3 minutes ago, imy9 said:

One more incoming!!!

Never fear, a left-back from Villa should solve all our problems... 

The inconsistency in results - with long periods of terrible form - during Mowbray's tenure suggests that he's not been a great manager. By virtue of having good squads of players he's just about managed to win more games than he's lost, however you feel that a more astute coach would have done far better with the same players.  

Came across as a nice enough guy, and generally his transfer signings have been reasonable, but it was definitely time for a change.

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Every chance they go down reading that article...

Despite seeing 13 members of his first-team leave over the summer, Cook has made only two ‘new’ signings this summer – goalkeeper David Marshall and midfielder Lewis Macleod.

He’s also brought in defender Antonee Robinson – who spent last season on loan at the DW – from Everton on a permanent basis.

Not the most ringing endorsement of Walton that Wigan chose to sign David Marshall rather than renew his loan deal. Still, time will tell I suppose.

Like Coyle, Mowbray had a decent start to managerial life, but recent history shows that he's not a very capable coach. But, given our bargain-basement recruitment strategy, should we expect any less? We could sack him - given that he's failed to achieve what I'm sure was his mandate of avoiding relegation - but which out-of-work no-hoper will the Venkys appoint next? Until they are gone there will be no strategy, no plan, no decent prospective players or coaches. It's all irrelevant. 

Just now, DanielMB said:

Will we even have 11 senior  players to put on the pitch in League 1?

 

Do we now?

Iron Sky, although in no way perfect, is rather good fun

Concept was excellent but most of the humour doesn't really land. Quite liked it though.

How was Prometheus?

I haven't seen it yet but it's main problem seems to be overhype, thankfully I have avoided any trailers

I wasn't at all impressed, thought it was very much style over substance.

Most of the characters were wooden and unbelievable and the plot had more holes than a Swiss cheese.

Visually stunning, but let down by everything else.

Goodfellas was on ITV4 last night and is always a treat.

No doubt it will be doing the rounds on ITV 2/3/4 for the next few weeks, if you get a chance see it.

One of the finest films ever committed to celluloid.

Saw Avatar last night and I genuinely think it's one of the best pieces of cinema I've ever seen. The storyline maybe wasn't entirely watertight but it was the perfect vehicle for showcasing the simply epic world of Pandora. I was absolutely transfixed for the whole viewing and left wondering where the time had gone. If you watch one film this, or maybe any year, make it Avatar.

My favourite Die Hard is actually the 3rd one, with Jeremy Irons as Gruber's brother. Excellent plot-line that one. In honestly they're all great, harmless fun action flicks. Can't beat it.

I have a theory - if a woman will put up with you shouting out "Yippee-kay-ay" at the moment of climax, she's a keeper. So far I'm right

The 4th one's not half bad either.

My personal favourite Gruber quote is "You asked for miracles Theo, I give you the FBI."

With a nice lengthy pause between the F, B and the I.

Have always been a Great British Menu fan and think I was one of the few in the stadium, when we played Portsmouth, who knew who he was when he came on to do the draw! Absolutely delighted he got a dish through - he deserved it after 3 top 3 finishes - and what a dish; Lancashire Hotpot!!

Got us a little bit of PR, and the guy comes across as a really genuinely nice bloke (together with Glyn Purnell and Danny Miller)!

No it isnt. Can't be sure what system the last one I played was on - think it may have been the game cube but it didnt have the same feel as the older one. Dont know if anyone else played it but you had two of the characters on the one Kart. Crash Bandicoot did a similar thing around the same time I think which was also poor.

It was the gamecube I think and, like you, I don't recall it being particularly good. Ditto the Crash Bandicoot one, I bought Tag Team Racing having absolutely loved the original and Crash Nitro Kart and it was terrible, don't think I drove more than half-a-dozen circuits.

You know what I would pick him above Warnock because, after all, he is English and... oh, wait...

Oh, give it a rest.

People the world over do this every day (not that I'm condoning it in anyway shape or form) but, because they're footballers, you give them chapter and verse.

People make mistakes. People kill other people. They do not warrant threads attributed to them. I request mods to close this please, it's not about football, it shouldn't be here.

Thought I'd regenerate (think that's been said before!) this thread in light of the new series... serious scope for a brilliant series with rumours of the characters due back in the later episodes! Really looking forward to the return of the Ood, the Sontarans, Rose and Martha!

Saturday's episode was fairly typical Doctor Who, thrills, spills and laughs throughout. I loved it!

Been playing a bit of Bioshock, MY GOD THAT GAME'S GOOD! If you have an Xbox 360 or a PC, buy it, buy it now. It's dark, dirty, scary, beautiful, sad, jumpy, difficult, it's everything you want in a computer game and more. Truly, truly brilliant. Let no-one tell you it's repetitive 'cos they've clearly not paid attention to the game. Puts Crysis in the shade.

My new PC turns up tomorrow, so I can FINALLY play Crysis that's been sat in my cupboard for about a month.

Anyone played it? Thoughts?

Has anyone played Crysis yet on the PC? Have ordered it along with a new PC just to play it!

Giving one of the biggest jobs in world football to one of the worst Premiership managers was asking for trouble, McClown couldn't organise a subbuteo defence let alone meld that shower of sh*t into something constituting a "back four".

Terrible formation, terrible performance. Lampard man of the match, are you having a laugh? Dunno who voted that one but I'd get them off the drugs and into rehab pronto.

I too watched Transformers at the weekend and thought it was absolutely superb! Kept me grinning throughout the whole thing, both with it's wit and it's general metal-grinding, CGI brilliance! One of those films you come out of the cinema thinking "I can't wait to see that again".

Jenas is one of the most over-rated piles of (to quote Alan Sugar, appropriately) tut [too-t] to grace the Premiership. He's nothing short of average: neither strong in the tackle nor good with the pass, demonstrated on a day-to-day basis by his performances for Spurs. Quite why he made the England squad ahead of so many other deserving candidates is beyond me. McClaren may have finally had the guts to bring back Beckham, but his continuation of the Lampard-Gerrard central midfield pairing (though that's probably the best we've seen of them) and the decision to pick certain players from high profile clubs over those who have had much better seasons (mentioning no names) suggests that Steve hasn't learnt from his predecessor's mistakes. Perhaps we shouldn't read too much into a friendly - particularly given that, after switching to 4-5-1, England went ahead - but 'mini-Sven' has a loooong way to go before he's to prove he can cut it at international level. His gameplay is largely negative, his peristence with certain players; aggravating... and the decision not to play Bentley; just down-right idiotic

In the words of somebody worldly and profound...

...yeeeeeeeesssssssssssssss!!

Wycum?