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Whoever said that Storey has a punchable face was right.

Is it not partly down to health and safety as well, given that some of the orcs can't be trusted to be in a mainly wooden stand? Of course, even if so, money is the overriding reason. It would be nice if we did do something like that, give them the whole away stand but no more. Not only would I actually get to sit in the seat I bought, I'd also get to enjoy the seethe from those that didn't get tickets due to their lower allocation

Don't think I've ever watched it live. Sometimes source it the next morning if I'm off or working from home, other than that it's just reading the results on Bleacher Report and watching PPVs. There really haven't been too many times where I've really, really wanted to actually watch it. Think the last time was post WM31 - f**k knows why given how much of a fucking travesty that one was.

I'd go as far as saying if we did approach someone who was reticent purely because Doolan would be ahead of them in the pecking order, then we wouldn't want to sign them anyway. Need to have a little bit more ambition and confidence than that, particularly in that position. I want someone coming in that looks at Doolan's very good record over the past few seasons and knows they're going to do better. And someone who knows how to place it anywhere on target apart from straight at the keeper. That too.

Although it could be good in that it'll kind of force the hand of management in getting forwards in, it could just as well be a bad thing in that we just get anyone in, rather than getting the right player. Especially given our history with forwards in particular. Hopefully we already had targets in mind, and this will just expedite things.

I know, he isn't that famous. Not like Abdul Osman, son of Richard Osman off Pointless, and Chris Erskine, who built the Erskine Bridge.

Doolan with what looks like at least a few weeks out by the descriptions, and now Erskine down in some discomfort. Ooft.

Corbin's got potential, purely because it's quite easy to play the complete dick heel character when you are a complete dick heel in real life. Apart from that though, he's just solid. Not bad, not particularly good, but solid. I'm not sure he's ready to cash in yet. Had they maybe built him up with a little more than "I pure don't like Nakamura" then it might have been better, but he's just a bit of a blank at the moment.

Yeah, I wasn't really getting the looking pissed off bit going purely by the youtube highlights video. Maybe after they went off air it really started to get painful. Or maybe he fucking hates Corbin.

Shane to be special guest referee it seems. Maybe long playing towards a match at the Rumble? What did Nakamura do to break Cena? Botch or just too overzealous? EDIT: Ooft, just watched the highlights, was on the move just before the kinshasa, wasn't it? Nasty.

Aye, just like Erskine.

I'd be kind of surprised if he wasn't at least on some kind of early shortlist, but I can't see him going there. If we're sticking rigidly to the 4-2-3-1, then would there be an argument in that central midfield triangle being Osman, Bannigan and Barton together, with the latter two switching around being the one further forward? I'd say 3, but the thought of Osman being a creative outlet is...troubling. Barton is calm on the ball, can pick a pass, and we've seen him able to carry it ponderously forward with a few tricks. He's weak in a central defensive 2, so why not try him somewhere else where he's probaably weak Obviously that means dropping Erskine, but if he's not fit then there's an opening. Feel free to tell me I'm talking absolute shite though.

Aye, one word. Handsome.

I saw the dembele clip on twitter. Very, very good touches there, boy has clearly got something great. Whether he ends up representing us later on, or perhaps whether he even reaches his lofty potential, remains to be seen. Encouraging stuff, but for the younger age groups the results should be secondary. Every ounce of their efforts should be going into stopping whatever it is that means successful youth group teams lead to senior players falling down the pyramid or out the game altogether.

The only positive today was clearly their number 7 slowly coming to the realisation, as big Abdul slowly rose to his feet, that he was closer to the swing of his no doubt sizeable "wee Abdul" than he was to nutting him. You could see the regret from the JHS. Other than that, that was fucking brutal in all counts.

Can't see it happening so soon. They should be drafting all over again once a year with decent planning, but I don't think they've exhausted all their options for feuds yet. Moving people down to NXT wouldn't be so bad though - apart from the "developmental" stigma, you'd probably get a better story there. Less money though.

Am I only one that's just a bit meh about Ember Moon? Everyone seems to rave about her, but I don't see a huge difference from what I've seen. Granted I'm limited to watching Takeover specials and the odd NXT so maybe I'm missing something. They could keep the belt on her until post Mae Young Classic, have the prize for that be a future title shot. Sounds like there's a few really legit performers in there, so maybe they'd be more believable beating her. I'd just have her go up undefeated though. It's hard to buy anyone beating her clean as a face anymore.

Hope he was ok...

Renee Young and Daniel Bryan appear to be doing their own mini Smacktalk show as a result of being cancelled. It's been a work, brother.

Just Cause 3 is a very good result for anyone that hasn't got it yet. It's not particularly deep, or particularly clever, but if you want something to f**k around in it's extremely entertaining

The Sasha/Charlotte one was getting a bit ridiculous, that's the one I can remember them being pretty negative about with good reason. They've seemed OK with this one, but I'm sure that would change if Owens wins it next week and Styles the week after etc. It's not about just changing the title, it's about how it's done. I don't really have any issue with them doing it at all, just got to make it believable from a storyline perspective.

If Drew did win, Roode will be around for a little while longer to get the customary rematch. It's also getting to the stage where I'd imagine a few people would far rather stay in NXT with how bereft a few recent call-ups have been. I know they'll be under contract and they'll probably not be in a position to pick and choose, but if they do have any say, then if it's picking between jobber feuds on the main roster or being in a (largely) well-built feud on NXT with whatever indie star they've recently found, I imagine it's not a tough choice.

And why bother? As others have said, they are making an absolute fortune on turning GTA Online into a mini version of every other game out there. From a purely business standpoint, why would they bother spending considerable resources building single player DLC when they can just throw in a new course or gamemode every so often to GTAO and rake in money from micro-transactions?

I'm seething, to be honest. Only 4 at half-time. EDIT: Is that diddums guy trying to make the name stick? It's like one of those weirdos you get at school who try to give themselves their own nickname and desperately try to make it stick. Embarrassing.

I don't think it's quite as bad as the Petrofac, but at this stage it doesn't really matter. I'd imagine he's got a balancing act - he isn't going to panic-sign just to win these games, like you say, but probably thinks that we've got a good enough squad to get through the group stage and into the games that actually matter. Or could be wrong, Scottish Cup aside last season, Archie seems to fucking despise cup football. I don't know where that puts me...knicker wetter or happy clapper...