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The PS4 is a great console with a huge, incredible library of games. Still very much worth it I'd say. It won't be obsolete for years, especially with the PS5 being so hard to get at the moment.

AEW is a pretty huge success by every metric (TNT were expecting about 500,000 regular viewers, Dynamite has regularly gotten above 800,000 and is currently hitting over 1m) so I don't think it can really be said they are being managed poorly. Perhaps not to your taste, but I think part of the reason they are steadily growing is because they are catering the product to their demographic (non-casual 18-34 year old males, primarily) rather than trying to cast a wide net and catch everybody. The other thing I love about AEW is that, unlike a certain other big company, they don't fight against their own fans. If the audience tells them they don't like something, AEW changes or drops it. They don't try to force bad/poorly received gimmicks down their fans' throats. I think it's gone and will continue to go a long way to building genuine brand loyalty. Also by all accounts Tony Khan is great to work with, genuinely passionate about the business and wrestlers absolutely love working for him and AEW. So, I can't agree that there is poor management going on at present.

Cook has pretty much demolished the previous Ipswich squad and rebuilt it almost entirely. After multiple seasons of failure people here were happy for a fresh start with what seemed like a solid managerial choice and owners who were willing to spend money to improve the squad. Unfortunately things haven't gone to plan yet. Cook's record overall (including his results from last season) is quite poor and Ipswich have failed to register a win in their first five matches having not faced any of the big teams yet. Already some boos and Cook Out posts from a small section of fans. Considering the overhaul they've had in terms of staff and squad it'll take a while for them to find their feet. They need to scrape a few wins soon though or they'll end up giving themselves too much to do.

Yes, but he's looked pretty terrible so far. Walton has been a target for them all summer, so I think their ideal is Walton as first choice with Hladky as second choice. I don't think Walton would be going there to play second fiddle, anyway.

Christian Walton reported to be having a medical at Ipswich for a season-long loan.

Not going to go particularly deep into Summerslam as, to be blunt, it wasn't that interesting. However... I liked the arena design. It felt big - not WM big, but 'special event' big - and was different from the usual set designs WWE tends to go with. The Alexa Bliss doll stuff is horrible. I honestly don't know what they are thinking with this. Becky Lynch returning and then proceeding to squash Bianca Belair is just WWE all over. They somehow take a moment which should be impossible to fuck up and proceed to do so anyway through inane booking decisions. According to WWE Saudi Arabia is "a place that brings out the best for all the world to see" - which sounds like propaganda, but when you consider how WWE operates Vince probably genuinely does think that. I don't know what the point of Drew Vs Jinder was. A feud nobody wanted to see, with awful build up that ended in what was essentially a squash. Pointless. Can't say I have any strong feelings about Charlotte winning the title again. The Nikki ASH character is legit terrible, though. Edge's Brood entrance was very cool and a nice throwback. The Brood theme/entrance is a classic, although I never thought Edge would go back to that part of his career. Kind of a shame WWE didn't bring Gangrel in to make a cameo appearance (obviously Christian couldn't participate). The match was really good too. Lashley/Goldberg was what it was. You can definitely apply the law of diminshing returns to Goldberg, as people are less excited and more prone to booing him every time he comes back. Reigns and Cena had a really solid match to end the show, and Brock's return made things interesting. Quite the look he has compared to when we last saw him! Also Michael Cole sounded obscenely excited - which I'm sure was Vince telling him to try and convince viewers this was even bigger than CM Punk returning, even though we all know it absolutely isn't.

Meltzer suggesting on WOR that Bray Wyatt to AEW is more or less a done deal, just waiting for the no compete to expire. What an incredible year it's been for AEW in terms of talent acquisition. In 2021 alone they've signed: - Andrade - Christian - Mark Henry - Big Show - Sting (end of 2020, but still) - CM Punk - Malakai Black/Alistair Black - Thunder Rosa And are also soon likely to be signing: - Daniel Bryan - Bray Wyatt It's crazy to me how WWE are letting AEW sign all of these wrestlers up, having released most of them. If Vince thinks he's going to sink them by letting them sign big wrestlers on big contracts he doesn't realise how rich Shahid Khan is.

I wasn't really watching WWE when Punk became a big thing there. From 2007 - 2013 or so I pretty much only watched TNA. I'd catch WWE highlights on YouTube, like Bret Hart returning and Punk's pipebomb promo, but that was pretty much it. So, Punk returning in of itself probably isn't as big for me as it is for others who were watching him during that period or have memories of his time in ROH. The story itself, the build up and the execution was all absolutely immense though, no matter whether you have memories of Punk or not. It will go down as one of the biggest wrestling moments of all time. For me the birth of AEW was the 'moment' for me. That first Dynamite and the build up to it was like rediscovering my passion for the genre all over again. Honestly before AEW I was pretty much done with mainstream wrestling. TNA/Impact had become a shell of its former self, NJPW was great but difficult to follow, ROH's production values were terrible and WWE is WWE. Raw has been a joke for years now. It's so good to finally have a big wrestling company that listens to its fans, genuinely wants to please the audience, and just lets the wrestlers and their employees have fun and enjoy the nonsense that is pro wrestling. WWE is at this point, by most accounts, a toxic, political hellhole which saps the life and ambition from almost everybody that works there. AEW existing as a genuine, viable alternative is something we as an audience have needed ever since WCW folded. TNA tried, but when you compare AEW to anything TNA ever produced it is night and day. Not TNA's fault by any means - they did the best they could with the budget and resources available to them - but AEW is another league entirely.

It was the way it sustained that got me. This wasn't just one big pop, it was a continuous roar that picked up whenever Punk did pretty much anything. Hug a fan? Nuclear pop. Dive into the crowd? Nuclear pop. Sit down? Nuclear pop. Honestly I don't think I've ever seen wrestling crowd like that. The other big thing for Punk (and his AEW debut in general) was his ability to keep his name, his most well known theme song and the general logos/graphics that people associate with him. He literally got into WWE just before they started trademarking everything, so on advice of Paul Heyman in 2006 (or 2007, can't remember) he trademarked CM Punk and is probably very glad now that he did. Obviously 'Cult of Personality' is licensed from Living Color who are friends with him, so no issues there. Meanwhile his general logo is a variation on the Chicago flag, so only minor changes there. I also have to say, when you're watching Punk's debut and seeing people in the audience literally crying and delirious with joy, there is no theme song that fits Punk better than Cult of Personality. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big metal fan and This Fire Burns is great, but Cult of Personality is the one for him.

Much like when we played Millwall, first half was truly awful. Second half somewhat better, but it's the same old story with this manager of the team only being able to play well for 45 minutes. The first eleven have enough about them to stay up, but I really fear for us once injuries inevitably kick in.

And yet some people are saying we had a decent half! Are expectations THAT low?

The second game this season already, taking Millwall into account, where we are being absolutely battered when it comes to shots on goal.

And yet we have 7 points from 9. I agree that he's useless, but when you consider how this plonker has essentially kept us mid-table throughout his time here - despite absolutely baffling and nonsensical tactics - it really does suggest a significant amount of Championship teams are really shit.

Even though Luton lost 3-2 to this WBA team they were still competitive, and that was away from home. How are we so much worse?

Probably the biggest pop since Stone Cold in the late 90s?

The pop when this song kicks in tonight will be legendary!

Yes, there was definitely a line of thinking that Souey was as good as it was going to get for us.

You see a lot of older members last visit being between 2011 - 2014. Quite a lot in 2016 as well. The Venky effect.

Interesting how worried people were about Barry Ferguson being poached, considering how few positive contributions he ended up giving the club. Also funny to see so many people advocating Gordon Strachan as our next manager. He'd done alright at Southampton but for some reason seemed very highly regarded on here back then.

A couple of blasts from the BRFCS past... Souness Must Go ? - October 2003 Souness Goes to Newcastle - September 2004

You can see the difference Ayala makes to the defence. Let's hope for an unusually warm winter.

Unfortunately for him they ended up losing 3-1!

Good result for us. 15 shots to 2 tells a story - but we made the most of our chances and defended well, whilst Millwall only got 2/15 on target, scored once and conceded the only shot against them on target. One could argue they had a worse game than us.

Thank goodness for our Chilean superstar and Championship level defences!

Nobody can honestly say they didn't see that coming. We have been fucking abysmal.