fanbase to sustain it once that money dried up.

Step 1: Make a believable beef between 2 or more wrestlers. 

Step 2: Decide on an end date, and decide how the feud will be finished.

Step 3: Book everything in-between

Well, that's the unbeaten run over. One game too far, in reality and the better team on the day won. Still 5th though, so hopefully we're back after the international break refreshed and ready to put another run together!

Overall though, I think I liked it. The theatrical was so nondescript that I struggled to remember anything about its which may have helped. I wasn't keen on Cyborg's look, though. I don't think the CGI aspect of him worked, personally. Also, I think it was a bit daft not to make it a fully contained, standalone story. I man, the chances them coughing up the money to make a sequel is very low, so wrap all the loose ends up and scrap the "teases" in the epilogue.

It's a shame that DC don't seem capable of making a Justice League "universe" work, though. I think there are enough complex characters there to make a proper mature, R-rated(as the Americans say) superhero franchise. 

If someone like Andrade or Keith Lee became available, AEW have to at least try to bring them in. They have the name value that a company need to help them grow, and both have the in ring ability to match it. They would have to be ruthless with their current roster though, and not be afraid to cut some adrift(once COVID is over/under control and the need for huge numbers of substitutes has gone).

Another win for the Super Reds. Wycombe were hard working, but very limited techically and had there shih-housing down to a fine art(much better then we have been at it!), but in the end Barnsley's quality shone though. Daryl Dike was/is great and I'm praying the owners make some money available to activate the agreed fee in the loan contract and give him a big wedge of a wage to keep him here. He really looks the real deal.

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Up to 5th 'as it stands'

How has King of the Hill aged? 

I used to watch it when it first aired over here, but if I'm honest I didn't appreciate the quality at the time so it's a show I've never revisited. Is it worth a watch through with my late 30's (Cod)eyes?

10 minutes ago, johnnyboy said:

Sky Sports have broken their own viewing records twice this season already.  They benefit from there being fuck all else on or to do.  I've found it useful to watch almost every match of my own team, but I won't watch the whole slate as my old dad does.

 

It will be interesting to see if that trend would continue going forward, once things have got back to some sort of normality. I know I have watched a few more matches than I normally wouldn't, but can't say that would have been the case if there was more things I could have done to keep myself occupied.

I do think that having the odd match on the BBC will help the sport, though. I'm sure there will be kids out there who have been a bit indifferent to football, especially if they have not had access to Sky/BT Sports, who have actually been able to sit and watch a game live and as a result have really taken to the sport. I'm hoping that having the BBC and C4 showing cricket(even if it is this bastardised "100" version) has a similar effect...

16 hours ago, PowerButchi said:

It depends. At the UKFF's Favourite Team's Wrexham 3pm Saturday home games we'd have a lot of local Man U and Liverpool and Everton fans there just getting their fix. Probably about 500 or so. If 3pms became de riguer we'd lose that clientele, as would a lot of other clubs. 

That's the big problem, and It's the same at Oakwell and probably about 90% of teams outside the Premier league. The casual fans who will go to watch Barnsley every now and again as they fancy watching some football would be diluted, and many would probably just stay home and watch whatever Premier League games are on TV at the time. It then has a the knock on effect of stifling the next generation of supporters(I've lost count of the amount of times people state that they fell in love with the club when taken as kids to the 'Well by their Dads, who were not really Barnsley supporters themselves). I think it's forgotten sometimes that the 3pm blackout is there to protect the smaller clubs rather than to protect the big clubs gate receipts.

Are there any viewing figures available for the PL since they have every match televised? Just wondering if there will be any issues with the product being oversaturated?

6 hours ago, BomberPat said:

I do have a pet hate for stomping your foot when you throw a punch, though - a well-timed thigh slap at least conceivably sounds like what a kick to the face or chest might sound like, whereas a punch doesn't sound like stomping on wood. It's also the first thing that someone wanting to pick holes in the match and say "it's all fake though" is going to look for. 

I always assumed that the stomp was more to disguise the fact the punch didn't make the "thud" that a real punch would? Even as a wrestling obsessed kid who you;dn't be told that what happens in the ring was not real, I never thought that the stomp sound was the sound of the fist connecting. 

I've never had any wrestling training though, so I'll take your word that I was wrong!

45 minutes ago, Statto said:

We're clearly headed for Norwich vs Barnsley each putting our respective 17-match winning streaks on the line on the final day at Oakwell.

The irresistible force meeting the immovable object!  

32 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

Shows what a bastard that league is that you can win seven on the trot and barely change position.

It's  tight league, and you can see how so many of the bigger, financially backed clubs struggle to get out of it(unless your Norwich!). 

I'm just going to enjoy it while it lasts!