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That was the best brawl segment I've ever seen. The Lesnar Taker one a while back where they kept escaping was good, but this is on another level. More false finishes than most of Roman's matches. Would've loved to have been in the production meeting for that when someone suggested he flip the ambulance. Just a shame the end result will likely to be Reigns winning. Other than that, the show was pretty average. It raises a whole ton of questions about Smackdown though, particularly around the tag team and women's divisions. SD were light on the former, and now they've taken one away. Not sure if we're getting another call up to replace them, but at this stage who cares? SD don't. The women's division is more troubling though. Two good call-ups to RAW, but who does that really leave? Face Naomi and Becky and some jobbers? I assume that if you were on the show last night, you are definitely on RAW now, so it's hard to see who they're going to pull out of their arse tonight. Oh and as of now, SD technically have no male champions. Orton looks to be headed to RAW with Ambrose leaving only Naomi and the Usos. Only one of those actually appears on TV. If Brock (or more likely Heyman) appear tonight that would redress the balance slightly, especially if they set him up against Nakamura....oooooft.

Didn't JBL go into the showers, grab Edge by his Little Edge as a "rib"? He didn't react, stared him out, and thus got respect. What an odd chap.

I'd put the entire division on either show to be honest. It's how it should've been from the start, and I'm not convinced that just swapping over a few names like it's the start of a mid-season Apprentice episode will really do it. Sure we'll get some new feuds going, but we'll just hit the same problem in 6 months time, at which point they can't really do yet another draft to fix it. I'd give the entire division to Smackdown, then move all the tag teams over to RAW. The tag teams could probably stay separate, but neither show is particularly excelling in that regard. Smackdown are going to continue to struggle with their selection unless they bring up DIY or something. American Alpha could be brilliant given the chance (and a few other teams could be at least good) but there's not really much excitement there thanks to the writing. Outside of that, we'll likely just get a handful of names swapping. Champs will stay, and outside of a couple of big stars swapping there won't be much of note. If I was booking though, I'd do a complete redraft. Should be a yearly thing post-Wrestlemania. Have the first week after WM just tieing up those loose ends, maybe developing a few feuds that you know won't change, then have the draft in the second week each year. Completely clean the decks and create the paths to the stories you want to have all the way through the next year.

Securing top 6 and anoher very successful and enjoyable Firhill Cup yesterday. What a club.

That is absolutely fucking tragic.

That's brilliant. "Wisnae me, you cannae prove it, could've been aaaaanyone"

He knocked f**k out of the Blue Meanie at ECW One Night Stand (the first one I believe), leaving him a bloody mess. Later on he was put in a match with the Meanie, during which Stevie Richards came in and gave him the mother of all chair shots, leaving him with a bad concussion. MAGGLE!

I read that as Tam McManus making a joke about Ryan Edward's girlfriend having died. Much confusion.

Oh aye, that was pretty clear by the video. Just more generally meaning that a competent presenter either wouldn't have made the mistake in the first place, or would use the charisma that you assume would be imperative for a role like that to dance his way around it. Guy fucking crumbled. He's hardly the best example, but can you imagine someone like Lineker reacting like that?

I got a chance to watch the wee video from Tanner, and when he made his first mistake I was thinking "is that it?" especially after he corrected himself. Then it got a lot worse, when he got the 12 points wrong once, twice, three times, then just decided "f**k it" and gave up. I don't doubt that it was just one of those times where your brain freezes, and he's live on TV, but surely if you've been picked to go on live TV, you could be charismatic enough to correct your mistake and/or laugh it off without seeming like a complete moron.

To be slightly fair, at least to SSB, they seemed pretty on the fence about it. They weren't saying that it was some kind of genius moment, more edging to the side of "that's a bit silly". Remains to be seen how they treat it after the fact. Yeah, for all the things you can hit the BBC Live Text with, this isn't one of them. They were purely referring to the fact that there had been no goals, nothing to do with thinking that Celtic would pump Thistle since they got 1.

They would know that well before now. Last night was the most venomous he's received, but I think there's only really been one night where he got a positive reaction. Two actually - the time he went absolutely ham on HHH and when he won the title in Philly. They know the fans don't like him, and they don't care. HHH said in an interview that he's not going to be a heel, just someone they're presenting differently, and I think that's bearing out. They're going to keep booking him like they have done, and people are going to keep booing him. But even a negative reaction is still a reaction. They'd only worry if people stopped coming to shows, stopped reacting at all to him. The long-term plan seems to be Brock vs Roman 2, presumably at Summerslam. Unfortunately, the way they're booking suggests nothing else other than Roman beating Brock to a chorus of furious boos.

Nah...we keep Celtic unbeaten until the last game of the season when we beat them to deny them it. That's the way. With an Azeez hat-trick and all. I don't think we should be looking down any more. I understand no-one wants to say we're certainties, and it isn't quite done yet. It would be just so Thistle to follow up two great results with an absolute shitemare against Motherwell after all. But we don't look like that side anymore. Win on Saturday and we can start looking up at Hearts, and maybe if the results really go our way, look at 4th. To do that though, we'd need to take full points from at least Hearts and St Johnstone, then probably a win in one of the other games. And hope that St Johnstone absolutely shit themselves. Unlikely.

According to Blampied, Ziggler came out and said something about facing him in the main event at the live show, but obviously that didn't make it onto the show. Odd.

I popped big for Nakamura, but what an odd segment in the end. Just does his entrance then that's it? Are we getting a Miz/Nakamura feud? What's going on?

Dunno...I heard he had one of those Bratwurst while he was out there. You might not find him Scottish enough to come home

It begins...

Like anything, it's a masterstroke if it comes off and a stupid gamble otherwise. In this case, he did well to change things, but less said about the mistakes that put them in that position to start with.

Yeah, definitely looked like one of those two, although I was quite far away over in the JHS so hoped it was just a short one. Unfortunate, but he hasn't been quite as good as he has at times, so hopefully the rest and recuperation does him good. Interesting note about Doolan too. He'll pap 5 past them after the split anyway.

Did we find out how bad Osman's injury was from Saturday? Looked pretty bad when he came off.

Any chance of DIY going to Smackdown to balance things up? Although hard to think who is there to go up against Authors of Pain if they do go up.

I still haven't fully got into this yet, but still enjoying it. I'm not seeing it being an amazing example of the exploration part of open-world games. Not a terrible thing, because to be honest the Witcher (my favourite game) wasn't great for it either. By that I mean that although the world is absolutely, undeniably gorgeous, there isn't really much to explore. It coudl be that I just haven't found the best bits yet, but at the moment it's a beautiful world that feels like it could have been filled with a little more stuff that matters, rather than just "stuff". I'm probably not explaining it that well, and believe me, I'm not saying the game is bad. I'm really enjoying it, but hasn't really hit the heights that other games have just yet. Apart from bow combat. That still remains fucking satisfying.

Fair enough, but I was more meaning that he's already been on the main roster for a fair while in the past. Wouldn't be surprised if it was his choice though. It'll be more like what he's used to, and he's likely to be better used.

Why is Galloway/McIntyre going into NXT? Presume it must be his own choice, but would've thought they'd consider him good enough for the main roster immediately.

I'm sure it's good, but it's no No Man's Sky.