Annoys me too. It's up there and somewhat similar to numb nuts who jump straight to the comments section of an article and comment based off what the headline is. It happens all the time on basically every type of story.

In fairness Sunderland fans don't like him because he plays for Boro. To be honest, I actually never liked downing, even when he signed for Villa and Liverpool for big money. However, as an experienced head to replace Conway, I can see the logic in it. More of interest to me is where we spend fees on players.

Ya, the battle Royal wasn't great when you look at the quality of other matches. I just wonder is it kind of a try out for guys to see who else will be offered contracts? I think a lot of them aren't signed to AEW I actually like humour and silliness in wrestling, but some of the stuff that is being passed off now under this guise is just trying to create outrage to increase publicity. I don't like WWE at all now, I barely watch it, but I find R-truth funny. He lost the title to Jinder Mahal the other day on a golf course(before immediately winning it back). It was humorous, firstly why was Mahal in wrestling gear? Secondly the way Truth escaped was funny, clinging onto the back of the golf cart. The title has a stupid name and a stupid design, so WWE did manage to balls it up, but Truth is doing his best with it. I went off on a bit of a tangent there

Can you see Cornette talking or is it just the audio? Have you watched Wrestling with Wregret?

Ya, I didn't really try and find out what happened. I have in the past and the sum of the reasoning equated to around the same as this incident by the sounds of it. In fairness, drag queen and transvestite are pretty bang on descriptions...unless he doesn't enjoy dressing as a woman, in which case, he just shouldn't do it Does Cornette do videos or is it just his podcast? I never really found him that interesting, or maybe it's his accent. Something just doesn't do it for me

My point was that being in the majority doesn't always make you right. There is undoubtedly group think at play, particularly somewhere like a football message board.

Not always for good reasons. Look at BREXIT

I see online as well there is something of a backlash against Jim Cornette for comments he made about Sonny Kiss. Now I haven't seen Sonny Kiss before so don't know much about his? work, but that spot with Tommy Dreamer was not what I like in wrestling. Whatever about Orange Cassidys stick, the "butt bump" or whatever it's called looked ridiculous. Tommy Dreamer is excellent at self-promotion to stay relevant and fair play to him for that, he is a wrestling legend, but I can't believe he got involved in that nonsense. I mean there are gay wrestlers like Velveteen Dream and Parrow, who are tough and dish out beatings. Butt bumping is just silly and doesn't get the one doing it over as far as I am concerned.

Is changing the colour not even an option?

I think Orange Cassidys stick is funny when you see it first, but I don't see any longevity in it. I hope not anyway

Sponsor logo will make or break it

I whole heartily agree. Can make or break your season. Someone like Begovic would have saved us 10 points last season.

Did you watch the game?

Not really, as each signing has to be taken on it's own merits

Boro fans said he played well last season, but our fans ignore that. Now imagine the Boro fans said he played badly, it would be quoted ad nauseum. At the end of the day, if he is good enough to start, so be it, but even if he isn't he brings great experience and can only be a good role model for the young wingers currently here. He's a big upgrade on Conway and I like Conway. He's also an upgrade on Murphy and Whittingham.

I haven't seen it mentioned , but it seems Downing played centre midfield last season for a good few games

Grosicki would be a great signing. The missus is polish so I have watched a lot of him. Direct, hard working and honest player. He would fit in well. Downing , a bit of experience is good, we need it. I wouldnt be over reacting about it all. The links being drawn to Murphy are silly but not surprising. It will happen with any player we sign over 30. Some posters are like broken records. Then someone above said it goes against our new plans to recruit from Europe. Just please stop being silly. They aren't mutually exclusive.

It's amazing that Vince runs a billion dollar business with such an old school approach. Only leads me to thinking they could be making even more money. I think he has some issues alright, but, as moxley said, he will die in the hot seat. Big Moxley fan now! Shoot/heel/honest promos that don't come along too often.

In fairness (and please don't ban me, joke :)) Mowbray did say last year mid table was the aim. Ya, I think we are going for a slow build, but how will the reaction be on here next season to say.. 9th? I suppose it depends on how we end up there. I just question our bottle when it comes to the game that would break into the top 6. We haven't done it since we went down. I'm not including any of Steve keans tenure.

Ya, no doubt Celtic would beat us now. It would be close though I think. Which shows where that league is at. They just have a winning mentality that we could only dream of at the moment. I hadn't heard of that guy, but those stats are impressive alright.

The Scottish league is pony. Although I think @Scotland1 might disagree with me there It's just so hard to judge when you have one team so dominant. It's difficult for players at other clubs to play well consistently year after year. If they play well, they will end up at Celtic or Rangers and then they basically play with an under 23 team playing under 16s every week. Certainly some great players there, but you couldn't predict how they will go in England. In fairness McGinn has been a revelation, but he is in the minority.

I think that's pretty nice

That's your interpretation. At the end of the day, he isn't saying anything untrue

I haven't read or heard anyone claim we are unique in this regard. Sharpe just states that it is the model we operate under. Which it is.

Mustashe Rao appears not to be involved anymore. How long has that been the case?