Duke

1 minute ago, adjarrell said:

Hang on a minute... Have I missed something here? After all that last week, there's no place for Adam Cole and his mates in the trios tournament? I don't want to celebrate yet, in case I've missed something... 

Cole and O Reilly are injured and can't be in the thing, as they said last week.

So, Omega comes back to team with the bucks, they win the trios belts and start acting like pricks again, right? Then hanger can be all "guys, you said all those nice things" and he can long term try and get back through to them? Up for that.

Punk coming out was predictable. No, not predictable, anticipated. Yearned for. We all knew it was going to happen it was brilliant when it did. Marvellous. Moxley getting up, rolling his shoulders, clicking his neck and turning round was absolutely great too. What a man.

Edit: oh, I'm desperate for Miro v Brody King. That one man v the house of black feud looks great.

When FTR backed Wardlow (because when you're in the pinnacle you're always on top) I was hoping they were going to go for the trios belts, but alas, that apparently goes to Ospreay and Aussie Open

7 hours ago, Daddymagic said:

When I mentioned his short sighted booking was more along the lines of not pulling the trigger of what's in front of him. 
 

Darby, MJF and Jungle Boy were on the cusp on pretty big things - now look where they are due to TKs booking.

Darby has done nothing of note for months, and floats around the mid card. 
MJF was white hot but this shoot angle and then disappearance has done him no favours, likewise leaning into his edgy (cheap heat) comments which got old fast. 
Jungle Boys tag reign went on months too long, and when they finally pulled the trigger on him vs Christian it's played second fiddle to ROH shite instead of being a featured programme given plenty of air time. 

By now at least one, if not all three should be main eventing main shows and not still bloody Jericho! 

Wardlow, see above. Who TK has also turned him a can't miss prospect into low card bollocks with Jay Lethal. 

Listen, everyone is entitled to their opinions but I think this is mental. 

Derby is nowhere close to being main event ready, but he's over and doing the Jeff Hardy thing of being the underdog in feuds with bigger men. It works for him right now. He's also a bit one trick pony and needs to develop.

MJF was a main eventer and will be again when(if) he gets back. The edgelord stuff was clearly him rather than TK (as he does it all the time) and while khan could've stopped him, it was clearly working.

Jungle boy is in a major singles feud for the first time in his career and he will move up the card off the back of it. He's just turned 25 and has loads of time to move up organically. He definitely shouldn't be main eventing right now either.

Wardlow is the TNT champion having just been MJFs muscle. His work is not good enough for AEWs main event scene. so he's got the TNT belt where all he does is wrestle great workers. He can grow that way and a main event is in his future.

These are all decent projects with their guys with upside.

BomberPat is spot on with Khan's issues. He can't adapt and just falls back on new belts and tournaments. PURE SPORTS BAY-BEE.

He's flawed, but he does patience and slow burns really well.

24 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

As the forum appointed barometer of jokes passing a sell by date, you haven’t. 

Did it at least get damaged?

2 minutes ago, PunkStep said:

Is Rabiot even that good?

I believe Pogba was signed as an upgrade.

Passed himself off to a junior colleague to be used as a toy.

Is that it? Have I killed it?

4 hours ago, 69MeDon said:

Originally, he was God's Favourite Champion and held the TNT title for ages and ran through loads of guys. Then he lost the belt, and he got mad at God because God gave him his one weakness (his neck) that was exploited when he lost the belt. Also he was mad at God because, after losing the title, he felt he couldn't go home to his flexible wife and bang her. Then he was like...lost in a void? For a while. Now he's back as the Redeemer, but I'm not sure if he's still angry at God or what.

He has said that he is going to win championships so that he may storm the gates of heaven and fight God. It's amazing. He also mentioned that his wife left him when he returned (and tore the ring from around his neck).

As for the woman, I am assuming it's Julia Hart whispering in his ear, rather than Lana.

3 hours ago, PunkStep said:

It's fucking mental. 

My posts are paid for by FCB

2 hours ago, PunkStep said:

It's fucking mental. They have apparently found some 'illegal activity' with his contract and have told him if he doesn't sign a new contract (with a much lower salary, of course) they will sue him. 

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?

2 hours ago, PunkStep said:

It's fucking mental. They have apparently found some 'illegal activity' with his contract and have told him if he doesn't sign a new contract (with a much lower salary, of course) they will sue him. 

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?

So are Barca just threatening to sue De Jong now? Have I misunderstood that development?

My daughter (nearly 2) can recognise 5 characters and name them. Mum, Dad, Bingo (who she calls Bebo) Bluey and, weirdly, Lucky's dad, who she has developed a strange affection for.

12 minutes ago, Loki said:

I have to say I watched Dynamite and didn't get the impression there was a PPV this Saturday.

To be fair, there wasn't.

9 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

It’s possible to be angry at both though, it’s not like I use up one of my “Hate Johnson” cards on this. Are we meant to feel sorry for him that this has leaked or something?
Maybe it’s the old wrestling fan calling everything a work so they aren’t fooled in me coming out but I don’t believe that anything that comes out about him isn’t orchestrated via his large cabal of friends in journalism and PR, and he is incredibly skilled at it. 

Oh no, definitely not. I'm just saying that getting angry at nothing, and this is nothing, is pointless, and sometimes a guy dancing like a fanny at his wedding is just that. 

At worst this is just taking valuable focus and brain space off the real issues, like how he's still somehow prime minister. At a media level I mean, not specifically in your head.

3 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

I couldn’t give a fuck how he dances or even think about how he dances on or off camera. What I do know is he’s a fucking sociopathic narcissistic cunt who feeds on being popular and would do anything to portray himself as some kind of victim. Fuck him, his whole family, and any cunt invited to that shit. 
 

 

I don't disagree, but there's plenty of actual examples of him doing that and there will be more without having to get angry at dots that only exist in the collective amygdala of those who hate him. 

24 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

It’s orchestrated as fuck in my opinion. An official video would be crass so an “Unofficial” one that honestly shows him what he’s like when nobody is watching suddenly appears and gimps are all “Aww look at that lovely man having fun after those horrible Judas wankers got rid of him, isn’t he lovely and cuddly really”

Bunch of cunts. It’s as staged as those pics of Sunak cheering England scoring in the final where two official photographers just happened to be there and capture it. 

I can completely believe someone official there took the opportunity to take a video with that exact mindset, but if you don't think that's exactly how Boris would dance not expecting to be on social media I don't know what to tell you.

1 hour ago, Vamp said:

What the fuck is that? 

It's a man dancing badly at his own delayed wedding reception. The worst behaviour is whoever thought this private occasion should be videoed and put up on social media.

There's so much appalling behaviour he's actually done, getting angry at this complete nothing just dilutes from the important stuff.

The key word in what he's saying isn't "deprived", it's "urban". His point is that the previous funding formula disproportionately benefitted those in poor urban areas and left behind people in poor rural areas. In the time I was working in government there was a lot of sincere focus (and money) around developing towns and villages in non urban regions that otherwise get screwed over*.

This point is rather lost by making it in Tunbridge Wells, where it just comes across as a dog whistle about him being a good darkie rather than those horrid ones in lun don with 8 kids and a crack farm (which may of course be the actual point)

*I'm not suggesting that this has worked, just that it has been a legit government priority for years, including before Sunaks time.

When I typed that question I thought to myself "BomberPat will have the answer to that".

1 hour ago, andrew "the ref" coyne said:

I was a bit disappointed with the Young Bucks / Undisputed split. I know some stuff has been sizzling underneath, but nothing to justify a ouright assault. Like what is the motivation for this?

Adam Cole watches the show and has seen that the Bucks have been flirting with his nemesis Adam Page after they've been gone for just a month or so. They've been disloyal and they're not even tag champs anymore.

Coles been using them as his minions since he got back and they were starting to step out, so he decided to take care of them in a fit of jealous rage.

Everton could turn up with 5 players and a competition winner up front and Chelsea will still lose at Goodison Park.

It's particularly amazing that the guy in the match who was around when the WWE did it in 1998, as dangerous as that was (was that how funk got injured in that match?) presumably went "yeah, ok, I'll let my two sons do that".

Was..was that a Bojack Horseman reference from Excalibur when the Best Friends came out?

The betrayal from the NXT Era on the bucks was blatantly telegraphed but really well delivered. Hangman's arrival was also perfectly, butterfly jeans and all.

Biggest intrigue for me is what they're going to do with Miro. I imagine we'll find out in that coffin match, and in pleased that these stories are aligning as I'm pretty sick of Derby by himself.

Oh, and I'm not sure of the wisdom of doing a dumpster match the week before a coffin match which is ostensibly the exact same thing 

5 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Oddly, the second oldest populated human settlement in the world is Jericho in Israel.

Exactly. London's the first. Keep up.

I'm trying to work out which way round it is. So they need to sell to buy (in which case why are they faffing with tielemabs and maddison?) Or do they want to but before they sell?