METAL ON METAL

There’s a great follow up video where he talks about looking for Mrs Tech Giant MK2 and wanting a peaceful divorce, before casually threatening to dox his wife’s new fella and then seamlessly going into his review of a Samsung TV.

20 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

I do wonder if they got notice of when AEW is over here or when they were going to announce the date this year and preempted them.

I honestly don’t think AEW entered their mind at any point regarding this.

This show is at the end of WWE’s UK tour (bar Cardiff the day after), which was announced a month ago. They’ve just waited a few weeks for the initial burst of ticket sales and Christmas-related purchases to die down before announcing an event they know will definitely sell out. 

In fact, a byproduct of this will probably lead to more sales for the house shows from those disappointed not to get MITB tickets or from the general hype from this announcement. Win-win for them.

On 1/3/2023 at 11:16 AM, PunkStep said:

It really wouldn't surprise me either if some of the smaller CAF or Caribbean nations rename one of their stadiums after Pele just to curry favour with that bent prick at FIFA.

You called it. Cape Verde are the first to officially rename their 15,000 national stadium after Pele.

6 hours ago, Nick James said:

I've only just clicked on he's the chap that Cora Jade used to be knocking off on screen before he was released. 

They were an actual couple too, fair play to the bloke.

They broke up some time after his release and she’s now (let’s be honest) upgraded with Bron Breakker.

@jazzygeofferzthankfully theres no real mention of or anything carried over from the first film in this one, so if she doesn’t manage to watch the first one it shouldn’t affect her enjoyment of this one. 

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Was fortunate to see the limited cinema run of this on Wednesday at a tiny cinema in Rome.

This has a totally different feel to the original, it’s much more grandiose and can be considered style over substance initially but it gets a lot stronger in the second act and nails the third for me. Benoit Blanc is definitely more lighthearted and almost an imitation at times but Craig still plays it well.

I really loved it though, it has a fantastic cast who all put in a great shift - especially Janelle Monae, who is just fantastic in everything. Big Dave Bautista continues to be the best, absolutely nails the absurdity and immaturity of a Joe Rogan/bro character. I’ll forever be in love with Kate Hudson.
The cinematography is beautiful, just as you’d expect from Rian Johnson. Not sure if I prefer it to the first film (my Mrs did), but I’m definitely going to be rewatching it when it’s on Netflix next month.

A very solid 4/5 for me, potentially even higher when rewatched with fresh eyes that didn’t include a long day of sightseeing prior. Definitely recommend seeing it on the big screen before it’s on Netflix.

I won’t tolerate any Henderson slander in this thread, thank you very much.

He (like Pickford) is one who, regardless of club form, never tends to put a foot wrong for England. Don’t expect him to be starting many games mind, but a good calm head off the bench.

It’s the likes of Maguire, Walker and Phillips making the squad without ever really playing for their clubs that you should be concerned at.

All the respect in the world for him somehow being able to keep it together for the majority of the podcast and being so open (and even his usual self-deprecating jokes) on obviously incredibly fresh wounds. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Poor bloke has experienced so much tragedy.

It hardly takes much to bait them to be fair, same with the Sasha Banks fans that have been out in force because he said he wasn’t a massive fan on that interview either.

I think the main difference between HHH/Heyman and this is they have undeniable charisma and skill to be able to get around questions they don’t want to answer and still have it be a good interview - whereas Khan is the most awkward person alive at the best of times and his demeanour is one of Garth Algar being left on air alone. The interview was going to be a disaster regardless.

Not sure I agree with the HHH softball thing either, it was on a different medium so different expectations apply. That was on a BT Sport show designed to promote that weekends Clash at the Castle, whereas the Khan interview was on Helwani’s own show/podcast that has no limitations enforced on him.

I'm not even an Helwani apologist, I often find him to be up his own arse for several years now.

AEW fans on Twitter have gone full AEW fan in going after Helwani on Twitter.

They really are a weird cult-like bunch (not all AEW fans, just the Twitter lot especially) that can’t take criticism - despite readily criticising anything else.

Bet they’ve already forgotten that they were praising Helwani for his interview with MJF a few weeks ago.

Sadly (based solely on that video above), he does seem to have deteriorated in recent years. But his appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm were brilliant and also inspiring with him showing everyone that he can still do what he wants to and be fucking good at it.

As if the ‘pyramid’ would even see the money, it’s a cash grab for owners such as himself and the figures quoted are extremely skewed as he’s relating it to what the major American sporting leagues (NFL, NBA) pull in - ‘soccer’ doesn’t have that same pull over there and fans over here aren’t going to spend £20 to no doubt have to watch it on a PPV model.

Plus he wants to change relegation to being a 4 team mini-tournament. He’s owned Chelsea for two minutes and is already obsessed with Americanising the game that he’d probably never watch a match of prior to being an owner.

So yeah, fuck that John Torode looking twat.

20 hours ago, seph said:

Now today can seriously fuck off.

 

Terribly sad. Very important player for us for a couple of years under Mick McCarthy, his partnerships with both Kevin Kyle and Stephen Elliott were a highlight of my early days of being a season ticket holder.

1 minute ago, Louch said:

It’s a fair question, that you are so defensive kinda gives away you really thought it was terrible too 

Piss off you miserable bastard, Tony Khan isn’t going to wank you off.

For a start, you’re not a dog.

It’ll be a double taping this Friday, that’s what they always tend to do prior to the Saudi shows.

16 minutes ago, Duke said:

This is the bit I'm missing something of. He took a pay cut in 2020, they want him to go back to 2019, isn't that a raise? Obviously it isn't, but what's the bit I'm missing?

It’s the deferred payments during Covid. During those seasons they asked all players to take a temporary pay cut while playing without fans (most clubs did the same thing), with the promise that once fans/income was back they would get a lump sum of all the money they were owed from that time. Wages went back to normal but Barcelona are refusing to give him the money he’s legally owed from the Covid seasons whilst now threatening to sue him unless he goes back to his previous (now void) contract. Absolute cunts.

5 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

I haven't been for years but I am sure the away fans at Old Trafford are upper, as I'm sure below it is the concourse for accessibility (wheelchairs etc) 

I can't ever remember being in the lower bit there, or seeing away fans in there either.

From the brief googling I’ve done, apart from rare occasions Man Utd give the away team a massive allocation, away fans appear to be lower bowl (South-East corner) next to the accessibility area.
 

5 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

Proper football. The Sunderland Cov hatred goes back to when Jimmy Hill orchestrated a delay on the final day so that Cov and their opponent (Possibly Bristol City) would know if Sunderland won and would stay up. Because they didn’t, both Cov and Bristol were safe and played out their draw by just passing the ball about without taking a shot for the last half hour. Absolute elite shithousing. 

Oh I’m well aware, as soon as we were out of the womb we were taught to hate Chinny Hill. On the day he died, the pubs in Sunderland were heaving with older fans celebrating the fact - bit extreme, but then again I wasn’t alive when it all happened in 1977.

It was indeed Bristol City, funnily enough our first two games this season were against those two.

Fully agree, it’s beyond luck that something even worse hasn’t happened yet.

My understanding is that there’s a ton of red tape involved from Northumbria Police that would make moving the fans back to the lower bowl a nightmare.

Are Sunderland and Newcastle the only teams that have away fans in the upper bowl? 

7 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

Being a Cov fan means you’ve built up quite the tolerance for shame over the years but to postpone your first home game of the season because of the state of the pitch, that’s a new one. 

Drawing a lot of ire from Sunderland fans, I must say. After the sandpit we were made to play on for half of last season.

Mind there’s a lot of hatred from Sunderland fans in general towards Coventry after last week (coupled with the previous visit of your fans) with the usual throwing flares and a couple of pricks throwing glass shards of broken Heineken bottles down onto our North stand - which is the family area. Somehow only one person was hit and a large chunk of a bottle landed where two young kids would usually be sitting but thankfully they weren’t at the game due to being on holiday.

Nothing more repulsive in football than the weekend warriors all coked out of their heads throwing bottles and coins to innocent unsuspecting fans below. It’s the minority that tarnish it for everyone else and it’s due to those actions last week that the club is having to fork out £15K on a safety net enclosed around away fans like you get in other European leagues.

Sorry for the mini-rant, it’s just infuriating after seeing that up close last week. Really soured the occasion of the first game of the season when you’re having to keep looking behind you in fear.

Saw Bullet Train yesterday and really enjoyed it. Fun script with very little filler dialogue and a fantastic cast that makes use of it.

The most I’ve enjoyed Brad Pitt in a long time, this role would’ve been shit and generically typecast with say a Ryan Reynolds type actor but thankfully Pitt doesn’t overdo facial expressions, isn’t unbearably smug and is actually cool. Star of the film is Aaron Taylor-Johnson - what a charismatic and handsome bastard that bloke is.

Very solid 4 stars.

Quite a fun show. Good pacing, decent matches and a fair bit of storyline progression - but the whole show just had a fresh feel about it and a lack of the tired creative/production tropes you usually see on Raw each and every week. Even the first hour being advert-free was really enjoyable and flowed very well, I hope they keep that aspect of it weekly going forward.

What also helped was not much of the show being filler, not a single Omos/Veer/Ezekiel or 24/7 title to be seen.

Dominik Mysterio can get in the bin though, truly the Darren Ferguson of his family name.

I was always a fan of Arsene Wenger when he was a manager, but ever since his retirement and subsequent becoming a puppet for FIFA - with ideas like this and wanting even more International games with diluting the World Cup to every 2 years - it’s became apparent the guy is an out of touch fucking idiot.

5 hours ago, Shy Dad said:

@METAL ON METALany thoughts on where Burge and Willis will end up after you let them go? Staying at League 1 Level or potentially having to drop a league to rebuild?

Burge got super unlucky with the heart issues he had post Covid but you did look stronger once he was moved out the number 1 spot. But he's a local lad here so I hope he finds his feet with a club soon.

Burge is a solid League One keeper and I don’t think will struggle at all to find a club at that level, got too many mistakes in him to be consistent at a higher level though.

Willis has been super unlucky with injuries, ruptured his patella and the surgeons did a botched job that caused it to rupture again soon after. So he hasn’t kicked a ball in over a year. Such a shame as when he did play he was head and shoulders above any defender in the league, way too good to have dropped down to come to us initially. I think I read that his timeline to return is in August, he was on the pitch during the promotion celebrations last week and is a big character in the dressing room.

I could definitely see him finding a League One club on a one year deal to prove his fitness - but if he hasn’t lost a step, he will definitely end up back in the Championship eventually.

11 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

How did Dennis Cirkin do this season? There were high hopes for him at Spurs at one point.

Took him a little while to adapt to the league (not unexpected considering it was his first professional season and Lee Johnson had no clue how to organise a defence), was starting to find his groove then unfortunately got a double hernia and I believe his Dad passed away soon after. Alex Neil coming in and making us defensively sound definitely helped improve Cirkin’s game.

He looked a bit suspect in the first half on Saturday, but he improved as the game went on. There’s definitely a player in there (especially going forward overlapping the winger) and he’ll only continue to get better, it’s easy to forget he’s only just turned 20. Hopefully he’ll have a productive summer and come back even more improved.

4 hours ago, Butch2000 said:

Wembley is fucking shit

Disagree.

Had one of the best weekends of my life down there with 50,000 other Sunderland fans. From Fridays taking over of Trafalgar Square, to the euphoric goal celebrations and seeing my club win its first game (in front of fans) at Wembley in 49 years. Never saw a single fight or negative incident the entire weekend, plus every Wycombe fan I met were friendly and good-natured. It was just so special and incredible to see our entire fan base back on the same page and the club feeling organised again after so many years of mismanagement and lows that we weren’t sure we’d ever recover from.

Even the 5 hour drive back was absolute bliss. Bring on a couple of years of Championship mid table mediocrity before we try to push on.

I fucking love Alex Neil.