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    Procycling thread

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    Posted · Edited by Shuggie_Murray7

    That's been an astounding 3 weeks of racing. I think it's my favourite TDF I've seen.

    WVA is comfortably the best bike rider in the planet. You feel that, if he'd chosen to contest it, he could've won the green jersey by 500+ points.

    Jumbo were exceptional from start to finish.

    Despite his incredibly werak team, Pogacar has lit up the race. A proper throw back, just looking to blast clear at any given second of any stage. Brilliant stuff. 

    Fair play to Thomas too. A very good 3 weeks for him. He was never on the same level as the big 2, but was streets ahead of the rest.

    I've always had a soft spot for the Vuelta and I'm really looking forward to seeing the line-up for that too. You'd think that Roglic will try and finish the season on a high by having a crack at 4 in a row. Carapaz will be in the mix. Is Jai Hindley likely to have a crack  at the Vuelta? And perhaps Nibali will go out in a blaze of glory by hunting for stages.

    I'm looking forward to it.

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    The AEW Thread

    in The Wrestling Forum

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    Jericho is comfortably the worst thing in wrestling. There's nobody he's feuded with or teamed with in the last two years that you can say are better off after it than they were before.

    I get the feeling he's responsible for coming up witrh most of his own feuds, angles and matches and, in all honestly, they are absolutely dreadful.

    Every week, every match or segment he's in is easily the worst thing on the show.

    He really needs to retire, not just go away for a bit.

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    Procycling thread

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    11 hours ago, printer said:

    They are by far the strongest team, but with van Aert in particular they ride more aggressively.

    Up to the other teams to make themselves stronger. Ineos and UAE, I'm looking at you.

    Ineos have an issue in that their best GC rider (G) is at the end of his career and the likes of Martinez and Yates don't seem good enough. Will a fit and rehabilitated Bernal be able to seriously challenge JV? Maybe, with the right team around him.

    This going into every grand Tour with 2 or 3 team leaders needs to end for Ineos. All they are doing is hoping to get one of them on the podium. No intention of supporting one sole leader for the win.

    Carapaz to EF seems a weird one. For my money, he's Ineos' best shout for a GT win these days, so I'm surprised they haven't done more to hang on to him, especially with Bernal still badly hurt. 

    Given the extent of Bernal's injuries, I'd be very surprised if he's back challenging for GTs again. He suffered a fractured vertebrae, a fractured femur, a fractured patella, a punctured lung, broken ribs and the last I heard he badly messed up his neck too, which may also require surgery. That's going to be very tough to come back from and seriously challenge the elite guys like Pogacar, Vingegaard, Roglic, Carapaz etc.

    Roglic is contracted to Jumbo until 2025, so I'm not really sure how he will be used moving forward. A great rider, but you always have that feeling that he has a bad day/mistake in him at any time. It's happened to him at multiple tours, and also at Paris Nice last year if I recall. Is he going to be happy play super domestique? I can;t see it or he wouldn't have abandoned so readily with Vingegaard in such a strong position. Or will he simply target the Vuelta and Giro? 

    It'll be interesting to see how Pogacar/UAE react to this. I suspect they will seriously stregthen their climbing team in the off-season. This tour really exposed how weak their team is. Aside from Majka, and one excellent day for McNulty, they've been nowhere. Granted they've been unlucky with positive tests and injury, but if they still had a full compliment I really don't think it'd have made much difference.  I think it's vital they keep Majka. Even if they could add a Wilco Kelderman type, you feel they'd instantly be stronger.

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    The European football level St. Mirren FC 2024/25 thread

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by Shuggie_Murray7

    The club have announced that Reid has turned down the move to Celtic.

    Lovely stuff.

    St Mirren Football Club can confirm that last week it allowed Dylan Reid permission to speak to a fellow cinch Premiership club regarding a possible transfer.

    We can now confirm that Dylan has turned down the opportunity to leave St Mirren at this point in time.

    The St Mirren Youth Academy graduate became the youngest ever player to play for St Mirren, as well as the youngest ever Scottish Premiership player, when he made his debut for Saints at just 16 years and five days old in March 2021. He has since gone on to play for the first-team on five occasions - most recently as a substitution in our 2-0 win over Cowdenbeath on Saturday.

    We are pleased that Dylan will remain at St Mirren and look forward to him continuing his development at the club.

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    The F1 Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Shuggie_Murray7

    Doesn't Ecclestone have previous for essentially praising Hitler for "getting things done", or words to that effect?

    And I recall durting all the George Floyd protests and Hamilton's equality campaign he indicated the black folk were far more racist than white folk.

    He's a c**t.

     

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    The European football level St. Mirren FC 2024/25 thread

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    5 hours ago, IrishBhoy said:

    Met a guy at my friends birthday party last night who claimed to be a friend of Ryan Flynn. Some of the stuff he was claiming he had been told by Flynn doesn’t paint Robinson in the best light to say the least, and if what he said has any truth behind it I wouldn’t expect to see either Flynn or Erhahon playing any sort of part in the coming season. Obviously it’s not the best source but the guy seemed genuine, and told me this unprompted after I said I supported St Mirren. 
     

    Some of the stuff he did say may explain a few of the terrible performances near the end of last season, apparently Robinson is a very abrasive character and doesn’t seem to mind butting heads with the players at training, quite literally in the case of Flynn and Erhahon. 
     

     

    Flynn played for Robinson at Oldham, then went on to play under him at the tail end of last season and after all of that has gone on to sign a new deal.

    I think the guy at the party was talking pish IMHO.

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