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Yeah, the 11pm start sold it for me, so watching along. It's not rewarded me so far. Got to say though, surely Big E is on the way to bigger and better things. There isn't much that WWE would need that he can't do. He can do the funny side of things, and when he turns it on he can do intense and terrifying. I'd still have him be the one to unseat Reigns eventually if they can build a proper babyface run for him.

He hosted 30, and I think he hosted one of the Saudi shows as some kind of rehab. Don't remember him doing it any other time, but could be wrong.

I think having Hogan as guest host for 30 worked in that it was just him turning up essentially to have that great opening segment with Rock and Austin. But obviously that was prior to the...troubles. I wouldn't even be that mad in them using him in certain things, as he's clearly a huge part of their history, and he's "apogised", but putting him front and centre to your biggest show like nothings happened, when fairly prominent members of your roster have been pretty clear about their feelings on him...obviously not a good look. Will be very interesting to see the reception he gets. First show back with fans, and you plan to open with him. Jeezo.

How many people not in the SSC are attending more matches than someone who is and is travelling to away matches? I'm sure there's the odd weird case, but I'd imagine if you're regularly travelling for away matches, you're at every single home game.

I wasn't refering to myself tbh, I have been to quite a few Scotland games over the years. Was just thinking that due to it being the Euros, then there may have been some allocation for certain less fortunate demographics. That's all. I wasn't meaning you, I'm more referring to how they'd be distributed. Unless they were directly being handed to people that usually wouldn't get a chance (and I wouldn't be entirely against them giving a token amount of tickets to groups of people that deserve a wee bit of cheering up after this shite year) then it'd just be a sale dominated by scalpers or the rich.

Yeah, to be honest, have to agree. There's plenty of people, of all kinds of wealth, who have organised their life around following Scotland to every dark corner of the world. The points system probably isn't perfect, but those people deserve first shot at tickets if they become available. Some people may not be able to afford being members of a supporters club or buying tickets on a regular basis. With this in mind, and in non covid circumstances, a % should be opened up to less privileged people, at discounted rates, for a tournament of this magnitude. You ever bought tickets for anything? Can almost guarantee in that situation that it wouldn't be the "less privileged people" that ended up with the tickets in that case, short of Maxwell walking around handing named tickets to any jakey he finds.

I've never played it, only watched on Let's Plays, but Subnautica looks to be a decent pick up. One of the games that's done welll out the early access cycle.

Looks like we might be getting WALTER vs Ciampa at NXT Bloatorama. Repeat of the match against Dragunov please.

Not quite true. They'd added the debug menu, but user accounts wouldn't have had the permissions to make any changes. Still, another thing that should embarrass them, if they were even capable of being embarrassed from behind the massive pile of money people have granted them.

Take away the fact that it's the Old Firm, for me it's the competition aspect that would be the worst. Are they allowed to be promoted out of League 2? If not, then it makes a bit of a farce of the promotion process if they end up winning the league. If so, then it's just delaying the same thing. They are clubs with a ceiling that essentially don't matter. They sit outwith the usual dream of pushing for a Premiership place, and hold completely different aims and views. Let's say Queen's Park are up against one of them, a club, like most, that are dreaming of climbing the leagues. They're coming up against a team that's for, what? Just developing players? It'll turn whatever leagues they're allowed to be in into a complete joke, all for the benefit of two clubs and a few financially bribed diddies. Of course that's completely discounting the other shite parts of the plan. It should be gotten so far to f**k, as others have already said.

Possibly, but the SFA are rarely particularly trigger happy. I agree that if we lost all qualifiers, we're effectively out, but not mathematically, and I just couldn't see them doing a firefighting job and getting someone in for September. Hopefully we never find out.

It gets said a lot but "calling players up to get a look at them"...is that such a big thing nowadays? It used to be that it was the only real way to get a proper look at players you'd only had a scout report on, but I'd imagine Clarke could watch every moment Gauld played in, and get all kinds of reports. Do we really need to see how a professional footballer does in a squad? Or do we just concentrate on getting the best players into the squad?

Short of him coming out in blackface or punching a baby, there isn't a chance of him getting sacked after the Euros. The earliest he could would be once we're out of contention for the World Cup qualifiers, and even that would be uncharacteristically early for the SFA to act.

I know why they do it, because (usually at least) they need that sweet PPV and ticket money, but other than that I've never understood why you have these shows between Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania. I think they just about got away with it when there was just one, but this has to be the most pointless show on a yearly basis. Unlikely that any of the titles change, because why would they? The rest are just advancing story, which you could do on RAW. Add to that that they're running on empty because of the shite year everyone's had, it's pretty poor. They should lop off all shows between Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania and concentrate on telling whatever stories on their weekly shows.

The Bleacher Report recap of RAW was quite the ride for that segment. Alright... Ok, seems fine... So far, so Shanelmania, ok... Oh for fu... I quite like the storyline, and it's clear what they're building to, but what the f**k are they thinking with that poster? Looks like the cover from a shite Disney Plus movie.

One year I'd asked for two games for Christmas/Birthday. One of them was a GTA title, so my dear old Da had heard all about how awful they were for someone my age. No way was I getting that. So he plumped for the second title. The Getaway. The not-at-all cartoony picture of gangster London, chock full of grit, blood and swearing. Glorious parenting. Never did me harm though. c***s.

I'm a big fan of the Premiership split, but a League One or Two split could easily have two teams playing each other four times in four weeks. The playoffs basically do the job of the split anyway. I'm not sure it's something fans would want medium term. Yeah, that's fair enough. I think it probably would throw up some interesting games, even if they're repeated. Say Falkirk and one other are fighting it out for the title, another game between those two as a title decider would be great, especially in the (very unlikely) event that we get some degree of fans in at that time of the season. Same with relegation, or getting into the playoffs. But that's of course assuming that all those battles won't be decided and we're just playing out 4 unwanted games with players that can barely stand up. Academic though I'd imagine, as they've sensibly planned for the alternative which surely will end up happening. Oh I don't know, I'd have quite liked the honesty.

I can see that with a split. I know they're not popular, but I've always found them great with having to play the teams around you. That first relegation split we were involved in where one Saturday saw every club in danger at some point (think we beat Hearts 4-2) was undeniably exciting. But, I don't know how exciting a split is going to be when we're down to bare bones squads of players already on their 4th game of the week. Plus it's going to be a bit of a riddy when that "exciting and competitive end" to the season ends up being nothing because of inevitable postponements. Just get this season over with. I doubt anyone will be looking back on it fondly when - hopefully - we're all sitting in our respective stadiums at the start of next.

That's a baws-oot move, but fair enough. Guess if they get a positive result at Hampden it'll look a good, brave one, particularly if we have another crumbling away performance later in the year. But they're going to be missing a lot of players...

It makes you wonder about the reasoning behind the 22 game idea...has anyone associated with any club come out and said why? The only thing I could see is certain clubs needing the extra games to catch up, but surely then you'd have other clubs disagreeing? I would've thought they'd be dead against the idea of pretty much running their players into the ground with an unrealistic schedule.

Quite surprised they haven't moved it when it seems like plenty of other matches across Europe, both international and club, have been moved. Brilliant for us though, always better to have the opposition weakened. If we picked up 9 from these fixtures, we'll be in a brilliant position in both the group and going into the Euros. Then we can go to Copenhagen (or wherever) in September and knock f**k out of those Bacon-munching c***s.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's certain people in NXT that have an arrangement not to go the main roster. Obviously if Big Vince says so, they're going up, but Garganoa and Ciampa have passed the usual point for a call up several times. Cole too probably.

This is going to be like the old BB 7's. Turn up at a regular place to be told where you're getting a game that Saturday morning. "Just got the text lads, we're off to Peterhead. Make sure yeez have a pish first, I'm no stopping"

Don't get me wrong, he's got his "iPad" (it's a cheap kindle) for his stuff, otherwise I'd be getting the same treatment. Yer a good da, BFTD.

But DA, I thought you loved the McMahons?!