Devil-Dick Willie

Book heel Jinder to beat Logan Paul and do an intentionally ironic CM punk antihero story arc where he defends the belt against people the fans dislike, heel or face, and goes off on wrestlers in an honest way.

1 hour ago, 6666 said:

No one else from either side seems to care that much about taking shots anymore and seem like they just want to make sure they're delivering. Then there's Tony Khan acting like a random fan. Jinder Mahal got this man worked up. This man usually doesn't make anyone feel anything.

Say what we will about Jinder being a mid wrestler, and having a very random title run that no one asked for, his work the last 2 weeks has been brilliant. 
Did the job for the rock perfectly, then fired up the cokehead. 

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3 hours ago, The Palace Fan said:

What's funny about losing to Palace?

You're entirely respectable, but I'd say being able to outperform Palace is a stepping stone towards European football. 

Of course, Brentford also need to navigate the smaller, more basic stepping stone of not losing 5 in a row.

Pushing for Europe<<<<Losing 3-1 to Crystal Palace.

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4 hours ago, Danny said:

Rumour mill starting back up again, a lot of talk about an Arsenal loan move.

I think as a club we have firm aspirations of a European finish this season and when we have a fully firing front line we will be a problem for anyone in the division on our day.

The only way Toney goes on loan imo is if we get offered it to go permanent at £80m+. Seen reports of £50m which is laughable.

He is at his peak, his contract expires in a year, he has just missed a shite load of action, you say he's a '20+ goal a year striker' when he scored 20 goals once, in a system built for him. 
I think he's worth a punt for a team like Spurs where Richarlison is a dogshit cunt and I would play my nan ahead of him. But he's not worth 100 mil, 80 mil or 70. Take the 50 odd, or lose him for nothing in a year. 

The game has changed so much in the past decade. I used to bemoan that Barton should have had more game time for England as he was the only fucking English midfielder at the time bar Lampard (who played further forward) who could steal into small spaces and move the ball sharply and accurately. Absolute donkeys like Parker, Barry younger Milner ect wouldn't get a game at Aston Villa these days. 

Here's one underrated trait for each position in the modern game

 Goalkeepers. Height. Has fallen out of favor for passing and athleticism, but has led to a few flappers being exposed every now and then for big teams.
Centerback. Communication. Marshalling that passing from the back by calling the movement of passing options from off the ball. 
Wingbacks. Shooting. The ability to overlap and have a real shot on you, elevates mediocre players like Chilwell. 
Center mid. Physicality. I'm not saying go back to donkeys but the ability to win balls, headers and shove off would be tacklers is still a way to be. I much prefer a Rodri to a twink with the same skill set. 
Striker. Passing. Look at Kane, Lewandoski, Haaland even. Sets them apart, brings in players around them and keeps attacks alive from awkward spots. 
Winger. I think finishing and heading is a good shout from brydog millionaire. Sterling has shown us how much of a liability bad finishing can make you when you're at the back post again and again and there are whole compilations of you hitting air instead of the net. 

On 01/12/2023 at 05:20, Cicero said:

Love direct wingers. 

The game has left them behind. 

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1 hour ago, JoshBRFC said:

Punk has to be nailed on for the rumble leading to a WM with Seth.

Or Cody again for Roman. 

The limit does not exist. "Did I do okay, did you enjoy yourself, I'm sorry im not enough, I'm going to improve" ect ect is all I can imagine from Brian, stage 12 clinger. 

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On 12/07/2023 at 05:33, Dr. Gonzo said:

Alisson & Ederson might make fewer mistakes than most goalkeepers, but basically every one of their mistakes is a howler. And they're easily the 2 best keepers in the league. All goalkeeper errors are going to look particularly poor tbh. De Gea's made a lot of howlers over the last few years, but he's also won United plenty of points over the last few years.

The biggest problem United have with him is he's not a great keeper for modern football, and when you've had managers that weren't the biggest fans of modern football they didn't have defenders (and arguably midfielders) good enough to provide the right kind of organisation to keep those sides looking solid.

The further up the field you go the more widely ignored howlers are. Besides something as horrid as a 'Sterling scoop' when a striker fucks up a walk in, think of the trillion times strikers should do way better in 1 on 1s or with free headers or with a cut back they fucked up. Commentator notes it, might get a replay, then never gets mentioned again. Midfielders get away with horrid giveaways or when caught on the ball. It's defenders and especially goalkeepers who's mistakes get remembered. 

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23 hours ago, Stan said:

UK

Racists, bigots, a heavily-corrupted government that has perfected how to stoke division. A lot of doom and gloom in the news. Every. Single. Day. House prices, cost of living, high energy bills, transport costs.  

Australia is all this. Super small minded population too. Weather and geography is nicer here, but you have culture and history and we barely do (and ignore what we do have). 
I hate the Americanization of the nation, Sydney, the drinking, gambling and drugs culture here (it's the worst in the world)

3 hours ago, The Palace Fan said:

To carry on the negative theme, I just want to tell you that Kota Ibushi's three matches in AEW have put me off NJPW for the foreseeable future.

Again, what AEW needs is someone to tell people no. Ibushi when he won the G1 wrestled 9 distinctly different matches, all were at least good, some great, none involved any nonsense, bicycles or stupidity. It makes me sad. Again, look at black and gold NXT. The undisputed era were so much better than the sum of their parts. Look at them now. Fuck me.

4 hours ago, Gunnersaurus said:

No offence mate I actually like you. You are pretty funny and I agree with a lot of political opinions.  I also respect your knowledge of wrestling. But I really can't bothered. Your such a negative and pessimistic person. You also seem extremely opinionated. Not just on this thread but others as well. I'm only really using this thread for enjoyment I'm not gonna get into any kind of conversation I don't enjoy. 

"I'm not going to engage you even on a conversational level because you don't share my opinion and i'm fearful of your ability to deconstruct the situation and I don't like the pieces"

You can like whatever you like my guy. I like the early 2000s doom movie, despite the fact that it's shit, it still gives me kicks. But that doesn't mean the things you like are objectively good. 

11 hours ago, Gunnersaurus said:

Fair enough. Aew has its problems. The wrestling is decent though. I like wrestling with an edge.  I've started watching wwe casually. But there doesn’t seem to be that edge to it. It be great to be able to take the best parts from both and put them together but unfortunately can't be done. 

What do you mean by 'wrestling with an edge'? NJPW is far more physical and less flippy bullshit than AEW. Old black and gold NXT was as close to perfect as wrestling ever got for me imo. Storylines that made sense, in ring action that was athletic and hard hitting by a bunch of wrestlers who are mostly in AEW now, but with WWE there to tell them to keep their heads pulled in, and limit the indulgent BS AEW is famous for. Fuck they need writers, and someone to tell the wrestlers NO. 

11 hours ago, 6666 said:

While the Tories do suck, Labour doesn't really have much momentum and seem to be just relying on "at least we're not Tories" as their message.

Similar to the Democrats in the US, being the "we're not as bad as the other lot" party isn't a message that motivates people. You might win by default if the other guy is extremely, extremely disliked but Rishi just seems like a guy people don't take seriously rather than someone people hate.

In america it's more important to motivate, because you don't have to vote. Sure, there will be some voters who donkey vote, or leave the page blank, but not enough to shift an election.