tiger_rick

6 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Isn’t everything in Hull a third world problem?

Alright, Geldoff.

Yeah, shitty stuff. Though the lady did tweet that he contacted her and apologised afterwards which is good but shouldn't have been necessary.

Here's a first world "problem":

When you go to Maccie D's and they've got two lanes. You pick a lane, you're at the machine first and then someone comes along to the other machine and you hear "Hi, can I take your order?" from the other machine. Tiny rage inside. I was here first!

Don't be stupid. Fucking Kenzo. Only one great Japanese success in the WWF:

What's with the narrative that you have to wear trunks? Fucking Triple H's fault, probably. Never a problem for Taker, Foley, Bret, Shawn, Big Kev, Sting, etc. Switching to trunks didn't solve Jericho's problems. A nonsense.

Full card in the OP. Looks like 9 matches on the PPV now. One too many for me but this is clearly going 3.5/4 hours.

Awesome stuff this.

3 minutes ago, Pinc said:

I actually think part of why AEW seem so much cooler than WWE is because they lean in to this kind of thing. They make it clear that AEW is a part of this big wider ecosystem that includes decades of stories across a million indy companies as well as Japan and Mexico. It gives a sense of canon and backstory that a two year old company would otherwise struggle with. The clips of skinny Punk and pie-head Kingston on a 20 year old IWA-MS earlier in the show were a good example.

Its quite an achievement, because when you actually sit and watch 90% of the indies/Japan it isn't cool at all. But AEW get the balance just right with little nods so it seems like this edgy underground subculture that the viewer should know about. I reckon if we were discussing this on a playground like we all did for Raw in the 90s, we'd all be pretending we knew who Ibushi was and in fact that our older brother saw Ibushi wrestle once at Goodison Park and he did a senton bomb off the scoreboard but the show wasn't filmed for some reason.

Just now, Hannibal Scorch said:

I disagree. In WWE your career starts on there day 1.  Danielson, Punk, Owens etc didn’t have a wrestling career pre WWE in their world.

AEW embraces their past and I think all the better for it.

I'm not talking about their past at all. Haven't mentioned Punk and Kingston once.

I'm talking about the mentions of factions and people in other promotions that don't affect them. There's no need for it to be part of that opening match. There's no need to be rushing an association between Romero and Best Friends into the first 30 seconds of the show. There's definitely no fucking need to have a beloved babyface out there opposing Bryan Danielson!

I'm happy that they're bringing in guys from outside. I think the commentators do a great job trying to get this stuff across. But there's no need for it in this instance, it's just an added complication that alienates any casual audience they might have. It also took all the focus away from Romero, who I thought did a great job.

3 minutes ago, Factotum said:

Meh, I don't think this sort of stuff matters with what you're talking about. I don't think it will confuse someone just watching that for the first time, and when/if Ibushi comes in then they will establish that properly, especially if they're working with NJPW. It was a little insider remark that popped the hardcore fans. No problem with it

I don't mind that one line. It's all that stuff over the opening match and then again during the Wheeler Yuda squash about Chaos, Okada, etc. It's meaningless to too much of the audience. Now if Okada or Ibushi come in, they'll do the old Butcher and Blade thing, I guarantee it. Again, at the moment, that's probably fine because it is a hardcore audience. But they want to grow that. I want them to grow that. And this stuff needs to be dialled down for that.

Just now, David said:

You think Liverpool would have taken a manager with no top flight English league experience straight from Scotland to replace Klopp? 

I don't think Liverpool would have taken any other manager with no top flight English league experience straight from Scotland to replace Klopp. But that's the point. If this thing was such an inevitability, he just sits around doing his apprenticeship. The fact that he's taking this on shows it's not. He's just grafting his way up like any other manager. All goes tits up and it's Tranmere or something next.

The whole Liverpool thing is over-played. If he was just waiting around for that job, he'd have stayed at Rangers. This is a massive gamble because it will make or break his reputation. He wouldn't take that gamble if he was just Liverpool manager in waiting.

29 minutes ago, Infinity Land said:

Having a camera man lingering in the shot of a camera already on the apron kind of gave away the ending.

I noticed that and just thought how great it is to see wrestling presented that way, without pretending every camera is hidden. So maybe I'm just dim, but it didn't arouse my suspicions at all!

19 minutes ago, Gay as FOOK said:

There's not a lot of times I sit there wishing they'd emulate WWE in their better days, but I felt like they could have dialled down the "How many undercard match combinations can we machine gun through this week?" stuff on this occasion and allowed some of the big angles more time to breath instead. Sometimes more drama and less wrestling is fine for a big go home show. I thought this one could have benefited from more backstage segments, more promo time in ring and especially more time for the contract signing. The reveal right at the end was so well done, but it could have been a fifteen minute segment rather than a seven. It felt like both guys were just getting their lines out, and the match is clearly bigger than that. I really felt this of all things should have been a slower segment.

I disagree with that. I think the hype suffers all the time in WWE from the need to do what they do for a match people already want to see. I don't think this needed anything more. The promo earlier in the show with the announcers chiming in with their thoughts was outstanding and this was just the cherry on the cake. If anything, I wouldn't have done this at all. It's a horrible WWE trope to do a contract signing for a match we've known is happening for weeks. But whatever they did, it just needed to be short and sweet and that bit of heat at the end was beautiful.

41 minutes ago, Shy Dad said:

@tiger_rick Kenny's other partner was surely a hint at Ibushi?

Shows how little I follow it. The fans they have will get it, that was clear, but if they're going to grow the fanbase, they need to cut out this nonsense. No problem with them bringing in anyone, but introduce them properly and accept that new fans you want to attract will only know them from AEW.

I think JR was having one of his rough nights. Just in the opening 15, he claimed Bryan was in the final of the tag team titles eliminator tournament, said the contract signing was coming up tonight on Rampage and then announced, up next, the Inter Circle. I think it was catching because Ex said Britt was defending at the PPV against the number one ranked, Thunder Rosa. TBF to them, having to remember and explain all that Chaos and NJPW nonsense took some doing. Between that and Hangman’s line about Kenny's other tag partner, I presume Kenny transitions to Okada? Otherwise, fucking stop it, no one cares.

Great finish to this show. AEW love a shocking reveal angle straight out of 1998, but so do I so I loved this. Someone spotted Callis had been removed from the PPV graphics so there was speculation about him yesterday. Clever little plant that.

Bryan/Ronero was good. Pac/Harwood was very good. Show absolutely flew by. I enjoyed it a lot.

2 minutes ago, scratchdj said:

I don't follow WWE at all now, but the 24/7 title thing showed up on one of my feeds and started playing. Does the title only ever change hands with a roll up? Has anyone ever kicked out of a roll up attempt?

Almost always from what I've seen. Despite a roll-up 1 second into a match finishing about 0.00001% of matches in wrestling history.

Another incredible voice of football. RIP Gerald.

https://twitter.com/itvfootball/status/1458438722983182341?s=20

10 minutes ago, garynysmon said:

Showing my age now, but I've always considered Villa to be the powerhouse of the midands tbh. I may be misguided but forever think of them as a huge club.

They are a big club. I'm not belittling them at all. But we have several mega-clubs these days, Man City, Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea and Wrexham and no-one is turning them down.

In fairness to Tilde, I just read a report of NXT this week and the opinion of that writer is that Sarray has been downgraded to a "gatekeeper" role in the new NXT. I'm not sure that comes across but if it's part of the character's story, I think it's akin to a downgrade anyway because they've no success in this sort of thing.

Mad Tonya Harding style story from PSG Women. Aminata Diallo has been arrested for allegedly hiring someone to injure her teammate Kheira Hamraoui!

8 minutes ago, garynysmon said:

The major alarm bell over appointing Steven Gerrard for me is that he'd drop your club at any sign of a phone call from Anfield.

It's Aston Villa. So would anyone!

8 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

ah well, that's alright then, they've got a great track record of capitalising on losing streak angles, right?

Barry Horowitz was the last good one!

I thought Scroobious Pip was the Beard Meets Food guy off YouTube. He would definitely have been better.

Smart car is an oxymoron in that picture.

21 hours ago, Magnum Milano said:

Walk Like a Panther (2018) (All 4)

Watched this last night and it's quite possibly one of the unfunniest comedies I've seen. Apt for this forum, it's about a group of former wrestlers who put on one final show to raise funds for their local pub which is facing closure.  In Stephen Graham, Christopher Fairbank, Sheila Johnston and Lindsey Coulson there are some excellent actors on board, but none of them can save this turd. You've got Lee from Desmond's dragged up for reasons that are never explained, the big fella from Birds of a Feather, Ray Von, a glam Jill Halfpenny looking half the age of her supposed contemporaries and Steve Furst and Scroobius Pip both plumbing new depths with their "acting". The film drags, the ending is predictable and laughs are non-existent. Runs for a shade under 1hr 50mins and there are far better things you can do with your time than watch this.

I'm reporting this post to the mods. It's misleading. It makes this film sound like campy, so bad it's good brilliance and doesn't highlight just how terrible this thing is. You bastard @Magnum Milano

There's one decent line, which might only pop me for obvious reasons but when he's talking mystically about influence from "the East" and Guz Khan says "What, Hull?" I did laugh. That's it, that's your one. I loved "We shall not be moved" playing over the intro too. Great tune.

The rest is just fucking atrocious. It's not cheesy fun in any way, it's more cheesy skin-crawling embarrassment. It's also produced in the most ludicrous fashion. It's almost like they don't want to give away the obvious ending, so lots of scenes just tail off. They're mid-conversation and then it just jumps. I'm sure someone thinks they've pulled off some genius here.

The characters are so poorly fleshed out. The blonde fella who may or may not be the Dad of the baby with the wig is not a story with any background to make you root for them. Gill Halfpenny is fit as fuck and is the best thing about this by a million miles. Why does Ricky Whatsit turn babyface and become some master wrestling trainer other than because they needed a Rocky montage? Why even is Steven Tomlinson trying to tear down the pub? Who is the woman who just turns up 80% of the way through the film to save the day? Why did I watch this?

18 hours ago, Mr_Danger said:

I never even considered watching this until I read this scathing summary. I’m broken.

Don't do it!

I'm not going to decry any meat eaters. I think it's too big a part of who we are and is something that needs to continue to change over time. Keep having the conversation, keep running the ads that annoy raider so much, keep making the alternatives genuinely attractive. Meat, and fish, are huge industry and will probably die out one day but right now, they're huge for a lot of people and countries and it needs balance. IMO anyway.

Who I will jump on are the proud as punch dinosaurs who feel the need to jump into everything to tell the world they ain't for changing. Not accusing raider of that, he's just contributed to a topic that asked the question. But when a chippy advertises tofu fish for instance, you get tons of people either slagging it or announcing "I'll still be eating fish thank you very much" or worse, some who will suggest they're not eating there because of it. They still serve fish, dickhead. Do what you want and let others get on with what they want. These gammon are way worse than vegans. The dirt worst though are the ones who think they've found some massive gotcha. "Still fried in beef dripping though, eh?" Who the fuck is frying in beef dripping anyway? Fucking idiots.