Tek wrote:

Watched the first 4 episodes of the new Series tonight.

Very. very good. A return to form.

'Hotel Reverie' the best episode in a long time, though i've enjoyed them all. 

The first episode was brilliant also 'Common People', a very thought provoking storyline and sad. 

watched them all except the final episode. To be honest I thought they were really poor and nowhere near previous episodes.  Really didn’t like Hotel Reverie. 
 

Everything about it was perfect. Small stuff like the guy from the original film showing up as the ref for example. The Rocky montage for "You're the best" (which was originally written for Rocky) was great. 100s of little easter eggs in it for the fans like Johnny and Daniel driving by the original apartment block from the first movie in Miyagi's car. Excellent.

True. Some great little details in it mind you. The cobra Kai uniforms are the EXACT same as '84 --right down to the names under the fist. Was disappointed "You're the Best" wasn't used more --that felt rushed. The ending definitely felt satisfying and it's definitely all tied up. A solid 7.5/10.

“But our current 3rd place tho has to be one of the most false 3rd players in the time of the SPFL Prem.”

I’d say Tam Courts’ finish would beat that. 

“We've scored 32 goals, only 5 teams have scored less, and there's the problem, we're goal shy, a single goal scored is an event.”

Only 5 teams?! That’s near half the league. 

“Ferry is the only player who would get a game for any of our opponents.

Gallacher & Holt would get a game for most teams.”

Errm. No sure what that means. 

We might no be playing the best looking football but up until this current blip we’ve been very effective and I bet most teams hate playing against us. Just look at Airdrie for a good example of sticking with “Bonny futba”—-absolute Tom Kite. 

I think we’ll make top six easily (touch wood). 
 

Macbonzo wrote:

japanarab wrote:

They’re both absolutely batshit crazy. Trump shouldn’t win but then you see some of Harris’ speeches and it’s like she’s just downed a bottle of 20/20. Trying far too hard to be “one of the people” and “down with the kids”. 
Has she answered a question straight yet? So Kamala, how’s the weather today?—Well, I was brought up middle class and Trump is a bad man. 
I think Trump will win purely because the opponent comes across so badly. 

 
You were right and it wasn’t even close.

It seems to me plenty of people despised Trump, but despised “the establishment” more. Obviously in his latter years Biden was a complete embarrassment, but his party should have told him, at least two years ago, that he wasn’t going to be their nominee. To bring in Kamala Harris at the last moment, was an act of desperation.

Biden’s unfettered backing of Israel alienated Muslim voters to the extent they would rather vote for Trump! That is hard to comprehend.

This is the second time in 10 years the Democrats put up a very poor candidate. While I would never compare Harris to Hillary Clinton (Trading Cattle Futures, blatant nepotism and corruption), she still came across as vacuous.

My own opinion is that too many old guard Democrats are hanging on to power at any cost.

Her team come cross as a lot of middle aged people trying to portray her as “cool” and focused far too much on how bad Trump is. Did you see the ads they ran with the guy having a w@nk and the old Republican walks in to stop him, claiming “now I’m in charge you can’t do that.” Who TF are they aiming that at?? Trump will take away your porn, vote Kamala to keep it. Mental!! If they had a run of the mill candidate, focused on what they were gonna do rather than everything being about Trump being bad they probably would’ve won easily. 

The rallies are a good example. The democrats wheel out Megan the Stallion wiggling her arse

They’re both absolutely batshit crazy. Trump shouldn’t win but then you see some of Harris’ speeches and it’s like she’s just downed a bottle of 20/20. Trying far too hard to be “one of the people” and “down with the kids”. 
Has she answered a question straight yet? So Kamala, how’s the weather today?—Well, I was brought up middle class and Trump is a bad man. 
I think Trump will win purely because the opponent comes across so badly. 

Just been reading about it and it's a musical?? A bit of a risk there.

Shakey Isles Arab wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

Snacks94 wrote:

Sevelj a doubt with a hamstring injury. Docherty still out.

As per the courier.

 
Fuck sake,one of these days we'll catch a break.

Q: When did we not have somebody out injured
A: F###d if I know
 

Are the medical team and the people who run the live streams the same people? 
 

Just watched the latest 5 episodes. First couple were genuinely cringey. Last three were good and got it back on track. 

Tek wrote:

japanarab wrote:

1. Spain
2.Semis
 

Good shout on the winners JA.


 

Cheers. The less said about my Scotland prediction the better.
 

Canadian Arab wrote:

Road cyclists typically have a career "at the top" - the very few that get there, at least - of a maximum of two years. In an absolutely brutal sport, Bradley Wiggins was the world's best in the general classification for a little longer than that. And Mark Cavendish has won grand tour stages over a period spanning 18 years and just became the cyclist with the greatest number of Tour de France stage wins of all time. The athleticism and mental strength required in that sport goes beyond anything else IMO.

And much as I enjoy watching and playing snooker, if we're calling it a sport for the purposes of this thread, then we might as well bring Jocky Wilson into the frame (no pun intended) for the title of the UK's greatest sportsman!

A good post illustrating why Murray often gets mentioned—-the popularity and coverage of his sport. People like Carl Fogarty, Dunlop, and other “niche” sportspeople are often overlooked even though they’re multiple world champions. Regarding snooker being a sport—if archery and bowls are classed as an Olympic sport then snooker is definitely a sport. 
 

Beardy23 wrote:

anyone watch "The Boys" on Prime?
I think we should rename this forum to
"The Tek Cave"
 

Yeah, I watch it. Tremendous. Latest episode was something else!!
 

Tek wrote:

japanarab wrote:

Fair enough but Stan Wawrinka has won the same amount of Grand Slams as Murray during the same period and nobody mentions him as one of the greatest. 
 

I wasn't saying Murray was one of the greatest ever tennis players though, he's clearly miles behind the three i mentioned in terms of success (as is Wawrinka).

But that doesn't mean he's not in the running to be one of Britain's best sports people.


 

I was more thinking like surely the greatest UK sportsperson ever has acheived more than someone like Stan Wawrinka. All subjective of course and people will have differing opinions and reasons. Some might even have a shout for someone like Eric Lidell or even Lennox Lewis. Then you've the lesser known sports where you have guys like Joey Dunlop who have (imo) acheived more on the international stage. I like a good stat and O'Sullivan and Taylor's numbers are insane and will probably never be surpassed--in my lifetime at least.