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For a team who have bought through two first team regulars in the last eight years this is fantastic to see.

Good shout. He's the one I think they could do most with. I think though with what's happening with Edge in WWE it makes sense for Christian to stay there. Even if he never was considered a main eventer by Vince despite being one of the best workers of his time. Lesnar would be the absolute worst. His part time title reigns solidify everything the AEW fan base hated about RAW pre AEW.

It's Halewood Toffee.

Did you listen to the Under the Cosh podcast? Once Carver, Stone, Woodman etc all found out they were getting full pay offs they couldn't wait for the season to end. Woodman's wife cried when Ashley wanted to keep him on.

Think the best they can hope for is Kurt Angle. Albeit he is already in the Hall of Fame. The names outside the Hall of Fame (other than Punk and Lesnar who I cannot see joining right now) are all a bit meh.

Seeing Cody has baited up that irritating clout chaser has made my morning.

NXT is moving to Tuesday's. Hopefully this leads to a change in philosophy. You can't seemingly have a show that puts a ceiling on others and grow a third brand at the same time.

I wouldn't say he carried Raw. That said, I wish they gave him the title in 2018 for a short run though as a reward for his heel work. I've never looked at him the same way since that god awful stuff with Shane McMahon. Really halted him.

Sorry to hear that mate, whilst I'm happy you'll be able to attend the funeral in the current climate its never something you want to hear. Come back here when you're ready.

Don't think anybody did. Had him down as a WWE lifer. I don't particularly want to see him on WWE television any more and it seems like he will be happy in AEW so it seems like it's best for everybody.

The good news is he looks like he will be a temporary place holder for Bobby Lashley, who under MVP's leadership has been much better.

There was a really good one with Lee Clark if you haven't seen it where he talks about the characters in the Newcastle dressing room. There was one part near the end where he talks about Ravel Morrison leaving Birmingham and his son running in the front room: "Dad! Dad! On Twitter! Ravel Morrison's pissed in our pond!" "But Son, we don't have a pond? You live here?"

I'm guessing this was on Undr The Cosh. I haven't listened to part two yet but after listening to part one I am absolutely amazed he made a pretty good career out of being a goalkeeper coach.

Yeah, I imagine with their new Peacock deal they're looking at expansion (NXT India and an NXT dark show).

I'm trying to think of a word I can use that perfectly describes what I think of those that regularly appear on Talksport in 2021 but all words are offensive to the point where id have to resign as a moderator if I used them. Simon Jordan deserves a far better gig. Andros needs to concentrate on his football career instead of having 'banter' with that girl that giggles every other morning.

A bit of an exciting start to the year... - AEW / Impact / NJPW links all but confirmed. - WWE have signed 25 people to developmental contracts including Taya Valkriye and Eli Drake.

It had to happen. No way was Vince going to put over a stable of four little guys on the main roster. Now they've all got a chance when they eventually leave NXT.

What you would give to return to these glory days @Steve Bruce Almighty @N U F C

They're more than quick enough to delete accounts for retweeting an Ivan Toney goal that unknowingly is linked to copyright infringement though. If Twitter or any other platform cared, they would force people to upload identification upon registering so accounts can be easily associated/traced. Its not that difficult.

@Devil-Dick Willie NXT UK may be worth a watch if you can spare an hour a week. I watched last week's and it feels very reminiscent of NXT from a couple of years ago.

I imagine they'll be better too. Its no coincidence that the teams who use the data most efficiently in The Premier League are three of the best teams in the league (Liverpool, Man City and Leicester). After Brighton's impressive first season somebody sanctioned some mad signings for a lot of money that's been a large cause of their recent stagnation (Izquieredo, Bernardo, Locadia, Jahankabash, Andone etc). Brentford's track record suggests the same thing will not happen with them.

I imagine if Brentford cross the line this season they'll be similar to Brighton. In terms of ability/performances, Brighton were one of the best three teams in the division in 2015/16 but didn't gain promotion. That extra season in The Championship allowed them to prepare better for The Premiership. They felt like a Premiership team on gameweek one of the 2017/18 season without actually ever being one before. You can see similarities in terms of infrastructure between Brighton then and Brentford now.

Either way thank god he did as that was some dead episode up until that point. What are they doing with Rusev.

For once, I think you're being too kind with your criticisms. Negatives for me are .... - Charlotte Flair... She needs to start selling to people. The first match ended when she got hit with a pair of brass knuckles and had a women the size of Nia Jax land on her. She just got me up, said to Asuka: "Yeah that's on me", and then walks off. Doesn't hold her face, or her chest, or anything. Then later on when it's the last three in the Royal Rumble and both Belair and Ripley start teaming up on her she starts acting like she's some sort of crappy reincarnation of Hulk Hogan not selling anything. I don't know who told her to do that but she looked like an absolute pleb. - Asuka... Since Charlotte Flair has returned Asuka has gone from being the best thing on Raw during the pandemic to people thinking she needs a win. She's meant to be the Women's Champion and they've done absolutely nothing with her for the last six weeks. You'd think the right thing to do would be for her to go over Charlotte but you just know they wont do that. - The Bayley Elimination... I literally didn't see it. Had no idea she had been eliminated. Thought she was going to emerge at the end and throw Bianca over the top rope. But no, the camera just didn't pick it up. Pretty piss poor to not have a spot where everybody feigns injury whilst Bayley gets thrown over like they have done with everybody since the Royal Rumble started. - Alexa Bliss... What was the point? They should have had everybody eliminate her, not just quickly thrown over after making a couple of screens go black. - The ending to Roman Reigns / Kevin Owens... A pretty brutal match that was a good watch ruined by Paul's chubby hands. Surely they would have practised that several times during rehearsal? Absolutely embarrassing. - Ricochet being in the Royal Rumble ... He lost a qualifier! I know there hands are tied at times with Covid but they've got Booker T backstage looking like a better version of GI Bro than he did as GI Bro in WCW. Just have come out for five minutes. - "The Messiah" Seth Rollins ... Dude still has the same theme tune as Bailey. - Edge ... Joins the ever growing list of decrepit fossils who can't let this generation have their moment. One Royal Rumble, worst WM match on the card, a heavily edited PPV match, and suddenly he's super human enough to last 29 other men. What does that say about everybody whose wrestled for the past ten years. Kurt Angle did an interview recently where he said he felt WWE should have given him another title run, and that's the terrible culture that WWE have created for themselves by consistently giving the big Wrestle Mania spots to these has beens that do nothing all year round to get the big spots. Recently the likes of Goldberg, The Undertaker and D-von Dudley have spoken out about the attitude of today's wrestlers but honestly who can blame them with the culture WWE have developed. There must be nothing more depressing than being somebody that joined a major promotion after 1999. I really liked Christian in his prime but I shudder at the thought of him beating any of today's talent. On the plus side... Goldberg match went as well as it could have, Billie Kay is brilliant, Bianca Belair's win was a great moment, Rhea Ripley is going to be used a lot better on the main roster, I don't mind them trying to get Lacey Evans over even if it's by Ric Flair old man sex, Carmella can hold her own against the best, Carlito needs to sign a contract and change his name to Swolito, Damien Priest looks to be getting pushed on the main roster, Omos has to do very little to be entertaining and the Daniel Bryan/Matt Riddle wrestling was great to watch. We were pretty spoiled with good PPV's in 2020. I'd give this one a 6/10. I think the 14, 15 and 16 Royal Rumbles were worse than this but this was definitely a big step backwards in contrast to previous years.

That ending. Really? They'll never learn.