Silas

Wow. Big news. His shot at the Premier League gone in flash. Tough to take. To be honest, I'm not sure how well he would have cut it at that level. But he deserved the chance to give it a crack. Gutted for him, and gutted for us. Proper spanner in the works.

It's a fair point, but that was at home for them. Away, they have been the worst team in the league.

Merry Xmas Axe and Paul Mani! Are we really ringing in this festive period in style by bickering with our fellow supporters over some player recruitment from years ago?! Do you realise how crazy that sounds? Instead of running to a mod to referee the situation, can you not just either debate civilly, or agree to disagree and move on please.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/britains-best-paid-boss-denise-coates-took-home-320m-last-year-11889680 Sky New's reporting of this story caught my eye in particilar: "Ms Coates..... will also be among the top providers of income tax to the treasury. It's estimated she would have paid around £125 million. To put that in context: Google, Facebook, and Amazon paid a combined £108 million in corporation tax in 2018." So....... one woman paid more into the coffers in 1 year than 3 of the biggest companies on the planet, who take a large chunk of their income from the UK. That seems balanced.

Please brag about your gambling wins you say, ah well, if you insist. ? They call me the Acca King! My 2 greatest wins: 1. £7000 May 2016 = 10 fold Acca A fine Monday Bank Holiday. My largest ever win.The day Leicester won the title. Had an acca on all the games over the course of the day. 2 of the results that stick in my mind (for obvious reasons), were Burnley to win ?, and Brighton to draw (95th min equaliser needed for that one!). So, it comes to the final night game, and I have Chelsea Spurs down as a draw. We all know the story, Spurs 2-0 up at halftime. Chelsea not even at the races. It all looks doomed. Even when Chelsea get a goal back with half hour to go, I'm not really hopeful. Until the mercurial talent of Eden Hazard goes on one of his mazy runs and fires home on 83rd min. It being a late goal was handy too, because it meant I had the bottle to hold on for last 5 mins or so without cashing out and took home the full winnings. While Leicester fans were celebrating the amazing shock Premier League win, I was jumping round my living room like a lunatic professing my undying love for Hazard. 2 £4000 Sep 2018 = 10 fold Acca Again, all my results had come in throughout the course of Sunday. Various bets on football, rugby, and NFL. And it all came down to the final late NFL game that kicks off 1.20am UK time. Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers playing well recently and at home. Should be a shoe-in. I stay up late to watch. I watch the 1st half in horror. The Bears race into a 10 point lead. Even worse, Rodgers get crocked and ferried off the field on the back of one of those carts. Some rookie backup quarterback comes out, starts throwing like crap, immediately intercepted, halftime comes with the Packers losing 17-0. I give up all hope. Go to bed as have work in the morning, absolutely boiling. Literally can't get to sleep staring at the ceiling, steaming about how it all could have gone so wrong. Genuinely don't know what's happened until I log in my sports account on my lunch break next day and find thousands of pounds there I wasn't expecting. Quickly google the result to find out this has happened: https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2018/9/10/17839956/aaron-rodgers-green-bay-packers-chicago-bears-comeback-knee-injury One of the greatest NFL comebacks of all time. Aaron Rodgers limps back onto the pitch in the 2nd half with his team 20 points down, and goes on to win the game basically standing on one leg. Insane. Summary I have wins like this under my belt, I also have over £50k of prize money on my stats for Pokerstars. I can assure you, neither of my accounts are profitable overall. Your story checks out Oldjamfan. ?

Hmmmm, this interview hasn't aged well for AJ. "Did he impress you in that Klitchko fight, Fury, in terms of his evasiveness? " AJ - "Nah, boxed 12 rounds and run, I don't respect that.........he just boxed and moved."

I'm fairly certain any predictions made on this messageboard will have no impact on a game of football played in Wales on Wednesday.

Early days but he looks a bit of a beast. People doing the old "young Mike Tyson" line. Saw his last 2 fights, was impressed. We'll have to see how it goes when he steps up levels.

Yeah, and then the mega fight in June/July with either Wilder or Fury. Wilder beats him imo, whereas he has better chance against Fury due to the lack of power. And there is absolutely no way he gets up close and personal with Wilder. He would do exactly the same, keep it at range and dance and move for 12 rounds. That's basically going to be his style now going forward, the heavyweight Floyd Mayweather. Hey, it might make him a legendary champion, but will be dull as hell to watch, just like Klitchko and Mayweather.

Yeah, and that's why no one paid for his fights for 10 years. I'll give AJ a pass, as he did what needed to be done tonight. But of he continues with that style, he ain't gonna have many PPV punters in the future. And if he's so scared of Ruiz's power, then what's he gonna do with Wilder. He better start praying that Fury wins in Feb.

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Archer 1 wicket of the 10. What's happened to the golden boy @matt83? I know he's still young and all that, but he doesn't seem to have kicked on much. Haven't watched much but did switch on last night to see them putting up stats of how much slower he is now compared to when he burst on the scene at the Ashes. I thought Darren Gough had gone over to help the young bowlers get better.

It's not red button, it's on main Sky channel. In fact, at the moment, we are the ONLY football match that can be watched that day. No La Liga, no Serie A, no outer Mongolia division 2 on Eurosport. And with a lot of people off work already, sat twiddling their thumbs, it could well be the TV viewing figures will be the highest we've had since the Premier League days. Probably why the club has put this offer on. Not as a great Xmas deal for the fans to come to a local derby, but so it doesn't look awful on TV with large numbers round the World watching.

The ref clearly agrees with you.

This commentator ain't a big fan of Dack is he. He might as well own it and say: "That Dack's a bit of a mouthy prick." He's said everything inbetween.

So, in your own opinion, Mowbray is currently overseeing the 2nd worst season in about 40 years. Yet, you still think he's the right man for the job and better than any other manager that could be appointed. And you think a lot of us need to get "a sense of perspective".

I take absolutely no joy in being right. Was secretly hoping to be proved wrong. But turns out we are actually as crap as I feared we were. Anyway, 3 big points I suppose, and breathing space from the bottom 3.

We've conceded 16 goals in our last 8 matches. Well and truly living up to our 2 goals against habit. As much as Barnsley look crap in paper - bottom of the league and all that- they had a shocking start, and have looked all right recently without actually winning. They've scored 12 goals in last 8 matches, and bagged a brace in 3 of last 4 matches. With all that factored in, and our defensive injuries, I can't see any way they don't score 2 at Ewood. So.....we're going to have to score 3 to win. And that's why I'm fed up with it all. We shouldn't be at home, against the bottom team, who haven't won in months, with me thinking the only way to bag 3 pts is to score at least 3 goals. It's wrong, and it's been going on for years. And despite being assured by the manager that the situation would be addressed, it hasn't, if anything it's got worse.

Rog, you must be loving the Bill's season. Great so far. In other news, I see Garrett just got the longest ban ever (I think), indefinite, at least the whole of this season. For ripping the quarterbacks helmet off and smacking him over the head with it. Talk about a moment of madness. https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/12118/11864502/myles-garrett-helmet-attack-cleveland-browns-star-to-make-his-case-to-nfl-on-wednesday

Moot point really. Venkys would never apologise, or be contrite and accept their failures. One, because it's not really part of their culture I understand, and two, because they strike me as pretty arrogant and spoilt human beings. Besides, words are empty. Actions do the talking. Get us realistically competing for promotion to the Prem and my views might soften. But signing cheques off to prop up the club certainly isn't enough to earn my forgiveness. They created this mess, and are doing very little to rectify it. They're merely stopping us sinking further, halting the decline. Now way I'm going to be thankful or forgiving for that.

Just been chatting to a West Ham supporter, and we noticed our similarities for this weekend: Both clubs 5 points off the relegation places Both clubs playing at home Both opponents appointed new managers today Both opponents haven't won a single away league match all season Both home teams have only won 1 of previous 4 H2H Me and him agreed, there's only one way this is heading.......... and it ain't with us enjoying a celebratory beer teatime Saturday!!

By Google stats, if I cherry pick my own matches, our shots on target figures are: Charlton = 2 Fulham = 0 Cardiff = 2 Luton = 2 QPR = 2 Brum = 1 Total = 9 That's a shot at goal once an hour. 12 million spent in last few years on strikers. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/17858209.tony-mowbray-confident-goals-will-soon-flow-rovers/ TM 24th Aug: "I'm not overly concerned.........it will be okay as long as we are having those efforts..........I am sure they will all score goals- it's still early in the season..........I will not be overly concerned whatever way it goes." 2 months later it's fairly obvious which "way" it's going Tone. You be sure to give us all a nod when the right time to be concerned pops up.

Gallagher's movement is that bad it genuinely looks like he is the one marking the defender.

Didn't though really, did he. Those extra 2 letters on the end make a hell of a difference for me. Found some random on the internet that I think explains the context quite well: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44469/usage-of-cowardly-and-coward "As to meaning differences (I've been dealing with usage), you would use cowardly if you weren't necessarily name-calling or venting; the term sounds more objective. You could quietly use it, without strong feelings. Coward, on the other hand, always connotes strong feelings. If you use coward as an adjective, I'm more likely to think you are name-calling or venting." Although, I am going to take a punt and guess that guy had no in-depth knowledge of Tony Mowbray's footballing style and tactics.

Jesus Christ! How much of the pitch is Nyambe expected to cover?! The boy's gonna be pretty tired.